Musings of a wannabe yogini
I ended 2011 with the resolve that I'll finally attend yoga classes. I've attended a few yoga classes for work but haven't really committed to actually going to class for myself. I used a lot of excuses: I don't have a studio close enough, I can't afford it, I can't do it (the be-all and end-all of all excuses)... you name it, I probably used it.
But here I was walking through Il Terrazzo during one lunch break around the end of the previous year and I saw the ad for Beyond Yoga and that they had a studio in the building. Can I call it serendipity? Was this the signal I've been waiting for to actually act on the words I've been saying?
I surely needed the exercise but applying for a monthly gym membership seemed too costly and I wasn't exactly enthused by the idea of spending hours in a day operating various gym equipment. It just wasn't for me.
But I did enjoy those yoga classes I took and I was looking for more out of an exercise routine. I knew I needed a way to channel my tendency to overthink things and I've been told and read a couple of times that meditation can help somehow soothe those impulses. Yoga it is then.
I dove in head first with a vague idea of what to expect and got more than I expected out of it. Three months in (on a two-week long break because of work though) and I'm far from being able to get my thoughts to quiet down and my body to stretch in the way I want to but inch by inch (or millimeter by millimeter, we can go as little as we can go) I'm noticing changes in my body and my outlook.
I took part in their 30-day challenge last January that gave me the motivation to see this practice through. While I wasn't able to complete the challenge, it awakened an internal resolve that this was something I could do for me-with or without the challenge.
But here I was walking through Il Terrazzo during one lunch break around the end of the previous year and I saw the ad for Beyond Yoga and that they had a studio in the building. Can I call it serendipity? Was this the signal I've been waiting for to actually act on the words I've been saying?
I surely needed the exercise but applying for a monthly gym membership seemed too costly and I wasn't exactly enthused by the idea of spending hours in a day operating various gym equipment. It just wasn't for me.
But I did enjoy those yoga classes I took and I was looking for more out of an exercise routine. I knew I needed a way to channel my tendency to overthink things and I've been told and read a couple of times that meditation can help somehow soothe those impulses. Yoga it is then.
I dove in head first with a vague idea of what to expect and got more than I expected out of it. Three months in (on a two-week long break because of work though) and I'm far from being able to get my thoughts to quiet down and my body to stretch in the way I want to but inch by inch (or millimeter by millimeter, we can go as little as we can go) I'm noticing changes in my body and my outlook.
I took part in their 30-day challenge last January that gave me the motivation to see this practice through. While I wasn't able to complete the challenge, it awakened an internal resolve that this was something I could do for me-with or without the challenge.