Hola 2011

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A review of 2010 posts, an Earth Yogi reflects

The death of my father generated lots of sympathy from people in the blog space and I am grateful to all of you for your support during that time at the end of April. Throughout the year I felt close to death and learned a few lessons from her.

This year also saw a new phase of creativity manifest in cartoons. I do not know where those came from, I mean, I like cartoons, but I never thought I could draw, I'm kind of proud of this one.

The manga face here was done through by following youtube tutorial, who knew?

I've also had a directorial debut on the "lame excuses not to do yoga", Feel free to share it in your blog if you like it, it even has Spanish subtitles now:



A poll I run for Ashtangis asking weather they had started second series before or after dropping back returned surprising results...

A post dedicated to Veterans of War  was one I made after talking to a woman who had been deployed to Irak and was searching for relaxation and peace in yoga.

This year I attended my second Vipassana meditation retreat, and I am really sold on their technique, I sometimes now find myself craving meditation, and hoping to build up to the hour in the morning/hour in the evening!

Then I started writing for Elephant Journal and my post 21 things I wish I knew before I started Ashtanga has over 8000 hits now with over 1000 Facebook likes, which confirms my gut feeling that people are very interested in it.  Being exposed to a larger audience was a blessing, it gave me courage to try new things and introduced me to many new people.

And... I am the kind of girl who likes lists! so here is the 3 most read:

The Billionaires who practice Ashtanga gathered quite a bit of comments, and I was surprised to read that Tim Miller wrote a post on how he felt about the whole Encinitas new landscape, with Joisyoga and John Friend coming into his backyard.

During 2010 I also started a series of lists where I had 32 things. Why 32? I don't know, guess it chose me rather than me it, the most popular by far was the: 32 Unusual Ways to Love Ourselves, I suppose we can all use a little of that.

Then there was the time when my Husband started practicing yoga and I noticed a few adorable things about his eyes wide open approach to the practice, God bless him.

The blog has grown this year and I have seen many blogs around grow as well. This was a year of expansion and learning new things.

Most important of all I am grateful to you guys out there who read and gave me targeted advise on asanas, and blogged and shared and commented!. Wish you all a great 2011.
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21 things that got me through the biggest financial shock of my life

As I followed my boss through the hallway I wondered what could she possibly have to talk to me in such a rush after I had been away for five weeks in Thailand for yoga teacher training.

The sight of Celene, the Human Resources manager, clarified it all. After 10 years I was being fired.  (photo)

From then on it was like a movie, I absorved the faces of concern, the fake extra-detailed reassurance of my boss saying that it had nothing to do with my performance, the cheap talk about how this was difficult, the fear in their faces, I mean: Would I sue like everyone else does in NYC?

Would I cry? Go postal? I had, after all, mortgage payments north of 2000 dollars per month in the worst housing market of the past 30 years, a car, a Yoga monthly membership, credit card debt, no family in the United States, not a penny in my pocket.

Of all the shocking situations I have lived through this one felt the most real because it had to do with the very practical technicalities of what I was going to eat the following week. With where  I was going to sleep if my house was foreclosed, the YMCA? friend's couch? a shelter? Time Square?

I remember walking back into my cubicle knowing that I could go home now, that it was all over, something I had secretly desired for years.

MS Outlook showed 2127 unread messages.  A form on my desk had a post it in it asking me to re-do some entry in the helpdesk database, and another asked for an explanation of a cell phone charge while in Hong Kong. I felt a burst of anger and laughed out loud. In my mind I gave them all the finger, I was now beyond all those mundane things I did not care for. I was free, powerful even.

Then of course I crashed.

Walking down Six Avenue later that morning I remember looking at people and seeing how the world kept going even in spite of my desperation, how it all seemed to go on as usual, how nobody noticed.

At some point around 46th Street I stopped dead on my tracks and in the midst of the bustle that is New York City I looked up at the sky and clearly stated out loud:

"Dear God, this is a bit much for me.  I will keep on putting one foot in front of the other but You take care of the big details cause this is frigging out of my range"

And then I did put one foot in front of the other, one breath following the previous breath, one moment following the other. I continued living.

