am/pm practice

monday afternoon, i remember that i had signed up to do a 21 day yoga challenge through yoga journal. when i first read about it in the magazine, the page hadn't been updated yet and kept telling me that the program ended last december. eventually, it updated and i somehow signed up.

but i didn't get the first workout until around 3pm. too late for me to practice. so, i thought, oh, i'll just do all the workouts one day behind. no problem! however, at 5:30am the next morning when it failed to load after repeated attempts (and my technology solving skills are not the best at that time of day) i gave up and did a random dvd from the shelf.

and then i realized that we had on-site fitness that evening. i started my day with a fairly vigorous practice and ended with a more relaxing practice. we have an instructor who just received her certification and i really liked how she talked us into each pose and then held us there.

i find that holding a pose for longer breaths takes my focus somewhere different. i'm not trying to keep up, i'm trying to finesse my form. and it's exhausting! chair pose for 8 breaths is some serious business.

i actually set my alarm to get up this morning, but i felt kind of sore and rather than push it to try for a video that won't load, i chose to rest.

rested.