365 days of yoga: take a tall seat

25 minutes: nice and easy

this morning, i slept a little late and got started a little before 9am. (i have a little cold and i've taken nyquil the past two nights. i slept the sleep of a medicine induced sleep coma.)

i rolled out my mat, took a tall seat and some deep breaths, and started the de-stress practice from this month's yoga journal.

i ended in corpse pose, but rather than stay there and fall asleep (a real possibility this morning), i rolled up to take a tall seat again. i remember when i first started practicing and my instructor would say to imagine a string pulling up from the top of my head and down into the ground. today, i pulled that idea into my practice and sat a little taller. i breathed a little deeper.

it felt wonderfully grounding.

the rest of the day, i've been calmer and more centered. i have hope for my year of daily practice.