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[Guest guest]

More butting in from yoga mums - I first tried

Ashtanga when I was four months pregnant, with a two-week

workshop, every day, really intense and tiring. The I

stopped and increasingly modelled my practice to

accomodate my growing belly. I like what edenlotus said

about Dena (Who was my teacher's teacher's teacher,

talk about not having certified people around here) -

how the need (not just physical but emotional too) to

care for another human being helps overcome those

attachments. And that's doing yoga too, isn't it? It's true

that your body changes after you've had a child, I was

lucky in that before I didn't have a particular

practice to get attached to, just basically started about

a year after my baby was born. He's nearly two now,

and loves to adjust me with his older brother - we

look like a circus act most of the time. So if you

feel limited physically it refocuses you to more

internal things.

[Guest guest]

hey dani, thanks for the insights. that's

impressive that you started right out with a 2 week

workshop. it took me a couple of months of doing this to

work up enough courage to get serious and go at it

full time (or as close as i can). <br>on another

tangent...<br>i was curious after going thru your site--when you

dive, do you notice any effect on your practice later?

[Guest guest]

It's not really that impressive, because I didn't

know what I was getting into!!! I mean, I was told,

but I'm an extremely physical person so it sounded

good to me.....<br>Diving - I haven't noticed any

consistent effects, except that I'm really tired after

diving because I'm usually working quite hard when I'm

underwater. So if I'm on a field trip (in fact I leave for

one in about an hour) I take my mat, but if I don't

practise in the morning i don't practise at all. But now

that you mention it, i'll see if there is an effect.