Half Moon posture - Delivered
Sep. 22nd, 2011 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelakSo far so good. I delivered half moon finally to Bikram and my 400 friends on stage. Now that's always a moment you don't forget. He could say anything - he's very harsh when he wants to be. Basically he decided from some intuitive place whether he likes you or not within 5 seconds, but he still listens to your whole dialogue. I was relieved when my half moon came out clear, energetic, and 99% verbatim. But it doesn't matter if you are verbatim if he decides he likes you - but heaven help you if it isn't verbatim and he doesn't like you. And watch out - if it's "too good, not variety enough" then he will let you know. Also - if it is over done, he would tell people they are not on broadway stage, but teaching a class. Or if they are boring and put their students to sleep = I pay only fifty cents for your class! Or too slow, too fast, you name it. Or maybe for some reason he just won't like your haircut and he'll tell you it's ugly in front of your 400 new friends...
But for me, "Wow. Amazing." And as I went to hand my microphone (eeep, my microphone! Did I say I love microphones and stages and huge crowds of people!? It elates me... no kidding) ... he said one last time, "Fantastic!" and I thanked him and went to stand on my line to wait for my next homie to deliver hers. Boy, was it hard to do half moon on stage with the mini-shakes, you get to be a student three times before you go sit down (I enjoyed that too, honestly... put a stage anywhere and put me on it and I'm at home, was just hoping my skirt wasn't going to show off my assets with my bending, lol,
So it was great to get that behind me, and that it was positive, and that his correction was no correction. You can begin to see the 1000 things that this guy could say to you about this! I loved the experience, and wasn't nervous until one paragraph in, and only then were my knees micro-shaking (no one knew but me) but of course speaking with a few pals - I appeared 100% confident. So thank goodness.
Because really - I am pretty confident. But wowee, getting up there and the rush... it was bad because he let us go early (Unheard of, honestly - me and Karen were expecting him to keep us till 5AM...) He left us go at 11:30 for some unknown reason (weird but no complaints). Basically I was so strung up on adrenaline, that I couldn’t go to bed after that. I tried to call my Mom, I tried to call Jim, the 2 didn’t pick up.
So instead I floated around talking to some Yogis and Yoginis…I was amped. Full of it. Electric energy pulsing through me a bit. I also didn’t want to go back to my room either. Karen seems to be totally fine with being in the room a lot – but she’s informed me she is not going to be around much on weekends! AWESOME. She has a best friend who lives in LA so she’s going there on weekends. Sounds great to me, frankly!!! WOOOHOO. PARTY IN ROOM 453… ok not really. But you know what I mean.
And now I better get ready for Rajashree’s class (Bosses’ wife). Basically I need to get my protein drink ready, and my regular drinks ready… I need another damn water bottle. 40 ounces doesn’t feel like quite enough in the hot room. ;) The ball room is pretty rad at the Radisson. I must say… now let’s hope I can hack this class. It’s getting a little tight, my back bend is tightening up :P And well. Last class was pretty rough on me, I got to admit by the end I was getting a little nauseous – I hardly ever get nauseous from classes. It was a 2 hour ten minute class – who knew? I guess all of his classes have been around 2 hours lately. I don’t notice, I’m just working so hard and pep talking myself and telling myself “take it easy, honey…” you know?
Like Bikram and Raj And everyone has said: take IT EASY in first 2 weeks. 2 doubles a day, you can’t be a racehorse and a rockstar. I do find it interesting most of the people who have been puking or carried out are very, very skinny – mostly men… and Bikram says as his aids carry them out “see that guy? He doesn’t eat! Look! He needs to have ribs with me! He needs to eat food!” So, my 10lb buffer is holding me up okay, no skeletal me. Just… w00t! Having a blast here and I know I’ll get testy at times, but right now, today – in this moment, everything is great. And I intend to try and see the Great part in as many moments as I can. Real work starts after half moon… especially since I don’t have a lot of them!
Anyway. This change in my life is unreal. Why? Because I’ve been waiting 4 years for life to shift. Holding pattern is officially over!
And Heidi - I represented Renton well.
-Angela
But for me, "Wow. Amazing." And as I went to hand my microphone (eeep, my microphone! Did I say I love microphones and stages and huge crowds of people!? It elates me... no kidding) ... he said one last time, "Fantastic!" and I thanked him and went to stand on my line to wait for my next homie to deliver hers. Boy, was it hard to do half moon on stage with the mini-shakes, you get to be a student three times before you go sit down (I enjoyed that too, honestly... put a stage anywhere and put me on it and I'm at home, was just hoping my skirt wasn't going to show off my assets with my bending, lol,
So it was great to get that behind me, and that it was positive, and that his correction was no correction. You can begin to see the 1000 things that this guy could say to you about this! I loved the experience, and wasn't nervous until one paragraph in, and only then were my knees micro-shaking (no one knew but me) but of course speaking with a few pals - I appeared 100% confident. So thank goodness.
Because really - I am pretty confident. But wowee, getting up there and the rush... it was bad because he let us go early (Unheard of, honestly - me and Karen were expecting him to keep us till 5AM...) He left us go at 11:30 for some unknown reason (weird but no complaints). Basically I was so strung up on adrenaline, that I couldn’t go to bed after that. I tried to call my Mom, I tried to call Jim, the 2 didn’t pick up.
So instead I floated around talking to some Yogis and Yoginis…I was amped. Full of it. Electric energy pulsing through me a bit. I also didn’t want to go back to my room either. Karen seems to be totally fine with being in the room a lot – but she’s informed me she is not going to be around much on weekends! AWESOME. She has a best friend who lives in LA so she’s going there on weekends. Sounds great to me, frankly!!! WOOOHOO. PARTY IN ROOM 453… ok not really. But you know what I mean.
And now I better get ready for Rajashree’s class (Bosses’ wife). Basically I need to get my protein drink ready, and my regular drinks ready… I need another damn water bottle. 40 ounces doesn’t feel like quite enough in the hot room. ;) The ball room is pretty rad at the Radisson. I must say… now let’s hope I can hack this class. It’s getting a little tight, my back bend is tightening up :P And well. Last class was pretty rough on me, I got to admit by the end I was getting a little nauseous – I hardly ever get nauseous from classes. It was a 2 hour ten minute class – who knew? I guess all of his classes have been around 2 hours lately. I don’t notice, I’m just working so hard and pep talking myself and telling myself “take it easy, honey…” you know?
Like Bikram and Raj And everyone has said: take IT EASY in first 2 weeks. 2 doubles a day, you can’t be a racehorse and a rockstar. I do find it interesting most of the people who have been puking or carried out are very, very skinny – mostly men… and Bikram says as his aids carry them out “see that guy? He doesn’t eat! Look! He needs to have ribs with me! He needs to eat food!” So, my 10lb buffer is holding me up okay, no skeletal me. Just… w00t! Having a blast here and I know I’ll get testy at times, but right now, today – in this moment, everything is great. And I intend to try and see the Great part in as many moments as I can. Real work starts after half moon… especially since I don’t have a lot of them!
Anyway. This change in my life is unreal. Why? Because I’ve been waiting 4 years for life to shift. Holding pattern is officially over!
And Heidi - I represented Renton well.
-Angela
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Date: 2011-09-23 04:07 pm (UTC)