Week 17 - Sunday
Work continued to be pressurised - for all of us, on Friday and Saturday (I work two weekend days each month).
However, when I came home from work on Saturday, I was happy to find our son Ben had arrived to stay overnight with us. He had a plane to catch early on Sunday morning and staying with us shortened the journey to the airport. Hes off to San Diego California for a techie convention, the Etech Conference. (Emerging Technologies) While I envisaged sun, sea and balmy weather Ben was focusing on the amount of work he has to do while there! Still it was good to have his company for the evening and hear his news.
Although I had said good-bye the night before (I knew I couldnt guarantee a 5 am wake-up!) I still woke early on Sunday morning in time to ring him at the airport. Carol had gone with him to the airport. As a result we both felt we just wanted to laze about yesterday. In fact we both fell asleep after lunch.
So it was a considerable effort, therefore, to get ourselves going for our Yoga class. And what a workout! I think our teacher, Ofra, must have learned a few new moves during her time in India! It was a very rigorous class and after a number of rapid sequences, and towards the end of the 1 ½ hour class, I felt my stamina flagging. Totally unheard of before Ofra suggested I might like to ‘not push myself any harder’, perhaps even do a resting asana for a while. I was too tired to protest!
I went to bed about 9:30. Well this has turned out to be a bit of description about how tired I was on Sunday! I find I dont cope well with disruptions to my sleep. I didnt wake up that much earlier but it left me trying to cope the rest of the day. I have noticed that previously on this treatment. If I have stayed up late or got up very early it takes my system a while to compensate and get back into equilibrium - sometimes one or two days later!