Looking back I can say that many things contributed to get me through the storm and bring me back to a place of balance, happiness, stability and even reinvention.   These are 21 of them:

1. Realized that I wanted to be happy rather than right
2. Gave away 90% of my possessions -kind of had no choice, I was selling the house. Ended up being the best decision of my life.
3. Allowed myself the opportunity to cry and feel like a failure. Then washed my face and kept going.
4. Remained friends with the Human Resources person, I like her.
5. Attended 12 step meetings, OA, DA, ALANON, SLAA. I admitted that I was powerless and I came to believe that a power "Greater than myself" could restore me to sanity. 
6. Volunteered for the meetings above and NYCares, surprisingly that was one of the most rewarding and healing things I did. Helping others ended up helping me. Funny, I know.
7. Woke up every morning to coffee, shower, and getting dressed.  I meant business regardless of what the so-called "reality" suggested. 
8. Made a collage of the things I wanted to attract into my life, kept it cool, but did it anyway (see #1 above)
9. Started dating again and kept actively and purposely socializing.
10. Learned to dance tango and salsa. That part was so much fun. Affordable too.
11. Read Wayne Dyer, Chopra and Marianne Williamson, I was in search for miracles. Learned that the biggest miracle of all is that of switching our own perceptions.
12. Chanted the Gayatri mantra like I meant it. Guess how many benefits this mantra brings?
13. Cooked and ate at home all the time. Learned a few dishes by the way, I can make a mean curry.
14. Kept up the yoga practice, every day.
15. Did not just look for jobs but after interviews I wrote lists to the potential employees with ideas of how they could improve their working situations (from the perspective of an IT Training Manager, which is what I was)
16. Talked to everyone under the sun, financial advisors, bankers, psychologists, wise women of my tribe, friends, friends of friends.
17. Did not waste energy on hating or blaming. Could not afford to.
18. Walked up every morning listing all the things I was grateful for (yoga, friends, love, my family in Argentina)
19. Meditated
20. Slept and ate as healthy as I could on my budget
21. Eventually, 6 months later, the house was sold without having to foreclose or short sell, taking a bit of a loss which was financed by borrowing from the 401K. 

I am enternally grateful for the lessons learned, and although I rather never have to go through it again, at least I know that I survived, it is possible, and it can be done.

The day after I was fired, on my next yoga class, when I told John Cambpell (my yoga teacher) what had happened he said to me: "This is your work now".  He meant yoga. I smiled.

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How to start teaching pranayama: the 4 steps that TKV uses

By the time I was 9 years old things were not good at home, my mother and father seemed to be engaged in a constant fight that left little room for any peace behind my impressionable pisces eyes.

As soon as I was old enough to stay for after school activities I began looking for clubs I could join, things I could do.  I ended up taking piano lessons.

On my first lesson, one very cold winter day, an old nun sat with me and drew black and white symbols on something she called a "pentagram".  "Where is the piano?" (Donde esta el piano?!) is all I could think!, when do we "get to it"?!  I must have been pretty transparent because even though I didn't say anything, a few minutes later she took me to the brown golden almost mythical vertical piano they had at the front of the room. I was in heaven.

I've been re-reading "The Heart of Yoga" again. Have been focusing on the part where TKV is discussing how his father taught him to teach pranayama, how it was done especially for each individual and how the fourth limb was incorporated pretty much right away, no waiting till third series or anything like that.

Just like the good old nun, Krishnamacharya knew that the actual practice of the most important instrument (the breath) had to be incorporated as soon as possible so that the veil of misconceptions could be lifted away and clarity remembered.

