Wow! Day 9...I can't believe that I am almost 1/3 of the way into this journey of practicing yoga asanas daily. I made it to a hot and sweaty Moksha yoga class today and had an AMAZING practice! I realized today that being led through a class allows me to get deeper into my practice because I'm not thinking about the next posture and instead allowing the instructor to guide me from one posture to the next.
One of the reasons why I had a great class today is that I just focused on one breath at a time and did not think about what asana comes next. Sure, there were times during practice where my thoughts turned into commentary instead of focus (i.e. hmmm...I love this playlist. I've played this same song druing my class, etc), but inevitably, I would come back to my breath and re-focus and continued having an amazing class. I even applied some of the teachings from last weekend's workshop, and my, oh my, how my prayer twist has changed! I normally struggle through that posture...today, I felt an ease that I have never experienced during prayer twist before. Not that my thighs did not burn, but I was able to get deep into the posture and kept focus on my breath - and instead of allowing the posture to get the best of me, I took it with one inhale at a time and one exhale at a time until the teacher guided us out of the hold. If I recall correctly (because class was a few hours ago), I even moved through the warrior series without coming out of the lunge once...on both sides! This is such a rarity! I'm so proud of myself! Maybe that's why my thighs are burning right now...haha.
It's time for bed...sleep, peaceful sleep is waiting for me. Good night.
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