I've been preaching a bit lately to anyone who will listen that rest days are super important, and that is why they are built into the Ashtanga "prescription". For me, it has been essential to take those prescribed days off - Saturdays, Moon Days, and Ladies Holidays - and to do it with no guilt or self-loathing. That can take as much discipline as getting to the mat.
For me, those rest days allow me to really practice to my best potential on practice days. There is no whining on practice days, and no "maybe I shouldn't push too hard today since I haven't had a real day off in a while, so I'll just do this pose I don't like in a half-assed fashion." There is just the practice, as it is, good or bad, hard or easy.
I plan to take tomorrow off in observance of the New Moon this afternoon...I promise. :-)
Gardenia in my garden
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