Day: Jun 11, 2023

#629 theoldmortuary ponders

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A day that started calmly with a yoga class just carried on being tranquil. Leaving the park we found some lovely old and blistered painted gates.

Park Yoga Plymouth

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The picture at the top of the blog was created using an image of the cracked paint superimposed on my foot imprint left on my yoga mat.

Even the weeds created a lovely colour contrast.

And the cracks, as they always do, charmed me.

The day continued in tranquil mode when we went for a swim at Tranquility Bay. It was perhaps less than tranquil because two men had set up a barbeque on the steps leading into the sea and were having a two man Ibiza style party with a sound system. But our swim was fabulous. The following photographs show all the activity that happened in a one hour stay at Tranquility Bay

The Ibiza barbeque party took a turn towards the mellow when Pavane by Gabriele Faure replaced European House Music. Accompanied by the exact same dance that had accompanied the dance music. The scores of regular swimmers good- naturedly accepted the aural and visual embellishments to their regular swimming zone. Both created a memorable afternoon of unplanned entertainment.

Pavane below to ease you into the week.

#628 theoldmortuary ponders.

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Making an impression, or indeed, the farting yogi!

Sunday morning found me in a park with about 100 other people doing outdoor yoga with an organisation called Park Yoga, a partner organisation of Park Run. Park Run fills parks all over the country with runners on Sunday mornings, doing sweaty intense laps to various standards. Park Yoga is about being stationary, and today sweaty, to various standards.

Outdoor yoga in fabulous weather is quite the thing no need to visualise warm sun on my face. Imagining my foot sinking into the ground was beautifully illustrated by my yoga mat.

I may have overdone the inversion poses and maybe had a little incidental wind issue. Thank goodness for being out in the open air. The ripple of giggles around me the only sign that anything untoward had happened.Inversion poses also flipped familiar jewellery constantly in my face. I so rarely actually see it.

Yoga is good for mind and body and doing it outdoors really does enhance the experience. My summer Sunday mornings sorted.

Park Yoga Plymouth