4 posts tagged “yoga”
I went back to teaching yoga this month. It wasn't an easy decision; leaving Luca in someone else's care. But when you tell enough people you're going back to teaching in July... I suppose you just got to do it.
During the last days of June, I kept asking myself if it was worth troubling others just so I could teach 2 hours a week; an hour on Friday mornings and an hour on Tuesday evenings. For me to teach that 1 hour at RTC on Fridays, Dave needs to carpool and I have to leave Luca with my folks' maid and grandpa... yes.... just for THAT 1 hour. Oh! Not to mention, I'm also indirectly troubling Dave's colleague as well! And on Tuesdays evenings, Dave got to rush home so he could take over Luca (at a time when he's most cranky). It gets even harder to justify when I teach 1 hour and my transport to and fro is almost 2 hours. Big sigh.
It's been just over 2 weeks now, and this week was better than last. The first week was tough; I couldn't stop feeling stressed and guilty for leaving Luca, especially during the evening time when he needed me to cuddle him before bedtime. It didn't help that he cried (45 minutes!!!) to sleep during my first night away from him, and he was soooo tired from all the crying that we could not wake him up for his midnight feed. 11 hours without milk... scary! Poor daddy.... Dave was just as stressed! There was an improvement this week though! Luca cried for a much shorter period of time-25 minutes. I'm sure we'll all fare better next week!
It's great to have such a supportive family. I can actually look forward to classes now.
This was me at 36 weeks pregnant... still doing yoga.
I'm missing yoga tremendously.
Have planned to resume teaching in July... and it's almost June now! I've to admit the baby is really consuming me. I've no time for an uninterrupted home practice, so I know I'll need to go back to attending classes. But, how does one get away when one has been soooo involved as the sole caregiver of the baby? Even having my (very willing) folks babysit Luca for a couple of hours just so Dave and I could have some alone time for a quick meal was stressful; my heart was with the baby. The fact was that it even upsets me that I needed to start using the bottle now that I'm slowly wanting a little of my life (without him) back.
I'll need to learn let go. It's only healthy.
Such is the paradox of motherhood.
I recently learned about the passing of the Father of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois last Monday (18May). He was 93 years old.
I've not met him in person, and neither have I been practising the pure form of Ashtanga Yoga since 2006. But my personal yoga practice and teaching has very much been influenced by him. To me, he was the one who modernise yoga and brought it to our western culture. This is definitely a period of great sadness in the yoga community.
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