Forward Bend
I know that I promised you that I would tell you all about my new studio in the big city this week but I had to tell you about my last day at the old studio.
You have to realize I am from old Scottish ancestry and we are known to be cheap!!!! Sorry no I mean TRIFTY!!! as my mom would say. I saw a really great deal for Mothers Day and thought now I can pay my mom back… hehehe. It was an awesome deal, $49.95 and you get a month of unlimited yoga and the mat and towel service. I am saving $50.00 for one month. Now that spoke too me and that is what I like to pay for gift and I also I get to pay back my mom…..hehehe. After all she was the one that bought me my first month (because the stress she said) and she has been saying that she should also go… But has made all kinds of excuses (now she has none). Yay!!!!
So to start it out right I gave her the gift before we headed to the big city but she wanted me to come alone with her for the first time. Like a fool I thought why not I have been going for three weeks. I should be able to handle this with some kind of dignity. Wrong!!!! We get there and they (they instructor) took a real liking to my mom…. And I really think the pretty instructor (skinny witch) still remembered the phone incident as she asked if I had left my phone outside….. So there you go I have a really red face even before we start, and my mother is giggling like schoolgirl. How embarrassing!!!!!!
I now have the breathing exercise down and the half moon is ok my arms aren’t straight yet but they are just about there. I see the improvement and isn’t that what you want. I still feel such a relief when we go into a back bend, just changing your arm position…. Then we go into the forward bend…..
Well I can’t grab my ankles no matter how hard I try I have to grab my calves just to try and stretch forward. I glance over and guess what my mom is grabbing her ankles and bending forward.
Oh my!!!! I am hating life at that moment my mom is doing better than me… Yes, I know that we are not suppose to measure are performance to any one else. But this is her first time, and she is my mom!!!! Not fair at all!!!!
Well the rest of the class was no better I struggled the whole way through as usual and she just breezed through it…. Oh ya, she was sweaty but she got all the way through with out resting…..
Later when I got home I realized that I have had ten years of sitting behind a desk, writing…. Not doing hardly any exercise and she has had 10 years of retirement exercising every day…. So no, wonder she is in better shape than I am….
Needless to say she loves, loves her gift….. In fact when her month runs out she has just decided that she will be taking a year membership out. As, with me her arthritis doesn’t hurt as much and she feels a happy tiredness.
Illustration done by Jeanne Marie
Backward Bend
Well here I am again and it is week three and we are moving this week: HELP!!! Yes as I said in my first blog we are moving from a very small town to a very large town and this is the week…. But it is at the end of the week so I can get in three classes.
I have decided that I will do three classes this week, as I have been taking it easy on myself (or you could say I have been a little lazy). My instructors have noticed that I am coming fairly regular so that is ok. They are helping me do the exercises just a little easier… Which is good as I am not at all flexible… So today we are going to talk about the backward bend.
The Backward bend is right after the half moon and is classified as part of the half moon, backward bend and forward bend pose. So you do the half moon and when your arms are falling off and only then. The instructor tells you to drop your head back and bring your arms back. Oh YA, I forgot, you are to be bending your back as while. But you are so relieved that you really don’t have to hold your arms up any more that there (I swear there is a big SIGH of relief) all around the room. Or maybe I am just imagining it. Hehehe
I am thinking this is awesome I can do this when there is a phone ringing somewhere close. OH NO, there a phone in class….
There isn’t supposed to be a phone!!!!! It is still ringing!!!!
Oh no what is my phone doing in class!!!!! I really don’t remember bringing it into class!!!! And it is ringing!!!!!
What am I going to do!!!!! Can I melt into the floor!!!! Oh ya, I am melting and top of that I am SO EMBARRASSED!!!!
I dash out of the class (not suppose to do that) with the teacher yelling at me (didn’t think that little thing had such a big voice) and I didn’t even look at who was on the phone I just turned it off, and threw it into my locker…. Then dashed back into the class….
Such a big NO!!!! NO!!!! But really the teacher was really nice she just asked if the phone was turned off and that I would remember to not bring into class next time….
How embarrassing…. Oh well the rest of the class went well, and I am going to get my mom a Gift Certificate and a Mat and Towel Special for mothers day. It is only $49.95 for a $62.00 value… Will give her some of her own medicine…hehehe.
See you next week when I check in and I have my new studio in the big city.
Cartoons are done by Jeanne Maie.
