Three

Woke up today and immediately thought, "so I guess this is really happening". This was the first time the little monkeys jumping around in my brain stopped whining, complaining, and looking for an escape route, and finally just accepted the circumstances I have somehow found myself in. It was also the first time I thought about what I had to do today (take class, shower and cram lunch down within an hour, posture clinic, another class, shower and crap dinner down and nap, and posture clinic till Bikram knows when), rationalized it, and honestly believed "one step at a time, one breath at a time".

Walking into my class this morning, I just thought, "alright, bring it on". And I had a pretty good class. Well, not pretty good for my normal Bikram standards. But pretty good for my TT standards. Basically here at TT, any class that I can actually do all the postures and stay in the room for, is a good class in my book. I was pretty ecstatic about being able to finally give all my postures a shot for so long (oh floor bow how I have missed you!).

Dialogue clinics continued with more reciting Half Moon pose. I decided that I'm going to start writing down  what Bikram says, because this man is absolutely a character. He is like the Jean-Luc Godard of Yoga. Only if he heard me say that, he'd probably say something along the lines of "Fuck you, idiot. That Jean-Luc is the Bikram Choudhury of Cinema!" Here's some random things I've jotted down...

"Is Pluto really gone?? Somebody tell me..."

"You have to give your energy! What happens when your boyfriend doesn't buy you gifts? You chop the fucking balls off. You have to give more energy!"

Halfway through people reciting Half Moon, he made a girl wait about ten minutes before her turn as he proceeded to show us his collection of expensive watches.... "You give me your money and I buy this watch. I don't give a fuck if you like it or not, you follow?"

What a character.

Second class today was definitely my best one yet. A teacher named Juan taught and I absolutely fell in love with my practice all over again. He was excellent, no bullshit, yet funny at the same time. Everything, the heat, the temperature, and everything about that second class, made it a perfect Bikram class. And I'm so glad, because under any other circumstances, a double today probably would have killed me. Instead, it took me to an even better point of my practice, both mentally and physically.

Time to go to our evening dialogue clinic. Bikram had the projectors set up today, suggesting that after dialogues tonight, we will probably be watching a Bollywood movie. I'm already tired and should have napped but its too late for that now. Fingers crossed, he doesn't keep us up too late. But the days been going so damn well today that I think with my luck, we'll probably be up till at least 2 in the morning. No, no negative thoughts. One moment at a time. And all I need to do now is post this blog and get my sore little butt downstairs. And that, I'm pretty sure I can do.