Newsflash...Those days are long gone. I'm still flexible, but this weird thing seems to have happened to my arms. They've morphed into some jello-like substance. Seriously, there is jiggle AND wiggle. In addition to shaping up, the fact that yoga got me through the emotional Olympic event that was high school, I thought it would help with my current mental state of "just trying not to have a breakdown".
Imagine my excitement after doing a little research, when I discovered a website where you can download audio yoga classes along with a pdf containing images of each pose in the sequence. You can even put the audio files onto your iPod. There are tons of free 20 min. classes that fit right into my budget. The longer classes are reasonably priced for those of you (not catching up your blog reading on awkwardfamilyphotos.com all afternoon) with careers and money. Now I'm sure my favorite yogini, Braja, is questioning the authenticity of this yoga, but at least I'm not watching it on TV. Also, the classes are instructed by people who have dedicated their lives to yoga, as opposed to say, Denise Austin.
So far, I've tried five classes and considered forgoing brushing my teeth this morning, because my arms hurt so bad. Success!
My one qualm is that it seems every freaking class includes the plow pose.
Now I'm not sure if it's because I got stuck like this for five minutes or because my gut was slowly cutting off my air supply, but I hate this pose! I've decided to substitute the pose below instead.
I like to call it the face plant. Come to think of it, it kind of reminds me of my college days...
I'm really good at the face plant! I definitely have that one down - pain free and 100% correct.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so good at the plow pose because I'm not so flexible. I like the face plant though especially after all those upward and downward facing dogs. I think that's what those things are called anyway.
ReplyDeletewhat a great find...and I simpathize with your arm jello, sleeveless shirts & I will never be friends.
ReplyDeleteOh. My. God. I busted up laughing at the "faceplant". That is so freaking funny!
ReplyDeleteI have never tried Yoga. Right now, I'm trying to live through 30 Day Shred and the front of my thighs feel like they will fall off my body at any moment.
Haha, I just laughed out loud. I think supplementing the face plant pose is the best idea!! if fact, it's so brilliant, I think I will supplement it for my entire yoga class! I'll probably do it in bed, and I'll be so into my meditating that I will actually be asleep.
ReplyDeleteOr at least that's what I'll tell myself so I won't feel bad about sleeping late instead of getting up early to work out!! hehe
I love the face plant pose. I tried yoga, but it's so not for me. I do Tai Chi. I make up my own poses .. like, "punt the cat climbing my leg" or "smush the dog running under my feet" or "flailing flamingo" or "dead bug" or "crab dancing on pogo stick"
ReplyDeletewhat? *grins*
That's got to be my favorite pose. Well, that one and one where you just lie on your back breathing deeply. I try to do that pose at least twice a day, whether I'm doing yoga or not! ;p
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny. I went to a yoga class at the beginning of the summer. At the end when we were stretching out laying on the floor. I think I fell asleep for a minute. Oops.
ReplyDeletetheprovidentwoman.com