Every new day is a new beginning!
Today is my yoga practice day. Yes – sometimes it would be easy to say “Hey! I don’t want to do this today” but I have only ever done that once in four years. I felt so guilty, that I vowed never to avoid going again.
I started yoga over four years ago with the express idea of losing weight – I needed some form of exercise and I thought I would give it a try. I didn’t know much about it – I had only viewed it briefly on TV. I knew nothing about it inter-grating the body, mind and spirit. How would I know that it would lead me further on the path of self improvement?
My first yoga practice could well have been my last, except my teacher was insistent that I return the following week. I could not do one asana (position) , my flexibility was non existent and as for the breathing – how could you hold a position and breathe as a yogi at the same time? Yoga breathing is very rhythmical – the amount of time it takes you to breath in, is exactly the same time it takes you breathe out. I was hopeless but one thing I knew – even though I could not do what some of the others were doing, I made myself a promise and I was determined to practice in my own time and improve.
Next post I will tell you how I did it.