Ok, I have a confession to make, I’m pretty sure I suck at yoga! Sure I tweet about it, and I like it, but I’m not very good at it. When I realized that I wasn’t very good at it I stopped doing it for a while because it was discouraging. But after losing 25 lbs I realized that in order to lose the rest of the weight it was going to take some serious excersising to do it.

So I decided to start doing yoga again. I’ve always enjoyed yoga but I’ve never really taken it seriously in the past. Sure I would drop in on a class from time to time, but mostly I did yoga at home. Doing yoga at home is nice but it can be hard to push yourself when it’s just you alone in your living room. I realized I needed to find a studio where I can regularly attend classes and really start to take my practice seriously (even if I still think I suck at it). Last night I went to a class at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, it’s only a block away from my office so it was convinent to go there after work.

The class was a basics class (which I thought I could handle, but I was totally sweating 10 minutes in) and it was an hour and a half long. The instuctor said something that really struck a cord with me, he was talking about doing inversions:

“it’s kind of like dating, you just have to keep trying it, keep courting it, until you get it”.

I realized that I was afraid to really try most yoga poses, I knew I couldn’t do them, so why even try. Well if you try a little bit more every class, eventually you will get there.

I bought a week long unlimited pass to Laughing Lotus, so we will see how I feel after the week is up. Today I am sore, but I’m going to stick with it and go to class again tonight.