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May. 5th, 2008 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosNot very articulate today. I am TOTALLY procrastinating working on some staffing reports. Argh, staffing. Bane of my existence these days.
My weekend yoga retreat was wonderful. Only 12 of us, 13 if you count lil' Bennett-in-the-belly, and many people were quite kind to him! One lady (hot, so hot. Do I ever miss the ladies sometimes!) even knitted him a beautiful green hat one night! The yoga was great. I feel better than I've felt in months - my hips feel normal, I'm not waddling. Just amazing. It was also great to hear birds and bugs. I saw toads and hawks, and heard wild pigs and horses. AND, I saw the biggest butterfly I've ever seen! It was horribly incredible. Body the size of both my thumbs together plus some and wings the size of my hand. I really miss nature.
Up until a month ago I was still going upside down. It felt lovely. But I needed help getting up and down. Staying up was fine. Lately, my gut tells me to stay away from inversions, so I am. I also did my last supported backbend this weekend. It felt good, but I believe I am done now. Lunges also are not feeling good anymore. Uttanasana also no longer feels good on the belly. I stopped doing all stomach lying poses after the 5th month, but have done a modified cobra but will be phasing that out.
What continues to feel amazing are:
*lots of tadasana focusing on the inner and outer spirals and good shoulder alignment, with and without arms overhead stretching - good posture and well aligned tail bone has saved me a lot of lower back pain!
*arms together pointed overhead and leaning side to side - I have done this through out my pregnancy and it's been a life saver for stretching the side muscles and helping with round ligament pain
*cat/cow
*Warrior II
*trikonasa (with prop) - feels wonderful on the sides of my body
*parsvakonasa (with prop) - ditto
*downward facing dog - this is a "resting" pose in Anusara and I love it, but I realized this weekend that I will probably phase this out in another 3-4 weeks
*squats and baddhakonasa - these are suggested by child birth teachers anyway for helping with the birthing process
Hopefully this will be of some use to other pregnant lady friends and to my lady friends who might get pregnant sometime in future.
But, I had to come home. What did I do? I immediately went to the movies with Adam and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alizarin71, and concurrently with hrafntinna. We saw Iron Man. So fun! Totally not a feminist movie, but what the hell. Robert Downey Jr was everything I'd hoped he be, by which I mean fabulous. Gwyneth Paltrow played her part well and I loved the chemistry between her and RD Jr. My only criticism was that after wonderfully detailed and engrossing first and second acts, the third act felt like the director all of a sudden realized he was running long and had a Holy Shit! moment, cutting out stuff and speeding things along to the rather anticlimactic Fight Scene. I would have happily hung around for another 20 minutes for a more cohesive third act. But still. Good fun. Recommended for a good summer flick.
Okay, that's it for now.
My weekend yoga retreat was wonderful. Only 12 of us, 13 if you count lil' Bennett-in-the-belly, and many people were quite kind to him! One lady (hot, so hot. Do I ever miss the ladies sometimes!) even knitted him a beautiful green hat one night! The yoga was great. I feel better than I've felt in months - my hips feel normal, I'm not waddling. Just amazing. It was also great to hear birds and bugs. I saw toads and hawks, and heard wild pigs and horses. AND, I saw the biggest butterfly I've ever seen! It was horribly incredible. Body the size of both my thumbs together plus some and wings the size of my hand. I really miss nature.
Up until a month ago I was still going upside down. It felt lovely. But I needed help getting up and down. Staying up was fine. Lately, my gut tells me to stay away from inversions, so I am. I also did my last supported backbend this weekend. It felt good, but I believe I am done now. Lunges also are not feeling good anymore. Uttanasana also no longer feels good on the belly. I stopped doing all stomach lying poses after the 5th month, but have done a modified cobra but will be phasing that out.
What continues to feel amazing are:
*lots of tadasana focusing on the inner and outer spirals and good shoulder alignment, with and without arms overhead stretching - good posture and well aligned tail bone has saved me a lot of lower back pain!
*arms together pointed overhead and leaning side to side - I have done this through out my pregnancy and it's been a life saver for stretching the side muscles and helping with round ligament pain
*cat/cow
*Warrior II
*trikonasa (with prop) - feels wonderful on the sides of my body
*parsvakonasa (with prop) - ditto
*downward facing dog - this is a "resting" pose in Anusara and I love it, but I realized this weekend that I will probably phase this out in another 3-4 weeks
*squats and baddhakonasa - these are suggested by child birth teachers anyway for helping with the birthing process
Hopefully this will be of some use to other pregnant lady friends and to my lady friends who might get pregnant sometime in future.
But, I had to come home. What did I do? I immediately went to the movies with Adam and
alizarin71, and concurrently with hrafntinna. We saw Iron Man. So fun! Totally not a feminist movie, but what the hell. Robert Downey Jr was everything I'd hoped he be, by which I mean fabulous. Gwyneth Paltrow played her part well and I loved the chemistry between her and RD Jr. My only criticism was that after wonderfully detailed and engrossing first and second acts, the third act felt like the director all of a sudden realized he was running long and had a Holy Shit! moment, cutting out stuff and speeding things along to the rather anticlimactic Fight Scene. I would have happily hung around for another 20 minutes for a more cohesive third act. But still. Good fun. Recommended for a good summer flick.Okay, that's it for now.