December 17, 2010
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VAaaa Voooo, Sleeping Turtle & more…
Rock on it is time!
Yep that is Christy Turlington doing Kukkutasana (rooster) pose. She looks stunning (aside from the fact that she is a supermodel). That is one of the poses in the ashtanga primary series. As is Sleeping turtle pose, Supta Kurmasana:
Well at my studio they break the ashtanga classes into the first half of the primary series then the intermediate is the full primary series. Normally it takes about a year to go from no ashtanga to intermediate. Well in a week and a half, I will start the full primary series which include the very cool Kukkutasana and Supta Kurmasana! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I have done a very poor version of Supta Kurmasana one time but now, I will be practicing it and Kukkutasana on a regular basis. I understand it will take time to properly learn these postures however this is one of the things that sort of threw me for a loop about my Bikram practice. After 5.5 years, I was still not allowed to do the advanced series as you had to have gone to teacher training. Well where I take Ashtanga and Iyengar, the instructors teach you as you are ready to learn postures. I appreciate that. So next year it is a rooster, sleeping turtle and feathered peacock goal for me!
(feathered peacock pincha mayurasana)Yea, I am soooo flippin’ excited…
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This is terribly off topic from your existing post, but sorry I don’t tweet. Yet did notice this on your tweet postings…
You know when you have a moment that you should just let go and you just can’t? That is the time when both parties say stupid s*&t. BAD
about 8 hours ago via web
With your classical education background at one of the best schools in the country (CMU) and also your professional and business backgrounds…. Do you personally find that even the most intelligent people occassionally feel cornered into – erhaps being so angry that they something slips out and they end up saying something that severly could effect literally any relationship?
I personally see examples of this more frequntly than I care to admit. People sometimes live a bit too high on their ego’s and character and sometimes don’t know exactly when to just stay quiet or perhaps tactfully back down.
In concluding, did I ever mention that since my divorce from the best person that I’ve even met that… We haven’t even spoken one single word since.
Oops almost forgot… Since you’ve been involved with your present workouts for about five and a half years how exactly did you get introduced to them??
@Nixon101 - You know I think that our emotional education is completely different from our classical education. Yesterday, my honey drove 14+ hours home while still having pressing deadline issues and still wanted to see me at dinner time. I knew all this but still took offense to the way I felt I was being prioritized. It was ridiculous but my poor emotional intelligence couldn’t let it go. Fortunately we both knew better and later were able to just say “sorry”. It is so easy to tell someone else how to act in an emotional situation and so different to do it yourself. I am impressed on how many times in relationships we can just work with our baggage and recreate the same situation over and over again.
I was always attracted to the Eastern arts and didn’t want to go back to the martial arts so I took up Bikram yoga when I was first dating the man that I later married. He was extremely jealous of my time and I found that I needed to let go of either my commitment to Rotary or to Bikram (I was working out at a gym at the same time). After I got married, the marriage was SO stressful every second that I returned to Bikram (this was 5.5 years ago) as I found it was the ONLY thing where I could not take my mental baggage with me. So you could say it was my lifeline during the agony of my marriage. I stuck with it for years after my divorce and of course many other changes in my life. Then this summer when my adrenal problems really were very bad, I had to back off of the 107 degree workouts so I switched to very traditionally taught styles of yoga, Iyengar and Ashtanga. My Sanskrit is quite weak as are my arm balance postures so I have much to learn. I almost feel as if I was dining at a fast food restaurant and now am at a nice nutritionally balance restaurant. All very grounded in tradition, much like what I was seeking years ago. Much like my martial arts background.
Do you ever wonder, after so much time ~ what you would say to your ex if you were able to have a level headed sit down discussion? What you would want her to know?
Have you been able to move on? Although I can easily say yes to that, I can also admit that I still have a war wound filled with piss and vinegar. So I guess that means that I have opened myself again to a partnership, I have not forgiven my ex or myself for my marriage.
BTW, I wish you and your daughter a holiday season full of joy.
From Ms. Candace…
Do you ever wonder, after so much time ~ what you would say to your ex if you were able to have a level headed sit down discussion? What you would want her to know?
Have you been able to move on?
An answer from ??
Close freinds of mine still cross paths with my ex. Outside of that, I’ve never heard one single word from her, but it gets worse. Most of the people in her (above average sized) family have also not heard much from her in a number of years.
It’s quite sad. Outside of me being a single parent (which is quite difficult) and my daughter being the best person to me… My ex is most definately the single best person I’ve ever met. Sad to state, but it’s fact… I’ll unlikely ever meet someone of her capiper evr again. Nor will I unfortunately ever be able to enjoy and share her company again.
My divorce was nothing short of the fire and brimstone from hell. Yet if I could tell my former ex wife just a few things, or somehow have them relayed to her…
That I still unconditionally forgive her completely. I have learned from it and have grown since. I have never been one to judge literally anything about her. I really wish that we could have been more open and perhaps shared more. There’s nothing that I would have enjoyed more that to have grown old with her.
She is missed. Missed by me, missed and asked about quite frequently by the daughter, and (yes) by her sister and those in her family. Even with all that has happened in the past and all that I know now, I’d still take her back unconditionally.
To change the topic a bit…
I was actually impressed to read your explanation of it all. I’m sure that the fourteen hour thing along with other stress contributed towards it exactly as you stated. Yet, you were later able to genuinely recover by clearly stating your appology.
And to thik that I have about 200 accredited credits, yet still happily recognize that Cndace far outranks me a majority of the time. I’ll now take my place
Oops hit the send key too soon; I forgot to add…
Many thanks for the holiday wishes. I practice two seperate religious observations; one beginning towards the beginning of this month and the other coming up next week. I honored and practiced both for some time.
Yet I continue to do so solely for my daughter. When the time comes for her to move away I most likely will not practice either.
Again many thanks for your wishes and thoughts. Best of wishes to yourself and to all of those close to you.
BTW say Hi to B.K.