New Year Yoga

Yup... it's a new year offiically... January 4 and a Monday... a new work week... a new year... a new leaf to turn over. I have made the committment with myself that I am going to do yoga every morning... I find that the stretches and the moves are really helping my hips and it is so much more fulfilling to go through life without pain than groaning everytime I bend over. So... there is the yoga... which is really quite simple and basic... maybe I'll even go out and take a course or something. Right now, it's just the yoga cards and me... and doign the moves as best I can do them... A few years ago, I probably would have run screaming in the other direction from the idea of doing yoga... Yoga is bad you know... one of those New Age things! I remember in BC, one school district wanted the kids to all learn yoga and there was a huge uproar from concerned parents who thought this meant that their kids would be learning buddhism and doing "om" things and getting led down the garden path. Myself, I think kids doing yoga could be the best things going for them! They are extremely flexible to begin with, and doing yoga does help to keep you flexible! By the time you reach my age, the flexibility of youth is gone and it's a lot of groaning and disbelief at how tight the muscles are and how stiff I am in the mornings... So, yoga could help with that! I notice a difference already. Early on I had given up hope of every mastering the Spinal Twist move... at least on my left side. The right side wasn't too bad, but if I tried it on the left side I just fell over. My body would not move/bend that way!! And now... I can do it!! Mind you, the Hero move is still an impossibility for me... but I do have hope that one day I will master it. So... I am opening myself up to other spiritual and physical practices... learning that I don't have to be scared of things that I don't understand or don't know about!