As I turned the page between chapter 2 and 3, I immediately wished for anything else. Sophie lays out a 20 minute (sorry Kiah but I'm stealing some of your formatting techniques) yoga program to be preformed every day.
I don't exercise everyday, hell I barely exercise twice a week. This winter semester I enrolled in a modern ballet class to force myself. The fact that it's modern ballet is just another slacker term too because Maria (my teacher) isn't that worried about getting the poses/dance moves exactly correct, unless you're at the bar (ballet bar). Though I must commend her for her everlasting patience because I'm not a very coordinated individual.
I am glad that it's yoga, and that I've already taken yoga prior to this project. Learning yoga from a book and/or a video is extremely dangerous and should not be done.
As I'm reading this chapter she explains how to preform a pose, how to move into the next pose, and provides a detailed sketch to what the pose should look like. Cue the visual flashbacks. If I hadn't already taken yoga, I would be preforming all of them wrong. There is a feel for a pose that one must learn. And what it feels like when you aren't doing the pose right. Listen to your body. If something feels off, 99.9% of the time it means that your doing something wrong. Which can potentially cause massive amount of pain or screw up a bodily function that has no reversal.
Will I actually be doing the 20 min program everyday? Probably not, but as of now I have every intention of trying to exercise on the days I don't have modern ballet. I'm using the fact that in modern ballet one of our warm-ups is two sets of Sun Salutations, as a semi-reasonable excuse.
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