yogagin's blog

Job hunting is the perfect time to drop into a low-cost yoga class. Yoga and good quality, scented candles will soothe you when you long to tear out someone's hair (not yours, of course. You'll want your hair to look presentable, while you are on an interview).

Sorry. I've been away at my second dream job -- fiction-writing. Be back soon (I'm pmsing right now. Yoga worked well to knock out my pms symptoms, and I went right back to indulging myself with junk food and snacks high in fats and sugars.)

Link as promised:

http://www.madisoncommons.org/?q=node/500

(well, the url, anyway)

This is my "trying on" period. I'm volunteering as a contributing writer to a local e-pub. In this first contribution, I've combined my love for writing with my enthusiasm for yoga  -- it's a short piece on a yoga studio in the Midwest. When I have the link, I'll post the link on this blog.

As in menstrual flow. Since my daily 10-minute plus yoga practice (or 1 and a half hour-practice if I make it to class), the cramps have subsided, and the headaches rarely last longer than a minute.Contrast that with my pre-yoga days, when I was downing 1,6000mg OTC ibuprofen per 16 hours, my stomach was a fiery knot (compliments of the ibuprofen), and the 3-day headache sent me to bed.

During the first two days of my period, however, my moon in Gemini shuts down, and my sun sign Aries temper rolls near boiling. For you non-stargazers, this translates as I'm far from interested in exchanging ideas, let alone LISTENING to someone's ideas. An unintended slight mushrooms into a barb, a blasphemous insult that deserves to be repaid as quickly as possible.

During these two days, the job hunt turns inward. I ask myself "How long would I last at this type of job before I'm ready to jump, naked and screaming, out the window?" "What kind of sacrifices am I willing to make in order to get and keep this job?" "At which point would this type of job turn from a dream into a nightmare?"  Add these questions to the "Where am I gonna find this type of job" question.

Ah, self-exploration. Yoga definitely teaches one to recognize his limitations.