do yoga again

As a Christian of course I don’t practice the “spiritual” side of yoga. I had done yoga for a while a few years ago and in a short time got pretty good at it. I did enjoy it.
Then I had a year long bout with Sciatica. Pain daily beyond belief.

I will do this goal for a month. Practice yoga daily even though my flare up with Sciatic has been around for a few months. Praise the Lord it is nothing compared to what it was like a few years ago!!!
I will let my body tell me what poses and the time each day I will spend doing yoga daily.

Though I didn’t have the buck! I need yoga! Starts next week.

I’m buying the DVDs of Namaste Yoga with Kate Potter. I had it on my TiVo back in Oklahoma but when I moved to Cali I got DishNetwork and they don’t have FitTV… Nooo! So now I shall buy the DVDs and all will be well again.

still flunking.

jeez, and it was going so well. i’m afraid i see an intersection between falling down on this thing and falling down on #5. hi ho. this is a very educational website!

my a.m. discipline vanished like a ghost.

o karma you tricky bitch!

all right, i will claw myself back into regularity and i will be humble and grateful for it. thank you universe, may i please have another.

I’ve gotten back on track for the past week doing a.m. sun salutes, though I can’t include lunges because of the knee. The back is still bothering me but I am gentle with it.

I am going to need to move this goal to the accomplished area soon, and raise the bar on myself. I’d like to challenge myself to take a daily walk or bike ride, and to deepen my yoga practice by getting back into a yoga class or doing a regular, full routine at home.

back on Thurs p.m., then fest, then the Amazing Inflatable Knee. I have been good about doing back exercises. I need (kneed) my pain-free book back to find the knee exercises. oh well, RICE (except I keep forgetting about C) has been helping a lot. The AIK has not hampered me much this week. See goal #1.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, WEdnesday, Thursday, Friday I did sun salutes (plus bicycling and sit-ups or leg lifts for good measure). Saturday I was too hungover to even think about physical exercise when I got up!

Bringing it home report: we got home last night and I did manage to jump up this a.m. and do the sun salutes.

It’s time to raise the stakes on this goal I think. More yoga, more more more!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of this week I’ve done 4 sun salutes upon rising (plus, for good measure, some sit-ups and leg-raised bicycling). On Wed I even threw in some warrior/triangle poses. This, along with total abstention from alcohol (hey, that was another of my things!) and a regimen of black beans and brown rice and salad for lunch and dinner every day, have me feeling like I’m on a spa vacation, even though the conference I’m at here at insanely picturesque Bennington College is actually a very intense and stimulating intellectual experience. Plus, for once, I’m going to hit the Folk Festival pleased with myself for how I’ve spent the weeks leading up to it preparing for skimpy, midriff-baring hippie outfits. Smug, smug, smug.

Obviously the secret to doing more yoga is complete freedom from domestic responsibility. Hmmmmmm. How do I bring this all home I wonder.

I feel physically unbalanced. As far as mentally, I’m periodically manic (not really, but my mind is busy busy lately). However, I never felt I learned enough yoga to take and do it on my own . . . I need a class with guidance and directions until I become more advanced. Will look around.