4-23-11

One thing that I am noticing at this point is how little of the outside environment I am noticing during practice now. When I first started I noticed every time the song would change, I would look around and notice what everyone else was doing. Now I am so much more focused on what I am doing, the rest of the environment just kind of fades away. The only thing I listen for now, is the voice of Alice or Jenn. The rest of the time is spent focusing on maintaining consistent breathing, and squaring up my hips, proper shoulder rotation, making sure my sit bone is tucked, or a variety of other things. I listen for the cues given by Jenn or Alice, because many times there are things that I am forgetting to do. The most common being, breathing. Somehow breathing always gets lost in the midst of setting up into the posture. Then once I feel I have the posture down I remember to breath. My flexibility at this point has improved a little, but not drastically. Going once a week isn't going to make a huge improvement, but I have been trying to concentrate on my stretching after I work out as well, which has helped. Maybe once school is over I can make Yoga a more consistent part of my routine.

p.s. I was a little bit more well rested this week than last week, but I was still pretty exhausted, and fell asleep during shavasana as usual.