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Janie's June 2005 Journal Monday 6/6: Okay, yeah, been a while... heh - sorry. Life happens, what can I say? I'll do a brief catch-up summary here & then pull out stuff I wrote in more detail about some of the events that have happened in-between March and now later... I broke my toe (second to littlest one on right foot) doing Ashtanga a couple of months ago - will have to look up the date when I post the stuff I wrote about it at the time.. Basically it was a terrific practice and I was really getting the jump throughs with my legs crossed and everything. I practically had the whole thing 'down', but didn't quite get my legs out straight quick enough in general. After 90 minutes into practice (it was a long really great one), my muscles were getting more tired than I realized and I didn't quite lift enough on the way through - or tuck high enough - or both, heh. Anyway, the floor was concrete at the time, as they were going to be putting in a new wood one in a couple of weeks. I also am still a beginner and use more velocity on my jump throughs than I think more experienced and capable people do... At any rate, I bashed it quite badly, but didn't think it was broken at first. I kept with the practice, then the hurt didn't go away & I figured I really hurt it, but still didn't think it was broken. My teacher asked me if I wanted to stop, but I didn't - besides what we had left didn't involve my toe much anymore anyway. I finished the fantastic session, did the ending relaxation/meditation, and talked a bit with my teacher afterwards. She made me promise to stop at the mini-mart & get crushed ice in a bag & put it on my toe for my 1/2 hour drive home. I did and it's probably a good thing, as I later discovered that it was indeed broken... I did have fun at Ashtanga though. Too bad it put me out of commission for that and other exercise longer than it seemed it would. It didn't really hurt much, but it was communicating clearly to me what it wanted and didn't want. It wanted me to get lots of sleep and didn't want to be wrapped, taped or anything. It wanted me to put it up and sleep mostly. So I did whenever I could - all day on my days off & when I got a chance at work. It did not inhibit me from doing other exercise, however my body just wasn't into it like it usually is. I took that to mean that it just wanted to focus on healing, and rested or slept any chance I got. As a result I didn't get much exercise for some time - 'cause I wasn't able to to just not walk or work... It was healed to what I would have considered complete before 811rv at about 3 weeks, however now that I've been more active I knew it wasn't completely healed as there were still some things I couldn't do on it (that I didn't do at all before 811rv - so wouldn't have noticed). It was amazing though - I healed in about 1/3 the time as when I broke the same toe on the other foot before 811rv. I broke it with more impact and more intensely this time too - and even though it was given more trama, it wasn't as tramatized... It didn't swell up as much, hurt like it did before, and healed quicker and more completely. Too bad it was fairly newly broken when the Boutenkos came to the island. I would have done pushups with Igor! :) Oh well, my hubby and I did get to meet and spend time with them, which was fun. They are such nice people. We were trying to get them together with a programmer friend we have from Russia. They knew of him and wanted to meet him and he wanted to go to their talk and meet them. It would have been highly beneficial for them all to meet each other too... Unfortunately it didn't work out. His birthday was the day before and friends of his and ours had taken him to the mountains for a party the night before. He was headed back and would be back in the evening. Victoria and Igor were going out for a swim and explore in the afternoon, so it seemed like they'd be able to meet up that night. It didn't end up working out somehow though. Oh well. Perhaps next time... I hope I can make it to RawStock so I can see them again & spend more time together. :) The Boutenko's talk was great! Really inspiring, as always. I've never been to any of their talks in-person, but do have a video of one of Victoria's talks (Is Raw Food For You?) and some of their books (12 Steps to Raw & Teen ??). We got another of their books, Raw Family, there and got it autographed. :) Victoria had great info. updating what's been happening with them and their raw eating. It seems to me that they are eating closer to 811rv now than ever. Victoria's really into green smoothies and has terrific reasons to back it up as well. It was very educational for me on many counts, but an unexpected thing happened. I realized just how differently I'm eating than others - even regular raw food eaters. It didn't really sink in before. I mean I knew that a lot of people, in fact most, at this point eat a living foods sort of way to raw: including ferments, spices, juices, dehydrated & frozen stuff, oils, olives, garlic, suppliments, superfoods, etc. as well as how many of them are eating a lot more fat and hardly any fruit. I was thinking that they were focusing on veggies and minimizing fruits, which was drawing them towards all the other stuff (which is possibly true), so I figured they were having a lot more greens than me. I mean, they were into wheatgrass & green juices and the like, which I don't do... It turns out that I was wrong. At the talk Victoria had a rather small bunch of curly kale IMO and held it up asking how many people eat that much of it or its equivalent a day. The room was packed. I raised my hand and then looked around. There was only one other person with their hand raised there. These were people I see at all kinds of raw things, some of which teach raw preparation classes and the like. I was floored! I never realized it. I was thinking, if these people are eating raw & they're not eating fruit, and not eating greens, then what are they eating? I was still thinking about that when she then said that we actually should be eating more like 2 of them a day & asked how many of us ate that much. My hubby expectantly looked over at me smiling ('cause he knew the answer) & I shyly and hesitantly half-raised my hand... sort of embarrassed. I was the only one this time. Victoria was quite surprised and actually questioned me about it - asking if it was all digested well and if I had it without oil. I said I didn't like curly kale so much, but would eat flat kale & was currently eating closer to 3 of them volume-wise with tat tsai. She didn't know what tat tsai was & so another audience member and I described it until she recognized what it was.
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