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Aneirin -> RE: positive outlook and yoga (12/28/2008 8:16:17 AM)
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My Yoga, I go through different shifts of mood with it, it starts with ' I don't want to go, let's just give it a rest this week and go next week ', to ' Stuff it, I have got to go, because I am only letting myself down if I don't go ' , to a fairly positive mood, I go, feeling positive until the first few asanas, where I am really regretting my decision to go. After I have loosened up a bit and those pleasant feelings have come from pain, I get into it and start enjoying it, though it bloody hurts and all too quickly it is over and I am full of the joys of spring. I leave the venue and feel really good about myself, and have a spring in my step. The next day, I feel it, the aches and pains of strained muscles, which only relents a couple of days before the next session, where I am looking forward to going again, assured what I was doing was doing me good. But come the day of the session, I am back to, ' I don't want to go ', phase again, and so the cycle continues.
I go through a love, hate relationship with my chosen exercise, hate, because I am basically lazy, love because I know it is doing me good and stopping me being lazy.
Because Iyengar is a yoga exercise which uses props, I have even got into the leg straightening exercises at home now. You know, where when some people age, their legs either bow outward for males or bow inward for females, well that can be corrected by a bit of self bondage and inversion. A couple of yoga belts, one around the shins, belted tight and the other around the thighs up by the hips, belted tight and the legs raised up against a wall, so they are inverted. Dubious I was of this at first, but it's working, and I do feel stronger in my walking movement.
A good guide to a person's movement, is to look at the soles of a well worn pair of shoes, look for where the wear is, and this should give an indication as to whether the walking, standing action is correct. Correct posture and carriage reduce the likelihood of problems in the rest of the body and problems in later life.
Yoga is cool, and it is for everyone and anyone, it is an exercise that requires little or no equipment, (I have even come across nude yoga in my town ), but one thing I wish, is that I hads found the delights of this exercise when I was an um, for umlike flexibility I could have maintained.
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