Morning Yoga and Meditation Practice

Breathing continues to get better and better. I woke up at 2 and then got up with the alarm at 2:30. I wonder how many more times I'm going to have to experience the difficulty of getting up with the alarm clock vs. getting up when I wake up early. Yesterday, I set an intention to breathe to the metronome at a beat of 6-in and 6-out during Half Sun … [Read more...] about The More Progress I Make – The More I Want

I woke up 10 minutes before the alarm was going to go off. I was thinking of getting up but somehow managed to fall back asleep. Getting up to the alarm after 10 minutes of sleep is much more complicated than waking up 10 minutes before the alarm goes off and just getting up. Now that I have an alarm clock that I can read, it's pretty mind-boggling how rested I feel after … [Read more...] about The Illusion of Time and The Lies I Tell Myself

The alarm went off at 2:30 and I was afraid. Afraid that I had woken up late. I don’t remember waking up last night so that’s a good thing. And when I got up and turned the alarm clock off I felt relieved that it was indeed 2:30. After brushing my teeth and getting some water and a spoonful of coconut puree I was heading towards the yoga room to do my practice, when I … [Read more...] about Aware of a Desire For Nothingness

I bought a new alarm clock yesterday. The one I had was pretty small, and I struggled to read the time on it when I woke up every couple of hours during the night. Then with it not going off again yesterday morning, I knew it was time. Of course, this morning, I chose to stay in bed until the alarm went off because I wanted to make sure it worked. There were probably a … [Read more...] about Creating an Alternate Reality That’s Much More Pleasant and Peaceful

My alarm didn't go off this morning, so I got up at 3:15 am in a panic, which made my morning routine rushed, and I was scrambling to figure out what I would and wouldn't do as well as what was most important in my morning routine. I ended up skipping the warm-up poses as well as Cobra/Sphinx and then did a 10 minute shavasana instead of the 20 minutes that I like. My … [Read more...] about My Alarm Didn’t Go Off – Changing My Morning Routine On the Fly