Wow, it’s been almost 3 months since I last posted! I’ve been really busy with Baby Audrey, obviously, but also with yoga.
Baby stuff first: our little girl is absolutely amazing! She’s got two teeth now, started both eating cereals and sitting up without support last Saturday. She is such a good baby, so playful, so much fun! I can’t believe she will already be 6 months in a couple of days! Time flies way too fast. I would like to keep her little like this forever… and at the same time, I love and enjoy watching her acquire new skills, being able to do things for the first time.

I’ve also been quite busy with yoga. I started working for the studio I study at in January. They’re expanding, releasing new products (CDs, DVDs, etc.) and they needed help with the communications side of it all, so they asked me to do it. I’ve also been teaching quite a bit, subbing whenever a teacher has to be replaced. As of this week, I also have my own pregnancy yoga class. It’s a bit weird: I’m just coming out of pregnancy (or actually, I keep saying I’m still in it… the way back is just as difficult as the pregnancy itself!) and I didn’t really do any pregnancy yoga while I was pregnant because I already had my practice. So now I’m studying a lot and adapting to a new kind of teaching (most women who do pregnancy yoga have never done yoga before). I love it! I’m also taking a short pregnancy yoga teacher’s training tomorrow (I had signed up for it before I was offered this class), so that should really help me.
Oh, and I signed up for a week-end workshop with Sharon Salzberg in May, and another one with Richard Freeman in August. I still have 4 months and a half to get back to an Ashtanga shape… Because despite being back to the yoga practice for 4 months already, and practicing several times a week (hey, in January, I almost made WoYoPracMo: I just *forgot* to practice on the 30th!), I’m really not there yet. My strength used to be arm balances, whether it be handstand or chaturanga dandasana, but right now even chaturanga is hell. I don’t get it. Pregnancy was tough on my back and on my legs, not on my arms!
That’s all the time I have for tonight. I’ll have to give Audrey her last bottle and then put her to bed. Will try to post more often, especially since there’s so much yoga going on in my life!


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March 14, 2008 at 8:30 pm
harmony
i can totally relate with the road back to yoga being difficult. for me, i think it’s because of the hormones (i’m still breastfeeding) but it’s like there is a weakness in the muscle attachments in my pelvis. my body feels so vulnerable sometimes and i feel like i could really hurt myself. an example: sometimes the high hamstring attachments feel too open and then the muscles tighten to compensate. it’s really weird to say the least. one thing for sure is that i absolutely cannot be adjusted. it scares me actually! any deepening of the pose other then at my own initiative is a big mistake! i’ve already had a few “tweeks” from being adjusted until finally i just had to say no more for now.
i never did pregnancy yoga either and after i had uma i was asked a number of times to teach a pre-natal yoga class. i absolutely have no voice or experience! if they wanted to do ashtanga well i could totally tell them how to adapt their practice but as you mentioned, most pre-natal yoga is with complete beginners.
glad you are well! audrey is beautiful! take care!
March 14, 2008 at 10:51 pm
shiny
good to hear from you and WOW it really does sound busy but fab for you. I am a new aunty to gorgeous little luca who is just over 3 months old and I can’t believe how quickly they grow… I only get to see her on weekends as she lives a little while away from me, and each time I see her I’m astounded at her growth.
So glad you’re enjoying this time x
March 15, 2008 at 4:17 pm
yogamum
Oh, she’s gorgeous!!!
March 16, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Lisa Gray
Yeah, wow, she is a DOLL!!!
I always say about pregnancy that it’s “nine months up and nine months down” – or “nine months there and nine months back”, whatever. I got that from the Girlfriend’s Guide to Being Pregnant, which is so funny that you could almost read it when you’re NOT pregnant, just for laughs. Anyway, I think it’s totally normal to still feel IN it.
You look happy as a mom, though!!!
June 18, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Jugoslav
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Jugoslav.
December 17, 2008 at 6:48 pm
LotusGarden
Nice blog
Nice Pictures