Day 9

So I still feel like crap.  I slept in this morning and skipped my morning meditation in lieu of some more zzzs under the influence of a good bit of over the counter drugs.  It was worth it I think.  My sore throat has slightly lessened as the day has gone by.  The less worse sore throat has been replaced however by a more clogged head.  Boo. 

I have no major revelations or words of wisdom for today.  I am just trying to keep my head held upright as I fight off this cold-thingy-yet-to-be-named because I don't really want to acknowledge its existence or let it slow me down.  I did however will myself to do more or less a complete yoga practice tonight -- I only did one round of the Sun Salutations as opposed to the usual 3, but I made my body go through all of the prescribed movements at least once, so I feel good about that.  Brad helped me tonight and read the poses aloud so that I could just focus on breathing - or trying to breath - as the case was.  It was really nice.  Before this whole process I had never done yoga outside a Baptiste studio really (I don't really count the couple of gym classes in college that I did, for the record) so exploring the differences in how I feel in home practice, with no heat, and today with Brad reading aloud to me have been really interesting.  Even though I've done the poses time and time before each time I am finding something new in my body each time.  My legs ache in different places, I feel the stretching in different places, some times I can do something and others days I can't.  The lack of heat and humidity in my house versus the studio definitely has me feeling the poses in new ways.  It's just interesting.  I try not to judge but just notice it.

I am glad I pushed myself to do the yoga, as my breathing seems to have cleared up even more, which is happy.  Off to go take some more drugs and do my meditation for the night.  Hopefully tomorrow morning I will feel well enough to do my yoga in the morning - which is the routine I was aiming to follow the last two days haha!

Namaste,
~Clare