Bodies Are Confusing

Lately, I have not been feeling so great about my body.

Working a job where you sit for most of the day, combined with a cold Canadian winter where you want to stay cozy indoors has led to an issue with shorts and skirts fitting this spring & summer.  Boo and urns.

Since I generally do more running around in the summer months, I'm sure that at least some of these items of clothing will eventually come back into rotation, but for the moment, my jerkbrain is making me feel kinda yucky about the whole thing.

However, that being said, my body still manages to surprise and amaze me.

The last two yoga classes I attended, I managed

a) to get into wheel with no assistance

b) stay up in wheel for the length of time the instructor was having the class do wheel/bridge!!

So, while my butt might be having issues with wanting to fit into some of my comfy summer clothes, my core, shoulder and arm muscles are doing an awesome job of reminding me that I can be strong like bull.

I hope that you are feeling awesome about your body, or at least have something to appreciate about it.

Finally, A Reason to Use the Nope Octopus in a Post

I made it to yoga class for the third week in a row this morning!  I even managed to get up into wheel pose for all of 2 seconds before my shoulder muscles turned into the Nope Octopus.

I had been going to a class off & on before the Christmas holidays, but after the first week of December, I completely fell off the wagon.  By the first week of January, my body was angry with me for not keeping up on my self-care.  I'm really glad that I've found a handful of classes that I'll be able to attend regularly again.

Yoga Class Reasons

Here are the reasons I think I need to start going out to yoga classes again, instead of mostly doing my home practice:

1.  It is really, really hard to do pretty much any yoga pose with a one year old hanging off your knee & saying "Mamamamamamamama!"

That's mostly it really.