Very Zen Practice

It is so nice when the practice goes smoothly, nothing hurts or is too tight, and the energy is sufficient and mind is calm. It was a very nice primary series today.

Maybe nothing is too tight because of the massage last Friday and the miraculous Japanese massage machine that I bought last week! It's called Bullman (I think, sorry for the advertising!), and it's a little black box with two handles and "thumbs" that rotate and press you. Very much like a human massage, except that it's always available and you pay only once (a lot more, though...). And it doesn't reply to you when you try to start a discussion.

I don't know if other ashtangis have become as conscious about the condition of their own muscles as I have. I feel the stiffness building up and (sometimes) loosening, and definitely a massage from time to time is very necessary. And it makes a huge difference for the practice. I used to have a baseball to lie on, to smoothen those trigger points in the upper back and in the buttocks, but now my "new best friend" let the baseball retire.

On Sunday, I did also the primary series, despite of the Moon Day. Otherwise I would have had too many days of break.