So, I did end up making it to all my intended classes last week and each week, yay! I went Monday, Wednesday (plus assisted on Wednesday night), Thursday & Sunday. Whew, I was beat though, and was definitely ready for a break. My legs, arms, back & core are constantly sore, but not too sore, just enough to remind me that what I am doing is working. I am really excited because I signed up for a yoga retreat at an Italian Villa right on the ocean in Monterey! I am going with a group of people I don’t know (although they all practice at my studio), but am really excited about the adventure, as my mindset these days as far as yoga goes is that if I am going to do it, I am going to do it all the way.

I have my second weekend of teacher training coming up and have been having trouble getting through my assignments, mostly because of my darling and needy little toddler. We are currently tromping our way through Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras” and B.K. Iyengar’s “Light on Yoga.” Both are brilliant, key texts of yoga but challenging reads. Maybe it is because I haven’t read to really learn, so to speak, in several years, but I am finding I have to read each sentence a couple of times before it sinks in. I feel like I am learning a different language, which in some ways, I actually am. We are learning all the asanas (poses) in Sanskrit, as well as hundreds of yoga terms and references. As compared with typical learning, it’s hard to get these Sanskrit terms to imprint on my brain and I have a hard time recalling them, which is probably why I have been obsessively dreaming in Sanskrit. Seriously, I have had trouble sleeping for the past few months because everything is just swirling around in my brain at night. A few weeks ago I woke with a start and blurted out, “Ardha Chandrasana!” Which is my most dreaded pose…