do 15 minutes of yoga 5X a week

I managed 3X this week, which is a start. I am so pathetically creaky and un-bendy. I’ve lost a lot of ground since February. At least I know if I keep working I can get back to the place I was and then go forward from there. It’s so hard to keep all these balls in the air at once.

I changed my goal a bit to reflect my current life. My husband is moving out today (this has been planned for a while, so little drama involved). Anyway, with two small kids at home, I don’t think I’ll be making the nighttime class anytime soon. I realized I don’t have to give up all together though – I can manage at least 15 minutes on a mat at home, which is better than nothing. I do need to get some sort of book or chart or something to remind me of the correct placement in some positions – I can never remember which way my feet are supposed to be on which warrior pose.

I actually have just done my 15 minutes for the second time this week. I am truly out of bendy shape – but I know this can change with consistency. Maybe I can find a drop-in beginners class on a weekend morning. I need to do this for stress and focus.

So, I was so there – so achieving my goal for about, um, a month. Vinyasa 101 on Monday and Wednesday nights – I was even planning to add a Saturday class that week. Then I got the plague. Well, it was the flu but it was this really nasty, sick as a dog, worst in 17 years kind that in turn became a barking bend you in half cough which then settled into a type of nausea that meant I could eat but not well and definitely not exercise. This overlapped with a well intentioned, bad idea of a six day trip to Florida with the kids in tow to visit Grandparents. So, there is the entire month of February gone without a single warrior pose.

Wasn’t I sick? Isn’t that a good excuse? Will someone please kick my butt back to the yoga mat, please? I think the worst part is just going back and getting back in the groove.

Okay, I am stating here that I will go to class this Wednesday night or endure my internal critic without excuse.