Ok, it’s really not that hard to grock.

a really common comment from people who have a regular ashtanga practice is that it makes you very sensitive to what you put into your body. when i was writing software, i had no problem eating a fatty, heavy dinner, drinking three glasses of wine and having two cups of coffee on my way into work at 8am. sure i felt sluggish and slow in the morning, but so did most people at work and we all got over it in a few hours. getting up early tho and doing this ashtanga practice every morning, makes it pretty much impossible to behave like that. well i can still do it, but i really feel it in the morning.

last week i somehow got the bright idea of eating domino’s pizza (yeah i know they support horrible political causes) and drinking a bunch of wine while watching some movies in the evening. i had a cancellation and only had to teach one earlier class. the next morning in yoga, i literally smelled the pizza coming out of my body in my sweat. i had showered before bed, but could still smell it coming out of my body. even later in the day after another shower, i could smell it on my body. i also found it really difficult to concentrate, like that heavily processed food had somehow poisoned my mind.