I had decided to participate in Breath – a 30 day yoga journey.
I have never done yoga before and when telling a friend that I was participating, she asked in disbelief: “You? Yoga? No one will believe me, if I’d tell them.”
I listen to the introduction and was annoyed. The calmness and soft voice of Adrienne annoyed me. That is not her flaw, but mine. I find people who are that way very irritating, because I can’t relate to them. Not that I’m always a loud person, but I’m rarely that calm. Who knows, maybe I’m simply jealous.
After watching the introduction, I still decided to give it a try. What was the worst to happen? And I had decided to try new things. If I didn’t like it, I could stop and know that yoga really is not for me. And at the end, there’d be a blog post.
Today was day 6. I have yet managed to participate each day, although not in every exercise. With some I had to pause, some were simply not doable. And a few I modified.
I was extra happy on those days when I felt my sore muscles from the yoga session the day before. I enjoyed the half hour I had to myself.
Today was a not so fun day. I had two rather bad night in a row and didn’t sleep well, or enough. I had a headache today, when I came home. And neither did the medicine, the laying down, nor anything else I tried seem to help. My mood wasn’t too bad, but I was annoyed and didn’t feel like having anyone around and talking to me. I didn’t feel like doing any of my chores or tasks.
For the past days I had done the yoga pretty much right after coming home from work, but today I postponed it and thought about a yoga session before bedtime.
Until I had some time to kill, so I decided why not use it for yoga. I did as Adrienne told me to do, most of the time and as I was finished, I took a moment to just sit.
That was the moment I realised that although the headache was still there, I was feeling better. Calmer or centered or just balanced.
I have to admit, I’m very surprised. I noticed that I was enjoying the session, but I now also feel that they really seem to have an effect on me. I can’t wait for tomorrow.
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The main thing is not to give up at the very beginning. It will be easier further.
If yoga can improve the physical condition of the body, then other tasks will be easier to perform. This is the right attitude.