Resolutions

Jeff and I went out to dinner New Year's Eve with his good friend Eric. We went to Cafe Malta and the food was again, amazing. It was also quiet enough to have a conversation and it being the new year and all, resolutions came up. I do tend to make new year's resolutions. Some are pose related, some are life related. Eric isn't a resolution sort of person in the sense that he needs the new year to make a change. I agree with that, but I do like the whole freshness of the new year as a symbol of making a fresh start at something.

Eric asked me if resolutions tend to stick. Some do, like being a vegetarian, some I don't quite get, I still can't do Mariychasana III without help, but I'm getting a lot closer.

This year I resolved three main things.

1. Not to use mobile device while driving. This one I actually started about 3 days before the new year.

2, Spend a few minutes sitting with my husband every morning before rushing off in my flurry of activity, this one I also started early.

3. Spend twelve minutes a day twisting. This is in addition to whatever other practice I have going on. I'm turning on the timer in the morning after pranayama and meditation and twisting.

I mentioned the twelve minutes of twisting at group practice on Wednesday and Meredith said I should chart my progress.

so for those who are interested, I worked on twists in sukasana, dandasana, bharadvajasana I and II, MI, M3 with leg in baddha konasana so it remained an open twist, a bit of ardha masteyndrasana ii, twists in upavistha konasana and parivrritta upavistha. This is pretty much what I did day one and two. I worked a lot with a strap to pull my arm around the back of my body. I sort of make a pulley with the belt and my foot and lever the arm around.

One thing I've discovered already is that the limitations in my shoulder are holding me back, just small pieces like bottom gomukasana arm come up all the time in twists.