Samasthiti

People often ask me how are you working on your headstand, can you do koundinyasana now? how does one progress from crow to side crow to side crow with split leg variation etc. Are you taking Hatha 1, 2, 3, Vinayasa 1, 2, 3 etc. At times I contribute to the hype around getting into these asanas and of course I want to be able to do them, every little achievement and progress towards these 'advanced' asanas makes my heart soar, I immediately brag about it to my yogi whatsapp group. But more often than not, I often find myself thinking, yes, well I am working on my side crow, but I am also working on living wholly, and that to me is real yoga. You can stick to the very basic of asanas and the most basic version of suryanamaskar (forget A, B, H or what not) and never do a chaturanga and still be a yogi. I've had the privilege of having teachers who teach me how to be a better me through yoga, irrespective of me being able to stand on my head or not. I'm also grateful ...

Wow. Its been ages since I've written something on this blog. Actually, it's been ages since I've written on any of my blogs. A combination of things : being busy with work, travel, hunting for and moving into a new apartment, more travel. Fortunately my practice hasn't suffered all that much. On some days, I go only once (instead of my usual twice a day practice), but I made sure I get some yoga in. As always, I'd stumble on these massive realisations during my practice and make a mental note of sharing some of those eureka moments here or make a story out of it for my other blog, but I just didn't around to doing it. I also didn't bake as much and that actually would prick me. A part of me knew I was unsettled to a certain degree, because I wasn't baking as much, well I wasn't baking at all. And since I consider it my meditation, in a way I wasn't meditating.  I moved into my new place last week, and the pic above is from my new house...