A breeze-less night, with the temperature rising beyond 33 degrees celsius, in a home without air-conditioning, cooling units or ceiling fans. Just a portable cooler and a couple of stand fans. How much worse could it get?
Quite a bit – as it turned out. We had two blackouts last night – each lasting about an hour or more. As you can imagine, it wasn’t very pleasant. Thankfully our little one didn’t wake up during the blackouts – and slept through it all. My sleep on the other hand, felt like morse code – dots and dashes of sleep every now and then.
Thankfully I woke up at 6, and managed to get into my routine fairly easily. However practice today was very sluggish. It was probably more in my mind than in my body – but almost immediately after I got into any asana – I would tell myself – ok, that’s enough, let’s move on to the next one.
Shows how important proper sleep is.
Then again, it could have been because I ate a little bit too much last night (Kavi cooked some delicious vegan Ma Po tofu…. mmm mmm mmm).
My left nostril was very blocked even after doing the Suryanamaskar. So I only did one round of pranayama. Sirshasana was very very nice today – for some reason. I seem to recall that previously, every time I did Sirshasana, my head would pound and my eyes would feel as if they were bulging with blood. This was when I was diagnosed as having slightly elevated levels of blood pressure. Recently, I was told that my blood pressure is back to normal – and it looks like so is my Sirshasana. I like it.
Anyway, I decided to spend more time on my Savasana (corpse pose) today - so that I could recoup from all that lost sleep. I read somewhere once that doing the Savasana in its entirety is equivalent to getting 7 hours of sleep. Now that’s a keeper!
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