...went to dog-sit for some friends and found they’d left a bottle of Pinot Noir and two-thirds of a fresh-baked chocolate cake on the kitchen counter....some time later, sitting at the beginning of yoga class, it occurred to me that this might be a perfect yogic opportunity for an exercise in the yamas and niyamas*...particularly, santosha**, aparigraha***, and tapas****...
...but, alas, by that point, it was already too late...
* ethical restraints and practices...(you learn about this stuff in yoga teacher training)...
** contentment
*** non-attachment
**** self-discipline...not to be confused with those trendy bars whose attraction seems to be that you get to spend more money for less food...though, now that I think of it, there may be some relation...
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Carpe diem!
Hee...it sounds like someone needed to Jay-sit.
As I just baked a chocolate cake last night for W's b'day, I understand a lack of self-discipline, followed by contentment, but that's probably not the context of the yoga teachin's. I would be an awful student. :o/
Ah!
Just another way of reaching Nirvana?
Om Namah Shivaya.
(Repeat)
(Again)
Ah! A yogic glossary, something I need, although I need to get back into my yoga practice a lot more. What's wrong with me, DrJ? Why do I do this to myself, end each day with wondering if I will do yoga the next day? Should I order some of this stuff and see if it resets my blissometer?
it was so simple during teacher training -- a whole 'nother thing out in the real world.
They left it for you...so it'd be unethical not to partake.
chocolate cake and pinot noir...hard decisions must be made.
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