Yoga Journal #56: Veggie-ism and Vials of blood.

Today’s yoga was a restorative yoga session to balance out yesterday’s power yoga – much needed! Absolutely loved it – way more than I thought I would – did the whole thing with basically my eyes closed! Savasana was SO good and SO deep at the end! Maybe I’m just really into Savasana these days?!

Holly spoke about an egg analogy and how on the outside it appears that nothing is changing but on the inside everything is changing and things are happening even if we can’t see it. Maybe that’s how I need to think of things with Warren. Perhaps for me – because it feels like the changes I’m going through are SO big and visible and HUGE that I’m feeling it needs to be the same for him – but maybe it doesn’t and maybe I need to focus a bit more on Aparigraha and that non-attachment to the “big outcome”.

Lecture today on the chakras and did a meditation on the chakras – felt so happy at the ned of it – want to maybe bring that into a yoga course.

Spoke about developing a yoga course – which I found really interesting. Definitely keen to try something like that!

Warr made dinner for us – I suggested “seafood” in my effort to un-attach from my aversion to meat – he made a smoked mackerel cous cous dish – cutting the mackerel up really tiny – with loads of other things and then served with a pile of spicy vegetables. The mackerel was very well disguised – which I noticed he had done for me. The dish was really delicious – but we had a discussion about where the flavour was actually coming from. Ie: is it the meat or is it the everything else that gives it the flavour? Warr said it’s the smoking that gives it the flavour – which to me is still a “flavour” and not the ‘meat itself’. We then got onto a very random topic – I asked,  “Would you drink a vial of blood?” No. “But you would still eat a steak with all the blood in it” Yes – because that’s part of the package.

Decided to just leave things there and not argue my point any further – because in any case, I’m not a vegetarian, (and who is to say being a vegetarian is “right” any way) – these are just my feelings and my aversion to meat for the time being.

Have asked W if he would be interested in doing a veggie week with me – obviously, he could have what he wants for lunch- but I want to make veggie dinners only and see if he notices a change in his body/digestive system. (I have noticed a big change in mine – with just very minor changes and reducing the meat intake.)

Have told him that tomorrow we can have the left overs for dinner and will start after that -because I don’t believe in waste!

Will see how it goes.