Yoga dreams seem to be going around the Cyber Shala lately.  (Here’s one from Grimmly that made me smile.)  Last night I joined in the fun and dreamed that I was doing Primary, ah, my beloved Primary, with full foreward bends and NO hamstring pain.  Oh, it was so wonderful to be stretched [...]

This is probably one of those super boring topics to everyone except to me, right?  Oh mah aches and pains…!  I’ll keep it short, I promise.  Anyway.

So, I took a week off my practice.  Then ladies holiday arrived, so I took a couple more days off.  Ten days in all.  Ten days!!!  The most [...]

First, thanks for the bloggy support on my previous post.  Grimmly says it all with “hamstrings are a bugger.”  Ain’t that the truth.

Anyway, it’s Monday morning and I’m not doing yoga.  Ugh, I hate it.  I feel stiff and cold and I know a rousing round of Primary would make everything better—everything except this [...]

A while back, when I first got started in this Ashtanga thing, I pulled my right hamstring attachment, not a bad pull, but enough to scare me into backing off, which was a good thing.  I spent a month doing wimpy half poses, holding onto the shins in any foreward bend, plus trigger point [...]