this cliff is so high up, you can’t even see the wave hitting it, only the spray as it splashes against the cliff wall. this is literally the edge of the continent. nothing but ocean straight ahead. i’m so lucky to live in santa cruz—it’s only a 20 minute bike ride from the birdhouse to the lighthouse, which is right behind this spot.

another holiday rush saturday crowd today. wow, i started getting pale towards the end of class so i had to have a sip of water. after that i felt okay and enjoyed a long savasana.

in an effort to get more people to try the advanced series, our studio is teaching it in 4 parts over 4 weekends. today was the 2nd part, after the 10, and i stuck around to give it a try. i’ve been saying that the beginning series works every part of your body, but i found some muscles i’d never met before. i also discovered new stretches that i couldn’t even do! oh my god, i don’t know what pose it was, but i thought my wrist was gonna break just twisting into the set-up!

i’m not gonna lie to you, heartbreakers. i started to get defeated during this “get to know the poses” mini-seminar! you should have heard the crap running through my head. your body isn’t made for this. your body is too messed up to bend that way. what am i doing here? i wanna go home. i found some new openings in my hip, but the muscles in that area started to cramp. i was feeling so tired. doing the poses seemed to make my muscles want to cramp. my leg started cramping so bad, i was trying to control it with my breath and it was sort of working and i was rubbing it out. oh boy, i was feeling down but then i remembered all the stuff i write to you everyday. it’s my first time. i don’t know what i’m doing, that’s not a bad thing. yes, my body *is* too fucked up to do some of these stretches, but that’s why you keep coming back, because if you do it enough times, your body will heal itself. like the pose where i thought my wrist was gonna break, my teacher said, that’s where i need to start opening up in my shoulder. so that’s the pose for me, just getting into the set-up.

to help with my cramp, one of my teachers grabbed some sea salt for me. it’s funny what the hot room will do to you—her hands were covered in sweat, but i took that salt anyway, i din’t care. oh man, did that taste good! they were super coarse salt chunks that sat in my mouth for a few minutes, mmmmmmm, nevermind alacer, mother nature is the best source of our nutrients! see you tomorrow ~m

Tags: bikram yoga, blah blah blah, leica, santa cruz photographs, surfing

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 9:56 pm and is filed under daily thought. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.