Tuesday.
Wake up after a great dream (seriously, chill Monday yoga is the best of the best). I was in a massive house party crowded with people. My friend Chris invited me and I was dancing like crazy, enjoying myself. Wake up so excited, and then I wonder when I will be able to dance in a party like that.
Oh well, at least I have Random Playlist and I can dance in my room. That’s alright.
Meditate and have a shower. Hair challenge is definitely not for me. I like my hair clean, what can I say. Get changed and sort breakfast out as I’m having my herbal tea.
Annie comes in and tells me she run into a friend of hers during her morning run. I say that’s so cool. So funny, Chris told me the other day he bumped into a friend of his doing the shop… I wonder what I will do when I bump into someone I know. I bet I will feel awkward, or cry and make the other person feel awkward. Maybe both.
Well. I talk to my friend Maya in the meantime. She’s my regular visitor now.
Not so many corrections today. Tomorrow’s submission day and no one is keen to submit before deadline, obvs. Morning spent on checking what I need to work on next week, plan some homework and gather some research and stuff. Finish, aaand go on YouTube and check our first podcast episode. Soo cool. Can’t believe we have an episode on YouTube. 7 visualisations in less than 30 minutes. SUPERSTAR. I enjoy the YouTuber moment for a while until my stomach tells me it’s time to eat.
And what do I do?? COOK. Well done, Marta. You managed to heat the oven, slice half a courgette, four mushrooms, spread a ready-made pizza base, pour some tomato and distribute the slices all over the base.
Inner talent.
Gordon Ramsey, I’m finally ready for the next Masterchef level. I can feel it. Just give me a couple of pizza bases to make magic with them. Up for the challenge.
Pizza comes out good and I have it with some wine (can’t have pizza with chamomile tea). Finish and feel like dancing after the wild morning dream so I put Random Playlist on out loud to silence Roderick’s emo piano vibes. Oh. Sledgehammer! Peter Gabriel so long no hear! The end is my favourite part. Put it on a loop for a couple more of times and dance to it. Uh. ABBA? Yeah, yeah. I might not have the crowd but I have the best partying vibes. The Queen’s Room Social Club never lets me down.
Email from Graphic Novel competition nº2: I haven’t been longlisted. Oh well. It’s absolutely fine. Forget the email in less than two seconds. It’s funny how much this would’ve stung a couple of months ago and now… barely notice the difference. I dance for a while longer… confinement seems to be shredding my skin. I think in the best of ways.
Calm down because I have a workshop on intuition at 19:00 and I should be a bit more relaxed to process all the info. And less sweaty too. Grab a bite –not used to pizza anymore which leaves me pretty full. Put the kettle on and make myself a herbal tea for the session.
I think one of the best things I have discovered during confinement are the online workshops. I don’t need to spend an hour commute to the other side of London for a couple of hours and commute back for another hour. Wisdom from the comfort of my cushions. Jewels of confinement.
If I had to highlight something of the workshop it would be the distinction between intuition and fear. We all start with that question on the workshop and I think it’s a pretty normal. Right now it’s so easy to confuse them as the chances to be led by fear a massively high.
So the teacher defines fear as Munch’s ‘The Scream’, and intuition as Yoda. And The Scream is pretty loud and stressful, and doesn’t shut up and says many, many nasty things. But Yoda doesn’t. Yoda is wise and doesn’t need to say much. In fact, it will only the necessary for you to know whether ‘you’re doing fine’ or ‘girl, that’s not the way’. In a nutshell.
Yoda sits, and observes. And then speaks.
So she invited us to sit and observe The Scream and wait until it shuts up. And usually it does. Then, once The Scream is out, Yoda can take action and help you out. Sit and observe. Could do that.
I also find funny that Hideki and I were talking about Yoda as our wisdom inspiration during confinement on the podcast.
It’s an intense 2-hour workshop which leaves me a bit drained. Refill my herbal tea a few times, grab my book and get into bed thinking I should start watching Stars Wars again. Yoda’s a cool guy.
Set the alarm. Tomorrow muscle-killer yoga at 8… may the force be with me.