Yoga - I'm getting it! Or not.

One thing about the internet, is that there are way too many places to post things. And also, most of them are ephemeral - everything seems to scroll to the latest post, which is also assumed to be the greatest. When something is more than a couple of days old, it's as good as gone. You can't search content on Facebook at all, and there's just so much noise on Twitter that it's difficult to find a specific signal sometimes when you want it.

So one of the things I'm going to do on my blog, is repost some of my thoughts from various other places on the web. There is no method to my madness, other than it's a more permanent - and searchable - place to keep things I want to remember.

So, without further ado...

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October 11, 2011

Lunchtime yoga, done.

And I had a bit of an epiphany when I was hanging out there in downward dog. I've been doing yoga on and off for years - sometimes more off than on, but I've been pretty regular the last couple of months. And it's like, all of a sudden, I GET it - the connection between the mind and the body, using your breath to modify the poses, the meditative aspect of it all - it all just clicked for me.

Now, I know enough about both yoga and meditation to know that the feeling doesn't usually last, and that I could well be spending the next six months chasing it again. But for right now, today, it's all coming together for me, and it's working.

October 18, 2011

Remember how last week I was all excited that my yoga had "clicked?" And remember how I said I didn't think the feeling would last? I was right. I did NOT have it today. I did the whole class, but it didn't work. The breath didn't work, the poses didn't work, and I couldn't find a stretch, ever. Mostly I just couldn't get out of my head enough to enjoy myself.

But. I DID it. And I'm going to spinning tonight, and I'll do a light yoga session tomorrow morning. I'll get it back, sooner or later.