Yoga FIEND

Sooooooo this morning I woke up at 4AM to attend Yoga @ 6AM.

Unfortunately, it has been a year since I have attended yoga. Proudly, I stayed for the whole class. I will admit though I wanted soooo badly to get out of there during triangle pose. I don't necessarily hate that pose but it is a bitch to stay in. I actually picked up my water bottle to leave the hot room for a bit but thankfully it was time for the floor part and I laid on my back thinking that I HAVE to get myself through the class. It's worse when you leave the room, that's the last resort!! It is already difficult when you take a rest from doing poses because your body begins to cool down since you're static. After I laid there for the two-minute "dead" pose I felt refreshed and had a surge of energy that helped me get through the rest of class.

I love yoga. I am a yoga fiend! In yoga I feel mentally and physically strong and confident. There is something about it that makes me love myself whether or not anyone else does. I look at myself in that mirror and think who gives a shit of how I look outside this class. Yoga makes me healthy. My whole body, inside and out is cleansed. The times in class I look forward to is when the instructor opens the windows because it can get a bit too hot if there are many students attending. And yes at 6AM there are hella students. I always like being near a window, even when at Montgomery, which is now closed :(, I would be closest to the window. Although the window at Montgomery wasn't able to open, it was just a window for all to see HAHA. Actually that was another reason why I liked it, people would stare at you...weirded out and sometimes horny. And if the instructor knew they were staring she'd or he'd smile & wave and if they stuck around s/he would walk out and try to get them inside to join us. Hilarious. I love yoga...ya..hahaha I think we all get that point now.

Yup, so 1. window being opened

2. 2-minute "dead" pose (savasana) - obviously for reasons read in the previous paragraph. It's always that moment that you feel you want to give it all up. The poses before the 2-minute savasana quickens your heart rate so you are working and pushing your body to its limit. I was thinking I just spent more than $100+ for so and so amount of yoga classes and I cannot even get my ass to finish this one class. I couldn't do this to myself, plus if I leave I will miss out on all those benefits!!!

3. The closing breathing exercise. Those sharp breathes get you tingly all over when it's all done! It feels like your lungs sucked in pure clean Oxygen for the FIRST time! Then you lie down for your final savasana or corpse/dead pose and you feel relaxed like as though you have never worked out so much in your life. All your energy was spent in the most positive way imaginable. For that final savasana I'd have to say I am usually one of the last ones to leave.

I don't like the idea of having a hiatus from yoga. I know it has been a year since I have walked into the hot room. I cannot let another break take over my health and happiness. Yoga is such a positive aspect of my life I don't want to abandon it.