Three weeks later my knee is about 75% better. It's still fragile and I have to be careful with it, but I can do most non-athletic things now. The whole experience has been... thought provoking. It makes me yet more appreciative of my normal, mostly uninjured state. Even during year 2 of my 2 year (mostly) recovery from my last injury, for 90% of ( Read more... )

How people who hadn't exercised in ages ever survived my yoga classes I have no idea. I'm getting back to it slowly to avoid injury. Here's the start and the plan.

Start:
As daily as possible:

1. 4 Purifications
2. 5 cat/cow and hip rotations in each direction
3. Calisthenics
4. Asana and/or the 5 Tibetans

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Mornings are an odd time for me. It has been a long while since I've needed to wake up in the morning regularly. I had a week or a few month stint of regular 9-5ish jobs every now and again but for the greater part of oh, 10 years I haven't needed to wake up regularly for work. As I have gloried and lamented here in the past my world is one based ( Read more... )