Practice yoga 30 times in 30 days

but an incredibly worthwhile goal once I make it a priority.

I can’t do this. Sniffle. :o(
I can’t believe I even indulged the thought I could possibly do this (see my Tae Kwon Do entry). I am already barely one week into the goal and I cannot keep track of my “slips”. I have more days counted that I SLIPPED than did yoga. Not a good place to start.
On the other hand, I did do a live class today. We did a slew of spinal twists and praying chair poses and triangles and reverse triangles to the point where I crumpled into child pose and S, the teacher, just said to us all: Oh. (she then inhaled and looked around) I see I have lost most of you.
Yep.
So- I must decline the invite I originally accepted for totally selfish reasons: I wanted to be a part of your group. I love reading about your yoga posts.But I need to take a raincheck. Maybe in a year? After I get my black belt? Two years? But I kow yoga will be a part of my life out of sheer necessity.
Namaste.

So…where to start?
Oh yeah- yesterday: NOTHING.
Late night at work and IF I would have gotten yoga in – it shoulda been in the morning and as I was up 5.00 for a class, no WAY was there time for yoga before work. Needless to say- I stiffened up and have become the tin woman as I creak and rattle about trying to stretch here and there through out the day.
And this is why today should count: I used a strap to assist me with seated straight-leg forward bends- multiple times. Same strap into one-legged stretch (imagine a 90 degree angle with my back on the floor and one leg straight in the air and the other active but pressed on the floor). Then held leg w strap as I dropped/opened leg onto floor and held. Sat up and brought toes/heels together in front of me and leaned over to stretch out back/glutes. Then typical glute stretch w ankle on bent knee and pulling knee into body. Now- will go upstairs and do the one where i place knee underneath me and try to get foot in line w knee and then “sit” on leg leaning forward. Could not find any reference to it on Yoga journal. But I am sure it is a “real” yoga pose.
So-
i think today should count as I never would have done any stretches held for that LONG before.
3/1/30.
By the way- not at all mentally centereed nor focused. And tomorrow, thankfully, I have a LIVE yoga class to participate in.
Thank you, all, that also did not do yoga everyday so I don’t feel too lonely out here. ;o)

as the words I need to talk about yoga are MISSING. All I do know how to aptly describe is downward dog. The class went something like this after our “warm up”: coming on to all fours, lift into plank then slowly lower through triceps into cobra and back into down dog- repeated that a few times. My arms were shaking at I had just walked out of my kickboxing class and into yoga. She knows I have major hammie issues so makes of point of focusing one or two poses on them. Anyway- I would like to know the name of the one that starts w chair pose- but then you bring both your hands to one side of your body in a kind of namaste and try to press your elbow closest to your leg agst yr leg until your hands are even w your chest. Quite a few forward bends into lunging back. From the lunges- I think we straightened out the front leg and did triangle and reverse triangles. Also, I do remember a fish pose towards the end! I fear I am the most un-yogic person here. I think I have Elderbear beat. I mean, really, who just goes and does Yoga in the nearest open field while waiting for AAA to resolve their car issue? Perhaps these things only happen in Cali, i.e. West Coast vs. us uptight Yanks. ;o)

I tend to be the more….high-energy indivdual (read: anal) in class in terms of perfection and wanting to literally force myself into looking like what the instructor looks like. Which is impossible and just causes me to roll my eyes in exasperation. And tends to lead me clearly in the opposite direction from what seems to be the goal of yoga: mind and body connection and expansion and exploration. I tend to think I am in total control and do not want any back talk. No pun intended. Today was the first day I did not want to jet out of the final relaxation. Usually, I get itchy in my skin and think …sheeesh…can she drag this out any longer???? My jaws were still a bit clenched at the end of our hour.

anyway- so 2/2. And fear I will be doing Yee Lower Back Yoga the other 5 days of the week….as this is the only yoga dvd I have (and it’s not even mine as my massage therapist let me borrow it).

I’ll be interested to see where I am in 28 days. God help me….

Tho I am officially logging in today under this goal- thanks, Big Bear! I am counting YESTERDAY as DAY 1. Wish me luck as this goes against my very nature i.e. commitment issues. You all set such fantastic examples, I feel quite honored to be invited!