exam blues.

well, i am glad i am not alone in battling with this exam. to be perfectly honest, the more i read in trying to finish this exam, the more sure i am that i probably didn't get 70% on the in class exam. sigh. so now i feel that this exam needs to be pretty damn good so they can see that i do know what i am talking about (mostly!). but it's almost all done, i just hate coming home from 9 hours staring at a computer screen to a few more hours doing the same. wow - i'm quite the complainer today! having said all that, i actually enjoy doing the exam. i love reading this stuff and learning more and practicing my sequences and putting it all together. when i am honest with myself, i think it's my favourite thing to do right now.

i haven't been going to class much, my regular teacher is away right now and i miss her so i have been practicing at home every day using our in class sequences. i love it, but i need to go to a class soon and have someone whip me into shape and make me hold poses for more than 8 breaths! i was also excited to talk to her about subbing because i know they have issues with that over the summer and she won't be back for another week so that has to wait.

i took some photos of my yoga space and thought it might be fun to see where everyone else practices at home (if you practice at home). i think at some point danika was under the impression that i had some gorgeous big yoga room - nothing could be further from the truth! i am so lucky to have what i have, somehow the energy of me doing yoga in this little space has formed a protective yoga bubble and nothing gets put there anymore, even though there is no room in the rest of my house for transient stuff. gah, i wasn't going to post the pics right now but i am here so...

this is my little corner. the wall on the left has my two pieces of artwork, the top one by my littlest sister and the bottom one by my little sister. it also has my whiteboard, where i write things that motivate me that day and also work on sequencing etc. the prayer flags underneath came from richard gere (or was it leonardo di caprio?), those who subscribe to yoga journal probably got them too. the celtics picture was a surprise addition from my lovely husband, usually i get a little snippy about foreign objects in my yoga space but this doesn't seem to bother me and their joy makes me smile when i am in utkatasana with a twist. the blank wall is my inversions wall, it used to have a picture but that was hazardous. oh, and most importantly the rock on the side table thingy there is my rock. his (?) name is drishti and i use him as my drishti in inversions etc and also during my whole practice if i am having a distracted day. he was with me learning handstand and pincha, i love him.


this is the other wall, there are some wedding pictures etc over there. then this is my shelf where i am meant to keep all my yoga props but they don't make it up there sometimes. but, from l-r there is the angel that my mum gave me, a candle holder, a bottle with some of my found feathers which is tied with the ribbon from my dad's wedding favours (which was in march and i couldn't go because of yoga school), then there is a japanese stamp of my name that my brother got me, a rock (don't know where i got that), a teapot that used to be my husband's dad's (he passed away before i met him) and then my rumi book. the prayer flags were made for me by my sister and they are truly my prayers. bless.

you know, i think that's enough. meghan, are you entertained? your turn..

peace.