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December 06, 2004
First power outage (minor)
What a day... it seems so long ago. Mondays are so long!
I made it to yoga, yay. It seemed to help move my coughing & chest congestion a bit. All I cared about was not making it worse. Yoga was more fun today... I find it better each time I go.
Breakfast was too sweet. Blueberry sauce on a muffin, flax flakes and chocolate granola in soy milk. I've been heating my soy milk (very cooling) in the community kitchen with cinnamon (a warming spice), and it soaks into the cereal creating a texture I really love, but most people probably hate. I always hated Captain Crunch as a kid, precisely because it took forever to get soggy enough for me to enjoy. I did love the soft smooshy texture, but also, Captain Crunch hurt my young palate otherwise.
In Massage Theory, I put up on the board before class: "Requests: Bodywork first / Discussion on class issues after"... well, we did the bodywork first... we learned the whole back sequence... and it took all the class time! A whole three and a half hours. I was so thankful we didn't do any discussion first.
At the end of class, Amy acknowledged what had happened and wanted us to know that she was willing to hear us on any issues we had. I raised my hand and said I was so happy to have completed the trade in class that I didn't mind that there was no time for discussion today.
So that was a big shift, and a happy one.
I brought my lunch back into the Kiva (where we have Massage Theory class) to begin work on an energetic upgrade: Master Plan 2.1! I've started reorganizing it, rewording and updating the intentions, and adding some new ones that have had space to come up. When I'm finished (should be tomorrow) I'll see Surya for some new Flower Essences (I used the last of my bottle today). So the timing seems on.
The person who did my first Reiki attunements gifted me with the idea of an "intention journal"... but keeping one didn't seem to work well for me. I'm finding this more contained, one-page method to be helpful. Of course, it has barely enough room for my personal growth intentions. I suppose I could keep a second page for, say, ongoing (as opposed to process-oriented) intentions. And third and fourth pages for...
Anyway, Amy was in the Kiva too, eating her lunch. I was surprised, since she seems to usually leave right after class. Anyway, we talked about the energetic problem of the room and discussed a few solutions. Soyka's willing to do some Feng Shui stuff with us, and I am really excited about the prospect of penduling an Essence blend specific to our-class-in-that-space to make a room spritzer with.
It's a superior solution to essential oil sprays or smudging herbs, since there are folks with sensitivities in the class. One can't be in the room if it's been smudged with sage or other things, although there are some (maybe sweetgrass) that don't make her throat close up.
Kinesiology was great. We talked about posture, went over our take-home test, and made naugahyde muscles.
I seem to have some twisting going on around my sacrum, and a classic "adrenaline response" upper body, shoulders hunched in, neck hyperextended disconnecting me from the present. I had set some intentions around it, and now I have even more detailed information on which to go... perfect timing for my Master Plan upgrade. (You know, I really need a less dramatic label for it than "Master Plan"... oh well.)
Each one of us instructed the class in doing one of our exercises form the take-home test. I thought about doing the Kegel Lifts, because Soyka is really into the perineal wall and its energetics, but in the end I did another one (deep neck flex) because it was a perfect example of client education. First you work with a partner to make sure they're using the right muscles and teach them how if they need, and then they can do it on their own.
As for naugahyde (made from endangered naugas), I made an infraspinatus. It fits on our skeleton models properly (inserts on the greater tubercle of the humerus), and I took home extra material to make one for the other side.
The power went out as dinner was winding down. We did Supervised Practice by candlelight. I snuck some Shiatsu in.
Afterward, I tried to study by flashlight. Finally the power came back on, and I'm still up. Not integrating my "get into bed" intentions nearly as well as the "get out of bed" ones!
Posted by Josh A. at December 6, 2004 11:46 PM