Waking up in the morning has gotten easier all of a sudden. Maybe it’s all the weird time zones I’ve been flying in and out of. Whatever it is, I’m glad that mornings are almost… dare I say it?… enjoyable.

I woke up at 7 and prepared for practice. This usually involves changing into some yoga gear, brushing and tying my hair up, brushing my teeth, washing my face and laying out the mat (oh my lovely purple, cotton mat, how I’ve missed you!). I don’t shower since I’m going to get all sweaty anyway, but if I were to attend a class, I’d shower (I’m self conscious about body odour). All this takes me about 15 minutes.

I had a time limit today, I had to finish by 8 am the latest. I got to do pretty much the exact same practice as a couple days ago, shortened standing, a couple of primary then I had to finish as I was running out of time. I wouldn’t usually mind only a 30 minute practice, but I was feeling so good today. So much better than the previous practice (which was good to begin with!). I just wanted to keep going.

I needed a bit of a warm up stretch of the hamstrings as they were screaming at me the moment I got out of bed. I just did a bit of a paschimattanasana then I could get started and once I finished sun sals A, the hamstrings were feeling great. My upper body was also sore, but more from strength training than “over-stretching”, it’s a different soreness feeling.

I don’t know what the plans are for tomorrow morning. I may go for a bike ride, I may do some yoga, I may do both.

It’s been a long, long, long while since I’ve written anything here. It feels like it’s been even longer that I’ve had any sort of practice resembling yoga.

I can’t believe it’s already over a year since the accident and I still haven’t managed to get back into any sort of regular practice.

I’m hoping all this will change in 2008. Yesterday, I did my first decent practice (and it was a morning practice too!) since, who knows when, and I’m sore as I’ve never been before and strangely, it feels good.

I only managed sun sals., shortened standing sequence and a couple of poses in primary series before I was out of any oomph and went to the closing sequence. It took about half an hour, a far cry from my previous 90 minute sessions, but it’ll come again. I don’t want to push it too hard.

I had no strength, no stamina, no flexibility, and I’m about 5 kg (about 11 pounds) heavier than my usual weight but I’m saying, “Who gives a flying firefly”, I feel good.

I didn’t practice today, I went for a bike ride instead to work on some aerobic fitness. I did warm up prior to the bike ride with sun salutations, but I don’t consider that yoga, I consider it a warm up.

I’m looking forward to practicing tomorrow again. Something I haven’t said in a long time.

Namaste.