"The most important part of pranayama is the exhalation... When someone is not able to breathe out slowly and quietly... he or she is not ready for pranayama either mentally or otherwise"

Why the emphasis on exhalation? "Yoga's essential aim is to eliminate impurities and reduce avidya [wrong perception]... the exhalation transports impurities out of the body"

And so, if the exhalation is too short, then the first type of pranayama practiced should focus on extending it, and viceversa.  This is how he does it:

1. Makes the student take three asanas: pascimatanasana, (a forward bend), a back bend, and an inversion, like shoulder stand
2. Has the student try to keep an even ratio of in and out breath, say for example 5 counts in 5 counts out.  
3. The anatomy of the poses (i.e. weight of the diaphragm in the inversion) will make it difficult to maintain the ratio, and show where the student needs to work to even it out
4. From the experiment he can determine maybe to do a ratio of 1 count to 2 counts, one for breathing in, two for breathing out to work on fortifying control of exhalation.

Needless to say I have began to pay a lot more attention to where the difficulty is for me in every asana now, and funny enough I have realized that the exhale is where I have more trouble maintaining a smooth count.  

I wonder if this is somewhat of a universal tendency as, for example, the first pranayama exercises I was taught in group settings all involved longer exhales, and this was not just for me but for everybody.  I also wonder how much of our childhood memories may inflict long held patterns of breathing.

By the time I was 10 the fighting was so intense that I remember one day hiding in a closet, covering my ears with all my might and not breathing.  After a while it all became silent and for a moment I was at peace.  Then I started breathing again.

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Lame excuses that keep people away from yoga, a video

My first venture creating videos brings me into the excuses that keep people away from yoga, you can read the whole list in my latest post at Elephant Journal, and if you go there, please leave a comment, or leave it here, whatever strikes the mood :)

What is your excuse?

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Lolo was a cat convinced he was a lion

Lolo was a cat that was convinced he was a lion.

He thought he was a lion since the day when he was born, and nothing in the world would make him change his mind.

Nothing.

One day He went outside,

with his smirky cheeky face.

Off he went with his royal lion face!

But the neighbors' angry dog wanted to have fun, by intimidating the tiny little cat.

The dog came barking loud and tried to give him a scare

But Lolo fought back with a lion's strength inside

and later he came home, only missing a chunk!    

When I asked him: "What happened?!" 

and put potions on his back

he looked at me chin up: 

"All is cool, I am a Lion"

On a sunny fall day Lolo roamed all around

looking for a spot where to take a nap.

And nap he did...


 in the middle of the street!

A huge truck came by but had to stop because of Lolo's nap

the driver yelled "Move out", but nothing was heard back,

so he blew the loud horn hard 

but Lolo did not move

and we all knew what he was thinking:

"I'm a Lion you go around!"

So the truck had to move back, and then around

while Lolo continued with his sweet little nap...


Lolo never got the memo 
that he was a tiny cat


In his soul he always knew
how bright and big he was


He defied dogs and big trucks
and took naps, lots of naps

This story is dedicated to my Father who passed away this year, and who always taught me to believe I was beautiful inside and out, no matter what big truck came my way trying to derail me from my own beauty or what scary dog may try to convince me I was not fine or powerful just the way I am.

It is also dedicated to Lolo who passed away in April of 2008.  Both stories above are real.

Te quiero mucho papi!

Ricardo Azula:  Oct 18 1939 - April 29 2010.  May you be surrounded by angels, happy and in bliss, filled with love and light.

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20 strange things I'm doing to boost winter practice

I am not fond of winter, and it is really cold up here in the north east of the United States. I suppose the colder it gets the better the opportunity to exercise the yoga principle of contentment, no matter what, or "santosha".

The lack of light definitely affects my moods and I get down.  I have found that meditation helps me, whenever I notice I am going down mood-wise I sit with those feelings and although not my favorite thing to do, it is a powerful practice that leaves me a bit more clear when I lift from the cushion.

