Bollywood and Practice Notes
While Owl has been in Mysore, I’ve been going to the Bollywood Film Festival. All new movies (this year: Billu; Road, Movie; It’s a Wonderful Afterlife) — I cannot tell you why I like them so much, but I do! And there’s an un-self-consciousness to that enjoyment that is rare for me, so I am choosing not to think about it too deeply. I heart. That’s all.
Practice has been interesting the last couple weeks. Our teachers (CL and Glen) went to see one of their mentors, John Scott, over the holidays and came back reinspired. So, they have been tweaking our alignment in interesting ways, e.g., feet a bit closer together throughout the suryas (hip-width = hip socket width). This feels tighter at first, but then there’s more length and more upward-flying and less oozing. And a new emphasis on counting! I hadn’t realized that I had been sticking in an extra breath before jumping through and, sometimes, missing a breath before jumping back. Well, that changes everything! (For now, it makes everything a bit harder.) And it’s made me realize that I really don’t know the counts for the first part of second series that I’m doing. Time to break out some books.