practise yoga everyday

I am still going with the yoga and LOVING it!

Spurred on by 43 Things and my pledge, i have just done an hour of yoga. A free download recommended by someone on here. Very good..two tasty New Zealand men demonstrate the moves with their tops off. It’s here..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5252081323671893017#

feeling very zen…now just have to keep at it.

i feel so many benefits from doing yoga, however, despite this, i seem to stop for months at a time. I would love to include yoga in my day to day life, long term, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.

For two years, I exercised everyday of the week, alternating between aerobics and yoga. And now for the past one year, I can neither get myself to wake up early, nor do I move a limb in the name of exercising. Feels pathetic and horrible. Worst part is I know what is to be done, I have taught others yoga, and now I cannot find the motivation to stick to a regime. I simply need to get the discipline back in my life.

Considering I am still very much in contact with my friend’s mum who I used to practise yoga with weekly & that another friend’s partner & brother are both yoga teachers I am appalled at myself for not doing more to achieve this goal!
I keep thinking I can’t remember enough moves to take any benefit from doing it on my own at home but really I know its just a copout. Once again, like so many of my goals, it comes down to motivation. Or lack of.

So there I was peacefully reading a book, standing in line to get my train tickets; I was suddenly accosted by two women and a man holding an inch tape, a mean looking vernier calliper kinda thingy and a questionnaire. They said they were working for a hospital’s well health centre and they wanted to take my measurements and that this would assist in their survey and analysis of local population. 25 odd people in front of me so i said yeah..

While one was asking me questions regarding my life, lifestyle, eating, drinking, sleeping and gazillion other things that ought not to be discussed amongst extremely amused train ticket buyers, the other started getting ready to measure me. I was starting to get embarrassed when I realised that I was already laughing my guts off; Picture me standing there with all these people around me pretending not to see or listen , while one lady is measuring my thigh, the other is studiously writing down measurements and the other guy is explaining why they need these measurements and readings.

Anyway, the whole thing strangely made my day and the next. I kept giggling thinking about how silly I must have looked. I wonder how those folks who were there described it to their friends and family.

I was told that I would be mailed some answers and some recommendations. I forgot about it until today. I actually got a letter from the well health centre. I sincerely thought that I was just being scammed..

I am not sure how to read these results.. Your weight is: 106 pounds
Your sex is: Female
Your Body Fat percentage is: 15
Your Lean Body Mass is: 90 pounds
Your ‘Ideal’ weight is: 110 pounds
Your activity factor is: 0.91
Your activity level is: Very active

Nothing much besides this. I am not sure what to make of the above statistics.. Any thoughts?

It is going to be 5 days a week. The only way 7 days a week yoga is gonna happen is if I develop the self discipline to practise at home. Class timing on Saturday and Sunday don’t work out. Besides my body needs a break :)

It is finally happening. Although I did want to practise Ashtanga, I have not been able to motivate myself to practise at home. Personally, I need the discipline of a class environment. I enjoyed practising with a group of people. Living in Chennai, I am yet to meet somebody who actually knows anything about Ashtanga.

I have started attending yoga classes at Sivananda Yoga ashram. It is very different from Ashtanga in terms of discipline, asanas, etc. The really strange thing is the order of the asanas is nearly the opposite of what is done in Ashtanga. The first main asana is Sirasasna( headstand), followed by Sarvangasana(shoulder stand). To my shaky knowledge of ashtanga and the few other classes (styles) I have attended, these two asanas are nearly always towards the end of a practise..

In any case, I love the feeling that I am doing yoga 4-5 times a week. It is not everyday as yet.. But hopefully it will happen shortly.

I used to practise Ashtanga ( primary) thrice a week, did Bikram pretty much everyday .. had lots of time and enthusiasm to spare.

I just can’t see to get over the inertia/lethargy..

One of these days.. I hope to wake up and just do it.

have a pretty dedicated yoga practice.. primarily astanga, (primary series) but informed by lots of hours in a Bikram studio and time spent with a viniyoga instructor..

i’ve not actually done so much as a sun salutation in months… how to start?... i can’t get past the idea that unless I have 90 minutes to do a full primary series, i shouldn’t do anything at all…