Ohhhhh, me and yoga

I have really liked the new gym that the city opened in January and miss it when we are away. Of course, once I get back each time it's hard to fall into my old routine and I mentally do a lot of grumbling. This summer they started some new courses which are free to full members. I am one of those.

Some of the classes are designed for the 'more mature' members such as moi. On Mondays there is a balance class, on Tuesday a yoga class for seniors, and on Wednesday a Sit and Fit.  Nope, no Stitch and Bitch, that's usually at Barnes and Noble!

I have yet to make it to the Sit and Fit as the program said it was on Thursday, when I went, and it turned out it had been changed to Wednesday.

Well the first yoga class was ok, the 2nd I missed, and the third was good. By the third, we were down to only 3 students which was fine with me.  We got a lot more individualized instruction and that was really nice.

Today I'm not sure what we did differently, but boy did I break out into a sweat! That was good but pretty surprising. Yoga can be so many different things, and like the cat above, I have more of a middle than I should. However, today I felt my body stretch a good bit, and after yesterday's stretching in the balance class, I'm glad tomorrow is just a Sit.

Namaste.

Ommmm

Back to yoga today, and while I love the class, dear lord the ground gets harder every year! I do have a well padded mat but my knees say NO! NO! don't make us do this! Sorry knees, you are just going to have to do your best. I won't push you past your limits.

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Actually, the room was cold to start and I know I would have felt a lot better had I done the 30 min workout I had planned to do prior to the class. Oh, someone is a lazy woman. I wonder who???

Our teacher is good, and while she goes through the basics, she also goes around and gives individual hands on. Yeah!! I so like yoga but my last teacher was a no-nonsense man (fool imho) who kept saying "If you can't do xyz, Try HARDER!"  He was teaching at the Senior Center and his methods sounded like a prescription for injury. I was really tempted to smack him more than once but instead just left the class.

I think this teacher would be an ideal personal trainer, and I will have to look into that later this month. Now, I'm happily enjoying the endorphins. Ommmm.