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Fantastic news friends, we got a ride to the nearest strip mall! It seems pretty insignificant but it made the world of a difference to us. M had enough balls to ask, Y, if it would be a problem to drop us off to buy some t.p. on the way home, and actually, she had to pick up her kids across from the strip mall, so it worked out perfectly. She even offered to pick us up tomorrow morning. M is a little bitter sweet about morning driving, she kind of enjoys the walks now, and S does too. It's the afternoon that we dread.

Not so zonked tonight, we didn't have a big practice, more like a workshop of Surya Namaskar A (Sun Salutations). We really worked through Plank (Phalakasana) and Chaturanga Dandasana which are much, much harder! We had props under our hips for chaturanga, and M couldn't even lift herself off after she had the correct foundation.... can't wait until handstand!

Before practice we went into the Yoga Sutras. M has no comment on that because she called the bullshit card a whole bunch of times. S thinks its more the fluffy stuff of yoga, yet some of the suggestions from Patanjali are grounded. S connected more with people who interpreted Patanjali, than what our classroom thought. We think we're both too scientific to be so fluffy... there might come a point where that changes.

Lunch with the yogis on the lawn, as per usual.

After lunch we talked about the idea behind Surya Namaskar A and B and how to sequence it. Afterwards we talked about hands-on assist. We had to sit in front of our partner and feel their energy without touching them. Some people had really interesting experiences, S's partner saw browns and blue, S saw red in his partner. M felt hot, but we were in a room where they just finished a hot yoga class.

Keeping it short because we have a formative assessment tomorrow and we need to study. That AND, there was a new True Blood last night that we're going to watch today.

Stay grounded,

S and M