Within/Without

Yeah! I take breaks from working out when I have my period. I said it. I ain't shamed either. I also allow myself time to nap, cry and eat. You have a problem with that? Nothing? Uh huh.... thought so! Peace

Peace Y'all, I have been practicing yoga consistently for Wisdom months now. I feel really good.... strong. I see what additional flexibility can do for the body and I am satisfied with the results. I'm not getting smaller, but I'm getting better. And really, what more can I ask for. One of my finishing moves is called "Savasana" or corpse pose. You lay flat on your back, eyes closed, feet falling apart, palms up. I use this pose to end my personal sequenced home practice. I suspect the reason why I sequence it in like that is because it clearly is a relaxed position. And most of the videos sequence it at the end. Born Allah Truth.... You knew there had to be a but in there... I didn't always find it relaxing. When you do a pose in a studio/ashram or from a video, there is only so much relaxation you can achieve. You have to be mindful of keeping up with the video or the class. No matter how you get into a pose you kinda have to adjust your head or eyes to Kno...

Peace A few days ago I did something I hadn't done in a long time.... I ate a big salad. I have been walking someone through the vegetarian transition. When you teach someone anything, you tend to do so from the perspective of how you were taught. You emphasize what you liked and de-emphasize what you didn't. When I became a vegetarian, a decade ago, things were very different from the way they are now. It was mad cheap. Tofu was something you had to go to an authentic Chinese food restaurant to get. Then you could only get it steamed and looking at you as a white block. There was no internet loaded with ideas and I didn't personally know other practicing vegetarians. My mother is a raging pork-atarian. I have been focusing on all the variety and flavor that a vegetarian diet offers. A salad is like... white bread. You know it's there. Its an old standby. I loved it! The lettuce, the tomatoes, the dressing all the additives.... Mmmm.... I missed it. I had been eating sa...

Peace Y'all! A few months ago... like July... The God and I were in the grocery store. We were joking around and having fun as is our custom. This old woman walked up to us and asked us if we were together. We confirmed that we were. She then asked us if we were wanting to have children. A very odd and nosy question for a stranger to ask don't you think? But we were in a playful warm current so we obliged her question. She told us to not think about it and just enjoy the interaction. If I got tight then nothing would happen. Okay. I dismissed what she said as a root work. I'm a scientist and a health care professional. Even though this old woman reported having 9 biological children of her own, what do I need her advice for? I know how to get pregnant... right? Another one of my friends who has 3 children (we are the same age) told me essentially the same thing. She said if you are stressed, the internal structures are too tight to receive life. Humph! What does she know? ...

Peace! I have been on my grind for a month now. I need to first explain how I classify months. I do them from cycle to cycle. That's a month for me. Since my cycles are essentially 28 days, it corresponds with the moon's cycle and I have 13 months in my year. (Like my Actual Facts...) That might be TMI for some, but it is what it is. I'm a female. I got cycles. So what? My routine looks like this..... I do my Dinacharya in this order.... rise at 5:30 am (usually, unless I'm tired then I hit the snooze no more than twice) I dry brush, oil up, rub on my snazzy facial of ground oatmeal paste with water, neti, eyes, teeth, shower, dress, warm water/lime and head off to work. I walk 1.5 miles to work and when I get in the office, I do 10-15 minutes of yoga. That makes my am workout about 35 minutes. I have some tea afterward and get in a good mental space (some call it meditation) for about 5 minutes and have some tea before I get down to business. I eat a snack around 10 am...