A much warmer location. I’m a yoga therapist and teacher, hence the blog name “yogini”. Which for those who are not yoga-inclined is the female version of a yogi. My intent has always been to talk about yoga, at least to some sort of regular extent. But for lack of eloquence, my own personal fears of failure, and not currently teaching students has hindered me from doing so until this point in time. What was the final impetus, my husband, the personal cheerleader.
So, have I fallen off the yoga bandwagon? No, or not really. There was an extended time when we had house guests over the holidays and that really did inhibit my personal style of practice. As in I don’t want to be watched while I’m practicing, if you’re not doing it with me. But I worked around it and still got some good mat time in. The reality of it is that my personal practice is much different that what it was in August. I’m not doing headstands, or err, I’m not doing them regularly. Nor am I taking any in-person group classes, because (a) I really cannot chance getting sick, nor would I want to and (b) don’t think any heated studio is going to be up to the cleanliness standard that I’m needing to maintain with my PICC line. I’m being my own sensei.
Instead of acrobats and high heat, I’ve gone back to the basics a lot of the time and focusing on finding my grounding and some freedom of movement without causing pain. I’ve developed a habit of piecing together parts of different online classes or taking one class and just doing different poses as needed. Or heck, some days if I’m feeling motivated enough, I forgo the whole listening to someone else jive and completely do my own thing. There has even been the occasional “super” restorative class when I simply lay on my bolster and do yoga nidra. If you have no idea what this is, boy, are you missing out! (Think super-awesome, relaxing nap time.)
And, that’s the beauty of yoga! Yoga is a practice that accommodates to your needs, if you allow it to, instead of feeling that you have to force yourself into a certain yoga mold. As I’ve gone through different phases over the last few months from severe bouts of nausea to anemia in general or adjusting postures to accommodate to my PICC line, its always about the personal practice and how I feel.
So, while like this blog, it can be scary to put myself out there and talk about my yoga practice or why I might do the postures I do, I hope that I can help inform others about yoga from my current perspective.
So, have I fallen off the yoga bandwagon? No, or not really. There was an extended time when we had house guests over the holidays and that really did inhibit my personal style of practice. As in I don’t want to be watched while I’m practicing, if you’re not doing it with me. But I worked around it and still got some good mat time in. The reality of it is that my personal practice is much different that what it was in August. I’m not doing headstands, or err, I’m not doing them regularly. Nor am I taking any in-person group classes, because (a) I really cannot chance getting sick, nor would I want to and (b) don’t think any heated studio is going to be up to the cleanliness standard that I’m needing to maintain with my PICC line. I’m being my own sensei.
Instead of acrobats and high heat, I’ve gone back to the basics a lot of the time and focusing on finding my grounding and some freedom of movement without causing pain. I’ve developed a habit of piecing together parts of different online classes or taking one class and just doing different poses as needed. Or heck, some days if I’m feeling motivated enough, I forgo the whole listening to someone else jive and completely do my own thing. There has even been the occasional “super” restorative class when I simply lay on my bolster and do yoga nidra. If you have no idea what this is, boy, are you missing out! (Think super-awesome, relaxing nap time.)
And, that’s the beauty of yoga! Yoga is a practice that accommodates to your needs, if you allow it to, instead of feeling that you have to force yourself into a certain yoga mold. As I’ve gone through different phases over the last few months from severe bouts of nausea to anemia in general or adjusting postures to accommodate to my PICC line, its always about the personal practice and how I feel.
So, while like this blog, it can be scary to put myself out there and talk about my yoga practice or why I might do the postures I do, I hope that I can help inform others about yoga from my current perspective.
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