I am exercising my sense of humor too, whatever works, here are some other 20 strange things I do to boost the winter practice blues

1. Sleeping la vida loca
2. Trying to laugh at whatever I can
3. Completely abandoning any attempt to drop back, just letting it all happen
4. Eating healthy when possible, but binging a little too if the mood strikes
5. Reading good books and planning exotic things for 2011, or whatever takes my mind away from the gloomy weather
6. Drawing cartoons
7. Praying for the light to come back
8. Reading your blog
9. Wondering what is the meaning of life
10. Pretending I like to practice in the winter
11. Doing the Castor oil thing
12. Watching Hulu old shows for free
13. Blogging blogging blogging
14. Re-reading The Heart of Yoga, 
15. Envying Krishnamacharya and his whole family (the "good" envy)
16. Blessing him too
17. Dreaming up new stories and adventures
18. Trying to open the book with the Yoga Sutras in it
19. Forcing myself to read about anatomy
20. Making tons of funny videos you will never see, thank God HB censors

I am not always like this, in the Fall I did some not so strange things (see here) and in the summer too (here)

How are you getting through the 'season'?

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I was studying a cool yoga book when...

 I learned all about the gunas, 

and how our psychological tendencies move us

I thought about it for a while...

I noticed that sometimes I can get very carried away, and be

While at other times maybe I am sleepy and 

or sometimes I am all nice and sweet and balanced and 

At that moment I decided,

determined

 that I would always be Satvic.

Forever

and 

ever.

I ate healthy stuff

meditated every day

Cleaned my room, washed dishes, worked with intention, and did all things in a satvic manner

A few days later I felt a little hungry at around 6 PM.  

I went to the kitchen to see if I could find some brown rice, or spinach...  but I found nothing in the refrigerator, nothing!

So I looked in the freezer, and the only thing I could find was

It turns out that trying to always be satvic...

may turn someone into a rajasic monster

So I went for it and ate it all

ended up in food coma

Maybe next time

I will just eat when I want to eat without the drama

like the time I ate the marshmallows.

Then get back to what is really important:

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23 Yoga Superpowers

I was looking at the Sidhis in Wikkipedia and came across this list of 23 Yogic superpowers.

I am just looking at them for now, I know they are not to be relished, cherished or desired. Better to take one look and keep doing what one is doing.  My shrink -if I had one- would probably say it might be connected to the review I wrote of a book on becoming superhuman.  Maybe.

I am just looking.  Liking 9.

Five Siddhis of Yoga and Meditation

1. tri-kāla-jñatvam: Knowing the past, present and future
2. advandvam: Tolerance of heat, cold and other dualities
3. para citta ādi abhijñatā: Knowing the minds of others
4. agni arka ambu viṣa ādīnām pratiṣṭambhaḥ: Checking the influence of fire, sun, water, poison, and so on
5. aparājayah: Remaining unconquered by others

Eight Primary Siddhis of Hinduism

1. Aṇimā: reducing one's body even to the size of an atom
2. Mahima: expanding one's body to an infinitely large size
3. Garima: becoming infinitely heavy
4. Laghima: becoming almost weightless
5. Prāpti: having unrestricted access to all places
6. Prākāmya: realizing whatever one desires
7. Iṣṭva: possessing absolute lordship
8. Vaśtva: the power to subjugate all

Ten Secondary Siddhis

In the Bhagavata Purana Lord Krishna describes the Ten Secondary Siddhis as:

1. anūrmi-mattvam: Being undisturbed by hunger, thirst, and other bodily disturbances
2. dūra-śravaṇa: Hearing things far away
3. dūra-darśanam: Seeing things far away
4. manaḥ-javah: Moving the body wherever thought goes (teleportation)
5. kāma-rūpam: Assuming any form desired
6. para-kāya praveśanam: Entering the bodies of others
7. sva-chanda mṛtyuh: Dying when one desires
8. devānām saha krīḍā anudarśanam: Witnessing and participating in the pastimes of the Apsaras
9. yathā sańkalpa saḿsiddhiḥ: Perfect accomplishment of one's determination
10. ājñā apratihatā gatiḥ: Orders or Commands being unimpeded 

Picture is Super Hijitus, a cartoon I grew up with in Buenos Aires, from here

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I was peacefully meditating when...

