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Yoga Thursday, yoga today
Nov. 15th, 2008 03:40 pmI had a really fun yoga practice in Lucia's class Thursday after work. I did my headstand and almost kicked a hole in the wall. Lucia was surprised and proud of me but asked me not to, uh, kick a hole in the wall.
Today I did yoga for about an hour. I'm so surprised by how much stronger I feel already. I have done yoga four times this week, and I'm not tired or hurting at all--just stretchy and glowy, and strong. I did all my strength building stuff, and was able to do more reps of it. I also did my headstand again and was shocked at how easy it is now. I don't have to use that much force (ie, hole-in-wall kicking force) to get my legs up. I just have to use my core muscles and the legs just kind of drift up. It's lovely. A really good practice. I need to try to keep up with yoga 3-4 times a week, because it really does make a difference!
Earlier this week I surfed amazon's lists to find some good yoga music. I downloaded a bunch of things on SoulSeek, and today I fixed the file names and tags and put them into iTunes and onto my iPod. I also made handy yoga playlists out of the different albums, and some other albums that feel yogic (like Enigma, and Secret Chiefs 3). So now I can get to the yoga music quickly and easily through the playlists, instead of trying to remember some obscure hindi-inspired band name and having to scroll through my very long list to find it. Also I put the playlist time length in the name, so I can choose a playlist based on how long of a practice I want. Pretty awesome, no? I should be set on yoga music for a good month or so, I bet.
I also took a good long walk last night. I went to take out the trash around 10:30 and it just felt so nice outside that I decided to take a walk. I left around 11:00, dropped off some library books, and took a long walk around the neighborhood, got home around midnight. My pinkie toe hurts now, but it was a good walk.
Today I did yoga for about an hour. I'm so surprised by how much stronger I feel already. I have done yoga four times this week, and I'm not tired or hurting at all--just stretchy and glowy, and strong. I did all my strength building stuff, and was able to do more reps of it. I also did my headstand again and was shocked at how easy it is now. I don't have to use that much force (ie, hole-in-wall kicking force) to get my legs up. I just have to use my core muscles and the legs just kind of drift up. It's lovely. A really good practice. I need to try to keep up with yoga 3-4 times a week, because it really does make a difference!
Earlier this week I surfed amazon's lists to find some good yoga music. I downloaded a bunch of things on SoulSeek, and today I fixed the file names and tags and put them into iTunes and onto my iPod. I also made handy yoga playlists out of the different albums, and some other albums that feel yogic (like Enigma, and Secret Chiefs 3). So now I can get to the yoga music quickly and easily through the playlists, instead of trying to remember some obscure hindi-inspired band name and having to scroll through my very long list to find it. Also I put the playlist time length in the name, so I can choose a playlist based on how long of a practice I want. Pretty awesome, no? I should be set on yoga music for a good month or so, I bet.
I also took a good long walk last night. I went to take out the trash around 10:30 and it just felt so nice outside that I decided to take a walk. I left around 11:00, dropped off some library books, and took a long walk around the neighborhood, got home around midnight. My pinkie toe hurts now, but it was a good walk.
