Upside down

Despite still feeling a bit under the weather, I decided to go to my Iyengar yoga class last night, and I think it was the right decision. It was a smaller class this time, but we took it easy and did some nice asanas we don't do that often, and I got to do Salamba Sirsasana (supported headstand) which is a really nice asana I'd like to do more often. I did it first with Pat supporting me and making sure I didn't fall over, and then without her support just next to a wall. This is one of those asanas where my "flexible back" (as Pat nicely calls it - I'd call it concave or hollow) is not as it should be - I'm still trying to "tuck the tailbone under", but it's very difficult when you're upside down. Definitely more practice needed, but I'm looking forward to it.

Yoga actually got my appetite back, which was nice - but after I'd eaten my stomach aches returned and for a while I was feeling really awful. I talked to Dragon about this and he said that it could well be psychosomatic - I'm feeling a bit anxious about the trip and then there is the extra stress about everything else that's happening. When he said it I just dismissed it, but thinking about it a bit more, it makes more sense than having some viral infection. Surely virus would produce consistent symptoms whereas mine just come and go randomly. The thought makes me feel a bit better as I've been slightly afraid of becoming really ill just before the trip I really really want to go on - if it's inside my head I have techniques to deal with it.