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I’m Too Hyper to Slow Down for Yoga
By Christina | February 9, 2008
I love yoga although I didn’t always feel this way about it. There was a time when I was the Fitness Director for a fitness facility that I thought yoga was a wasted part of my Group Exercise budget. I went so far as to tell the yoga teachers they did not have to attend teacher meetings because they were not really a part of our department. I would attend yoga classes once in a while to be able to rate the instructors and gauge member satisfaction but it was all about how great I was doing compared to every one else even though I didn’t do yoga reguarly. When it was time for final relaxation or savasana all I could think of was “what a waste of time!” Okay, now that many of you are shaking your heads at all I have just said, let’s fast forward to where I am today.
I love yoga - any kind of yoga - power, Iyengar, Bikram, restorative… you name it, I love it. All yoga has an underlying commonality… the ability to let go and forget everything. I live for my children but when I am in a yoga class, I have no children. I am always multi-tasking, trying to squeeze 90 seconds out of each minute but in yoga, there is no time. I like to be productive at all moments of the day and yet in final relaxation when it seems as though nothing is happening, that’s when the most is happening inside of me. I am learning about me, what I really want, what really moves and motivates me, who I am. It sounds so intense and it is and yet all you need to do is let go.
There is easy yoga and hard yoga; fast yoga and slow yoga; yoga with props and yoga on the beach… find your niche and give it a couple of chances - the first is sure not going to be all I have described but if you keep trying it will be.
