spoiled chinese girl

(You wanna see my flickr account. You totally do.)

And his only reply was “uh……huh”

While everyone's questioning how great it is to be able to take millions of pictures of your friends & family and what the world will be like when we have all these tangible snapshots of our lives… or how easily it can all be erased with a really strong magnet… I contemplate about how I just spent the last 2 hours deleting over 800 images from the past 2 years that were crap and I should have never taken them.

So starting on April 15th I participated in a 30 day challenge at my yoga studio.

During the 30 days I was able to experience the following things.

• Enjoying my safe space in the middle of the yoga studio.
• Looking beyond the mirror when in the first row at the yoga studio.
• Volunteering to be in the front row if a beginner happen to set up there.
• Feeling very distant from the entire class in the back row.
• Not being afraid to lay down at any point due to discomfort or not being “in the moment”
• Accepting that not all yoga classes will go 100% perfectly, and often there will be times I cannot be in the moment.
• Accepting the fact that I will very likely become dizzy and lightheaded during back-bends.
• Not being afraid to ask questions or for tips.
• New-teacher classes, because they’re just as nervous teaching as I am of learning.
• Two more types of yoga, Ashtanga and Yin
• Really enjoying one hour classes simply because they are shorter.
• Enjoying later classes (8-10pm) because it gave me time to unwind after work.
• Having my last class of the challenge be the hardest, hottest, and most crowded of all classes.

The changes in me were definitely spell bounding.  I noticed everything regarding my digestion and my elimination phases.  Not to get too technical, but I could feel parts of my body purging in all sorts of ways.

I was told that if you’re doing lots of different bowel movements, it’s your liver purging everything that it doesn’t need.  And the variety in my bowel movements due to the yoga challenge were too numerous to count.  I was crapping every time I was at the toilet.  And every day I would have a variety of different poops.  And it happened like that every day.  The strangest thing ever.

The other way my body purges is through the skin.  And I broke out in zits like crazy.  I was lucky and didn’t have massive breakouts of acne when I was a teenager like what most teens go through, or at least is what the media would like us to believe.  But starting at around day 10 I started getting zits all under my chin, where I would get them from my monthly cycle, but then on my forehead as well.  Everyone who was close to me knew I was doing yoga and had no problem accepting this as one of the changes I would go through.

I also now run hot.  People who touch me (hold my hand etc) would know for a fact that I’m a heated person.  My circulation is through the roof.  I am very sensitive to my surroundings now but have no problem keeping warm as my blood is very easily flowing through me at a rapid pace.

Finally, my suspension scars.  They keloided immediately after my suspension 5 years ago.  After 4 years of being raised they finally flattened out and settled.  Well after 30 days of yoga they’re back in a keloided state.  Not the most thriling but I’m sure I’ll handle it.

There’s more I want to write about.

Ever have one of those days where you sleep in, rush rush rush to get to work on time, and realize you forgot to put on underpants? How annoyed was I to have to sneak off to the toilet to put on the panties I had in my desk drawer.