day 47 - standing wide legged forward fold

(I found this pic on Google I don't know who she is but I like it)

Half of this 13 minutes video passes with Adriene’s speech and the other half only focuses on the posture rather than a flow. It turns out to be a disappointment unfortunately. However, I did it. I was wondering if I had been doing something wrong about this asana. Apart from pushing myself so hard to be good at it I have been successful. My head wasn’t reach to the ground but I wasn’t worried because I’d already known. I still don’t have a yoga block or any yoga equipment (I don’t even know if there is any except from yoga blocks) so when Adriene reached her yoga block I reached the box under my bed in which I put my underwear. That’s why I was hesitant to take a photograph (and too lazy) Maybe tomorrow I will do it, who knows? Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel nastier than today :D

Physically I feel really tired today. I think that it’s because the stress I have been having at work for 2 days. My superior went on a holiday leaving my behind with lots of works to do, so… Last couple of hours of Friday evening turned into a nightmare considering my lovely shoulders. The pain is so much that I have even thought to put a cream which I borrowed from my 60 year old uncle… (I used to translate so many films and TV series in return of some money, which means I had to spend a lot of time looking at the computer screen uncomfortably. I had had a lot of pain in my back and shoulders at those times as well. Then my uncle gave me that magical anti-pain cream as if I was a granny. Funny but it really worked) I didn’t wear that cream anyway. Instead, I told my boyfriend to massage me.

Yeah yeah yeah. I sometimes forget about this blog’s purpose and talk so much about my private life. Please keep in mind that this is a blog already and if I write only something about yoga then it becomes as boring as hell. (I don’t think hell is a boring place by the way, it’s only a figure of speech) Although before and after standing wide legged forward fold posture I did some movements to ease my pain they didn’t work. It felt crazily good when I was doing it though. For example cat & cow pose, extended child’s pose, downward facing dog, camel pose. I regret that I didn’t take a video about stress relief yoga. I am almost 100% sure that this pain is caused because of stress.

I also meditated in child’s pose while I was trying to strength my third eye chakra. Recently I have turned back reading Osho (I am reading in Turkish) and I want to share it with you the parts about our existence as soul and body. Check it out.

The cathedrals in Europe, these are the yearning of the world for reaching the sky. Even looking at these huge formations creates a song in your heart, or causes a complete silence. Humankind has either lost or killed its poetic, creative instinct. Now, we are too busy to produce something more with devices, and metas. Production is about quantity, yet creation is about quality.
You need to take your heart back. You  need to recognize the nature again. You need to learn to see the roses and lilies again. You need to have a relation with the trees, rivers, and rocks again. You need to start talking with the stars, again.
=Avrupa’daki katedraller, bunlar dünyanın gökyüzüne ulaşma özlemidir. Bu büyük yaratılara bakmak bile yüreğinizde güçlü bir şarkının oluşmasına, ya da büyük bir sessizliğe gömülmenize yol açıyor. İnsanoğlu şiirsel, yaratıcı dürtüsünü yitirdi ya da bunu öldürdü. Şimdi metalarla, cihazlarla daha fazla bir şeyler üretmekle meşgulüz. Üretim nicelikle ilgilidir, yaratıcılık ise nitelikle.
Yüreğinizi geri almak zorundasınız. Bir kez daha doğanın ayırdına varmak zorundasınız. Gülleri, nilüferleri yeniden görmeyi öğrenmek zorundasınız. Ağaçlarla, kayalarla ve ırmaklarla yeniden ilişki kurmak zorundasınız. Yıldızlarla yeniden konuşmaya başlamak zorundasınız.