Hello everybody – I know it’s been awhile since I’ve last posted but I’ve been busy with my internship and workouts. Regardless, I thought I should update everybody on my newest endeavor: YOGA.
When I used to think of yoga, the first things that came to my mind were breathing exercises, stretching, and soothing sounds. After my first couple of yoga classes, the things that now come to mind are headstands, the splits, and drops of sweat rolling past my brow into my eyes. It’s an experience entirely foreign to me, and quite frankly, I didn’t expect to be that hard. Turns out I was a tad wrong.
Being the incredibly inflexible soccer player that I am, I took up yoga to increase my flexibility and to improve my focusing and breathing skills because I thought it’d help in goal. As I walked into the Core Power Yoga Studio in Pacific Beach for Intro to Heated Yoga 1.5, I had my chin up, confident in my abilities as an athlete. I completely blew off the fact that the studio recommended that I take a few yoga classes before because I was a soccer player, and thoughts soccer players could do anything. My sanguine self thought too highly of itself and I ended up walking out of that class more sore than I had bargained for. Maybe it’s the athlete or even just the competitive side of me, that totally disregarded the fact that yoga is an athletic activity and requires some sort of athleticism and coordination – and everybody should know that I am the most uncoordinated girl around. I love a workout that makes you sweat and all of my previous yoga experience had turned me off because they were slow and comprised of me mostly laying on a mat counting my breaths, “ohmming” to myself, and closing my eyes – it put me to sleep faster than you can say “downward dog”.
The point is, I used to think that yoga was a sport activity for sissies because I had seen videos like this, but now I have the utmost respect because yoga is hard, like really, really, really hard. Hopefully next time you see me I’ll be able to do this, but until then, namaste.