Followed by a shower and a beer

[ironymaiden]

This week i missed my bi-weekly D&D game and my thursday knitting group. i am back in the intro series at the local yoga studio, for the second week. my return is long overdue.

it's been interesting to go back to the beginning, when I feel out of shape but seem to have certain reserves and balance that I didn't have years ago. i also have less fear, as proven by my bloody nose and fat lip.

we were working on crow pose, which i never have mastered. tonight i was able to take the full pose for a moment. surprised, i immediately collapsed and fell on my face. then I laughed. i laughed and got right back up. the assistant had to get me to stop to clean up- i didn't realize that my nose was dripping.

i never got hit like that doing martial arts; it wasn't something practiced or conscious to keep going. i'm a little surprised in retrospect that it didn't scare or embarass me. (Hella endorphins. Barely felt it.)

anyway, yoga feels good.

Comments

[varina8.livejournal.com]

WOW! I'm impressed, even if you did collapse after a moment. That is one challenging intor class.

[ironymaiden]

The Baptiste style has a core sequence of poses, and the intro series teaches the whole thing over eight 90 - minute sessions. So every week you run the parts you've learned so far, then break down the next set of poses and ask lots of questions. And yeah, we're not expected to magically get crow at this point, but there's a good chunk of time devoted to teaching what to do to work up to it, proper form, what it works and how it should feel.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I've never heard of the Baptiste style. I have to do some poking around online.