Great home practice

Today I had a great home practice - in fact the greatest for quite a while. The funny thing about it is that it only became possible because I am ill. Yesterday I got a cystitis - most women out there will probably know how annoying and painful this can be - and therefore I'm staying at home today. It is already much better today, I drank about 7 liters of tea and water yesterday *bäh*, but I wanted to make sure that it is really over and therefore I decided to spend this day at home - with more drinking and warming.

At noon I started my practice and already during sun salutations I thought 'wow, for some reason it is great today!'. Today I had a very strong feeling of gracefulness, my practice felt graceful. I'm sure it is far from looking graceful but it felt this way today. Paravritti Parsvakonasana was great, absolutely solid and secure on the second side. Paschimottanasana felt fantastic, I remained for many more than 5 breaths. Because of my hamstring problem I focus extremly on this body area during practice. Today I often had a warm, tingly feeling running up and down the backside of the legs during forward bends and this simply feels right and healthy. I'm sure if I could manage to practice so that I always can have this feeling my hamstrings would not only remain in their current state, they would heal. The other side is that I took some steps back in many positions but concerning that my attitude has changed a little bit. I don't care so much about how the pose looks like, I don't matter if I'm grabbing my foot in Janu Sirsasana for example, this healthy feeling during practice is much more important to me now. I want the practice to have a therapeutic, healing effect, I want my hamstrings to heal and therefore I have to practice this way. It is as it is. There is no other way leading round the problem. I'm finally understanding more and more.
Marichyasana D has improved on the first side, Navasana was quite good and Bujapidasana was my last pose today - except for UD and finishing of course. Sirsasana also improved, I'm able to come up with straight legs now but only with help of a wall because I cannot stop when I am on top. I would always fall over. I'm not yet able to shift the weight of the hips back fast enough but this will come soon. And I almost managed to bind in Baddha Padmasana, a very new and intense feeling. Savasana also great!
There weren't great breakthroughs in this practice but everything was just right. Very nice. Afterwards I felt like I was newborn. Great practice week so far, I hope it will go on!