The Great Glebe Garage Sale, 2008 edition...

[fajrdrako]

Every year my neighbourhood holds the Great Glebe Garage sale, where for a dozen blocks or more there is a large and busy community garage sale. Most years I spend a couple of hours wandering around and browsing - I love browsing through the odds and ends other people are selling! - but obviously with a broken foot I can't do that this year.

So: I am sitting at the curb outside my apartment building, selling things. Mostly books. I am sitting with my friends josanpq, Tasia and lunacy_gal, who are also selling things, and helping me to sell things, and thank goodness for them, because I couldn't do it alone. Couldn't even carry out the table I'm selling on and the chair I'm sitting on.

Typing this, I am actually in my apartment, taking a few moments to warm out. See, my apartment building casts a shadow and there seems to be a sort of wind tunnel, so that however warm it may be in general, in the sunshine, it's freezing in that spot in front of the building. I'm wearing my winter coat. I was doing all right, but I think my friends noticed I was shivering, so they sent me indoors. The budgies are glad to see me for a few minutes.

Mostly I'm selling books. No one so far wants my cute pink DVD player for only $5. I can't think why not. It's so very pink. And it works.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Iyengar is the best, you'd say...?

Definitely. He does hatha yoga, which I prefer to the other kinds - if only because I've been doing it for so long. (I've done kundalini, too, and didn't like it as much.) But there's no kind of yoga that would be bad, if you like it.

Inner workings of yoga? Read Patanjali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali), with commentaries. "Yoga Sutras" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras). The basic foundations of yoga. It's a series of aphorisms, simple on the surface, but incredibly deep and dense - maybe difficult without a teacher.

The book I started with was Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stern - good, but journalistic and hence somewhat shallow.

One of the best books on the subject is The spirit of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Spirit-Yoga-Cat-Rham/dp/0007108826) - sorry to give you the Canadian page, but I can't get into amazon dot com just now.

I haven't read it, but you might find The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Yoga-Practical/dp/0471736279/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216387012&sr=1-23) to be good - Deepak Chopra tends to give good, clear explanations of yoga principles.