yoga and stuff!
Jan. 29th, 2005 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangofandangoI went to yoga last night, at the URI gym. I'm a yoga virgin, and not well-versed in the types of yoga, but I believe she said it was Kripalu yoga, so I'm going with that. It sounds right, upon lookingit up. The instructor was pregnant, and, not surprising for a yoga instructor, extremely graceful and strong looking. I liked her as soon as she spoke, actually - she has a really calming voice.
It was a 90 minute class but it didn't feel like 90 minutes at all. I managed to get lost in it, and staring at the reflections in the floor of the overhead lights made me feel like I was staring into a pool of water, or at the stars. Sometimes I watched other people or noticed things, but mostly I really didn't think about anything, except my breath and my body and the space I was in (and sometimes, even that went away).
Some of my muscles are a little achey today, in that good post-exercise way, but slightly different than that.
I think I will keep going. I was planning on doing an All That Matters class, since I think of them as a better place to do this sort of thing, but the atmosphere at this class was surprisingly good despite all the other women there being blonde highlighted 18-year-olds who the instructor anticipated would be uncomfortable with the idea of meditation (she led us through meditation, she just didn't call it that. I guess what you don't know can't make you nervous. ;))
It's been a nice few days. It's been bright and sunny, and I've been getting work done and reading about the sense of smell and how it works. Whoo hoo.Tomorrow (I think), Ryan and I are going to Mystic, on a date. :) Rachel Ray, overly cutesy little beam of Food Network sunshine, did her $40 a day show in Mystic and it aired last week, and we've been wanting to go ever since. It's not quite the same there in the winter, but there's still shopping and good food and ocean, so it's all good.
It was a 90 minute class but it didn't feel like 90 minutes at all. I managed to get lost in it, and staring at the reflections in the floor of the overhead lights made me feel like I was staring into a pool of water, or at the stars. Sometimes I watched other people or noticed things, but mostly I really didn't think about anything, except my breath and my body and the space I was in (and sometimes, even that went away).
Some of my muscles are a little achey today, in that good post-exercise way, but slightly different than that.
I think I will keep going. I was planning on doing an All That Matters class, since I think of them as a better place to do this sort of thing, but the atmosphere at this class was surprisingly good despite all the other women there being blonde highlighted 18-year-olds who the instructor anticipated would be uncomfortable with the idea of meditation (she led us through meditation, she just didn't call it that. I guess what you don't know can't make you nervous. ;))
It's been a nice few days. It's been bright and sunny, and I've been getting work done and reading about the sense of smell and how it works. Whoo hoo.Tomorrow (I think), Ryan and I are going to Mystic, on a date. :) Rachel Ray, overly cutesy little beam of Food Network sunshine, did her $40 a day show in Mystic and it aired last week, and we've been wanting to go ever since. It's not quite the same there in the winter, but there's still shopping and good food and ocean, so it's all good.
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Date: 2005-01-28 10:02 pm (UTC)i want to try yoga sometime.
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Date: 2005-01-29 08:29 am (UTC)Have fun in Mystic! :)
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Date: 2005-01-29 04:27 pm (UTC)<3 <3 and mystic! let the cuteness begin.
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Date: 2005-02-02 12:42 pm (UTC)