Looking forward to my backbending workshop tomorrow morning with the same Aussie teacher from my anatomy workshop. Its focused on backbends and inversions only, so I'm quite enthusiastic to learn what I can from it.

I've totally butchered my Ashtanga class at the gym today...I've turned it into a flow class, with no further resemblance to Ashtanga...I feel bad...but my students don't really appreciate the Ashtanga sequence much..and have been asking me to teach them new things...so I caved into popular demand..so..its now hatha vinyasa..and I wish the gym would just change the name of the class for me.. but the class went down well..I think people at the gym crave sweat and variety..and its difficult to keep people coming back if I don't go by popular demand..sigh..

Other than that, I'd also like to report some strange things happening to my abs. They are much stronger..as in suddenly very much stronger to the extent I can actually feel them pulling me up in things like crow and side crow and jump throughs etc...and my psoas is tightening up like nobody's business. I'm wondering if these 2 things are related? I've never had much luck with abs strength...but this recent development is really interesting.

I'm going to Singapore next week. I've emailed a few shalas there to ask if they would take me in for a day or 2..hoping for the affirmative...I've never practised with an authorized teacher..so it would be so cool if I had the opportunity. No reply yet though...