Trudging Along

Yoga: Day five.

I'm still at it! Aside from that one pass I gave myself last weekend, things have been going well. With some work craziness going on, I haven't been able to find time to go in the afternoon, so today I gave the 6am class a shot! There were some positives and negatives to this decision.

On the positive side, because it was so unbelievably early in the morning, I didn't have to be frantically looking around for quarters to put in the meters, which for me is two-fold because:
a) I am cheap and hate paying for stupid things like parking
b) I am also easily stressed and makes for bad energy going into yoga (actually I don't know if that's true, it's probably just the opposite, I think I just thought it sounded yogi-esque)

However, on the negative side (isn't everyone excited that I went for the positive side first?! Yay me!) despite going to sleep early the night before, I was super tired and probably could have fallen asleep at some point during class. In fact, somewhere during the shavasana I think I may have because I forgot to sit up at the end of class and say namaste. Ha. Oops!

Speaking of shavasana, (which for those of you who don't know* is a yoga pose done at the end of practice where you lay in silence with a clear mind) I have a very hard time with it. I am one of those people whose brains are going at all times, whether it's thinking about the past or what I need to do in the future-- either five minutes or five years from now. I can never stay in the present. Funny since I think that is pretty much what yoga is all about. Anyway, so that is my goal for yoga this month, to try to stay in the present and lay with quiet mind in the last few minutes of class. It is much harder than you may think! If anyone has any tips on how I could do that though, it would be much appreciated. I've tried picturing colors or focusing on a bit of light when I close my eyes, but my thoughts always end up jumbled somewhere between what I should eat for dinner (probably cereal) and texts/ phone calls I've been avoiding (a whole other topic!)


*From my understanding only, I don't claim to be an expert here people!

I was going to post a picture of the Shavasana pose, but they all look dead. Sort of creepy. Is that what we all look like in class?? Here is a pic of another pose I am striving for instead, "Crow":



Every time I do it, I manage to slam my face into the ground. Ow. I think I'm doing something wrong...