on-site yoga: round 2

60 minutes - kripalu

tonight, we started the second 4 week series of on-site yoga at work. i know that i prepared the instructor to meet the varying degrees of comfort and familiarity with yoga as well as very diverse ability, but i felt like i was doing a beginner class. i guess i just felt like my practice has evolved beyond the level this fellow was teaching, but the rest of my group liked it.

it moved a little too slow for me and we ended up in triangle pose which if i had known i was in triangle pose i would have moved my body into triangle. instead, i thought we were in some variation of side angle pose. i didn't know where to put my arms. it was kind of bizarre.

this morning, rather than have a lie in, i still got up at 5:15am, but instead of practicing yoga i did 4 sets of some strength and toning exercises my sister sent me. she sent me the list of exercises and then after she explained them to me, i finally started today. the intent is to do a series of 3 or 4 exercises of 20 reps each with no breaks between sets. i went out and bought some little 2 lb hand weights and a resistance band.

the thing that had me laughing was that the second exercise was to hold plank position for 30-60 seconds. i thought after 30 days of yoga this would not be a problem. i think i purposefully counted a fast 30 seconds because my arms were shaking.

i guess i'm not as strong as i thought.