supercheesegirl

Yoga # 115
Thursday December 30, 9:30-11:00
90 minutes
3880 minutes total

Had a nice class at Enso this morning. Usually Lisie teaches this class but today Rich taught it. I hadn't had a class with him before--he was pretty good. Slow flow is always really challenging for me.

That makes 115 yoga practices for the year. I'm satisfied with that.

Yoga # 113
Monday December 27, 9:30-10:30am
60 minutes
3760 minutes total

In addition, F gave me a Wii fitness game for Christmas, so we tried that and each got a 20-minute workout. I think the game will be very good for F since he doesn't really have a gym he can go to right now.

In other news, both of our tubs and both toilets filled up with filthy water today and overflowed. We had to call maintenance. There was bailing of water out the windows, and mopping up of water with various towels, and a shop-vac was involved, and then we had to clean the whole house. And because we hadn't done floors in a while, we had to sweep the whole house first, then because of the unsanitary conditions we had to steam-mop, then wet-swiffer to ensure that the ick was truly gone. Now the floors are indeed clean. It took a lot of wine to get the floors this clean, let me tell you.

Yoga # 111
Monday December 20, early morning
45 minutes
3670 minutes total

A decent yoga practice this morning: weights and standing work. I was really distracted, though, because I kept thinking about the Doctor Who episode we watched last night. It was the one about Madame de Pompadour, and it made me really sad. I was thinking about it in the middle of the night and couldn't stop thinking about it during yoga. (I just read, though, that the actress who played her actually dated David Tennant for a few years, and for some reason that made me feel better about the whole thing. I'm also consoling myself by looking up books about Madame de Pompadour because she sounds genuinely interesting regardless of whether she was ever attacked by clockwork automatons from the future.)

Yoga # 109
Monday December 13, early morning
30 minutes
3585 minutes total

I kept getting distracted this morning, but I really worked through to try and concentrate on the poses. Did mostly standing work and just a couple seated poses, and took a long sivasana. I'm glad I persevered.

Yoga # 107
Thursday December 2, early morning
15 minutes
3535 minutes total

I didn't really feel like doing yoga this morning. I've been completely zonked in the mornings lately; my body wants the sun to be up before it wants to move. So I started with some weights, and then put on my music and did some "jammie yoga" seated stuff. Unfortunately, my "yoga - mellow tunes - 18 min" playlist was only 12 minutes long--apparently I pulled some songs off of it and never replaced them. So I got to what I knew was the last song, thought boy that was fast, and did my sivasana, only to find out afterward that it hadn't been that long of a practice. Sigh. At least I did something. Afterwards it wasn't nearly time for my shower yet so I curled up with my book for 20 minutes.

Yoga # 105
Thursday November 25, 9:30-11:00am
90 minutes
3485 minutes total

I dragged F to the Thanksgiving all-level vinyasa class at Enso. This was F's first visit and his first time meeting Adam. The class was insanely crowded, though--we counted around 35 people in the room! It was a little distracting to have so many people around, and of course Adam couldn't give any personal attention. However, it was still a good class and a good workout. F said he's never sweated like that in a yoga class, and we're both sore today.

Yoga # 100
Sunday October 31, mid-afternoon
20 minutes

Our first full day in Belize! After a relaxing morning and a walk to town for lunch, F and I borrowed yoga mats from Kirsten and got in a little yoga practice out on the pier. It felt good after sitting on the plane for so long the previous day. Then it started to rain so we jumped in the ocean.


Yoga # 101
Monday November 1, 9:00-10:45am
105 minutes

On Monday morning we took Kirsten's yoga class. It was a surprisingly long class, and Kirsten is a good teacher. We did a lot of flowing into and out of poses, a lot of reclining leg work, a lot of flat face-down backbends (can't remember the pose name), and I felt very relaxed afterwards. I remember that, while we were in the class, I could see down between the boards of the pier and could see the water moving under us--that actually made me feel a little sick so I didn't look at that again. I could have tried doing a headstand--Kirsten did one--but I was kind of terrified to do one against the railing for fear I'd kick right over the top and fall in the water. Overall it was an awesome class, so cool to do yoga right there on the pier with the ocean breeze in our faces.


Yoga # 102
Tuesday November 9, 11:00-11:50am
50 minutes

Our last day at Black Rock Lodge in the jungle, we borrowed mats from the office and practiced on the palapa platform above the river. The view is amazing and really inspiring for yoga. By this point in the trip I really, really needed some yoga--it had been over a week since the class with Kirsten, and we did a lot of really active stuff in that week. Afterwards I felt sore but refreshed.


Yoga # 103
Tuesday November 16, early morning
30 minutes

This morning I tried to get back into my habit of yoga before work. I thought it also might be nice to chill out a bit and have some calm to start my first day back at the office after the honeymoon. I started out with weights (after our kayaking adventure, I'm devising some arm exercises with the weights to strengthen my rowing/paddling muscles), squats, and four sun salutations, then moved right to the floor for some gentle stretches. Definitely some soreness, considering it had been a week since the previous practice and that week involved kayaking, biking 17 miles, and sitting on a plane and in two airports, but not as bad as I was expecting.

3350 minutes total

Yoga # 98
Thursday October 21, early morning
20 minutes
3120 minutes total

Weights, squats, four sun salutations. Forward bends, camel, hero. Camel was really uncomfortable.

Yoga # 96
Wednesday October 13, early morning
20 minutes
3075 minutes total

weights, squats, some seated poses. I'm still really tired and working through a head cold, but I don't want to lose all my yoga-ness.

I feel like we are so busy right now I don't have time for anything. We relaxed a lot over the weekend (partly to nurse the looming head cold--I slept an extra three hours Monday afternoon and an extra three hours Tuesday morning), but still.

Yoga # 93
Monday October 4, early morning
25 minutes
2910 minutes total

Yoga # 94
Wednesday October 6, early morning
25 minutes
2935 minutes total