Stress Relief

 This week I wanted to try out stress relief yoga. Yoga is something physical, spiritual, calming, and so much more. It's a broad term. Anytime I'm stressed I like to go to the gym or play a sport to get my mind off of things and just take the frustration out on working out. I'm curious to know how yoga will do that for me or the question is would I get into the state of stress relief with this yoga? 

Beginning of the class there was nice calming music in the background and the instructor giving instructions. We started off on laying on our stomach flat and our head turned to one side. I closed my eyes and began to inhale and exhale calming my mind, my body and loosening everything in my body. Then we did a movement where we bring our head to our knees and extending out arms out and just controlling our breathing closing our eyes. The next movement which I was surprised I could do. One leg would be extended out and the other leg came across your stomach and lay you top half of your body on your leg if you can, I was not fully able to do it but I tried my best. Closed our eyes and just inhaled and exhaled. 

In my conclusion of this class, I feel like I was not really there to fully experience and be in the state of mind of 100% relaxation and stress relief. I definitely felt relaxed especially because of the breathing the closure of the eyes and relaxing music. I think the reason I did not feel as much was that I'm very new to this and I'm just learning it would take lots of practice and time for me to get where I would like to be. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 2

 This week I wanted to take a more challenging yoga class. I wanted to see what I was capable of and what I'm not capable of. Also, I don't have the greatest flexibility but that's something I wanted to work on. This class was 30-40 minutes long and called advanced Vinyasa yoga flow. This yoga dealt with core, leg and balancing. We began with a laying position on our backs. She told us to bring our knees to the chest. We did small motions of moving our hips right and legs and doing the same with our ankles. The next motion was like a situp but we kept our knees to our chest and just brought the head up to the knees. I did this motion a few times and it burned my core I was working up a sweat. I'm not someone that's flexible especially because I have big legs. This motion was to stretch out our hamstrings. So our legs would just go straight up while your back is still laying. I could not get my legs to go all the way up straight it had a significant bend to it. The m
Read more

Weekly Practice Journal

 This is my first time experiencing yoga. I, unfortunately, couldn't attend a live class due to my schedule this week, I searched up a video on youtube for yoga beginners. The title of the video was "10-minute morning yoga for beginners. We first started off sitting in a traditional seated manner such as crossing your legs on a mat. Then we started to place my hands on my knees breathing in and out through my nose. She said to pull your chest forward and lift your chin up and to do a big inhale and exhale to round the spine. She said to tuck my chin and inhale open chest forward chin up and to exhale to round cave my chest chin down and come back to the center . We did this motion a few times and moved on to the next motion. We started to reach our hands out past my sides so my fingertips barely touch the ground and to reach my left arm up and overhead as your right palm flattens down on the ground. We did a big inhale and exhale to switch sides, where the left hand comes down
Read more

Blog 11

I had a Full Body Yoga class taught by Sarah Beth Yoga today. It was a thirty-minute video on Youtube. Working on my versatility and power was the emphasis. She expressed doing the asanas while breathing with any shift as well. I also wanted to mimic the sacred space and allow a great space of breathing. I decided to go to my balcony where the sun was shining and there were bird chirping, plants around me. I could taste the fresh clean air going in my body.
Read more