Before I got into yoga, I never knew about the importance of breathing.
As I progress in my learning, I came to realize that being conscious of your breath is not a simple thing to do and it helps you to be focused. Usually when I am very tired after doing a pose or a sequence of poses, I found that it was due to the shortness of breath or rather losing control of breathing… especially when you get too obsessed with getting the pose right or perfect.
It’s truly was a great moment when the Singapore table tennis team overcame the Koreans to secure the placing in the finals of the women’s table tennis team finals. It really was.
I saw the match and it was really a nail biting ( I was waiting for my turn to get my poor overworked laptop fixed ) match. When they won, I felt a great sense of pride. Yes, a confirmed medal… a silver at the least but more importantly the chance of a gold medal.
You can be present everywhere that you chose to but being present is something else.
Being present when you are eating, talking to your friends, practising yoga is not very easy. I often find images of unrelated events and thoughts drifting in and out of my head unwittingly. Sometimes it just pops up and my mind will follow that thought ( hence train of thought? ) and then I will notice and snap myself back into present.
Being present takes more effort and practice. Hence the importance of meditation to train your mind, to be in control of your thoughts by your conscious mind. It is definitely something that we cannot develop overnight.
This post has been in the making since the workshop… but I failed to complete it… my notes are still in disarray! Need to sit down and reconsolidate the notes again.
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The long awaited workshop is finally here.
What’s great some more is that I saw a few familiar faces like previous teachers whom I studied under. Plus Shirley is assisting! And I get to attend workshop side by side with my Anusara teacher, Bo. Cool 
What diet?
When you come face to face with Wagyu beef offered at a discount - used to be $40 per plate, now at $29?? No brainer… it is really hard to resist…
And to think I want to go on a seafood only diet… and to say that I am going to ban all red and white meat is surely quite a joke. HAHAHA.
Oh well. It was a well worth sacrifice. When you gently bite into the piece of succulent juicy morsel, it oozes with beefy goodness and tenderness. And it is not those strong sometimes overwhelming beef taste but a delicate beef taste that leaves you hankering for more.
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