I could really tell I had missed a week of stretching during class on Thursday. Especially while doing downward facing dog, I felt like I was tighter than usual. It was a good reminder that if I don’t keep my stretches up, I’ll lose everything I have learned and all the flexibility I have gained really quickly. On the other hand, I know that some of the stretches are getting engrained in my head and body. I thought it was funny that Cameron mentioned randomly finding herself doing a yoga pose in front of her friends because I also did that this week. While standing outside my classroom, I had unconsciously grabbed my forearms behind my back (I can’t remember the Sanskrit name). One of my friends commented, asking me why I was standing like a pretzel. I laughed, but then I got to teach her a real yoga pose, which was pretty cool. It made me feel like I really was learning the poses and not just reenacting them in class. I get self-conscious sometimes about trying to do the poses on my own because I am afraid that I’m doing them completely wrong or might do the wrong set of stretches together, but after teaching my friend one of the poses, I realized that I know them better than I thought. It was a nice encouragement to continue practicing and learning new poses; like my efforts really aren’t going to waste. Who knows, maybe I’ll teach my own yoga class one day.
Yippe!!
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