Yogasmic

I had one of the best nights of sleep last night in a LONG time. I’m not sure if it was because I was up at 4am or if it was because yoga kicked my ASS yesterday!

My yoga instructor told us that she was going to change up the routine I’ve been doing since January. I must admit, I only go twice a week, I haven’t been practicing at home and sometimes I only make it to one class a week. So when she said that Wednesday’s would now be the advanced yoga class, I knew which day I would NOT be making it to.

To my surprise, yesterday, the routine was COMPLETELY different and a lot harder. I decided, since it was me and a girl who I’ve seen in the class before who is up there with my instructor’s level, that my yogini had opted to do the advanced yoga class since it was only the three of us. I felt surprisingly limber, my balance poses were almost fully extended and I caught myself in the mirror thinking, “wait, is that me?” I was very proud of myself, but also very sore. I had completed my first advanced yoga class and I would only get better from here!

At the end of the session, I remarked on how the routine had really worked me and that I thought I could handle doing the advanced class, again, on Wednesday to which she replied, “oh, no... that was just the new beginners class. The advanced class routine will start on Wednesday. Shit.

Well, we all gotta have goals, right? My goal is to not die in this yoga class. Oh, also I’m making it a point to be able to do this move by, let’s say, January 2010.