I'm lucky enough to have some of my guy friends keeping an eye on this blog as my Accountability Partners. Spoiler alert guy-friends, I'm gonna talk about 'female problems.'
Hot Yoga Challenge: Day 13 -yeah, in a row!
So my dear Aunt Flow came to visit me last night. She's sticking around for a couple of days...you still with me guys? With Flow came that throbbing low back ache that we woman know and hate so well. I usually use Flow's visit to bow out of any exercise. I told myself: not today. I had the day off, but it took me until 6pm to pep talk myself into driving to the Hot Yoga studio and enter the room. The instructor told me to "back off and take it easy" today.
I listened.
I paid attention to my body -specifically to the pain. About ten minutes in, I noticed that the pain was gone. For the next 80 minutes, I kept paying attention, kept looking for the pain, but it had left my body. I felt fantastic! I still heeded the instructor's words to take it easy. Ofcourse, thirty minutes after the final savasana, once out of class and feeling so good, I wasn't paying attention to the absent pain anymore and the low throb came back! But that was still a good lesson.
Embrace what hurts. Pay attention to it. And it just might go away...for some time.
TAI CHI UPDATE
This was not a good week for me in the Tai Chi department. But like I said in my last post, I need to have a pair of eyes on me. I've scheduled some time with the local Shaolin Guru. In the meantime, I'm going to try again and jump back into Yang...maybe I'll take out a dagger or my sword. Playing with the weapons might motivate me.
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