Yoga

Yoga will, I think, help me in a variety of ways.  I think it will help work intrinsic muscles and provide good stretching and balance in a physical workout.  It will help structure my breathing, essential for emotional balance as well as physical performance.  Yoga will get me out and interacting with a variety of new people, and especially with people who are interested in their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.  And thus it will provide me with new challenges in interacting with people. 

Wednesdays yoga class was a very large class so everyone was crammed pretty close together.  I was early so I had the opportunity to visit with a number of other early attendees.  Some were talking about being from Minnesota so I jumped in on that conversation.  I remarked how interesting it was that so many folks in this region were originally from Minnesota.  Someone else asked the question of how many of those in the room are originally from Minnesota and everyone but one person raised their hand.  It was very interesting. 

Yoga has been stretching muscles that I have not been working in my daily hiking.  I've had additional challenges with various parts of my feet becoming sore, hamstrings and hips, of course.  At the end of Wednesdays program there was a man who was practicing next to me during guided meditation.  It was too close and I could not focus.  I started having images of my second ex-husband being there and I completely lost it.  I wanted to shout out but I didn't.  I haven't had a panic attack for a long time but I was very much on the verge of hyperventilating because of this incident.  The rest of my day, and the next were used in recovery.  I'm planning to go to yoga again this afternoon, as after a friend is having an art show in town.  I'm confident my experience this time will be better.  And I believe I will keep getting better while I focus on the three areas I am needing to fulfill by yoga - my mind-body-spirit balance.