Sunday I attempted to get back to my yoga fitness challenge. I had been too hard on myself missing daily practices, which I realize misses the point of suspending judgement on the mat. Sometimes I have been known to bite off more than I can chew. I realize that attempting a daily practice might have been too much with other events and activities going on in my life right now. I recently brought two baby ferrets into my home, which take a lot of time to care for as they need a lot of interaction to get them used to people and we are preparing to move. While the yoga practice is wonderful for the stress relief, I was putting to much pressure on myself to make sure to get to it.
Now since my shoulder has not been bothering me as much after the new pillow purchase, I have slowly started a new practice plan, coming in with a new attitude. I have come to realize that I might not get to everything I want to in a day, after all I am only one person. I am hoping to get to a practice at least every other day and if I happened to get one in daily that will be wonderful.
Sunday my practice included a video from Sura (www.myyogaonline.com) it was a seated flow exercise. I was mildly disappointed with it as I didn’t feel it stretched as well as I would have liked, so at the completion of her routine I added what I thought I needed along with a longer meditation at the end. Surprisingly yesterday at work I noticed my lower back was a little sore. Not in a painful manner, but in the manner of muscles being worked that normally get ignored. At first I wasn’t sure what had caused it then I realized one of the movements I had done the day before would have worked the lower back. So I took back my prior criticism of it being a so so workout to it was a great lower back workout.
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