And I’m not just talking about the lack of rainfall in Australia.

There’s been a lack of blogging… and a lack of yoga. I didn’t end up practicing since last Thursday until today, Tuesday. I wasn’t even going to go, I’m having a difficult moment in my life and I wasn’t feeling like yoga-ing. I’m glad I went though, as I always am, it was good to have some “me” time and just shut out the rest of the world for an hour or so.

I felt pretty stiff at first, at least until the end of sun salutations. No chest to thigh action in uttanasana until my very last sun salutation B. After that it was smooth sailing.

I took it relatively easy and all in all it was a decent practice. The back still feels weird, but not while practicing. It felt good while practicing actually, especially backbends. I love backbends. I want more backbends!

Went up again with straight legs in shirshasana, I think I’m getting the hang of it! I’m not sure if one of the teachers was behind me to stop me from rolling over, that’s because I didn’t roll over. I managed to get pretty straight too, I didn’t feel like I was in much of a pike. Held it for 20 breaths easy, or was it 25? Anyway, who cares, it was fun to be up-side-down.

I got an unexpected compliment today from another yogini. She came up to me after class as I was slowly rolling up my mat, and I mean slowly, I felt like stuck in some slow motion movie after shavasana today. Anyway, she came up to me and told me I had a beautiful backbend. I’m not the most graceful taking compliments, but I did manage some sheepish thank you and something about I love the opening feeling in backbends. I felt like a dope afterwards.

Didn’t get a chance to talk to C about my hip and back yet. I’ve got to get to class earlier and not half way through the opening chant.

Speaking of the problem area. I’ve started doing half lotus just in ardha baddha padma paschimottanasana. The right leg feels as good as ever, but the left really sucked. I couldn’t even get my freakin’ knee to the ground without pain, it was hovering about a handspan from the floor, but at least I could get the foot in position, that’s got to be something.

I broke my hair tie during chakrasana. I had my new short-ish hair do up in a high pony tail and I must have rolled over it weirdly, it snapped and I had to do everything after supta padangushtasana with my hair down, that was a mess. Back to square one with finding a way to keep my hair up and out of the way. I’m thinking pig tails…

I must be tipsy now because I’m writing dribble. Blogging is definitely more enjoyable with lychee liquer mixed with lemonade. Now I’m going to go pay for it with a rash and a headache.