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Re: The great yoga adventure

Hi @Phoenix_Rising cheering for you and sending you lots of motivational thoughts

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Have fun @CheerBear 😊❤️

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I survived and made it back with time for a qick post and a change of clothes.

Today was a completely different experience. This class was much more like a mindfulness class but with some stretching and movement involved. It was also all about maximising choice and control so there was no direction but lots of gentle suggestion instead. I feel very different at the moment to how I did last class. I like the idea of learning how to stand on my head and build strength and flexibility that the other class may offer, but I also really like the idea of learning how to tune in to my body more and be ok with it. It seems like a really important thing to do.

I think I'll sit with this for a bit and then decide what class to do.

I'm glad I went though, and proud I pushed myself out and to it.

Hope you're going ok @Phoenix_Rising. Thinking of you lots today.

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Found a stash of motivation and you-can-do-it-bits and it'll-feel-possible-once-you-start-pieces for you both @CheerBear @Phoenix_Rising 🙂

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Terrific stuff @CheerBear

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for cheering us on @soul @TheVorticon @Ant7 @Former-Member. I am about to get ready and head out for episode two of the great yoga adventure.

@CheerBear HOORAY for making it to episode two!!!!!! It does sound like both classes have their benefits in different ways. Are they ongoing classes or are they a set course for so many weeks? My class is ongoing. It was pretty low intensity last week so I'm not sure how advanced they get, or whether when I'm ready, I will have to ask about another class. I really want to get help with standing on my head because even though I seem to have a weird natural talent for doing it, I'm a little worried that I'm not doing it right and thus risking injury.

Guess what? While (A) was at her computer sorting out our next appointment at the end of our session today, I did the whole put my legs over my head thing and touched the armrest of the lounge (where my head was) with my feet. I was like "look what I can do (A)" and she turned around and responded with "how the hell do you do that so easily." Hee hee. I wonder if the new psychologist on Wednesday will mind if I do that on her couch, if she has one. I do tend to move around a lot...it feels totally normal to me to swing around on the couch and put my legs up perpendicular on the wall or something. I guess maybe this might explain my quirky flexibility. Smiley LOL

Anyway, I have to go to episode two...

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I'm scratching my head trying to work out what that actually is, and picturing you looking a bit like a human pretzel @Phoenix_Rising!

Hope episode two is good for you and looking forward to hearing about it later! And go you for doing the opposite too 🙂

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I think @Phoenix_Rising looks a bit like this when doing yoga

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Hello my awesome cheer squad: @soul @TheVorticon @Ant7 @Former-Member,

Well I survived episode two. Hee hee @soul, I don't look quite like your picture when I'm doing yoga...although I FELT like I was that tangled up at some points in the class tonight. Sometimes I feel like episode two of an adventure is more tricky than episode one because people seem to assume you will know what you're doing in episode two. Oh well, whenever I got into a muddle I just looked at my duck socks and they made me smile. Smiley Happy

@CheerBear I think it is very wise that your place doesn't have mirrors. I was struggling a bit tonight when we were doing stuff facing the mirrors. It made me feel super self-conscious. I have the flexibility, but I definitely don't have the co-ordination and I felt like an idiot when I couldn't keep up with where my left and right arms and legs were supposed to be going. Oh well, I guess it takes more than two classes to get the hang of it.

We did awesome today @CheerBear, doing the opposite action to what our big feelings were telling us to do. We are well on track to fix our puddled brains. I super can't wait for @soul to join the adventure (and I'm secretly hoping that @TheVorticon will at some point too). Smiley Happy