Active Yoga

Thursdays yoga experience was surprisingly enjoyable. I was able to focus on myself instead of the people in the room, and for the first time in the practice, I was able to stay in difficult poses while still absorbed in my own thoughts. I felt much stronger this time, and not just in my body, but in the control I had over my own thoughts. When my mind would drift to the person next to me, I was able to quickly return to myself, and when my mind would shift to how much it bothered me to stay in down dog for X amount of seconds, I was able to quickly remember why I was doing it. The first few times we did active yoga, my focus was on the clock and the faces that surrounded me, but this time, it was about me, my thoughts, and my body. Afterwards, I felt like a new person. I felt like I was replenished and motivated to to whatever I needed to do. And although I did sweat a little bit, I almost felted cleaner then I did when we began.



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