So the unpardonable sin was walking the 5 mile Killer trail without Chrissie. She was across the river with her dad, so I went without her. I really would have taken her if she had of been home. She was really disappointed because she has been wanting to go for a month. I felt so bad that I told her that I would take her on Sunday (my supposed day of rest) but then it rained. Soooooo against my better judgment, I asked her to do the Yoga for Dummies tape with me. She noticed the same thing I noticed about the instructor. She made jokes about the fact that the instructor says you can do certain modifications and yoga isn’t a competition, but then she says, “…and the rest of us will do this…(implied the right way).” She thought that was a challenge just like I did. Because she was with me I didn’t do the modifications and I did try to do the downward facing dog. It gave me a blinding headache within 4 breaths. I must still have a cold or allergies---inversion definitely is a bad idea if you’re congested. I’m not sure that hanging your head upside down is ever a good idea. We both laughed when the instructor said, “If you can’t move your foot here, in your most graceful manner grab it with your hand and clunk it where it’s supposed to be.” We also both laughed when I fell out of tree pose a dozen times. Chrissie was laughing so hard that she fell out twice. (Laughing was the only reason she fell out at all.) I worked up a slight sweat and Chrissie wasn’t sure why anyone would call yoga exercise because it’s so easy.
I woke up late enough that I had to do the jumping jacks Monday morning, but I got through the routine. I am thinking about signing up for the online program because I feel quite certain that I need someone to hate while I’m doing jumping jacks. I’m pretty sure that the first thing that I would quit doing is anything that involves jumping up and down once I was put in charge of my own exercise program.
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