take up yoga

SO at 1pm tomorrow (baby allowing) I will start my yoga dvd with my fiance. There are 2 25 min segments, and I’ll do one at 1pm and the other at 5.

So I’m not the quickest at getting my goals accomplished, but slowly they are. I went out and bought an awesome yoga video and have been watching it every night. All I’ve been doing is watching, no exercising yet!! however, I did just have a baby a month ago and am not allowed to jump right into anything until my OB says it’s ok, so I’m learning the poses by watching so I’ll be ready to go when I do start. SO once I get going (I plan to do 25 mins every morning and 25 mins at night, there are two workouts on the dvd) I will cross taking up yoga off my list, hooray!!!

After years of wanting to take up yoga, I finally enrolled in a yoga class! The class begins in two weeks, I will go once a week for at least until December. Looking forward to it!

Took my first hot yoga class in…7 years?? I really enjoyed it and am hoping to join the health club where I took it, so that I can get back into a regular pattern of yoga-ing :)

I went to my first class today. I’m so tired now.
Part of what was holding me back was that I was trying to go to a “Yoga in English” class, but that required me to leave work on a Friday at 4pm. After two months I hadn’t managed so I decided to take the leap and do yoga in German.

I didn’t realise that the instruction would be so long and wordy! At the start of the class we had to close our eyes and then I’m not sure what. I learnt a new word – “spüren”, which means to feel or sense – the instructor said that alot and there was alot of talk of breathing – through the nose.

Then chanting/singing, stretching into very strange-feeling positions, relaxing and more chanting. By the end I was exhausted physically from doing the stretches and exhausted mentally from trying to follow along with what the instructor was saying – he had to speak English to me a few times when I wasn’t doing things right. It was such a relief at the end when we got to lay down and relax!

It can only get easier, but a part of me feels like I’m never going to understand German properly.

I’ve tried taking up yoga a few times before, but due to my frantic mind, I have never been able to settle my mind and just relax. Yoga would be good for my health, and my mind. I need to get back into it slowly.

I have a book but doing yoga from a book just doesn’t seem right some how..

I’ve never done it seriously. My boyfriend is very dedicated to Ashtanga yoga and you’d think that this would motivate me. Nope, just intimidate. I don’t even know where to begin. Maybe that’s all I need to figure out.

I enrolled in a beginner’s yoga class at my gym which started on Wednesday and goes for 6 weeks. I had a go at the exercises I’d learned in class this morning and so far my body seems to think they’re not really what it wants to do! It is quickly becoming evident that I will really need to stick at this and try to do it every day for it to start to feel like a ‘normal’ activity that my body is comfortable with…

I am finding out more about Buddhism and whilst I don’t really identify as a Buddhist, I am realising that I also want to be a vegetarian, in line with the whole Ahimsa principle (which I think is Hindu…) which pretty much equates to ‘do no harm’.

This whole undertaking smacks of discipline; which has never been my strong suit unless you count being rather stubborn. I think I have a lot to gain from this whole thing.

....and the last one for a while.

I went to yoga on Wednesday, it was ace! I really enjoyed it but I think I need to get better at Body Balance before I take it up regular.

This is one you need to build up I think. Not just dive on in there.