Yoga
So, quite a few people I know have taken up yoga in recent months. My friend D, plus my sister and now my niece. Once D started taking it I thought about trying a class at the same yoga centre he goes to — Rama Lotus. They offer a lot of different types of yoga and you can do classes on a drop in basis. But then I thought that that might be too much. I could just picture all the hard core yoga types in their louloulemon clothing, and then . . . me.
So, on a whim I decided to check my local community centre, and sure enough they offered a Yoga I — Basics class. So I signed up. Tonight was my first class.
It was good. Hard, but good. Probably a bit harder on me than the others, given my Cerebral Palsy. I didn’t mention it to the instructor — I wanted to see how it would be for me if I could just try it like everyone else first. There were a few poses where he tried to help me get into better form, like the downward dog when he tried to get me to straighten my arms more but they just wouldn’t. Because, well, they don’t always go perfectly straight, no matter how hard I try. And I couldn’t do the tree pose on my own. I needed to hold onto the wall. But you know what, that’s okay.
Because even though it was hard, even though I didn’t do it as well as everyone else, at least I did it.
I’m looking forward to next week.