I am completely in love, so in love with yoga. I aspire to live my life yogically! I realize that I need yoga in my day now, it was like a pandora's box, that once you start, you get hooked and you need it like a drug. I almost went without it yesterday and it messed up my entire day. I've also went without meditating too. But I'm having trouble meditating because my dad is here, but he's going to be off sick all week, so I gotta get used to it. But I guess I can think of it as a good contrast or something, character building.
But I added yoga to my meditation practice in a way. The most difficult part is the breathing. Its like being aware of your breath. I breathe really shallow on reflex, so its challenging to intend myself to breathe deeper and more fully. Pranayama. Its especially hard to breathe in downward dog pose. And cobra pose. And I'm not sure I am doing warrior pose or triangle pose correctly, something tells me I'm doing it wrong, but I'm going to look out for a different yoga beginner's youtube clip to guide me. I've been using Yoga Journal with Jason Crandell. There are two different 15 minute segments that I found by him. One is easy with just stretching and one downward dog pose, the other is more intense with all those other poses I mentioned before, cobra pose, warrior pose and triangle pose and all that. I need some blocks, and a strap or belt, my belt is too short, and Daddy said I should use my jumprope, but I think a strap is better, a belt is better, cause its wider and won't slip from my foot.
I've been switching the music with my meditation, but I'm going to try to go back to just using Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya next week, that one is what I started out with. So maybe I should just stick with it. Though I sing along with the mantra, I will have to tell my dad to not disturb me.But hopefully my voice is quiet enough that he won't even notice. Like I was on the phone last night with my mom and he didn't hear me, at least I didn't think he did.
There's a yoga station on Pandora, so once I get my muscle memory trained in the poses I can start doing yoga without the guide of the youtube clips, which would be wonderful because I have to wait for Micah (my computer) to warm up so youtube won't be choppy and keep buffering in the middle of the clip and such. So yeah. Pandora tends to load quicker. I may download spotify soon, and make sure my anti-virus works first so it won't hurt my computer, a friend said that nothing is hurting his computer and he's downloaded spotify.
But I'm a yoga girl now. It does wonders for my mood, and I just love it. You can be spiritual with it and everything. I can build an altar, a vastu (sacred space), and I can learn to work with energies and chakras and everything. Its great, its sooo perfect for me. And I'll be starting my hoop dancing once I get my hoop for christmas or hannukah. So I'm getting in gear and getting in shape ! Its great!
Star out.
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