I have not been good.
Missed lesssons on Thursday and Friday. Reason? Work. Plus the motivation was low. I guess it is also missing a few of my good yoga buddies (one overseas and one recovering from back pain) in class and one of my favourite teacher’s classes. Feeling down and alone. And the rain. Makes me miss those people who mattered in my life even more.
Today I decided to go for Ashtanga Yoga. Not a bad choice but since I have not practised regularly daily for the past 2 weeks, I find that I have “deproved”. Energy is probably all time low. Bad habits ( ah… supper after nine… no no no ) and inconsistent yoga practice left me in a bad shape. The lucky thing is that I did not gain weight. 
Stressful day.
Nothing seems to be going right.
Right from early morning, a stomach that screams pain. But I have a meeting with client, need to go and “pick up the pieces” for boss as he is not around… in the end my responsible self took charge and decided that I had to face the angry client despite everything since I am the person in charge.
I have to admit - I am soooo lucky to have the privilege to attend classes by so many good teachers. They include yoga teachers from India, US, NZ, Canada, Hong Kong and of course, locally Singapore. I am thankful for just being here in this little city that allows so many nationalities, culturally different yoga practitioners to come together. Just incredible
I started a year ago ( seems like eons ago … ) by practicing with a local teacher and a few indian teachers. I was in a ok fitness state before yoga, I was a “weekend gym warrior” by going to the gym and hitting out at treadmill like a mad woman once every weekend. It was boring but necessarily for me to keep in shape (or whatever shape I had… haha ).
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Ardha Chandrasana one of my favourite poses in yoga. It looks easy but it is not! Much core abdominal strength is needed and balance is required.
However today’s power yoga class, the teacher has added yet another dimension to this pose. He calls it the Flying Half Moon. How’s that? The sequence has it when we are in Warrior 2, we move slowly into Flying Half Moon. The hand that is in front in Warrior 2 is held near the ear ( not stretched out, hence will not touch floor in the half moon pose ) and then move slowly and lift and extend the back leg into the half moon pose. The other hand will be stretched behind and much like pushing and invinsible wall behind ( similar so for the lifted back leg yo be pushing at the wall ).
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Feeling stressed by the daily grind of things?? Try this at home… please, at home only and not in the public :
