Sunday, September 25, 2011

Sharing is Caring

This past week my practice has actually consisted not only of studying solo but practicing yoga with my friend! After coming back from dinner one night, we went back to my place to grab some books for a long night of studying. We ended up playing jump rope with a Hookah hose and stretching. She is an athlete and sometimes finds herself sore and tense so we did some poses. After our impromptu school girl moment she complained of her calfs and back giving her some trouble. Thus commenced our yoga session for the night. Restorative supine poses, poses that stretch the calf and feet (sitting on our legs and feet). She didn't like those AT ALL! We also did some backward bends. Her favorite was cobra (she WOULD NOT stop hissing). We ended with downward facing dog; a pose I showed her a few days prior. She was still having trouble keeping her legs straight but ml are miles right? After leaving my place to study, we were pretty productive that night if I do say so myself. Yoga alone is nice, very reflective and centering. Yoga with her was not as contemplative, but it was nice to see her improve, and leave feeling a little more loose than she was hours before.

4 comments:

  1. Yoga by yourself is nice and contemplative. I've found trying out poses in front of my roommates is fun as well, because not only are they impressed, when they try it, it's pretty cool because we all mutually benefit from doing awesome stretches like legs up the wall while studying!

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  2. Yeah. I like doing yoga with my friends. Lots of laughs and positive communal energy. Chenise should be careful though! Knowing her, she'd get hurt! Poor baby!

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  3. I love this. I think it is great that you can pull and impromptu yoga session with your friend. I am also impressed that you remembered enough about the poses to know which one to do in order to help the problem your friend was having. Look at you.....you is be a yoga instructor before you know it. :)

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  4. Hahaha thanks Boo. Not really I just remembered Dr. Schultz mentioning that in class! I'm just glad I could help her in some way! Yay Yoga ha.

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