Practice Yoga regularly, with the wonderful, worldwide alumni of 30-in-30

I’m going to alternate a cardio night with a yoga night… that way I’m not leaving anything out, and I’m getting all the benefits most nights of the week… so far it’s worked for 2 nights :) Friday’s are hard though- maybe I’ll just go for a run or try to drag myself out of bed to get something in… I can’t wait until my schedule opens up a bit.
I just did the strengthing your heart class on yogatoday. I LOVE forward bends. I always come out of those classes feeling refreshed and lighter than air. My hips were super tight today though, which means I’d better keep practicing :)

I have not done anything in at least a week. I have wanted to practice, but I’ve been soooooo exhausted. I planned on doing something this weekend but then my son got the flu- his fever was 105 today- so I haven’t had the chance. I can’t tell if I feel so crappy because I haven’t practiced, or if I haven’t practiced because I feel so crappy! Hopefully I will get something in tomorrow. I’m crossing my fingers. The boy will be home, but the girls going to school, so I’ll have some quiet time (maybe). I did get to cross another goal off my list this weekend though (cleaning the garage- yeah, I did that and not yoga, I know, it’s weird…) so it wasn’t all a waste…

I was pretty excited on Monday night because I was going to do my 7th practice IN A ROW… that would have made me 7/7… My shins were hurting from my jogging excursion on my lunch break that day, but I was going to push through it and hopefully the stretching would ease my pain. I sat down on my block and started to concentrate on my breathing… and my shins… and my breathing… and my shins… I think I only was able to sit for 3 minutes before I tried to change my position a couple times, and to relax the painful areas with every exhale- it didn’t work. I gave up and surrendered to the couch and an ice pack. So then, I decided yesterday that it would be a good idea to jog again. Once again, I ended up with a bit of shin pain, although not half as bad as Mondays, so I decided that I’d just let the couch support me with an ice pack for the rest of the night… but I got antsy. So I went to yogatoday to check out what the class was, and it was yoga for insomnia. I don’t have insomnia, but I wanted to relax, so I decided to go for it.
Anyways, to make a long story longer, there was a shoulder stand series in this class, and I opted to sit it out and watched them do it… and I was thinking, “I can do this… at least I used to be able to do this”. It was a shoulder stand that moved into reverse plow (?), so I tried it, and guess what??? I did it!!! It’s the first crazy inversion that I’ve been able to do other than sitting at the bottom of the wall with my legs up in the air! I was so relaxed at the end, and totally stoked that I managed to do it. My only restriction in the pose was the extra 35-40 lbs that is wrapped around my body where my waist should be- but I think I have extra incentive now to get rid of that :) I’m an inversion junky now :) Look out!

I use yogatoday.com A LOT. I like it more than DVDs because there is a new class everyday- and I don’t have the resources to actually GO to a class- so it works out fine for me. I have really been bummed though that I couldn’t save the classes that I really liked to my computer, when LO and BEHOLD, there at the bottom of the screen in small light gray text it says “to save to your computer for later viewing, click with the right mouse button”... DUH. I know how to do this. So, I saved Adi’s class “optimizing your breath in forward bends” and now I’m going to be a total yoga junky because I can do the classes that I REALLY like over and over and over! I’m so excited :) and kicking myself that I didn’t use my brain earlier, but oh well. :)

so, i just did an hour of chest and shoulder openers… the title of the class was “awakening atman (the true self)”, and i am speechless. well, not quite. i don’t know if it was because i did some strength training right before my practice, or if it was the poses, but i was shaking so hard i had a hard time maintaining some of the poses, and i was almost in tears at times- and not because i was in pain (i wasn’t…), actually, i don’t really know why. i set an intention for practice tonight to help my heart heal and to allow myself to be me, and i had a really hard time maintaining that intention throughout my practice. my mind kept wandering. i feel good for practicing, but i’m spent. i have zero energy left.
i feel like i’m rambling. i wanted to say that i practiced tonight and that i feel great (that’s what i always say), but i don’t. i feel disconnected and used up, and i don’t like feeling that way after a practice. i think i’m going to go take a supplement and drink some water and go to bed. i’m pretty sure i’ll be able to sleep tonight. sorry for the blog-vomit.