Recently I’ve been feeling like a troll. No, not in my looks. You know, poor posture, super short, crackly bones, lack of flexibility. I’ve decided to fix those problems, or at least attempt to. OK, so I can’t fix the short factor but I can at least try to have better posture and be able to touch my toes. So I started going to yoga. I’ve done yoga in the past but it never really stuck. I’m not sure if it will stick this time but I did get a deal at a fancy studio (30 days for $40 unlimited classes) so I feel obligated to give it a month. Here’s my experience so far:
• On my first day I took the free class at Lululemon. It was incredibly crowded. I was no more than 15 inches away on each side from almost hitting someone, no matter which pose. This made for an extremely interesting downward dog position. I’ll let your mind go where it will on this one. Needless to say, the class was great but the experience wasn’t exactly relaxing. The next day I was extremely sore. I thought I was in shape, but I’m not in yoga shape.
• On day two I thought I would try for a real yoga studio. I used this thing called “the internet” (I heard Al Gore invented it) to search for a well known highly rated yoga studio. I found one in downtown San Jose. I found this second class to be much less crowded and also incredibly tough. I left feeling energized and exhausted all at the same time. I suppose you might call the feeling “zen.”
• Day 3 (today): The instructor informed us that we would be working our “hips” in class. I wasn’t exactly sure what this meant. Would we be dancing? Lord knows my dance moves need improvement so I was intrigued. We did not dance though. My poor hips endured 1.5 hours of stretching. I call it torture. Holy hell. I can’t say that I enjoyed it, but WOW…I think I’m starting to understand why yoga is considered a workout.
All in all, I’m going to use up my 30 days and see where that takes me. Maybe it’s a new hobby or maybe I’ll just be incredibly flexible after this month and then go back to hardly being able to touch my toes.
