I am going on an all yoga fitness 10 day diet starting next Tuesday. There's this yoga studio close to my apartment that gives a promo offer of 10 days of yoga for $10. If any of you out there have every tried to take yoga classes at a studio, you can vouch that this is a pretty sweet offer. I am not entirely sure why I think this is going to be something I enjoy or can even do as I have only done yoga maybe four times in the last five or six years. And the times that I did go I had a feeling that was pretty comparable to the one or two awkward middle school dances I attended with my BFFs as a tween. Like yoga, the room was uncomfortably hot and humid with sweaty bodies. I was so terrible at doing what I was supposed to be doing that I was conspicuous. People told me no one was looking at me but since I was looking at everyone else I knew that was a lie. And I noticed that even the people that were "good" at this ridiculous activity looked very stupid, maybe even more so than I did.
So why is it that I am so excited about taking up this offer? It started when I got talking to our Relief Society yoga class instructor.* She is a very convincing lady about her yoga ways and I couldn't help but get pretty...well convinced. Yep. That's all it took really. I wish I could say I had more reasons why I have come to the irreconcilable conclusion that I must devote more of my mind, body and spirit to the yoga way; but that was all there was to it. What can I say? She was very convincing.
Now I have checked out books, read the wikipedia entry on the different forms of yoga, started watching DVDs and of course signed up for this class. I feel like this new "lifestyle" in which I am about to engage adds a pretty cool mystique to my very extroverted self. I can especially feel this mystique when I carry around my book Yoga: A Return to Wholeness. I feel downright esoteric actually. And I like that.
But still, I can't help but think it is going to be a really great thing to do this. Ten days of Yoga might even change my life. Well, at least a little. Also, it's nice to try something new. Get involved in a new community of people. Yoga followers come in throngs here in Austin. Maybe it's the hippy "keeping it weird" factor but I like to think it is something a little bit bigger than that. Can I qualify the word transcendental with a "kind of"? Either way, wish me luck. I will be going on a running and swimming fast for the next 2 weeks. I just thought I would let you know about all of this too, just in case you are wondering why I am wearing stretchy gaucho pants next month.
*Yes we have a RS yoga class that I inadvertantly started when I started the "Fitness" mini-enrichment group for walking and running. Which ironically, the walking and running group has been sturggling along since May and the yoga group has been immensely popular. Another reason this whole yoga thing seems sort of cosmic for me to be doing.
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"People told me no one was looking at me but since I was looking at everyone else I knew that was a lie." Classic just classic, sounds like a line from This American Life. And just as a side note. "Don't do it!" The gaucho pants I mean.
I've only done yoga at home. I definitely don't do it for the relaxation aspect as my kids think I'm a tunnel and crawl under me every time I do a down-dog. There's a great show on Oxygen called "Inhale". It's done by a guy named Steve Ross. He used good music and is pretty entertaining.
Mom, you and I both know that you are one of the last people that could judge me for wearing gaucho pants. I believe you were about the same age when you dared do such a thing:)
Muriel, you are giving me even more opportunities to become a "follower". That made me laugh out loud to think of your downward dog as turning into a kiddie tent!
Way to get in on this esoteric hobby. If you like that sort of thing, let me tell you about this new, exclusive cafe called "Starbucks".
I kid, I kid. Actually that is really interesting that your RS has its own yoga class.
I think there is a great important lesson you are learning by living Austin: wherever you go in the world, the church is weird.
Kind of transcendental?
Sometimes when I am at yoga I like to think about bad energy leaving me and absorbing the good energy of the earth...and sometimes I think about the ice cream shop on the way home. Way to lock in that deal, by the way. Our yoga studio is $100 for 10 classes.
Yoga is the best. I'm jealous of your 10 days for $10. ENJOY it!
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