do yoga daily

i have decided that teaching a class doesnt really count, as unless its very small, i really don’t get the benefits of a proper session.

i want to develop my personal practice, and to do that i feel like i need to spend an hour a day with it, on top of the classes i teach.

this has been effortless since i started teaching again- i’m teaching my own classes on mondays and fridays and twice on wednesdays, and attending classes on tuesdays and thursdays, leaving only two days where i have to motivate myself to practice, saturday and sunday, which is when i prepare and practice the class for the week ahead.

i m feeling like i just dont have the time for it every day. but it all comes down to getting up earlier, the goal that is proving to be the most difficult of the lot.

i like going to classes because:

i’m motivated to hold the poses for longer.

i’m the youngest person there, which makes me feel fit and sleek and limber… (none of which i really think i am the rest of the time)... and yeah, i know yoga is meant to be non competitive but my ego sometimes cant help itself

i spend time resting in savasana afterwards, which i always cut short when i’m on my own. i relax so deeply that i regularly fall asleep.

i correct myself better, extend into the poses more, make more effort all round.

to “do yoga daily on all days except the ones in which i have thoroughly and legitimately exhausted myself”

today was one of those days

yesterday in my salutes to the sun i managed to hover in the spaces between chatarangadandasana, the cobra and downward dog. today i was on my belly on the floor in those spaces, arms quivering, weak and wobbly.

on this, the second day,my body seems to have cottoned on to the fact that the 2 month interval in my routine has left it little incapacitated.

so couldnt get out of bed this morning, but it was lovely doing it this evening, because juno, my daughter joined me. she wants to get up early with me tomorrow and practice again. maybe that’ll get me out of bed.

amazing to be in my body again, havent done yoga since before xmas, forgot how much i love it

i am going to do 2×75min classes a week, and on the days when im not teaching or attending classes, at least half an hour at home.

starting today.