If you read my post from the day before about habits in the Hot Room – and my insistence on setting my mat in pretty much the same area class after class after class… know that tonight I placed my mat on the total OPPOSITE side of the room (still 2nd row, I don’t wear my glasses to practice and if I’m any farther back, forget about seeing myself with any fuzzy clarity – I’d just be a black clad blob). Guess what? I DID NOT EXPIRE. I thought I might – but I didn’t – go freakin’ figure.
I was a little nervous about it – but once I started my first breathing exercise, I promptly forgot I was concerned about being elsewhere. It all went well – thanks to everyone who encouraged me to make a switch.
On a blah note, I had to leave the room because I didn’t eat enough prior, took a vitamin on an empty stomach and wanted to expel my innards during locust pose. I came back just in time for camel (whoopie) and did finish up. Now to practice not beating myself up about it. Waiting…waiting…waiting… ok – I’m good.
Nighty-night ~
The Mercenary Researcher 
I’m still wondering why you do this thing voluntarily…. I mean there’s the heat and the vomiting and the stress of where to set up your mat. It’s an OCD nightmare. Is the instructor cute by any chance?
I haven’t actually vomited yet… and luckily I’m not prone towards OCD – just liking ‘my space’ – but I do love the process, the practice, the sweating and the changes in my body every time I’m done.
Hmmmmm. You may be talking me into it just a little…
just try!
Do you always use the same stall in the bathroom, by any chance?
Not always – but I like the BIG one 🙂
Me too! The big one is the best!
I’ma not quite that habitual. My mom is more like that.
Vitamins on an empty stomach whilst in a hot room could make for a very satisfying blog post.
It’s purging – if nothing else.
Funny how we are habituated in strange comfort. Yoga is especially where creating the territorial space seems to be so important. Glad you made the change… liberating after the fact!
Except for dying in the heat 🙂
But that’s expected with Bikram’s.
Wouldn’t everything look so much more pleasant as fuzzy blobs?
I love how I look without my glasses – I wore them a couple times and I got distracted by my own blobs. I only wear them to drive/bike & watch TV – the world is nicer with a little fuzz around the edges.
I’m glad you didn’t expire, but next time you might want to consider the innard expelling. It makes for a better blog post, right?
Ummmmmm…..
just mull it over is all. 🙂
mullllllling…
That’s all we can ask, right?
precisely.
I hate changing spots in the torture chamber. Glad you tried it though. Oh, and tell your stomach to wait for camel pose before causing a riot!
I know – to leave at hideous locust only to come back in for CAMEL? But Camel is my frenemy.
Damn stomach…
Glad you tried it, Denise!
How could I not with all that sage advice????
That’s true. As my husband says: “Don’t ask the question if you can’t stand the answer!” 🙂
It seems a lot of questions we ask, we probably know the answer – we just need to hear it from another source.
“expel my innards during locust pose.”—Yes, because who doesn’t hate when that happens?…
Most of us – but anything to get out of the locust pose!
In life, there are no bonus points for vomiting. – my tattoo
Damn.