What I Think About When I'm Doing Yoga...

Ever read Huraki Murakami's What I Talk When I Talk About Running....? Well strangely enough this book popped into my head during yoga this morning which underscores the theme of this blog and perhaps continues with my Turning Japanese mentality/persona as of late.

I will be very honest here. Try as I may, try as I might, I do not love yoga. Progress has been made in that I don't dislike it or dread it as before. However, Not ready to say like yet. It's green beans, I know it is good for me, consumption and toleration mode. And I do it now more than ever with a modified EG HM training plan which calls for at least weekly yoga.

Needless to say I don't get zen and have a very hard time staying mentally focused on just yoga or even as having yoga as the primary thing on my mind. It actually has the opposite effect. As yoga is generally not pain inducing (like stellar) or leaving me breathless(like a run or spin class), I have too much free space on my brain and it goes into hyper thought. Thus, among the what-seems-like-a-thousand-thoughts, up popped the idea for the blog.

Before I dive in and overshare, let me ask you. What do you think about during yoga? My perception is that those other yoga attendees are really listening, focusing on their breath, sensing their bodies and feeling some zone of enlightenment ...or chi (see even talking about chi, gives me thoughts about Kung Fu Panda 3 chi!)

Other than this blog idea, here is the catalog of the thoughts I remember during today's yoga session:

• I am so tired, why can't I wake up, even after stellar. Maybe the coffee I drank did not have caffeine.
• Why do I keep wearing these capris when they make me look so chunky.
• If you can hold in your stomach the rest of class, it looks much better.
• OMG, we are going to plank again. My shoulders hurt from stellar. Losing feeling in my hands.
• Wow, that Zelda, tries all the advanced poses and moves as suggested by the instructor. Lift my knee? No way. But go, Zelda,! I am cheering you on across the room!
• Ugghh I feel terrible. I have been feeling better not drinking wine. I was on a 4 day no wine streak prior to last night and feeling groovy. One glass last night...I am miserable. Or maybe I am getting what Zelda's daughter had.
• If wine makes me feel miserable, what should I drink instead in Seaside? Beer, okay some of the time but so heavy. Light cocktail but what can one really drink in quantities and not be sick or stupid. Might have to ask the girls.
• Stare, stare, stare at the same spot so you do not fall over in this tree pose.
• When can I go grocery shopping today? Also need gas in the PT.
• Downward dogging again. I wonder if this is supposed to be comfortable or provide some benefit. No matter how I move my feet, I am just not enjoying the 20th DD. Oh thank goodness, she gave us the child's pose option this round.
• I really need to find ways to be more engaged and present with my kids. Make every minute count.
• Ujjayi breathing makes me thirsty.
• I cannot wait to get a pedicure, in desperate need.
• Thought she said the left leg but now I am confused. Half the class is folding their left leg under and have the class right, how am I supposed to figure out what leg we are on?
• Turn this way, yoga class member so I can see your watch and determining how many minutes are left of this class.
• Ughh, I hope I can feel energetic and Spark Joy in the rest of my closet. It is going to so slow but meanwhile I have to clean out that garage, it's bugging me.
• Oh yes! In comes, Betty with our cold lavender towels. Getting close to the end. Betty is in such good shape!
• This corpse pose is my favorite in the class. Do you think they will mind if I take a nap?

Is this just me in YTH (Yoga Thought Hyperdrive)? Maybe a few more sessions and I will find my focus, chi and zen. Guess, worse case scenario is that it gives me time to think of more blog posts.

Yours in Yoga,
Sadie