Yoga Training focused study on Physiology is going great. I’ve decided I will be doing my final project/thesis on Osteoporosis. Yesterday was our first day off and 4 of us ventured north to Santa Cruz, destination: Big Basin State Park & Waddell Creek Beach. Here are some of the maps and links of our journey:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=445+Summit+Rd,+Watsonville,+CA+95076+(Mount+Madonna+Center)&daddr=Waddell+Creek+Beach,+Santa+Cruz,+California+95017&hl=en&geocode=&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=37.061867,-122.009018&sspn=0.300268,0.617981&ie=UTF8&ll=37.003101,-122.008667&spn=0.3005,0.617981&z=11
http://www.bigbasin.org/index.html
http://www.parks.ca.gov/Default.asp?page_id=863
http://www.bigbasin.org/trailmap3.html
The emotions opened up 2 days ago and I had a good cry…so healthy and so infrequent at home. My frustration was from shoulder blade awareness and rib pain linked to neck and hip tightness - most likely linked to the scoliosis in my spine. After getting mad, my roomate suggested to develop a relationship with my pain and then we had 3 speakers dialgoue about pain (master yoga teacher, indian yoga teacher living with copd and acupuncturist). Visualizing color, shape, texture, opening up to accepting the pain and spreading it throughout the body and beyond the body and if necessary, taking medicine to assit.
I went right into my hips and sat in an upright ‘butterly’ (supta baddha konasana: http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/663) posture and masturbated using my mini egg vibe. AWESOME EXPERIENCE. Now I intend to masturbate mostly with my legs/hips open to get into the tight hips and utilize these muscles in a new way, hopefully loosening and strenghtening these areas. AHHHH….day 26 of my cycle and feeling the best I ever have, no cramps!
I leave you to enjoy your weekend with 2 thougths from this week:
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
-Benjamin Franklin
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths
of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t
know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as
thick and hard as an ox’s or a bear’s, cover
the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know
yourself there.
-Meister Eckhart