Defintely an anxious week around these parts; I’ve been so busy worrying about shit that I’ve hardly had time to get excited about this weekend’s campout. Thank god I have tomorrow off from work so that I can slowly untangle my shoulders from my ears. Jeepers.

For the last three weeks I’ve been trying a new morning routine: yoga as soon as I wake up. It’s part of a new theory I’m working on: that it’s better for me to wake up from the body inwards instead of from the brain outwards. For years my wake up routine has been pee, put on tea water, check email. I go from bed to chair, and I don’t think it’s especially healthy. Sometimes I can get a little too wrapped up in my brain, you know?

Now I’m trying to wake up and immediately dive into at least a few sun salutations. I’ve only missed a couple days so far, and I’ve felt the impact of doing so … how much less anxious would I have been yesterday if I woke up through stretching instead of reading personal project-related emails and diving right into problem solving and project management and decision making?

The upside of this anxiety has been that I’ve been waking up really early (5:45 this morning) which leaves me lots of time to do a more complete set of asanas. This morning it was 5 Surya Namaskara A, 5 Surya Namaskara B, then several Parivrtta Trikonasanas, Parivrtta Sarsvakonasanas, and warrior poses, and closing with some of my beloved pigeon pose. It’s especially awesome doing all this in the backyard — sun salutations actually facing the sun? How novel!