Down in San Marcos

Yesterday was a lot of fun and a lot of driving.

Claire Katz , from TAMU, was on campus for the Heschel Conference and she spoke to a joint session of the feminism class and the teaching philosophy class. It was a great talk, more on it on the philosophy and yoga blog.

I didn't end up leaving Waco until 3:30 so got my first real taste of Austin at rush hour. Won't do that again if I can help it. It took about an hour to get from one end of Austin to another, but I made it to San Marcos in time for Carlos Pomeda's talk on Sponda (the pulsing vibrational energy that is the universe).

Decided to spend the night down here with CT and Kelly and the animal menagerie rather than just driving up and back. Good to catch up on a little sleep.

lots of yoga coming up.

Great end to a great day

So this morning, I woke up early and headed down to Austin. I went to Connie's class, which was excellent, nothing like the pure pristine Iyengar class experience. Then I met up with Pam and Christina at whole foods and then we drove up to look at a possible venue for john friend's up coming workshop.

Came home, walked Dylan and went to CT's advanced class. My backbends are really getting a lot better. Shoulder held up well. Then I went to Mr. Natural and bought tamale's for the dinner party Kelli threw. Lots of fun. I met a lot of really neat women. Then afterwards, I was walking Dylan and there was a deer right outside in the yard across the street. Very cool.

I love wildlife sightings.

Wardrobe Crisis

I had my first dual citizen wardrobe crisis on Monday. I do have a lot of clothes so I just moved half of them to Austin, but I had only moved late summer/early fall garb down there and it turned to genuine fall finally and I really had very little non-floral or pastel to wear. I ended up with these black linen pants with white dots on them, which Tom Hanks described as "cute." So either I was cutely professional or professionally cute.

In honor of Halloween, I'm wearing my burnt orange cashmere sweater today in Waco.

Black Cat

There's a new black cat that has been hanging out around my house in Waco. I am holding the line, however, and not feeding it. That's how Bounder integrated herself into the household, just hanging out and looking cute and cat-like...

Some pictures from CH

Here are a couple pictures from my recent trip to Chapel Hill...

Another long yoga filled day. I subbed a couple classes this morning at YY NW. That was my first trip to NW. Lovely studio, all four YY locations are really nice. I have to say I really enjoy teaching yoga in this sort of venue. It is a lot less pressure in a certain way. The Yoga Place Waco is just me. Here I'm just a small part of someone's overall yoga experience. If they don't lik me, they can still have yoga. Also, 17 people just show up for a saturday morning class. Its taken me 5 years to build up a regular following of about 12-15 per class.

After that, I went down to CT's intensive. I now have a thorough grasp of the principles of proper shoulder alignment.

Devon, CT, and I went to Clay Pit for dinner. It was good to touch base with Devon, however briefly and I have to say I missed eating at the Clay Pit. Normally, when we take the Baylor students to Barsana Dam, we arrange a lunch at Clay Pit.

I'm pretty tired and it is nice to just be sitting still for awhile, okay, well actually reclining...

Wow I'm tired

Yesterday I had a really long day up at Baylor. In addition to normal class stuff, I chaired a session at the Friendship Conference and it was also my week to take the World Cultures students to the Synagogue. Ordinarily, I would have just stayed up in Waco but Kelli was having her Red Door Halloween party and I wanted to attend, so I drove back down here last night after the synagogue service. The party was really a lot of fun, met a lot of intriguing people from all walks of life and got some good ideas for costumes I might actually be willing to wear! (I was a witch, which I often am when forced to dress up for Halloween, one very nice woman at the party said, it was good I was a witch because I was upholding the genuine Halloweenness of the costume party, without a witch it really is just a costume party. This morning I taught at Yoga Yoga, I really love teaching there and then subbed for Jessica at Kula. Then I visited Anusara land and learned all about muscular energy, organic energy, inner and outer spiral. I am pretty tired right now. It is sort of nice just to be vegging out doing nothing but blogging. Sounds like a broken record, but being down here is just so much fun.

Happy to be here

Great day in Austin. I drove down around lunch time. (worked for a while on my research leave application this morning). I went to Whole Foods and then had a meeting with Sadani at YY about doing some teaching for them. I went to the house and walked Dylan. Dylan was super happy to see me. When I was checking email, he just put his cute dog nose right on my chest. Went to two of Christina's classes, had some real breakthroughs in several poses and was the first practice in a long time where my shoulder really was not in my way.

went to Maude's with Pam and Ari for a drink afterwards. They are both super great women who I very much look forward to becoming friends with.

tomorrow is a hugely long day there and back again to waco.

Looking forward to the Halloween party.