The Phone Book

Place: Living Room cozy chair
Time: 20 min
Circumstances: Post-Asana, pre-coffee, post-nibbles.

Sitting with joy that arises
And then watching that turn into happiness
Then checking out the mental formations
And then letting the formations chill right down.

Loving this practice. Loving practicing daily again. Loving the morning. Loving the fall. It feels pretty good, and at the same time, I am coming back to the practice from BREATHE and just noticing the joy that comes up without really attaching to it.

I was talking with Les last night about the student who had to sit on a phone book for a pose and every day just ripped out one page, day after day, until eventually they could get right to the floor in the pose (I think suptavirasana). I was so touched by this idea of a practice, that it just happens by coming to it day by day and building on it as you go.