I've been posting a lot of stuff about mindfulness and meditation, but something that has been more of a consistent feature in my (mostly) daily life is yoga.
I love yoga, like a lot. I don't always practice every day. For the last two years I've been practicing more regularly. Which I think is a great thing. I've noticed my flexibility and balance improve a lot from practicing hatha yoga and flows. Which is amazing. In the last 3 or 4 months I've decided that I'd like to try and advance my practice further by incorporating more inversions and back bends. So whilst I use my hatha practice regularly still. I will normally finish my practice by honing in on postures like King Pigeon Pose, wheel pose, deepening my camel pose, forearm wheel pose, splits, and forearm stands. I've seen a lot of improvement in each of these postures
Even my bad side has come a long way!! Which I thought was never going to happen.
My splits is going to take some time and patience, it isn't great but it isn't bad either. I was practicing more before the wedding and was seeing some amazing results in a couple of months. Since I haven't been practicing my splits as often since I got married it has kind of relapsed a little bit.
But, I've been focusing more on my legs and my flexibility in my legs in recent days, joined a stretch class as part of the pole studio that I attend and even try to practice it against a wall, even in my forearm stands haha!
Granted these are somewhat more intermediate/advanced postures, I have noticed a lot of progress in different areas that I haven't quite been focusing as much on but are part of my regular practice and through practicing more advanced poses are helping me to perfect the "simpler" ones.
AND!!! Weirdly enough, King dancer isn't something I would ever really practice but have noticed since working on my back bends and more specifically king pigeon pose, that my flexibility in king dancer is getting much better!!
I've only ever been to 2 maybe 3 classes in my life. So for me to have progressed this much on my own is pretty impressive. Granted there are probably some postural areas that need some fine tuning or some work on. But that is where instagram comes in. I love to interact with like minded yogis who are able to help me improve my practice and help me to better my alignment with their advice. I just love it!
Sure it maybe isn't the same as a yoga instructor. But right now I don't have the money to go to regular yoga classes and pole classes. :) So I will stick to teaching myself for the time being :P
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AuthorI am a 25 year old nurse, who is trying to find herself. This blog will contain epiphanies I have, my yoga progress and other such things. Enjoy. :) Archives
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