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which_chickI have broken out the DownDog app once again so that soothing voice Sammi can tell me to Do The Things for 45 minutes every evening before bed. I am on the "super-beginner-slow" level because I am middle-aged and not-very-fit for yoga. (I do OK in my day-to-day with feed sacks and hay bales and furniture and appliances, but this does not translate all that well to yoga skills.) But I am trying.
I'm doing two weeks of super-beginner-slow before adjusting difficulty upward. Right now 45 minutes on super-beginner-slow is pretty good. It's enough to feel like it's doing some good without killing me immediately. I struggle in some poses (broken wrist and flabby upper arms are not super happy about Chataranga) but others are not so bad (in Down Dog, the problem is not my wrist, it's my hamstrings).
Possibly this is cultural appropriation and thus NOT-OK. It's definitely not a spiritual thing for me so much as it is a "Lizard pose does good things for my hip flexors" and "I need better core and overall fitness/flexibility to be a better rider" thing. I don't go around salutating people with namaste or anything.
I app my yoga via the aforementioned app because yoga classes are pretty thin on the ground in these parts and I could not afford a 7x a week class even if there were one held at 9 PM every evening. I can totally afford a $40 per year app, though.
I do try to do the breathing stuff because that seems to help with the stretching and balancing parts, but I am not good at mindful, peaceful thought while I'm struggling not to fall over. "Guided Stretching And Balance Work with a minimally annoying new-age soundtrack, in which some of the poses come with names in foreign"? That's kind of a mouthful, so yoga it is. WhytePeepul Yoga, for sure. Anyway, I'm doing it.
I also like walking, but we are at the time of year when slip and fall on the ice and break something is an actual possibility. And, y'know, I've done that already. Zero thumbs up, would not recommend.
I'm doing two weeks of super-beginner-slow before adjusting difficulty upward. Right now 45 minutes on super-beginner-slow is pretty good. It's enough to feel like it's doing some good without killing me immediately. I struggle in some poses (broken wrist and flabby upper arms are not super happy about Chataranga) but others are not so bad (in Down Dog, the problem is not my wrist, it's my hamstrings).
Possibly this is cultural appropriation and thus NOT-OK. It's definitely not a spiritual thing for me so much as it is a "Lizard pose does good things for my hip flexors" and "I need better core and overall fitness/flexibility to be a better rider" thing. I don't go around salutating people with namaste or anything.
I app my yoga via the aforementioned app because yoga classes are pretty thin on the ground in these parts and I could not afford a 7x a week class even if there were one held at 9 PM every evening. I can totally afford a $40 per year app, though.
I do try to do the breathing stuff because that seems to help with the stretching and balancing parts, but I am not good at mindful, peaceful thought while I'm struggling not to fall over. "Guided Stretching And Balance Work with a minimally annoying new-age soundtrack, in which some of the poses come with names in foreign"? That's kind of a mouthful, so yoga it is. WhytePeepul Yoga, for sure. Anyway, I'm doing it.
I also like walking, but we are at the time of year when slip and fall on the ice and break something is an actual possibility. And, y'know, I've done that already. Zero thumbs up, would not recommend.
