Yoga Journal #53: Sane New World

Woke up and tried to structure a shoulder sequence for myself.

Went to watch Ruby Wax show, “Sane New World” on mindfulness – after one of the yoga girls gave me her book to read! Really good show – had drinks for dinner before – had a bit of internal conflict about what to order since Warr and I usually always share food at restaurants and the veggie options that were available – might not have necessarily been the things he would have ordered.

Settled on the veggie pizza – was delicious! Ruby Wax was super interesting – all about the mindfulness and meditation that I’ve already started discovering. She “poo-poos” yoga – quite a bit in the book – which is interesting to me since it is so similar to what she is talking about. But perhaps this is her way of making mindfulness and mediation accessible to the “non-hippie” variety?!

Some one in the two rows in front of us – asked Ruby about why she has an aversion to yoga – she kind of side-stepped the question a bit! Anyway – after the show – I decided to introduce myself to the woman who had asked the yoga questions – ended up having a fat chat about yoga – told her I was busy with my yoga training and gave her my business card.

Ruby Wax came out and we caught her and got a picture with her.

Ended up getting pretty emotional on the train home with Warr (could possibly have been the wine we had with dinner). Just feels like yoga is a whole new world and it’s quite scary to me to feel like that worlds that I;m entering doesn’t have Warren – or at least Warren isn’t really in that world. I can’t really explain it. But it’s more than having a hobby that your partner doesn’t do. It’s a whole way of being – it’s starts to change who you are and what is important to you and it feels weird to be going through these things without him.