I really like having yoga as part of my exercise life. It wasn’t always this way. I remember meeting an instructor at a party when in my 20s. I told her that I was too uptight/impatient of a person. I feel like her expression in response to that fun fact was a combination of well, what am I supposed to do with that? and Sounds like you really need yoga.
Through the first half of this year, I did 30 minutes of yoga nearly every day. Interestingly, I feel like this may have been a bit too much yoga? I liked how I felt during yoga, but I felt a litttle achy in certain spots as if I was on the wrong side of the muscle tension/relaxation divide.
Then my Summer project exploded and I used almost all of that time for the work.
Now, I’m back to about 3, sometimes 4, times a week. This is a good cadence! Enough stretching that I feel good from a mobility standpoint, but I have time for other exercise.
I currently do Peloton yoga classes, 30 minutes with a rare 45. I like Kristin McGee and Anna Greenberg as co-best. I will also do an occasional Nico class. Everyone else is not totally my jam, so they don’t enter the rotation.
Kristin will be forever be my favorite. Anna (and Denis) are my other go-tos.
I don’t have Pelaton but I have made daily yoga a thing, beginning Jan of ‘24. It really helps my back and such, since my job is so sedentary.
My step mom is SO type A, and yoga helps keep her grounded. She started yoga as a way to help her with her grief, I think, after her first husband died in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. She moved up, became an instructor, and eventually opened her own (very successful) studio in Portland. She’s retired now, but still her daily yoga practice helps to center her.
I really need to work yoga back into my routine. I’ve been having pretty bad back/hip/IT band pain and I know yoga would really help loosen everything up. Plus, my flexibility SUCKS.