Kapotasana

Kapotasana today. I got it finally;)

Practice going well despite a recent setback...but am certainly back on track now;) Its nice to be myself again...;)

Not much yoga..

I haven't done much practising lately...managed to practice maybe 2 times since last class..had mysore class last thursday and bumbled through it as best as I can...

There's been a tonne of stuff going on in my personal life lately...and its kinda distracting me from all the yoga...I broke up with my boyfriend a few months back..and suddenly find myself back in the single scene after quite a while...lots of drama...and lots of different people appearing in my life recently..its kinda messing with my peace of mind..

My ex was a really nice guy, but I really couldn't go ahead and marry him..he is quite a bit older than me..and was looking to settle down and have a family..and it just freaked me out so much, I couldn't continue being with him..but the single scene is full of minefields...I met someone a few weeks back..he reminded me so much of this guy I was madly in love with back in my early 20s..that I couldn help feeling like this was the real thing...unfortunately..he turned out to a controlling, judgemental and critical character...and I didn't realise this when I first met him...

To cut a long story short..I've had some sort of whirlwind romance of sorts that just fell to pieces days ago..and I'm left in some sort of daze right now...

So yoga has taken a backseat amidst all this drama...I really need to get back into my groove...perhaps the best way to get this off my mind is to jump into practice..I don't know...I wish life is not so complicated...

I've lost my jumpthroughs..

Yup..yesterday's mysore class proved it..I've been thudding, sliding, crashing..but definitely not floating through..hahah

I reckon its got to do with my lack of psoas strength lately..boths sides have been acting up big time. I can only hope for a quick recovery soon.

Yesterday was a surprisingly fun class for me despite the lack of jump throughs and bandhas. I asked D to put me into supta k sitting up..and we failed;P I got the right side up with no probs but I couldn't lean forward and get the left side as well. In the end, D asked me to do yoganidrasana instead..and that was surprisingly easy. However trying to roll me up into supta k was useless and I just got into titibasana and jumped back (crashed) from there.

I also got up from lahguvajrasana pretty easily and was kinda expecting a new pose (heehee) but D decided to make me do laghu 5 times...up..down..up..down...and by the fifth time my thighs were burning...but I think I got the hang of it now.

Today I went D's class again...and dropped back into kapotasana...yayyy!!! I've never had the guts to drop back this way, but after the laghu episode, I gathered enough courage to give it a go..and I did it...granted..I didn't drop back and grabbed my heels..but that will probably have to take some time..