6 posts tagged “yoga yes!”

yea.  i went to yoga today.  it was good.  came home and made my favorite salad for lunch.  it was good too. 

tired though.  babies were up early this morning.  good thing they're so cute.

xo

i've actually been going to a yoga class 2 times a week for about a month now.  i've found a very intense teacher.  she doesn't touch or do any adjustments, but she's very skilled and her classes are demanding and challenging.  it's good for me.  there are a couple of poses I have no interest in doing, like side arm balance, for example.  but i also went ahead and attempted a bird of paradise the other day and wanted to do a little proud-of-myself-dance.  that was a big deal for me.

it is good to be back at it.  unfortunately, i think it's going to end once classes begin next month.  this particular yoga class is at the exact same time when i'll be teaching my own classes this fall.  ugh.  so now i'm going to have to figure out some other way and time to get to do some yoga.  of course, just when i start feeling good again.

and i was thinking about my connection to yoga this morning.  remembering back 12 years ago when we were getting married.  it was stressful.  my dad was having a party for us at his house for all of the out of town people 2 nights before the wedding.  you don't know me so you don't know about my relationship with my dad and his wife.  at that time it was pretty nonexistent.  and going to his house was just a horrible thought.  just frightening.  i remember sitting in my mom's room at her house before i had to get ready to go.  i sat on the floor in the corner and just stretched and stretched for about 20 minutes.  i did it totally unselfconsciously, without any judgment.  it just came naturally.  i had never taken yoga before, i didn't know anything about it.  but i think that is what i was doing.  i think i was doing my own yoga.  and it totally calmed me down.  and i felt centered and relaxed.  i got ready and we went.  and i made it through fine.  i think i have always needed to move in that way.  it's good for me.

Five Sun Salutations and some nice and warm Uttanasana before bed.  It's Sunday night.  Let's see if I can ease my way back into this.  

Made it to yoga today.  So nice.  I wish it were every day.  So good for me.  Little baby in my belly clearly loves it too.  He moves around the whole time I'm in there.  I know, he moves around all the time anyway, but he really kicks it into high gear when I'm in there chanting Ommm.....Love it.

I went.  It was really nice.  I was surprised to find out what I had and had not lost after being out of it for so long.  Anyway, thanks for the support.  I signed up for a month's worth of classes just so that I can figure out how to make it all work with my schedule, life, kid, husband.  It was good for me though and I could feel how happy I was to be there!  

So maybe because of the name of this blog you have the impression that I do a lot of yoga.  Or maybe you are skeptical about that because of the spelling of the name of this blog.  Or maybe you haven't thought about that at all.  Well, I used to do a lot of yoga but I've been struggling to acquire and maintain a yoga practice since we arrived in Las Vegas six years ago. 

Now, I think that I have resolved to get back into some sort of yoga practice.  Friday, I am going to the yoga studio across the street from work and I am going to give them money and take a class.  It is time. 

Two summers ago I signed up for yoga classes at that studio and had about a month of really good, dedicated practice.  This is not the "kind" of yoga that I originally practiced or learned back in the day at Tallahassee Yoga Center, with my friend and teacher Sharon.  I originally learned Iyengar yoga in Tally.  Iyengar is a pretty static "method" and is extremely concerned with alignment.  It was very cerebral for me and I really enjoyed it.  I enjoyed it for lots of reasons actually.  Iyengar is a great teacher because this perspective is very careful and forgiving with the body.  You can take a half hour to get into a pose and work on refining it.  Ashtanga is faster and much more flowy (that is what Ashtanga yoga is). 

Not that these differences really matter for me.  They both work.  And they both have their strengths and usefulness.  I know enough foundational yoga that I could/should be able to practice on my own.  But I can't/don't/won't.  I need the stimulation and structure of a class and the specific time set aside for the practice.  My point is that starting at that studio was a new thing for me and I was trying to just be open to it and go with the flow.  I need to get back to that.

Then I got pregnant and it was just too damn hot in July and the hormones were too much and I had to stop going.

Well, enough time has passed now.  Time to get my yoganaught on.  Wish me luck.