Lead Class

Just returned from the Ashtanga lead class in the university sports center, which started today. It was quite good. If you don't want to miss the feeling of practicing together with other people, this class is probably the best you can get in this town. It is in a huge sportshall and there were about 30 people in it. The atmosphere is kind of clinical, there are no joss sticks, no Shiva statues and so on. But it is very concentrated, you go there and you practice, nothing more nothing less. As the room is so huge it was very cold and I felt cold during the whole practice but nevertheless I sweated buckets - funny. Body was neither flexible nor stiff, perhaps normal? I easily found my flow though the poses were held not very long, only about 3 of my breaths, but I suppose my breaths are quite long. What really did me good was the comparison with the other Yogis. I know that it is stupid to compare oneself with anybody else but I guess everybody does. And since I'm comparing myself with Yogis much more advanced for 90% of the time (what makes me depressive sometimes), I think it is ok if I took the chance of comparing myself with less advanced Yogis today and this gave me some new motivation and energy.
And now I'm going to have a bath and afterwards some food, my stomach is already hanging between my knees :-)