[Previous entry: "Photos from another trip"] [Next entry: "Our Daughter, Alex"]
02/06/2007: "Warming to Yoga"
Balancing on one leg with my other out behind me, I was trying to make my body into the letter “T.” What I was really doing was trying not to fall into the person next to me. Before the instructor let us change, I had to cheat and put my other foot down. I used the moment to grab a sip of water since I had been sweating pretty well since I walked into the room. Its called Hot Yoga, or locally we have a couple studios going by Bikram Yoga.
I had tried yoga about six or eight months ago and couldn’t stick with it. Yoga is supposed to be the ideal exercise for Type A blood types according to the book. Plus I am searching for a way to build strength and flexibility. I would also like to try and slow my metabolism down a little. I want to thank Lisa G. for recommending I try Bikram Yoga because I think it is going to work for me. They keep the yoga room somewhere around 100 degrees and you have to cover your yoga mat with towels to keep it dry. Then you work for 90 minutes on various poses. The heat feels good to me and usually alleviates pain that I have. Through this, hot tubs and saunas have been my friends.
According to their web site, “The Bikram Method of Hatha Yoga is a series of twenty-six poses and two breathing exercises designed to provide a total body workout. By the end of this ninety minute class you will have worked every muscle, tendon, joint, ligament, internal organ and gland, while systematically moving fresh, oxygenated blood throughout your entire body.”
Considering how soar I am today, I think the exercise found some muscles that I haven’t worked in some time. Still, I will go in again tomorrow to try that balance thing again. Maybe I will move my mat next to someone else this time.
