Last month I looked ahead on the calendar of course, checking out the moon days of December, just to prepare myself, like any month to come. All I can think, now that it is coming up on the New Moon and the end of this December month...Mysore style students (that practice 6 days a week) and Mysore style teachers everywhere are in a slight stupor by now. Both Moon Days for December fall on Saturdays - already the slated Yoga Rest Day. I just read that even Sharath in Mysore 'changed' the December Full Moon day from Saturday to Friday. That is true license.
For me, just 3 months into holding a traditional early morning Mysore style program 6 days a week and loving it and getting used to it, I sure do understand the Moon Day tradition a little better! The program is still in the building stages, so with winter holiday time and the chances of smaller attendance, it's ok too. But today, as I am feeling under the weather, I am a little grateful that the small Thursday Mysore few have other plans (S, L, M, even my husband ;). It gave me time for meditation and some pranayama, to clear the way for healing, as I sat in the warm studio alone.
Thankful for my students, for the practice, and for the tradition of moon days...it's all in the timing!
