Time: 12:41pm
What: 40 minutes asana / 20 minutes seated practice
Focus: First Foundation / Exercises 9 - 10 (Sati-)
Practiced Ashtanga Standing Postures (minus two Surya B's). Body sore from yesterday's practice. Watched frustration from effort in postures turn into irritation towards clicking and computer noises in my environment and jump out of my mouth as bad attitude. Unskillful behaviour. Interesting experience to watch... Went through five Surya A without really paying attention. Mind had 'checked out' of the body and wandered off into no (wo)man's land. Practiced visualization of the decomposition of the body in savasana... cold corpse, embalming, funeral, cremation. Visualizing the dead body burning in stages starting with the cardboard box and moving inward.
Seated practice took the form of exercise 10. I still don't feel that connected to the experience of Joy. I wonder what that means... That I don't feel joy? I don't think so... That I always feel joy and can't discern it from day-to-day experience? Help a girl out! [insert winking emoticon here]
Side note... Realized that today is the last day of week four! Must create time for day of Noble Silence and homework project. Perhaps this evening and tomorrow morning...
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