After class I started thinking about the challenge that just finished up (30 classes in 45 days)... and the intensity with which I approached it (I did WAY more than 30... like 40 more than 30). Approached may not be the right word because I actually attacked that challenge with the fervor of a starving person at an all-you-can-eat banquet. And the classes I took reflected that... Lots of Outlaw, lots of Vinyasa, some Kind Hot, a few Restorative, a couple Nidra, one Yin and one Hatha. Intense classes for an intense challenge.
How you do one thing is how you do everything... so you would think that the lack of inhibition I showed during this challenge might cross over into other parts of my life. No, not so much. In fact, I think I have been using yoga as an avoidance tactic. Like "oh, I'm having a bad day... I don't feel like doing anything so I'll go to yoga because it will make me more present and I'll feel better and then I can get my work done." Right... That didn't work nearly as well as I thought it would. Part of yoga is finding balance and that has not been carried over from the mat just yet. There has actually been very little balance in my life lately. So now that the challenge is over... I'm going to start cultivating a BALANCED yoga practice. Do as much of the less intense classes as I do the more intense classes. Actually, next week may be mostly less intense classes to give my body a good chance to recover. One thing I have gotten good at is listening to my body... and it has been requesting that I take it down a notch or two. Sometimes the bold choice is to step back and dial down. I don't have anything to prove to anyone. My responsibility is to take care of myself. And it is my yoga practice, not someone else's. So that is what the next week of yoga will be focused on... taking care of myself and having the courage to dial back when I need to.
Namaste.
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