I decided yesterday, after my regular Monday morning class with Leah (9AM), that I will definitely try to do two classes today despite the ridiculously early hour of 6:15AM for the first class. (I am so NOT a morning person.) I worked 1PM to 9PM for many years for a reason. However, I figure I can do this, just this one morning, just this one day, just this one time (and if not I can always blow off the second class at 7PM and try to double up again on Saturday morning). I am surprised to find recently how often I hear people say, “I could never do that.” I don’t know if they always have or if all of a sudden the phrase just catches my ear. I want to tell them you have no idea what you can do. I mention this, because I realize I say that I am not a morning person and with every utterance, I become less and less of a morning person. So as a point of clarification—I have no desire to be a “morning person.” I can and will do what I need to do on occasion to catch a plane, to go for a run/walk with my friends on a Sunday morning (I haven’t forgotten Anita), or to catch up on my yoga classes, but other than that if my head is still on my pillow at 8 AM that’s OK by me.
I was amazed yesterday to find that the heat was working and the room was hot and I was sweating but I didn’t struggle with it at all. I don’t know if I’m adjusting to the heat outside or if I’ve been well hydrated or some combination of things but I enjoyed practice yesterday. It’s not always like that for me. Sometimes the heat really takes my breath away from me, but not yesterday and not this morning either.
I continue to struggle with balance as I raise my eyes higher and higher in the standing poses. I can be steady as a rock if I am looking down but I realize that’s not where I want to be, so although I wobble and struggle in my standing poses, I laugh to myself as I try to master this nuance of gaze. It seems the more I look at my wobbling leg the more I wobble—UGH!—but I will not look down. I don’t know if it’s my zodiac sign or my Italian heritage, but I will not accept defeat and I will not back down. Maybe I’m stubborn, maybe I’m blessed with persistence, either way I’m having fun playing with the postures. While I have already confessed to working on unwrinkling my brow in a mirror at home, I almost never “strike a pose” outside of class. Consequently, I find myself anxious to get to my next practice to try a posture again. When you make a little adjustment to a posture like I have been with my eyes, you only have the two sets to try it out in which for me really leaves me wanting to try it again. Well today that will come soon enough, and then I will be back on track with my 30 classes in 30 days challenge. Hooray!
