Not sure I'm having a yoga journey...
Jan. 2nd, 2023 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI am not sure I'm having a yoga journey so much as a yoga meander. Less purposeful, less goal-oriented, probably not nearly as worthy of memorializing. But I'm still doing it.
I managed 26 yogas in December, which is 84% of the days. That's not bad. It's like a B-average yoga-ing. I feel like a B-average yoga-er. Wobbly, sweaty, not able to breathe peacefully, it's more of a panting gaspy affair over here. Yoga is fucking hard.
I'm still on Beginner 2 (I tried "Intermediate" once late in December, an experience which may be summed up as Aw, Hell No!, at least for now. Perhaps in another month or two we can try Intermediate again and see how it goes.) but the stuff in Beginner 2 is at least getting somewhat easier. There is progress.
At this time, I can about-half-the-time get half moon pose without a block to assist and hold it for the suggested timeframe without falling over. I can now side plank. (Not well. Poorly, but at least I can do it.) My regular plank and my forearm plank are getting legit. I can sleeping pigeon almost all the way flat. (I still have to put lowest-side-of-block under my chest to make it tolerable, but it started out at aw hell no for even... let's call it lightly dozing pigeon, so this is improvement.)
Baby camel is getting easier, though RoM is stubbornly resistant to change as yet. Effing boat pose is now doable though half-boat remains a stone cold bitch. I'm working on it. There are at least three-a-week of core-focus yoga efforts because that's a thing I can pick in the app I use.
Heels still do not touch the ground in down dog. *sigh*
The standing poses (tree, figure-4, warrior 3, dancer, knee lifted, knee-lifted-open) are all doable if they come one at a time. If the routine has me do more than two standing poses in a row ON THE SAME LEG without a break, I don't have enough for that and shit gets wobbly.
I do not like revolved chair AT ALL. I can do it, but I hate it and also I have too much gut for it to be comfortable. I need less gut, which is a familiar song and one I'm willing to try singing again this year.
I like wide-legged fold. I like horse stance. I adore warrior 2 and can do that for days. I like reverse tabletop and fish pose. I... kinda like chair pose. I really like happy baby. I like bound angle.
"Easy Twist" is getting easier. It was not easy to start. Revolved high lunge also is getting easier.
Yoga efforts are currently 50 minute affairs. I would like to inch this slowly toward a solid hour, hopefully before the end of January.
I'd like to maintain B-average yoga for January, too. Perhaps there will be progress from continual and regular efforts. Let's see! I will report back end-of-month with the sort of high speed adrenaline-filled content you've come to expect 'round these parts. Stay tuned.
I managed 26 yogas in December, which is 84% of the days. That's not bad. It's like a B-average yoga-ing. I feel like a B-average yoga-er. Wobbly, sweaty, not able to breathe peacefully, it's more of a panting gaspy affair over here. Yoga is fucking hard.
I'm still on Beginner 2 (I tried "Intermediate" once late in December, an experience which may be summed up as Aw, Hell No!, at least for now. Perhaps in another month or two we can try Intermediate again and see how it goes.) but the stuff in Beginner 2 is at least getting somewhat easier. There is progress.
At this time, I can about-half-the-time get half moon pose without a block to assist and hold it for the suggested timeframe without falling over. I can now side plank. (Not well. Poorly, but at least I can do it.) My regular plank and my forearm plank are getting legit. I can sleeping pigeon almost all the way flat. (I still have to put lowest-side-of-block under my chest to make it tolerable, but it started out at aw hell no for even... let's call it lightly dozing pigeon, so this is improvement.)
Baby camel is getting easier, though RoM is stubbornly resistant to change as yet. Effing boat pose is now doable though half-boat remains a stone cold bitch. I'm working on it. There are at least three-a-week of core-focus yoga efforts because that's a thing I can pick in the app I use.
Heels still do not touch the ground in down dog. *sigh*
The standing poses (tree, figure-4, warrior 3, dancer, knee lifted, knee-lifted-open) are all doable if they come one at a time. If the routine has me do more than two standing poses in a row ON THE SAME LEG without a break, I don't have enough for that and shit gets wobbly.
I do not like revolved chair AT ALL. I can do it, but I hate it and also I have too much gut for it to be comfortable. I need less gut, which is a familiar song and one I'm willing to try singing again this year.
I like wide-legged fold. I like horse stance. I adore warrior 2 and can do that for days. I like reverse tabletop and fish pose. I... kinda like chair pose. I really like happy baby. I like bound angle.
"Easy Twist" is getting easier. It was not easy to start. Revolved high lunge also is getting easier.
Yoga efforts are currently 50 minute affairs. I would like to inch this slowly toward a solid hour, hopefully before the end of January.
I'd like to maintain B-average yoga for January, too. Perhaps there will be progress from continual and regular efforts. Let's see! I will report back end-of-month with the sort of high speed adrenaline-filled content you've come to expect 'round these parts. Stay tuned.
