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Namaste

Downward Dog

Yoga hurts.

Forget what all those hippie types say about increased flexibility and mind/body connection – it just plain hurts.

We start our days at the retreat at 7 am with 2 hours of meditation and yoga. It kinda goes down like this:

our alarm clock

  • Sitting in lotus position, meditate and breathe. Clear your mind. Try to think of a better mantra than ‘Brella’. Focus! Meditate! If your mind starts to wander, bring it back!
  • Salute the sun about 50 times. Curse the plank and the downward dog.
  • In-hellation. Ex-hellation. In-hellation. Ex-hellation.
  • Balance yourself on one foot and perform random yoga moves for painfully long periods of time.
  • Twist your body into pretzel-like formations.
  • Look over at Brendan and mouth ‘sorry’ because this whole yoga-thing was my idea.
  • Actually start to appreciate the downward dog as a break from the other poses.
  • In-hellation. Ex-hellation. In-hellation. Ex-hellation.
  • Break into child-pose (curled up in a ball and resting). Hope no one is looking.
  • Hamstrings crying out.  Why does this hurt so much?
  • Finally! our favourite pose: Savasana! It’s the final resting position where we lie on our backs and do nothing.

Of course this all gets repeated in the evening, for another 1.5 hours.

OK, in all truth,we have enjoyed the yoga and the stretching does do wonders for the body. In shorter doses, this is probably something we could really like.

 Mel B

Siva, give me strength!



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