  

suddenly something smelled good

 

very good

So I went for a little walk

And that was the end of the sit...

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9 Things I learned about back-bending in 2010

I have been keeping a log of the back-bending progress for a whole year now and I thought it might be time to give it some thought and reflect.

Here is one of the first (videotaped) attempts, this one got over 3000 views in YouTube and became my most popular video ever,  I am sure it is all due to my extraordinary skill, nothing really to do with the dress. OK, maybe it was the dress.

1- It can't be rushed or new-year-resoluted
The year started with a resolution which did not come to be, I was determined to drop back but I guess it was not in the cards for this year, oh well, woman plans and Shiva decides.  What got me excited was finding an institute in Mysore that had videos and a theory on how to do it in a few months, they even had a video of a girl going through her "before and after".  The instruction was to hang back and do kaphalabati, at the level where I was starting this was not only unpleasant it was also scary.

2- Easy Does It
Throughout the year I talked to many people and looked at many a blog, one of them was the Mysore Napper who had this video and blog post on going slow.  She met an extraordinary woman in Mysore who is 59, started doing yoga at 42 and drops back with such grace you begin to wonder if age is just mythology.  S, as the napper calls her, suggested that she go up and down the wall slowly.  I took the advise further and now do everything slow, every Urdhva Dhanurasana, every breath.

3- Overcoming fear: A few people commenting spoke of fear being a big barrier.  Going through fear is teaching me a lot of things, perhaps a lot more than the practice itself is!

4- Ask the teacher

I have no idea why I did not think about this, but remember Anon T suggesting it and going "dah!" in my head.  I mean, how did I not think about asking?  I had a conversation with JC and it was helpful, he gave me specific advise, said that mostly I had to just do it, practice, and that maybe the wall was not helping anymore.  I agreed, and dropped the wall all together.

5-Lift the toes

I learned this one from Kai's post, she attended a summer workshop with Darby, lucky her!, and he told her that while in U.D. to lift up the toes.  I found that it does wonders for the alignment.

6-Forget the couch

If practicing dropbacks, it is better to do so in the middle of the room.  I have found that the wall has a negative effect, it makes the eyes look for it, rather than the floor.  Many conversations with Nobel, Shanna, Kevin, Boodiba, Grimmly et all, helped me to see this in a different light.  So no more wall or couch.  And no more couch either, this helped me a) crack up and b) give it up.

7-You gotta really want it

That one comes from Boodiba, you have to love her, this is so true, she also tells a story in that comment in which the metaphor goes along the lines of riding a horse, if you do not trust the horse....  When it comes to the standing up part especially I find that to do all that rocking and feel all those feelings, you just have to!

8- Additional Resources

We were lucky this year to have David Garrigues join the blogosphere actively, check out his asana kitchen with focus on back bending, and also I was graced with David Keil's visit to the blog and his full explanation of what nutation means, specifically in relation to back bends.

9-Keep it simple

I am keeping it simple these days, working from the floor in the original 3 U.D., breathing for more than 5 times and slowly, no fancy stuff, no fluff, no wall, plain and simple, staying there, being with it.

I have faith it all comes, I do the practice and trust and let go.  I am coming back to basics, and thank you to all of you who read and contributed.

Here is the year in backbends

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15 Minute Orgasms and a 4 Hour Body

Tim Ferriss is one of those people who just do not fit in, he is different and he is after redefining whatever he was told general wisdom was.  He is also a top marketer and a producer of best sellers, every chapter makes outrageous promises, and we want to believe. He is one of the first authors I know of to have a book cinematographic preview, check the video.  The book is #4 in Amazon (was released only last Tuesday) and already #1 under the categories of weight loss and injury recovery.


My latest post At Elephant Journal. Read the rest here

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Red Blood Moon

Coming back from dinner with HB he stops and looks at the moon, he tells me how as a kid he used to connect with the energy of the full moon, let it into his heart and call upon the power of Isis (the Egyptian Godess of magic and life) for the upcoming month.

