Yoga

I took a "real" yoga class today and loved it. I'm doing this to try and release chronic neck and shoulder tension (ouch), and it helped.
My teacher has long, reddish-brown dreads and is a great instructor. I can't do certain positions without help (a blanket under my butt, for example)--but then, I also have a knee injury, by and large healed now, which still inhibits my flexiblity just a little. I've noticed in both dance and in yoga (I have been doing yoga at home for two years) that I am more flexible on my left side than my right.

Speaking of bellydance, I balanced a sword on my head for the first time! I have pretty good balancing skills, so the sword went on just fine--it's quite heavy and I think when I get one of my own, I will probably have to let it sit on my head for a few minutes every day.
This sure beats footnoting and MLA format!

ANYWAY--I had a nice morning with my youngest son (whose blog-nickname will be Riff, as he's a superb guitar player). Aside from the fact that he asked the merchants at both the bead store and the metaphysical bookstore if they carried "necklaces made of pure hemp, so he could spread the love around," we had a good afternoon. He's quite a comedian.

Not much else happening, except that my cell phone rang in the middle of yoga class. That was embarrassing. But the teacher was good about it.