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TDS Social Thread v. RIP tobala & junctionalfunkie, we love you both

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n3o-- I'm doing an instructor training course. This was the first of seven weekends: each is three nine hour days. Each day includes a two hour practise, as well as workshopping the focus poses each day. That's usually another hour or so, where each of us takes turns doing the particular pose, and everyone else walks around critiquing it. Not only does that help one's own practise, but it gets you used to looking for problems in students' poses.

Then there's the anatomy work, text work, etc. Apparently there will be a bit of philosophy later, which might be neat, but I'm in it mostly for the asanas. Oh, and there's a weekend-long (just two six hour days) 'anatomy intensive', where we do nothing but anatomy learning. Oof. But by the end of the course I'll be certified as a YogaWorks instructor at the 200 hour level, meaning that I can teach most general classes. Specialist and advanced classes require another 300 hour training that isn't currently offered in my city, and likely won't be offered in an extended format like I'm doing now.

I actually just had my first practise since then, and got a LOT more out of it. It wasn't a tough class as it was full of resolutionists (which is awesome by the way), but I was focusing on getting my alignment as close to right as I could, and found the poses to be a lot harder than usual. It was great; very humbling, but also with the extra yoga endorphin goodness.

The fact that the class was also about 80% hot women didn't hurt either ;)
 
that's cool as shit, Dave! I like hearing folks (especially good folks) talk about their passions

So you're saying that your class is 80% n3o look-a-likes?
 
aside from being wide awake at 5:30am , solid . all my ribs are healing so shits coming together , im not good w/boredom , need to keep going.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
How is everyone doing?
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Tired.
For some reason I'm sleepy as hell yet still drinking coffee that has to have at least 300mg caffeine in it.
I thinking of taking a shower soon but that requires moving...

Also hungry....but food requires movement as well. Damn.

***** EDIT ***** Whoa whoa WHOA hold the fucking phone. Is the title of this thread for real? All I saw was it was 'social' but upon closer inspection....did this really happen...fuck
 
theartofwar said:
aside from being wide awake at 5:30am , solid . all my ribs are healing so shits coming together , im not good w/boredom , need to keep going.
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cool deal that your ribs are healing nicely.

When I first put the drugs down, boredom was a huge problem for me but someone put it in perspective for me. I was told that boredom is simply a manner of actually being at peace. When we are so used to chaos and then that chaos is removed, we get uncomfortable because things have finally slowed down and we're not used to it.

It was real important for me to go through that bored/at peace time period. It taught me how to be okay with being with myself without the distraction of escape. It was real uncomfortable at first but, we adapt and learn that our thoughts and emotions eventually balance out and the ability to tolerate being in our own skin becomes tolerable.

I never would have been okay with just being with myself if it wasn't for enduring that perceived boredom and even though it sucked at first, I'm real grateful for the opportunity to practice just 'being'
 
OverDone said:
When I first put the drugs down, boredom was a huge problem for me but someone put it in perspective for me. I was told that boredom is simply a manner of actually being at peace. When we are so used to chaos and then that chaos is removed, we get uncomfortable because things have finally slowed down and we're not used to it.

It was real important for me to go through that bored/at peace time period. It taught me how to be okay with being with myself without the distraction of escape. It was real uncomfortable at first but, we adapt and learn that our thoughts and emotions eventually balance out and the ability to tolerate being in our own skin becomes tolerable.

I never would have been okay with just being with myself if it wasn't for enduring that perceived boredom and even though it sucked at first, I'm real grateful for the opportunity to practice just 'being'
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Very good point.

I have found that the small times I get alone are full of introspection .......... Recently I Have been rediscovering who I am. It can be hard to face some of the things rolling around in my head but I know its making me a stronger, better person.

delta- <3 :(
 
believe me chaos is an escape from sanity which is it's own enemy , being sane accepts responsibility etc .. i've thought about this stuff for awhile i agree OD.
 
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delta- <3 :(
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Thank you but no worries, just a bit sad it all. I didn't know them in person, but I must have read tobala's story with ibogaine about a dozen times. I fount it very inspirational and read it to several people close to me in my life. It made me cry when I first stumbled upon it, just like I did when I stumbled upon this discovery :(
 
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theartofwar said:
believe me chaos is an escape from sanity which is it's own enemy , being sane accepts responsibility etc .. i've thought about this stuff for awhile i agree OD.
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They alternate, in cycles. At what's more, it's the transitions that are the worst. when you're getting sane/clean/sober, everyone around you is supportive, proud and happy for you, but inside you feel horrible, scared and alone. And when you're falling apart and everyone around you sees it, you're fooling yourself into feeling like a superhero on the inside. Quite backwards, the transitions are.

Never is it easy...
 
OverDone said:
^do you still have family and friends there? Is everyone okay?
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Yeah, everyone's OK. They're all quite excited really because the town is constantly in drought and no-one's seen so much water in their lifetime (all the old school friends I'm in touch with are 50+).

The real worry is that facilities like the hospital might get hit. The nursing home there was built with funds raised by the townspeople and it would take forever for a town of 1500 people to raise the money to rebuild it.

It's harvest time and everyone's crops will be destroyed but there are more bad seasons than good seasons in that area so people will take that in their stride.
 
RedLeader said:
They alternate, in cycles. At what's more, it's the transitions that are the worst. when you're getting sane/clean/sober, everyone around you is supportive, proud and happy for you, but inside you feel horrible, scared and alone. And when you're falling apart and everyone around you sees it, you're fooling yourself into feeling like a superhero on the inside. Quite backwards, the transitions are.

Never is it easy...
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isn't that the fucking truth dude.

Lolie man , i am sorry , i cannot imagine how stunned by news like that I would be. I don't deal with traumatic incidents well, take care of yourself. Seriously.
 
Lolie that is so bizarre hun!! Glad everyone's okay and seeing the brighter side of it all.

delta it always breaks my heart when people discover the title of this thread. Sorry you had to find out this way. I miss tobala and junctionalfunkie, and think of them both every day :( <3
 
theartofwar said:
isn't that the fucking truth dude.

Lolie man , i am sorry , i cannot imagine how stunned by news like that I would be. I don't deal with traumatic incidents well, take care of yourself. Seriously.
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I doubt there's anyone in Australia who doesn't know someone who's been affected by the floods. There's been a huge outpouring of "true blue" Aussie spirit in response to the crisis but rebuilding is going to take many months in most areas and years in others - but people will rebuild, we always do.

Link to in-depth article on my home town for those who are interested on what life is like in the bush here.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/dimboola-for-better-for-worse.htm

On a brighter note, apparently donations to the flood appeal jumped by twenty million dollars in one day after the airing of Oprah's Australian Adventure episodes in the US. She made a 30 second mention of the floods and told people to go to her website if they wanted to help - it wasn't even one of her impassioned pleas. I'd say that we've more than got back the 5 million it cost to bring her here, although not in the manner intended.
 
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