I was going to Yoga class. Finally! I've only said I would make it to class and not made it for over a year now. I have the gym membership and the couple times I've been to the class I've enjoyed it. But it's been over a year and I'm in worse shape then I was last time. But this time I wasn't going to let anything stop me. The clothes were clean and I finally had a working vehicle so I wasn't limited to the bus schedule or someone else's schedule. I was feeling good. My hair was in a pony tail, I had my yoga pants on and a comfortable tank top that went down over my hips so it wouldn't be showing off my fat to anyone else in class. I took a moment to check myself in the mirror. CRINGE Oh my god I was wearing a lot of black! Black yoga pants and the black tank top. The only saving grace was that my black sports bras are too tight now so I'd gone with a teal one. Which matched the teal on my black and teal tennis shoes.
I found myself frowning at the mirror. I understand wearing black when you're hugly overweight like I am. Black is slimming right?!? Bah hummbug this black was not making me look slimming. In fact if was feeling rather depressing. I'd thought that I've been doing better moving away from the all black thing I did in high school. I had started to add some white and moved on to blue while I was in high school. Over the last 10 years I've slowly added other colors into the mix. It was rather shocking to see myself in all black again. But I wasn't in all black. Not really. I had the teal bra poking out and the teal on my shoes that would be kicked off at the door. But my black yoga pants also had a pink stripe at the waist. Ah ha! I have colors on! With that smile of satisfaction the bounce came back into my step as I headed off to Yoga class.
But on my way to class I started to laugh. How could I have possibly thought I had to much black on. Look around me. I have my pink bag, with my pink water bottle and my pink yoga mat. I also was wearing a pink jacket. Oh my god when did I change from all black to all pink! PINK! of all colors. Once again the only saving grace was that teal sports bra peeking out. After all, I had chosen the teal one over the pink one because it was closer and I needed to get out the door without any more excuses. Because by golly I was going to make it to that damned Yoga class if it killed me. But now, I did it in pink. Oh if my friends from high school could see me now...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The Year of the Core
I was just reading an interesting email through About.com on Yoga. I subscribe to some of their email newsletters. The one on Yoga is written by Ann Pizer (http://yoga.about.com/bio/Ann-Pizer-12794.htm?nl=1) and it always has good information. For those of you who don't know. About.com has a number of free newsletters and e-courses that you can have delivered directly to your inbox and you can always opt out of them at any time. I get a number of them including trying to learn French in preparation for talking French once I head back to college.
So in this article she talked about all this negative stuff that happened concerning Yoga in the last year and how she chooses not to think about that but to think about the positive aspects. Which, honestly, is something I've struggled with in the last couple years. Its something a lot of people struggle with but is much needed for all of us. The need to focus on more positive then negative. Which is not the point of this but really people. We have so much negativity in our lives. We really should try to focus more on the positive. You can see the negative, you can acknowledge it, but we shouldn't dwell in it. We just bring our own lives down. So Ann is looking back on the last year and calling it the year of the core. If you read the information she provides you can see how its true. However if you're anything like me you probably haven't been focusing on your core muscles this last year. And lets face it people.
Core is where it's all at. Balance, life, it all revolves around your core. Your core muscles (the abs and lower back) are the foundation for everything we do. Every day we use our core muscles continuously. I'm learning more and more about how they play a major part in every single thing we do. Everything. I'm serious. Stop looking at me like that :) no really, look it up. Your core muscles connect to everything. They're responcible for everything. And when they're weak, we suffer. We have problems. So while everything is connected I was thinking about what she was saying about last year being the year of the core. But I was thinking I will make this next year the year of the core for me.
Let me explain. While I'm starting to do Yoga again and practicing bellydancing. While I'm sitting at my desk or walking my dogs. Every thing I do brings those core muscles into use. I don't know about you but let me tell you something. My core muscles are WEAK. This year I will once again try to focus more on myself. And I will do better then I did last year. While working through my health and fitness I'm going to do some major focusing on my core muscles. With everything connected through them, I think this is a very important thing to focus on. Core is everything. So lets make this next year the year of the core. Utilize the resources that were created last year to make a better, stronger next year.
So in this article she talked about all this negative stuff that happened concerning Yoga in the last year and how she chooses not to think about that but to think about the positive aspects. Which, honestly, is something I've struggled with in the last couple years. Its something a lot of people struggle with but is much needed for all of us. The need to focus on more positive then negative. Which is not the point of this but really people. We have so much negativity in our lives. We really should try to focus more on the positive. You can see the negative, you can acknowledge it, but we shouldn't dwell in it. We just bring our own lives down. So Ann is looking back on the last year and calling it the year of the core. If you read the information she provides you can see how its true. However if you're anything like me you probably haven't been focusing on your core muscles this last year. And lets face it people.
Core is where it's all at. Balance, life, it all revolves around your core. Your core muscles (the abs and lower back) are the foundation for everything we do. Every day we use our core muscles continuously. I'm learning more and more about how they play a major part in every single thing we do. Everything. I'm serious. Stop looking at me like that :) no really, look it up. Your core muscles connect to everything. They're responcible for everything. And when they're weak, we suffer. We have problems. So while everything is connected I was thinking about what she was saying about last year being the year of the core. But I was thinking I will make this next year the year of the core for me.
Let me explain. While I'm starting to do Yoga again and practicing bellydancing. While I'm sitting at my desk or walking my dogs. Every thing I do brings those core muscles into use. I don't know about you but let me tell you something. My core muscles are WEAK. This year I will once again try to focus more on myself. And I will do better then I did last year. While working through my health and fitness I'm going to do some major focusing on my core muscles. With everything connected through them, I think this is a very important thing to focus on. Core is everything. So lets make this next year the year of the core. Utilize the resources that were created last year to make a better, stronger next year.
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