The End Approaches

I applied the final coat of finish tonight.  Tomorrow I will attach the hinge and bring the floor home.

Namasté

Bikram Revisited

While definitely not my favorite subject, I felt I should write something here regarding an article I read this morning relating to the whole Bikram copyright controversy.  The article does a good job of summing up the case against the copyright as I’ve already described and notes that settlement talks are scheduled to [...]

Pressing Onward

I spent most of the day yesterday working on the floor and I managed to finish all the wood working.  The surfaces are all sanded, the edges are nicely finished and the hand holds are done.  It was with great satisfaction that I started to apply the finish to the sides that will [...]

The Beginning of a Journey

I started work on my practice floor yesterday.  The cost of the project is going to be just about $180 due to the cost of purchasing tools which I didn’t have that I needed, without the expense of the tools the project would be about $70.  I’m using a sheet of 3/4 inch [...]

Pranayama Everywhere

I was browsing through the quarterly health newsletter that I receive as a benefit from my health insurance and I found an interesting piece in the stress less colum.  The piece, entitled A calming breath, gave a very brief description of anuloma viloma pranayama.  Unfortunately, the piece gave no source information nor does [...]

Shavasana

This is just a quick note.  Writing the last entry, I wondered about the spelling of shavasana (also transliterated as savasana or svasana).  While doing a quick search on the spelling, I came across a message on a forum (where all three of the spellings listed here were used in the same thread) [...]

The Way Forward

Well, I decided that I will simply have to build my own floor.  My mat is longer than the floor available online and I personally think that 30 inches is really just not wide enough.  The distance between my hands in svasana is around 40 inches meaning that the edges of a 30 [...]