yoga took a back seat while indulging in chritmas and new years

 well it's the start of the new year and we hope everyone had a beautiful  Christmas and brought in the new year safely.

James and I had a lovely time over Christmas everything happening  all at once anniversaries , birthdays and Christmas .  I was spoilt rotten as usual but we never forgot the meaning of Christmas. I  over indulged  on  chips, dips, and  chocolate . it was pure heaven   all the naughty things ! James however was more composed . you see everything came to a grinding holt  it being so hectic   helping Santa out with presents  decorating the house etc.
 now however it's back to being disciplined, this is going to take some doing  its going to be so hard  I will be craving all the naughty things for some time , I always do  after  the  silly season and new years celebrations  are over  , that's why we usually don't have such  naughty things  in the house ! James

and I are terrible  for any kind of sweet  things  they are gone in a flash faster than the speed of light you might say
now is the time to get myself back into shape  it's amazing  how leaving  hatha yoga for a few weeks and going off your normal  diet changes your body, your bodies fat goes into all the wrong places  and you just feel yuck!
once you  restart your hatha yoga  workout and your healthy way of eating  your bodies fat will slowly go back to where it should  be  and you will start to feel a lot better in yourself








Namaste. 

a yoga workout with prudence,sheldon and me

as you might remember from our previous post we had our gorgeous  weiros {cockatiels}  Fergus and Patrick, stolen right from under our noses
 we were and  still are  devastated  James and I decided we would buy  some  more weiros this time though baby ones  we searched for baby weiros and found two 16 week old gorgeous babies  our male weiro is named Sheldon he is a pearl pied and  our female weiro is named prudence she is a cinnamon  .
prudence and Sheldon were supposed to be hand raised, and they were  only partially so it took us nearly 3 weeks  to get them used to the house and their new surroundings as well as  getting used to us , they are now quite  happy to sit on our head and shoulders  and to interact with us . prudence loves her bath and plays with the pen lid. I put a cover on the dining room table   and she just goes to town !
during this time I have only done half a yoga workout  until the other day.
 and it was a yoga workout with a difference  prudence and Sheldon were all over me using me as a giant  perch  at first  I found this  quite distracting  but it didn't take me long  to get into  that relaxed mode yoga puts one into.
so prudence and Sheldon didn't  bother me in the end. I did my full 88minute workout it just shows  that I can do  a full yoga workout even with the help of our feathered babies .LOL!!!  prudence is now helping me write this post she has been multi tasking helping james with the dishes at the same time.
typical girl us girls are good at that!
there is no excuse for not doing yoga. with a bit of creative thinking you can
accommodate  any form of distractions. I have had a mini set back  you might remember the post I did  my back  in I also got a  cactus spike or thistle in my  index finger well I left it and left it my finger got  quite sore  in the end I went to the  DR  I had an ultrasound  and there it was  about the  length of a grain of rice I was told to get it out immediately, so  James and I dutifully went down  to the emergency  department. well lying there nearly dying under local  anaesthetic  two  DR's gouging into my finger, all the while my arm is up in the air! Hand down so they can get to my finger  what a fiasco  ! after all this they couldn't find it  so they dug into my finger even more  without any luck so now I have a bandage on my index finger bigger than my thumb ! and I may have to see a surgeon and all this  because of a little cactus spike or thistle .
the moral of this story is don't put off  until tomorrow  what you can do today or be

prepared to suffer the consequences  as I am  doing and also always wear gloves in the garden !
I am still doing yoga, the floor Asanas  {yoga poses} that don't put weight on the hands so far so good.

 here is a quotation  I really  love by john Lennon


"life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other
"plans"






Namaste.

