Blissology

I'm getting better at going to bed earlier - yesterday I turned off the lights only a little after 22h. Surprisingly, it doesn't make the early get up so much easier, I had to convince myself to not simply squeeze the alarm and stay in bed. Eventually I got up around 6:10h (wow, this would make almost 8 hours of sleep!! :) and had to choose a quicker practice. So I finally used the Power Yoga for Happiness 2 Surf Edition by Eoin Finn. I did the quick 42-minute Bliss Rider routine and have to admit that I quite liked how it made me feel. I was literally smiling from ear to ear at the end! :-) I'd say that the DVD is very loosely based on the Ashtanga Primary Series with some "funky twists" as Eoin calls them. :-) The flow moves quickly, and you don't stay much in a pose, you really move with the breath. I prefer longer holds normally but I liked it nevertheless. Eoin has a very soothing voice and gives also some cues for proper form. Not much of backbends apart from the upward dog but I'd say that it was a well balanced routine - standing poses, shoulder stretches, hips, forward bending, some abs work, twists... I liked it. :-)

And I signed up for another workshop! :-) Next weekend I'll attend a 4-hour Meditation for Beginners workshop. I hope with my 5-10 min per day I would qualify as beginner. :-)

Oh, and Eoin Finn's wife, Insiya, has a very nice blog on yoga-ecology-fashion, called yogue.