Yogi's

Since the winter, I've taken up a new hobby - yoga! I was getting a little bored with swimming and it was also aggravating my shoulder, and running didn't sound like that much fun. The class I've been attending sometimes has me dripping with sweat, so maybe it's more like aerobics yoga or pilates, but unlike any yoga class I'd taken on the east coast. Very challenging and often frustrating since they push us to attempt inversions, and it's all still quite new to me. We also listen to fun upbeat music and I love our instructors, young, fun women. Getting there is sometimes the toughest part but once there, I nearly always feel better at the end of class or just happy with myself for making it a priority.

The main instructor had a baby a few months ago so since then a sub has taken over and really owned it. One day in May it was so beautiful and I said we should yoga outside and also listen to this song, wish granted! She drew this picture of us below in honor of that day. It was a small, intimate class, but since we all know each other, we were very comfortable and had fun. I'm going to keep this up for as long as possible and reintegrate swimming and jogging and biking into the exercise routine and hopefully yoga has helped strengthen and loosen me up so that I don't have the aches and pains I did pre-yoga.

I'm in the green of course with my short hair, my friend Sarah is the long hair and then our instructors  boyfriend Kai is in the back.