omg - Esak Garcia

I used to go to bikram at this fantastic yoga studio when I lived in the Mission. Occasionally people on the bus home would ask me if I was okay because I would be so red for a while afterwards. I really liked that studio because everybody was so mellow and there was this strong essence of peace, tranquility and asomatous. When I moved to the East Bay I went to funky door a couple times and it was awful. I just remember how aggressive they were "push, push harder, 15 seconds more, push yourself." Where's the peace and spiritual connection in that? I call that "modern" yoga in the sense that in my world they're missing the essence of the whole thing.

How did this come up - well I ran across this amazing video. He is clearly one of the most flexible people around. It's worth the time to watch it through. It's around 7 minutes long.


On another topic: There sure is a lot of space trash out there. Click here for the combined images.

Flying the Sierra (aka Flying the Dog)

We just got back from a family get together at my honeypot's Mom's house. The weather was pretty nice, and the weekend was mellow and fun. We hung out and played with the horses, the dog, some games and each other. It was a nice change of scene.

My honeypot and his sister are into Acroyoga. They have various interesting looking postures that they can do where one person is "flying" the other. Like this. He thought it would be fun to "fly" the dog. She was remarkably tolerant of this behavior. (It's amazing what some animals or even humans will tolerate for a little bit of attention.)

All in all it was a good weekend.