Day 19: Rah!

Practiced at The Sweatbox in Capitol Hill. Good solid studio. Nothing worth remarking in the teaching, good or bad. Floor was awfully hard--very thin carpet over concrete. As the studio doesn't have a wall on the exterior of their building, they have a giant fan to move out our stank and move in some nice fresh air. The noise isn't distracting (until final savasana) and it allows one to toot when necessary without auditory detection. Not that I would do something like that. Heavens no.

On first and second sets of Standing Bow Pulling, on my left leg, I didn't fall out! Which is interesting because I think of my left foot as the weak foot. Fell out multiple times on the right side, though! Strong sets of Triangle, and my best set yet of Floor Bow! The last few days I have a tight pain in my right shoulder at the beginning of practice but predictably it's gone by the end.

Almost 1/3 of the way to Sixty Days! I am about 150 pages through Autobiography of a Yogi, and let me assure you THAT ain't a third of the way. (It's a required text for my teacher training program.) Krista is going to have me teach or, as she puts it "throw [me] into a class" next month! She had me lead her through one pose on Saturday afternoon, like an audition, and said "you're awesome, you're ready, I'm throwing you into a class." She is a force of nature. Hops around a lot. Topically. She gave me the letter of recommendation, too, so I'm officially (once they receive said letter) IN the Barkan program. Huzzah!

I am a bit apprehensive since the Barkan series is in a completely different order than the Bikram. It's all the same poses, though. I fear I'll be cornfused...I'll have to come up with a mnemonic for the Barkan sequencing, like King Phillip Crosses Oceans For Great Spices, but with 26 words...