27 classes/27 days

Catra (short for Cleocatra because of the stripes shooting out of her eyes), our 6-month-old kitten, woke me up at 5a.m. this morning, so I decided to take the 630a.m. class.

How can anyone resist this adorable face?

Class went well, and it didn't feel like a double (I did a class at 6p.m. last night, too).

I find myself engaging in too much anticipation and not enough doing. I've been trying to curb the drama and allow my body to follow the teachers' dialogue instead of allowing my mind to talk me out of postures. And that's what convinced me to do the 630a.m. class -- instead of worrying it was too much in too short of a time period, I just showed up! Next thing I know, it's 8a.m. and I've already done my Bikram class for the day!

I especially need to work on not anticipating what I perceive to be the negative effects of postures. For example, whenever I do locust, I have a hard time doing full locust next because I'm still trying to catch my breath and slow my heart rate. I prefer full locust, so I sacrifice locust. But how am I ever going to get through a class doing all 26 postures if I don't build strength in each and every one of the postures? Again, I just need to let the words guide my body and stop letting my mind convince me I cannot achieve my goal. I need to put matter (body) over mind (as opposed to mind over matter) ...