afrer a setback with yoga

well for the first time in weeks I did  a yoga workout  and Harriet even joined in sniffing and snuffling round my face and ears.
and then  plonked herself right  beside me, even our feathered babies  were good  can you believe it ! I cant. now back to my yoga workout  I cant believe  how each Asana
{yoga pose} I did, came with such ease its like I hadn't  stopped at all .
I was a bit shaky in the balancing Asanas  {yoga poses } but that's to be expected  after all these weeks  I am so excited to be back  doing yoga. I didn't realise how much I missed it and loved it  and I have had the most restful night in ages. my feet had instant relief  from the pain cause by osteo arthritis  it was amazing  .
the next day was just as good in fact  even better  we went and took Harriet for a walk  and there was a chill in the evening air    came home and while eating dinner my ear got  hotter and hotter an ear infection had struck. a week on and I feel much better.
but my ears are still niggly and my balance has been off , but getting there. its so frustrating  I just want to get back to my yoga.
so that's why I haven't written in here for a while .
with all this happening with my health our much loved weiros  {cockatiels } were stolen right from under our noses, in the early hours of the morning on the 13th of this month. so yoga has been the last thing on our minds  we are devastated .
we never thought we would have to put a lock on the aviaries, its quite creepy at how close the thieves came to our house !  in the evenings  when we sit down to watch telly we find ourselves  looking at the empty weiro {cockatiel}  Avery   and  there is nothing there its horrible . we just want our  weiros {cockatiels } back but unfortunately  there is no hope of that I am aiming to get back into  my yoga next week  and hopefully I don't get sick in the meantime.

here is  a little bit of Zen  which might interest you  and give you  some food for thought


"
All life is changing, all the
forms of it, and we flow
with the river or we refuse.
if we flow with the river,
we can digest it , as it were,
as we flow, and feel no
suffering. accept it and
we are one with it; resist
it and we are hurt. "

Christmas Humphreys.












Namaste.
 

back troubles with weeds

 hi all , I haven't  been on for a while because I  put my back out gardening
well weeding actually.  here in Australia we have a weed  called kooch , it looks like grass  but it isn't  and it grows everywhere and I mean everywhere . once you let it take off it takes off and you have to dig it out , well I thought I would be lazy I bent over and started  pulling the kooch with both hands when something went  in my back the kooch didn't even budge ! so have had to take it very easy for two painful weeks.
I have been tearing my hair out not being able to do my yoga.
I thought I had come right finally ! last night. but have aggravated my back by moving a very full rubbish bin  I should have left it for James  but thought no ! I can do it. James abruptly told me off and said I should have left it for him  James has been wonderful  doing everything I cant  and just letting me put my feet up all the while  James himself is not feeling well  and not saying one word, I am so lucky and grateful to have a husband like James.  Harriet has been helping to in her own little way
when my back is right I will start  yoga slowly not like a bull at a gate

because I don't want to be back at square one
I miss yoga very much will be back in no time

there is a saying patience is a virtue





Namaste.

 

how hatha yoga has helped with my epilepsy

 I have epilepsy  as you know it is not something you can catch,  sometimes
you are born with this illness and other times it can develop anytime in ones life.
there are many types of epilepsy such as  focal seizures  which I have, there are to many to list here not just the one type of epilepsy which is generalised tonic clonic
{grand mal } where the person convulses as the media and TV  shows .
which is why epilepsy is so misunderstood .
I am here  to tell you we are just the same as everyone else except  we have an illness
people  cannot see  most of the time. epilepsy is not a barrier  as some people think
no neurological illness is a barrier.
and I would like to tell you  how hatha yoga has helped with my epilepsy .
I feel hatha yoga is a god send, my seizures are set off with late nights, lack of sleep, heat, stress and not eating  properly .
my seizures cant be seen by people. it is only me that knows when they happen because of the warning I get leading up to my seizure  unless I  tell my husband or whoever I am with at the time  I have no visual signs you see  that is why it is so hard to try and explain the sensation  I get down my right side to Drs etc., for example the other day I was so stressed  I was having one seizures one after the other, I was so ill  I just had to go to bed because my head was so very heavy and sore  I could hardly keep my eyes open.
I got up the next day having slept well did my hatha yoga workout  and  I am ok today still having them but they are getting less and less  just faint ones  I had to have a day off yoga yesterday because I was so sick.
but usually  I do  hatha yoga  seven days a week for 88minutes  and my husband and  Dr suggested  yoga actually , and  I am so glad they did , and I love every stretch .
I feel fantastic afterwards and so calm . I cant believe how much my health has improved  because of hatha yoga it's a miracle ! not only my health  but my body has  been shaped into its natural shape it puts the unwanted  fat where it should be.
hatha yoga  is not an adventure  it is a journey and a personal one for each and every one of us
hatha yoga is a joy it is also a gift.




Namaste,