Practice goes on

Tonight I'm attending a Mysore class. It's a new class with a new teacher in my neighbour city and as I saw it in the Internet I thought "wow great! a Mysore class!" and almost immediatly registered. You know there are no Ashtanga teachers in my area therefore I was really happy about this possibility. Meanwhile I got a few doubts. First I don't know the teacher and her practice, I only know that she's taking part in an Ashtanga education program with one of our German authorized teachers. I don't know if this is adequate but I expect from a teacher that he or she is much more advanced on the Ashtanga path than I am. But I will see, nevertheless it's a practice together with other people and this is also nice.

My hamstrings got worse again, this is getting me down a little bit. Poses that were possible without pain about three weeks ago now hurt again. And I don't know exactly what I have done wrong. Probably too less attention and awareness during practice *sigh*. It's a constant up and down and always reminds me that it is not the visible that is important. "Yoga is that what you cannot see" is a favoured word of my first teacher and he is true. I have to keep that in mind.

I'm visiting a weekend workshop with Arjuna, my first teacher. He is one of Germany's few authorized teachers. I'm really looking forward to this two days. It will be a great challenge to practice in a way that my hamstrings feel ok and don't get more damage. Practicing to practice without too much Ego :-) Let's see if I can manage this.

New record

I got up at 5:50 am today! That's a new record for me. I woke up by myself without the alarm. Waking up at that time is not unusual for me but usually I don't get up but turn around and sleep until the alarm goes off. But today I got up because I thought I wan't to have an extensive practice. I know today is a moon day, but I just don't cared. I wanted to practice. I'm not sure what to think about this moon day stuff anyway.
Practice was ok, I was rather exhausted afterwards. My hamstrings got much better recently. There are moments now when I really think that I have overcome these injuries ... very promising.
Since yesterday I feel a bit weird, kind of uprooted without reason. Perhaps there's something about the moon days ... I don't know.
Tomorrow company olympics, then another week of work and then two weeks holiday! Looking forward to it!