More positive

At first it looked like another difficult day, but after talking to my mom on Skype in the morning I got into gear. I finally started the work on my resume - something I've been putting off because it - or what it implies - is too frustrating. But I got into it and found an all new angle to it based on Joan's comments about it earlier. For a change I feel a bit more positive about it all.

At yoga Jason made a remark that I should start going to the intermediate-advanced class as that would benefit me more than the beginners-intermediate class I've used to taking. I think the comment was quite appropriate, as my practice was rocking today. It's funny, sometimes I feel that my best practices come after couple of days or even weeks break - I definetly know that if I practice every day I never feel this powerful. For the first time ever, I did all of my chatarungas as full push-ups, not from my knees like I've done for years.

I've always been cautious about chatarungas because of my wrist - I think I hurt it at some point in the beginning and since that I've just been avoiding proper chatarungas. But jump-back chatarunga into up-dog is just one of those amazingly beautiful flowing moves that I love, so for the past couple of weeks I've been secretly practicing on doing them properly. So until now it has been mainly during Surya Namaskar A's and then in B's there are three times as many and I've just not managed that. Today, I was feeling strong like a warrior (II - my favourite) and I just did it, and I felt fantastic although I have a feeling my shoulders and abs will hurt tomorrow.

Now that I've got enough strength to do proper chatarungas I don't think they are going to be a problem for my wrist after all. I start them from a position where my arms are already bent so the pressure on the wrist is never as bad as for example up-dogs. (Which I'll never be able to do, but that doesn't bother me too much.) Feels really good being able to do a beautiful move like this.