Today I made the first step toward my goal of teaching a yoga class this year—attending a yoga class! I went to Amara Yoga. They have a pretty nice set up, and I enjoyed the Flow Class. I'm considering signing up for their semester special of $220. I also am thinking about signing up for unlimited classes at the university gyms for $50 (I really want to try kickboxing!). Spending the money makes me a bit uneasy because I'm just not sure if I'll get my value out of it. That being said I'm not sure if I want to pay $12/class each time I go. Maybe paying the money will make me attend? I also don't know if there will just be enough days in a week to do all the activities I want: Swimming (new found love), regular gym working out, my Physique 57 videos, gym classes, and yoga.Anyway, back to the yoga. First, I just have to say that taking yoga classes after getting certified has been really difficult. I find myself getting distracted in class thinking about how I would have explained that posture or guided people into it. I am trained to teach beginners so I know a lot of good ways to explain positions to get people into them correctly (i.e. without injury). This coupled with my normally critical nature is a recipe for disaster (or at least distraction). Maybe the more classes I go to the less this will be the case?
I really want to get back at the point where I can do the above (see picture). This was taken on one of the last days of my yoga training. I felt like a complete badass being able to get into this headstand with nary an assist or hop up. It was all abs and shoulders, baby. Unfortunately, about a month back from Mexico I was no longer able to do it. It was lack of strength (stopped doing yoga regularly) but it was also that I wasn't "balanced" anymore. That's really what is driving this need to get back into a regular practice. I've been so out of whack the last 2.5 years—worrying about grades, jobs, whether I was going to get married, etc. Now, I only have one more semester of grades (that is, not much damage can be done at this point); I have a job waiting for me (in October 2011), and I am married. Things seem like they are leveling out (at least for a little while). I finally feel like I can tackle things beyond law school.
kickboxing is awesome. I absolutely loved it when i was doing it, but i was training at a real gym (like if i'd wanted to get into MMA fighting i was in the right place.) I'd still do it, but they closed the location near me and i can't bring myself to drive half a hour to the gym (whereas it was 10 minutes or less before).
ReplyDeletei don't know if i could do another class, like a simple class, because i did such a hardcore version before.