Bejewelled yoga

Got home tonight and while I had some energy did the standing poses. The lurgy is weird, it is still a sore throat and cough, still it has not turned into a cold or worse.  Where as some people seem to have been struck down, I still seem to be on the edge, someone said it was because I am suaully fit and healthy, maybe I am better able to fight it. Thats one theory I suppose, I know I just feel really tired.

I then invented a new form of yoga, Bejewelled Yoga, I was trying to summon the energy for some seated poses beginning with hip opening and just sitting in half lotus on each side, but instead of struggling I came up with the idea of putting a block under the knee to take the stress away and allow it to relax, while my brain was engaged playing Bejewelled on my Palm! After a couple of games on each side (highest score 22,000!), I found that my ankle got progressively higher up my thigh without pain.

In some ways the illness has come at the right time, I am working away in my spare time to get the Laos talk I am giving ready. I had forgotten just how much work it takes to put one together. Its the first new one I have done since last year, finding 100 or so photos and doing the research takes time, luckily I always keep a diary when I am away, hopefully by this weekend I will have it in place, then I need a dummy audience to give it a run through and time check.

The other thing I have found with yoga, especially for us males of the species, it makes us take much more notice of our body’s than we otherwise might. My toes nails and feet in general are a case in point, the back of my feet have so much hard skin they can easily shred bed sheets and I know the nails need cutting when I take a lump out of a finger doing Padangusthasana. This is also probably not helped by the habit of toe nail biting, I only know I can do this since my little niece sat doing it and bet me I couldn’t, at which point, not wishing to lose half a chokky bar, I found that I could! Girls think nothing of having a Pedicure, I have always been against paying for something I can do myself, but I am beginning to wonder if the cost in bed sheets is making it time to shell out and get a professional to cut the nails and do something about the hard skin, I looked at a place locally and they want, wait for it… £32 (US$65), to cut the nails, sort the hard skin etc, that’s a lot of money for someone to wield a pair of scissors and a file thingy for a few minutes.