Day 3: From A to Z

7:45 tonight. It is amazing how a challenge can make me go to yoga when I am not 'feeling' it. Usually when I'm not feeling it, I just bag it and have a night in. But because I am doing a challenge, I dragged my butt off the couch and tonight I was soooo happy I did. I felt nauseous all day - not sure why. Before class I decided to have a coconut water and leave all expectations at the door. As a result, I had a very strong class, one of the strongest I've had in awhile. I set up in the front row to push myself tonight and not slack off in any of the postures or take a knee. There is no rule at our studio about taking a knee in the front row, but I've made that rule up for myself. If I am going to go front row, I will do all postures.

I was able to put my hands in prayer and get my forehead to knee in separate leg head to knee today, but only on the right side but both sets. This is one of the more challenging postures for me. I was also able to do both sets of rabbit AND feel the stretch in my spine. I guess compressions are getting a little bit easier for me. I just have to remember that the postures that are the hardest are the ones I need the most. In stretching pose, I relaxed more and straightened out my spine and found I was able to get my forehead to touch my toes.

Tonight, the teacher said something interesting. He said that Bikram decided on 26 postures because there are 26 letters in the alphabet. There is that saying, "From A to Z" (meaning you've covered everything). After the 26 postures, we've worked our entire body, inside and out...from A to Z.

I'm thinking of taking my kids to Disneyland for a week later this month, so that means I might miss some classes. In order to account for that, I think I am gonna start doing a double or two over the next few weeks to 'bank' them incase we do take off to Cali. And if we don't go, I'll just have classes in the 'bank' and that ain't a bad thing :)