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March 03, 2005
Poi oh poi
Today I realized that at least part of my sexual frustration/obsession/etc lately stems from the fact that I'm taking royal jelly. Oh well, it's worth it. Stimulate some sexuality, tonify some jing, all in a hard day's work for a good supplement.
Deep Tissue's going well. It's nice to feel effective, and to be feeling more things going on in the body, and experimenting with body mechanics in a way that's kind of fun rather than really frustrating and demoralizing.
We finished up our anterior leg trade today. Damn Warren for splitting it over two classes. This morning in the shower my legs felt so different. I didn't like it.
The really neat experience was seeing how well my own perceptions of what I was feeling in my partner's muscles matched up with what she experienced. I would stop at the spots that felt "interesting" and she would say something like "Oh yeah, right there."
I'm also finding it more and more easy to generate adequate pressure with less and less effort. Who knew physics and geometry would be handy here?
In other news, I'm impressed with how well Warren holds his class' space, considering his reputation for being, for back of a better phrase, "non-hippy". He keeps on top of doing our Ahh's and Om's (toning for manifesting and gratitude) better than previous teachers or ourselves manage to do. He provides time for chanting, prayer, and circle, and he manages them with an attention to detail that I really appreciate and would like to see show up more often. Perhaps precisely because of his "non-hippy", "non-new-agey" self he approaches things in those spheres more carefully and conscientiously? If so, what a Good Thing.
I had my RA meeting with Sue, the Director of Education, after lunch. It was so fun, I think we're both really excited to work with each other.
We talked about the job requirements, signed an RA agreement, and discussed some ideas for the coming quarter.
I'm going to start keeping RA hours for people to access me, and we started talking about "student liaison" functions to help facilitate the student voice in being heard. I'm hoping to work with Jana on that, and anyone else who feels comfortable.
As well, I may host a screening here at Heartwood of the 4th annual Media that Matters Film Festival. Depends on if I can talk them into donating a copy of the DVD!
We turned in our business cards and discussed business entities/forms in, well, Business class. Jamie's on vacation, so Amy made a cameo to substitute.
Nishkama created an awesome card out of handmade paper from Nepal. She offered to give it to me after the class is over. :-)
Play Night was hosted in honor of two birthdays, folks named Peter and Brian.
Players came and left in waves, and Play Night proceed in a series of distinct phases... from the high energy dance music pillow fighting yoga block standing on Part One to the mellower poi spinning chatting cookie eating Part Two to the final winding down balloon bouncing end.
Not Play Night in its original form, but something altogether different and uniquely this quarter. I wonder what it will morph into next.
Posted by Josh A. at March 3, 2005 11:57 PM