a year of yoga

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I haven’t figured out how to track physical changes. I’m open to suggestion. Eventually I’ll post the stuff that really scares me to share - my weight and measurements - but for now, you have to be content knowing my abs are stronger today than yesterday.

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I’m doing better this week. I didn’t manage yoga on Monday, but practiced for an hour and fifteen minutes today. I want to make more time for reflection, so I can tell you a story about my week instead of just make a check-in post to say how I’m doing or what I did. I’m sure this thing will evolve with time.

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I’ve been “too busy” to start this project for over a year now. Something’s got to give. I hope it’s the rock hard tension knots in my backside. Those hurt!

Show Notes

The yoga DVDs I’m using to start off my year of yoga are Priscilla Patrick’s Priscilla’s Yoga Stretches, available at yogaone.com. I’m not selling them or being sponsored by them. I received them as a gift, and you can expect my honest review of how I like them as this project progresses.

Apologies for the crappy audio. Someone is borrowing my lapel mic right now.

Music credit: Meandering in the Sun by Brian Bochicchio of seraphicpanoply.com

How’s it going so far? Don’t ask.

I’m off to an incredibly slow start. I’ve managed to clear floor space in my office so I have enough room to practice yoga, and I won’t have to disturb anyone’s sleep to do it. Tomorrow I’ll post another video - this is just a quick update. It’s an especially busy week for me. On top of normal - teaching five classes and working on freelance projects - I presented Show in a Box to the local web design/development community last night, and am getting ready for a road trip to Tucson this weekend. Have I done any yoga yet? No. But at least it’s on my mind. That’s a start. I *have* to do it once this week, hopefully twice, and that frequency has to go up next week.

I did learn about a fun web site last night and I have decided to use it to track my moods daily for this project. It’s called nehmehyeh. I think eventually I’ll be able to display my mood calendar here on this site, but for now you can see how my days are going on my nehmehyeh page, also listed under Links in my sidebar.

I’m not going to beat myself up for not getting off to a hot start. This is that resistance to change thing. I’ll get it eventually. Video tomorrow. And if you have suggestions for car yoga, I’m all ears.

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I’m spending one year dedicated to changing habits and behavior. I’ll be exploring and documenting the health benefits of yoga. I’m inviting you to share my journey of overcoming resistance to change by giving me suggestions and feedback.

I had to deal with a tremendous amount of internal resistance to even launch this project. There’s a loud, annoying inner voice constantly screaming that no one will care or want to see this, and that this project will be an embarrassing failure on many levels. So I’m slapping down that voice, and risking it. Because ultimately, I want to see what will happen more than I fear screwing it up, and I’ll never know if I never try.

I’ll post more specifics later this week. I’m still figuring out how it will all work. Honestly I expect things to evolve as I go along, and I’m okay with things being a little vague at the start.

Music credit: Meandering in the Sun by Brian Bochicchio of seraphicpanoply.com