Tedium and sore knees

Its been a while since I put anything on here and I was feeling under a bit of pressure to do so. Its kind of weird - almost as if you create a blog and then need to nurture it somehow.

I guess one of the things about yoga, especially a form like ashtanga where the mala (garland) of postures is set in stone, where the asana flow one from another, there's little variation in one's day-to-day practice. It kinda goes same...same....same...mini-breakthrough...one step back....same same...repeat mini-breakthrough...same...same etc.

Anyway. That's a really long-winded way of saying that in terms of my asana practice, I've not been having any breakthroughs, mini or otherwise. In fact, I've had a dose or two of the yoga-fevers and a couple of brushes with the yoga fairies (as David Swenson calls them) and they weren't happy! In addition I've felt compelled to move my mainly morning practice to a totally evening practice, and somewhere along the way I've managed to drop a session. I'm down to four days a week and feeling pretty guilty about it. I mooted the possibility of attending a sunday session over breakfast today, but it didn't go down well. I let it lie figuring that karma yoga is as important as yogasana. In addition to that, the way my knees are giving me gyp at the moment, four days might be enough.....