The great yoga adventure

@Phoenix_Rising You are right, no baby posing for me....but the mountain pose is definitely a goer. Thankyou for giving us an option. Oh,,,,,,and the folding backwards pose......good luck with that one. Lol

It was full house at the Yoga studio this afternoon - all ladies too. We did a Yin style class with no downward dogs, or trees or mountains or happy babies but we did do lots of hero (lay back folded), butterfly, swan and other twisty poses.

At the end we did some chanting; not really my thing - have no idea what we were saying. Hope @Phoenix_Rising and @CheerBear had good sessions. @Ant7@TheVorticon been to a yoga class lately? How about you @Former-Member and @LooneyToones @Former-Member?

Sorry to hear that @Former-Member. Maybe yoga would be helpful in the situation you are in, even if you just do some at home via a video.

Good evening everyone,

So...funny story. I feel super self-conscious in my yoga class because I seem to be so bendy. The teacher is constantly reminding people not to push themselves too hard or judge themselves for not being able to do a pose while I'm pretty much curled up like a pretzel. Anyway, so after class tonight I asked her if I was cheating or something because I kept being able to do things that she was telling people it is totally ok to not be able to do. And the verdict is...apparently my level of flexibility is highly unusual and...my teacher thinks I should explore doing some advanced classes.

Somehow it seems hilarious to me that I've spent my whole life being told I'm "too rigid" and it turns out that what I lack in cognitive flexibility, I more than make up for with physical flexibility. Next time someone tells me I'm "too rigid" I'm going to stand on my head and be like "yeah, well can you do this?"

Hey...you know how a lot of job advertisements ask for the soft skill of being flexible? They never actually specify that it is cognitive flexibility that they are looking for. Maybe I shouldn't let that criteria hold me back. I could be like "no, I don't do changes in routine, , unexpected events or multi-tasking...but I can stand on my head - that takes flexibility."

Sadly, we didn't do mountain pose or happy baby pose in class tonight...and now I'm too sleepy. Oh well, I will definitely be a happy baby mountain tomorrow.

@Maggie I am super excited that you are planning to be a mountain. I think we need a mountain range in Forum Land.

Hey @Ant7 I think I forgot to tag you this morning. This week we are doing happy baby and mountain pose.

It sounds like you had a good class tonight @soul. Chanting wouldn't be my thing either!

How was your class today @CheerBear?

@TheVorticon Oh...so what I'm hearing is that I need to market the happy baby pose as dead bug pose??? The teacher in my class calls it happy baby but hey, if you want to be a dead bug, that is totally cool @TheVorticon. I am super impressed that you are going to attempt to be a dead bug. I thought maybe you would be one of the people who might stick to being a mountain. I'm planning to do both poses and thus be a happy baby mountain. If you do both poses, you could be a dead bug mountain! There are all sorts of mountains in a mountain range.

I wish I was more physically flexible @Phoenix_Rising. We are told not to make comparisons with anyone else in the class and that we are only competing with ourselves. Most of the time, I am concentrating on getting the pose right that I don't notice anybody else.

I did notice that some instructors will tell you to move your right leg and they will demonstrate that movement with their left so you can mirror it whilst others don't do this. I guess it depends if you are a visual or auditory learner. I benefit from a bit of both.

Good on you for being a star pupil. There was a special workshop at my yoga studio on the weekend called Acroyoga - a cross between acrobatics and yoga. You would have been brilliant at it @Phoenix_Rising.

I will do a mountain pose before I go to bed then happy baby whilst in bed.

@soul @Phoenix_Rising I havent been to class for a week or two. I am still looking for a new place but I have been doing a few things at home so happy baby lol