I've been wanting to try out a little yoga for a long time. I enjoyed the version of it that was on the Wii Fit many moons ago when I still owned a Wii (and still worked in retail) but I have always wanted to learn more of the "real thing." So this morning, after my candle meditation and some puttering around on the internet catching up on social media, I decided to hit the Googles and see what I could find. Admittedly, this is the first video that came up in my search. I started it just to see it if seemed ok and ended up spending the next 20 minutes with it. The after effect being that I feel full of energy and my body feels pretty great. I did cause a sore spot in my back, but I think that in a few days of this, that will work itself out (and that would be excellent because I've got a lot of balled up muscles back there.)
The only part of this I couldn't actually do was the bit where you are supposed to put your arms behind you with your arms touching and lift your butt. I do not have the upper or lower body strength to do this, and my arms don't actually touch. I am chalking this all up to "yet," though, and I'm not going to let it discourage me. I'm also going to stick with this particular video until I'm stretched out more and maybe even until I can do it. Starting the day out with meditation has been nice, but I have trouble actually allowing myself to reach a useful meditative state without distraction. This being guided really helps me focus on it and now that I've seen the movements once I won't have to actually try to see the tablet at all from now on because I have an idea of what he means when he's talking.
I feel more awake than I have in a long time, which leads me to believe this is definitely something that I should move forward with as a habit. Good habits are the theme so far this year. That is definitely not a bad thing.
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