Crow!

It's totally amazing to me what regular weekly attendance at Kula has done for my yoga practice. In fact I wouldn't have even said I had a practice prior to January of this year. Sure I'd attend a class here and there, sometimes at my gym (weak sauce), every once in awhile at the Bikram studio in my hood and sometimes in our building's gym where a yoga instructor from a local studio provides complimentary classes every Wednesday. I knew the poses by name and what I should be doing, I knew how to breathe through my nose only (contradictory to what happens while running), I knew all about lengthening the sides of my neck, breathing into my right lung, etc. but I didn't regularly do any of it. And with yoga, like many other things in life, you improve the more you practice. Yoga is a lifetime's worth of learning, honing, improving and deepening one's practice. And so last night when I got up into crow pose and held there for many more breaths than EVER before, I knew I actually had a practice and it sure did feel good!


maybe I can get Jason to snap a picture of me in crow - whatcha say J? :)

And another big bonus, yoga makes my running work a lot better too. The ongoing pain as my left leg continues to try and succeed from the rest of my body is oh so much more deal-able with yoga in my life.