The deepest snow outside I’ve seen in the UK since I was young. Outside is white with a hint of… mauve.

Exploring sitting still after asana. I feel a definite energy generated or stimulated by the yoga practice, and it is interesting to sit still and feel that, and feel its movement. It starts around the solar plexus, a tingly, unsettled, intense energy. There is resistance, and this resistance is the clue, the learning, the chance of undoing.

Today the introduction of the funniest pose, the lion. Roar! And a preliminary headstand.

Hittleman:

Tension is a tightness or a squeezing that occurs in the organism mentally, emotionally or physically.

Krishnamurti, Book of Life, 6 January:

You will find that the more you listen to everything, the greater is the silence, and that silence is not broken by noise