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Gunk Part IV

Friday, February 25, 2022, 

After coming to my mat throughout this week (with more consistency than the past week), I can say that some of the muscular/G.I. tract/mental/spiritual "gunk" has been moved out or is being moved out.  Put in a plain way, the cogs of the machine are re-oiled, and functioning again.  

It's amazing how quickly things can atrophy, and grow still (I neglected my practice for a week or so, and when I came back to my mat, I felt like there was no purpose to any of it, and I would rather be in my bed snoozing instead of in the yoga room). 

Enough chit-chat....time to begin... 

Part II:

I start my mornings at 4:15am (the coffee machine is set to start brewing at 4:00am so, when I walk into the kitchen it's all ready for me....trust.).  I then spend a glorious hour enjoying coffee on the couch, watching brainless YouTube videos on TV (usually Judge Judy episodes), and then hit my mat at 5:15am.

I start my practice with meditation and prayer; it begins in a non-physcial way.  After ~15-20 minutes of that, I begin physical warm-ups.  Whatever my body wants to do, or needs to do, I let it.  It's a lot of rolling around, passive stretching and twisting.  After another ~15-20 of that, I begin my formal Vinyasa/Ashthanga series (which is highly modified), and wrap up usually around ~6:45am-7:00am.  

Having said that, it's 7:10 as I type this and I am behind skedge!!!

I'll leave saying this; yoga changes you from something ugly into something beautiful.

Namaste


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