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My very first outdoor practice
Jun. 18th, 2009 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckRodney Yee: Power Yoga Total Body yesterday morning.
I got my act together to take my sunrise yoga outside for the sunrise yesterday (for the very first time!) and I'm now completely spoiled. Of course yesterday's weather was possibly perfect. Rain was coming in, the breeze was up, the humidity was down, and it was just short of being too cool to be comfortable. I started out in a sweatshirt that I shed after about ten minutes.
It was wonderful! I can see now that I will want to be outside as often as weather permits. The back deck was great. I did the Yee disc because I know it so well. I put my little tv by the outdoor outlet, but I didn't need to *watch* the TV, just get the instrutor prompts. (I have started to adventure into practicing on my own, but when I do I tend to rush. I find it very relaxing just to do what someone else tells me to do, plus I know I am much better about staying in poses and breathing correctly for the vinyasa.)
I solved my problem with the hard surface by putting a large folded beach towel under the back third of my mat. The deck was rough enough that I didn't have problems with slipping. That let me roll over my toes and also jump back without much discomfort.
Biggest problems - the deck planking is not exactly 100% even. So it was weird to have that surface under my feet on some of the poses. Also, the one beach towel wasn't the solution for discomfort in my heels for the seated postures. But I have already started thinking about the way I would use other folded towels as pads. It should work fine once I find the right spots for them.
It was so wonderful, with slowly rising light, the wind, the birds singing, the sursurration of leaves, the smell of the approaching rain. During reclined leg stretch, I could see the clouds scudding across the sky and the birds flying overhead.
I will never want to do my practice in the basement again.
I got my act together to take my sunrise yoga outside for the sunrise yesterday (for the very first time!) and I'm now completely spoiled. Of course yesterday's weather was possibly perfect. Rain was coming in, the breeze was up, the humidity was down, and it was just short of being too cool to be comfortable. I started out in a sweatshirt that I shed after about ten minutes.
It was wonderful! I can see now that I will want to be outside as often as weather permits. The back deck was great. I did the Yee disc because I know it so well. I put my little tv by the outdoor outlet, but I didn't need to *watch* the TV, just get the instrutor prompts. (I have started to adventure into practicing on my own, but when I do I tend to rush. I find it very relaxing just to do what someone else tells me to do, plus I know I am much better about staying in poses and breathing correctly for the vinyasa.)
I solved my problem with the hard surface by putting a large folded beach towel under the back third of my mat. The deck was rough enough that I didn't have problems with slipping. That let me roll over my toes and also jump back without much discomfort.
Biggest problems - the deck planking is not exactly 100% even. So it was weird to have that surface under my feet on some of the poses. Also, the one beach towel wasn't the solution for discomfort in my heels for the seated postures. But I have already started thinking about the way I would use other folded towels as pads. It should work fine once I find the right spots for them.
It was so wonderful, with slowly rising light, the wind, the birds singing, the sursurration of leaves, the smell of the approaching rain. During reclined leg stretch, I could see the clouds scudding across the sky and the birds flying overhead.
I will never want to do my practice in the basement again.