tonight's yoga

[supercheesegirl]

I just worked on yoga for over an hour, probably close to an hour and fifteen minutes. Here in my apartment! It was fabulous. I dragged the oscillating fan out to the living room, put on some Loreena McKennitt, and proceeded to do almost every pose I could think of. The music really helped, I think, I'm going to have to remember that for next time: ie, set up a playlist for X number of minutes, and keep doing yoga until the music shuts off--then I won't get distracted. It was a really good practice, too. I feel really open and warm and relaxed. Also, I really like the way my body smells during/after yoga. Which is kind of gross, yes, but I smell like I've been working hard, and my yoga smell is different from a "just came from the gym" smell. Yoga smell is purer, somehow. Or I'm crazy. My hands also have a distinct odor, somewhere between the smell of my feet, the smell of my mat (which also smells a bit like my feet) and the general smell of my body. I smell strong and healthy and womanly. Yarr!

I was meaning to go to a class at Jennifer's (my arboretum teacher's) yoga studio, but it started at 6:30 and I got home at 6:00. It will probably take me 20 minutes or so to drive there, especially considering I don't know where I'm going, and I'd need time to fill out the new studio student paperwork, and it just wasn't worth the rush. But I'm pleased I was able to have a productive yoga practice on my own. I will probably go to Jennifer's studio on Monday night.

It looks, for this fall, like Jennifer's studio will be offering a pretty good variety of classes, including some "community" classes that are only $10 at the drop-in rate. That would mean a slightly less intense practice, I think, and a wider range of abilities among the students, but it might also mean that I could afford to take two classes a week. This is really, really exciting to me. I'm still not entirely sure I can afford it--$80 a month on yoga!--but I just spent $60 a month for only four classes in June, and this would be more value. I think I can probably swing it if I'm careful. I'll have to see how I like the studio and the other teachers besides Jennifer. One of the community classes is going to be a "happy hour" on Friday evenings, which I think sounds like a fabulous, fabulous idea. I love my solitary Friday nights anyway, and I think Friday night yoga would just be lovely.

Jennifer's also teaching a sanctuary yoga class in the Chestnut Hill Methodist Church, a ten-minute walk from my house, on Tuesdays all this fall, but that comes to $18 per class. The quick walk and the probably-lovely atmosphere are really tempting, but I could get twice as much practice for almost the same price if I just do the community classes. We'll just have to see how I like the studio, I think.

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[birdmaddgirl.livejournal.com]

yay yoga!!! :)