I went to bed early last night but it was still a bit difficult to wake up this morning. I got ready by 5:50am and took the bus 29 to the city centre. I arrived in the shala at 6:35. My nose was still blocked so I had to go out and blow my nose after one surya namaskar A. Today my body felt so much lighter than Sunday. Surya namaskar A and B went so fast. In utthita trikonasana, Lynne opened my shoulder and pushed my hips to the front – better alignment. In parsvottanasana, s

When I woke up I had a headache mostly on my forehead and the right top/back of the head. Weird. I should feel this kind of pain only when I got hit or fell on my right side of the head. I don't really have a blocked nose.. so it shouldn't be from breathing not properly. Anyways I went to practice around 7:55am. When I go to the Mysore practice, I am usually one of the first people but today there were already many people. I sat for meditation but my nose was annoying me so w

So I arrived in Helsinki to attend Slush at 11am on the 4th, went to my hotel at around 10pm... I was tired but set up the alarm. And I turned it off because I really felt I needed a good sleep. But then, I wanted to try this new place. It seemed Finnish people are very into Astanga yoga, judging from the numbers of shalas and authorised teachers. So I turned my alarm again. I woke up even before the alarm went off. I got ready, I checked out and walked to the shala. When I e

I couldn't practice yesterday as I had to go to the hospital in the morning and had to leave for Paris. I came to Paris for work and didn't have time to practice. So today early morning, I went to Mysore practice. Luckily there was a shala only 10-min walk away from my hotel. I arrived there around 6:45am and the teacher came 5 min later. My first Mysore practice in Paris (and outside Brussels) went well. Though I was thinking too much about everything. I was worried about be

I think it was my 17th Mysore practice after the TTC. I thought a lot about the first time I tried Ashtanga yoga. When I began it was only 1-hour half-primary practice. I think it was only last year(2017) I tried the full primary series for the first time. When I first tried Mysore practice, I did without memorising the sequence. How brave I was! Now I love Mysore practice and 1.5+ hour practice seems not a lot. After the TTC, I've been trying to practice Mysore style 2-3 tim