(Pictures from NASA).

I look on the web and see the extraordinary events about to occur, a full moon with an eclipse which will turn it red, and a meteorite shower, a display of interstellar wonder for our eyes only, if we are awake.  Of course I do not mean that literary, I will probably be asleep by 1:33 AM Eastern time, but the magic is happening anyway.

After standing in the cold and opening my heart to the moon's beaming light and wondering about Isis, I just remembered for a brief moment how amazing it is that we live in space, how vast the universe is, how small we are.

May the meteorite shower rain blessings on all of us in this small planet, may we find the connection to Isis in our hearts and see only beauty in one another.

May the red moon remind us that things are brilliant, spectacular, amazing, delicious.  May we eclipse what does not serve us anymore and bring on the new year with an open heart, receiving what we know we need to open our hearts to.

May the last full moon of 2010 be blessed.
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Garbha Pindasana, must keep working on it

JC approach me the other and pointed out great wisdom about garbha pindasana. The pose seems to have a stigma of sorts, which is that once it gets to be "doable" we tend to "stop working on it" and just let it be, at least I do, the comment was, after all, for my ears only.

He is right, of course, ever since I was able to get into the lotus position in spite of my meniscuses story (they were removed),  I thought to myself that this was it, paradise. I mean if I could get into the lotus even in spite of the limitations of my body then why more? why bother?.

However, just because something looks like Garbha Pindasana it does not mean it is Garbha Pindasana.  The benefit of having a teacher!

The good Garbha ashtangi in the picture (above) is Arjuna, from this website.

The point in my own specific practice is that the feet need to come up higher in the leg and the knees need to keep working on coming closer towards the center, it all needs to be tightened. I must maintain the lotus throughout.

One thing that bothers me is that the sprayer is never in the room, so I would like to know, what other practice uses a sprayer? and for what?
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32 Unusual yoga quotes that jolt me back to center

I like quotes and noticed that lots of them have been overused, so I went on a search for the ones that really do it for me, the ones that give me energy, and I confess, #19 is my favorite by far!

Asana

1.       Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.   Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

2.       You go too fast, don’t do that. Eddie Stern

3.       No coffee no prana. Sharath Rangaswamy

4.       Yoga is learning to never say I can’t. I say that

5.       Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga. T.K.V. Desikachar

6.       Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. David Williams

7.       Turn on the lights of the pose. Richard Freeman

Life as a yogi

8.       Laughter drives shouting away. Indra Devi

9.       Let your speech be true and sweet. Shri T. Krishnamacharya

10.   Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart. Shri T. Krishnamacharya

11.   Bien predica quien bien vive. Don Quijote de la Mancha (Preaches well who lives well)

Meditation

12.   Meditation results in marvels. Shri T. Krishnamacharya

13.   Don’t just do something, sit there! Unknown

Relationships

14.   If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.  Marianne Williamson

Age

15.   Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. Bob Harper

16.   As women gather in years aim toward living in ways that are sure to horrify the few and inspire the many - Clarisa Pinkola Estes

17.   Age considers; youth ventures. Rabindranath Tagore

Love

18.   If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield

19.   Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Marianne Williamson

Strength

20.   No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

21.   My life is my message. Gandhi

22.   Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. Sri Chinmoy

23.   When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. S.N.Goenka

24.   All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha

25.   You’ve got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Raymon Carver

Respecting our Gunas  (innate psychological tendencies)

26.   Chancho limpio nunca engorda, (clean pig never gets fat) Spanish proverb unknown author

Adventure

27.   Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. Rumi

28.   Si de algo soy rico es de perplejidades y no de certezas. Jose Luis Borges

29.   A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare

Wealth

30.   The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.   To one established in non-stealing all wealth comes. Patanjali

Results

32.   Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind. T.K.V. Desikachar

What quotes would you add?

Have you made up any of your own?

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