YOGA

Tuesday 26--Since we don't have any money for kids' club, I have exchanged this exercise day with my new job. Spa Cleaner and Gardener to my parents estate! It is good excercise and it is nice to be in nature. I always love the outdoors.
Wed 27th-- I get only half of YOGA Class on Wed, because I have to drop Jorvik at school, it is a good half hour but feel cheated.
Thursday 28th--All I got today was a very upset mind, body, spirit and everything else that can get upset. For car issues, down to only one car now....I did not go. Prideful, maybe since Alf did not use the car either! Missed out on PILATES and LIFT--Although, did not have the 3 dollars for Kids' Club...
Friday 29th--Glorious Yoga! I love Geri it was an excellent work out. I am still thinking I should go back to the 2 hour work out. Too bad we just don't have the funds for kids' care.! RIDICULOUS really.
Saturday 30th--Sweaty YOGA more than 100 people. It turned out quite like a steam room at the end. It has been all good.

Need to get back to the journaling part of my exercise. There are soo many feelings and emotions I am fighting lately that it is very hard to let it go. I feel as if I was a safety box and was locking everything in it. NOT A GOOD THING.

YOGA YOGA YOGA

I am finding it difficult to document my progress, since I have soo many things in my mind. There is not a respite in my day and there are soo many things unsettling at the moment. I guess this is what life is, an unsetting experiment. However it is hard to focus and see what it is. There is anxiety, unsettling, worry, some what of despair, and this has been reduced dramatically since last November--because of prayer. However, with these worries, there is financial strain and with this, less visits to the gym certainly with the kids (3.00 per child) each time. So all in all it is not a good combination. There are changes that will take place, on my end or on Alf's, work for me, possibly during the day...meaning all my yoga/weights/pilates is out the window. Need to get the courage to keep going no matter what the scenary is. Just hop on the train of life/exercise and be what it may be.

Saturday 16 NO YOGA sick
Monday 18--NO YOGA sick
Wed 20--no YOGA sick
Thursday 21--sick no Pilates
Friday 22--Yoga yeah
Saturday 23--YOGA yeah!
Monday 25! YOGA and it was a great work out...then walked home 1/2 hour, what I did not plan on--very cold and I did not bring a sweater.

Yogi

Yes this is how I want to look at the end of the year. I totally think it is doable and I am ready to go. I have become more flexible and stronger than ever before, and I say that with a grin on my face. Yoga has been one of the most difficult if not the most difficult endeavor I have ever done. I believe doing YOGA in an overweight body has been a very very hard and demanding task, oftentimes very difficult and full of doubts. One thing I know for sure is that in this last year of at least practicing twice per week, it has brought a new form of discipline. I think one that demands something from your soul, being, body that asks you to continue to be patient. I wish there was something that could commit you to Yoga no matter what, and that you would interfere with Life and not Life with Yoga. I have tried over the past year several instructors, but the one I have learned to love is my dear Teacher Master Geri, as my little one named her. I absolutely love her ways and the manner in which she conducts her practices. I believe since the very first class, which was with her, I was blessed and continue to do so. There is something about her that wants me to put my 200 percent in. Yoga has been somewhat of abstract and very demanding; so much so, that sometimes I want to give it a 100 percent effort even more, but fall short to my whimpy annoyances. So here for another fabulous, heart-wrenching, fulfilling year.

Great Beginnings

Well, I actually completed 1 year of doing Yoga November 12. It was a great accomplishment. I wish I could do it daily...if not three times a week. Time constraints are to blame and accessibility. So I think I want to start again my recollection of thoughts while I do this. I am not as involved in many classes, because Jorvik does not go to school until noon...and funds are depleted. So there is no more kids club for now. Or good exercise for that matter. I also got a pinch nerve somewhere along in November, impeding me from doing my beloved lift class. It was a horrible pain and still lingering. I am stronger, but have felt cheated somewhat in that I stopped some classes immediately. I have increased my Yoga classes and time walking have decreased. I am looking forward to getting a routine again, and hitting hard those muscles and getting toned. Life is hard but I have enjoyed and loved all the changes I have witness thus far. So for another great year of listening to my body.