The new YWA September calendar with daily short Yoga video sessions popped into our mailboxes yesterday, so here is our virtual workout space all prepared and ready for the start in a couple of days.
Adriene emphasises in her email that the act of resetting is a process. And with September’s Reset, it looks like it’s full of mindful and in the average shorter practices by the looks of it.
Looks good to me, as I’ve found last month’s practice sometimes a bit too strenuous, and that in a month which for me has not been quite as smooth as I’d like. But my pigeons are now recognisable, my toe stands emerging with the help of a big block, my planks slowly getting stronger. I’m not even mentioning extended child’s pose as it is now a really relaxing pose for me! But I know there is still a long way to go to even reach ‘average’, so a reset month to relax a bit more into Yoga sounds great.
As Adriene wrote in her email: “Things don’t always shift or reveal themselves in a blink. Reset is a process.”
And if you are just joining us, big WELCOME to you and any new Virtual Workout Buddies! The daily practice of YWA calendar is perfect to get started with Yoga.
And feel free to - as Adriene says - “find what feels good”, meaning if your knees feel too sensitive, amend that Child’s Pose. And if you find full planks are the stuff of nightmares, rather do half planks than full ones. I did for six month and am actually starting to enjoy planks! (I know, right ?!) And definitely get creative with props.
Here is a hopefully helpful post about YOGA props.
★ Here was my initial large collection of props, many of which I do not need anymore, but I certainly did in the beginning: healthunlocked.com/strength...
★ And if you want to see what last month’s Virtual Workout Room looked like, here the one for August : healthunlocked.com/strength...
Upwards, crow-wards and down dog-wards to this months practice!
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Day 1 - Head and Heart Reset: 😃😃😃Day One!!! Lovely 24 min practice, sun salute, lunges, planks (and I could hold them!) warriors and cross legged stretches. Mmmhhhh 😋😃
Day 2 - Yoga for new beginnings: This lovely 17 min session must have been day one for the January 30 day TRUE calendar, and is so invitingly lovely and relaxing and amendable that it makes me want to do the whole TRUE.
And hubby, sitting on his heels so easily, looks like this über-Yogi, all calm, bendy, and healthy. Mind you, when I told him that he fell over laughing, as he certainly did not feel like that. 😂
Day 3 - Yoga for a dull moment: Did this 13 min diddy in my lunchtime break, short and sweet. Stretches, mountain poses, forward folds, lunge stretch - but gently slow and nice - and wild thing, where I kept my knees on the ground as doing a transition with half height blocks seemed too unstable. But even a half wild thing with knees on blanket feels like an awesome stretch! Wild!
Day 4 - Yoga for Stress Management: I did this 32 min session late this evening, as somehow I was too tired throughout the day (having probably broken a world record … see healthunlocked.com/bridgeto... 😏💭🏆) but this was a really great, de-stressing and relaxation session that relied on slow stretches and breathing rather than meditation. Perfect for my liking!
Day 5 - Happy Birthday Yoga: we loved this one. Hubby joined me finally again on this 27 min easy session, and we had taken our mats outside in the freshly mowed (thanks, sony) lawn. Nice! Only thing I couldn’t do really easily was cows legs but transitions into planks and pigeon were great.
Day 7 - Detox and Reset: This was the new Yoga session for this month and a whopping 40 min long!!! 🥵
So we divided it up. First 20 min this morning before work, and last 20 min before bedtime.
Both times I was sweaty and hot by the end of it, but it may have been the temperature here in the UK. Even with windows all open, it was pretty hot.
What’s in it: planks and plank dips, twists, folds, mountains, warriors, babies, and boats. Many with stretches and twists. Quite nice but, as mentioned, too long for me to do it in one session.
Having run in the morning, I skipped yoga last night…I’m glad I did…this sounds like much too much for me!
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Yeah, it was pretty sweaty but I think it was also due to temperatures. And dividing it in halves was good. There were quite a few new moves and positions in there, and as it is the new one she uploaded only yesterday, it might be a useful one to keep on one’s list to try out.
Tbh, I get lost on the flows and get a little overwhelmed. Knowing that she has an incredible back catalogue of relaxing laid back practices means that I will always go looking for them! I’ve currently got 38 saved on YouTube!
Yoga for the classroom & Classroom Meditation: Two very easy, very short and relaxed sessions, both aimed at the school age Yogi, with Adriene being even quirkier than usual. Fun. Hubby didn’t like it at all, specifically the long balancing in one leg. But I thought both quite fun, if maybe too easy for our level. (Did I just say that!?)
Day 9 - Yoga for Teens: short 20 min standing and lying session with balancing. Hubby liked it, I not so much, as the lengthy balancing really works my legs and calf muscles.
Day 12 - Yoga for Social Anxiety: Nice little diddy to do after my short run this morning. Easy on knees with Judy the exception of a low squatty-toe-stand-kind-of-things.
Day 15 - Yoga for when you are stuck: Little 15 min diddy which I am beginning to really like very much. All standing, some heavens door knocking, eagle poses, and arm-breath synced movements.
Day 16 - Yoga for focus and productivity: Now, this is only 9 min, but feels like a great one to do just when getting up or taking a break from desk work.
It’s mostly standing with only one forward fold - plank - cobra - down dog vinyasa. And I was thinking this to be almost a perfect one to do in the bedroom at times when hubby has to hog the livingroom for online meetings, often in the evening.
So a ultra short stretchy, standing, twisty one would be great as I don’t have to worry about padding for knees. So this one is almost (!), almost perfect except one vinyasa where I need my knees!
Day 17 - Yoga Rinse: nice short practice. 16 min. Saved.
Day 18 - Yoga for Stress Relief: This 32 min session is a good one to have in your back pocket, also easy on knees. No lunges, 2 dogs, lots of stretches and twists and folds. Only the balancing postures were quite difficult.
Day 19: I exchanged this one for a 30 min self- designed practice to stretch out everything from my 10k run this morning, so box breathing, seated twists, seated stretches, mountain poses and forward folds, down dogs - kobra - mountain pose flows, seated again with mermaids and pigeons. Felt really good!
Day 20 - Yoga for Risk takers: I remembered this 26 min practice and I have to admit it’s one of my least favourites. No stretches, balance tree poses which I find hard on my legs, and not being able to keep my lifted leg up, and then lengthy crow which is simply far beyond me. I swapped this with happy baby and cat-cow to dog flows, but I’ll not be saving this one.
On the good side, I had invested in two yoga knee pads replacing the bulky blanket, and they seemed to work really well and are much more movable than one blanket.
Day 21 and Day 22: forgot to put these in. Today’s full body flow felt particularly good, as I still felt stiff in some areas from my 10k run on Sunday. So I managed to stretch all my tight kinks and felt immensely better afterwards. Also tried new yoga knee pads which are great! Much better than the unwieldy blanket I’ve been using!
Day 25 - Yoga for renewal: the length of 44 min looked daunting, but it is actually a really nice, very slow, stretchy practice that is specifically good for running legs! I enjoyed that (again).
Day 26 - Yoga for Creativity: I had to miss out on this 41min practice, as I had a full day, starting with a 10k, some rest and then off to a whole afternoon outside ending with an outdoor performance about women and running in the early evening.
Dinner was pulled pork from the slow cooker so now I’m tired and happy at home.
Day 30 - Yoga got Tension Relief: 28 min lovely stretchy, meditative practice on the floor. I tried sitting on heels with blanket but my knees are not quite there yet. Not sure they ever will be. But that’s ok.
I haven’t been very good with daily the last few days, but have been stretching and doing Yoga from other places. Just to jumble it up a bit.
But looking forward to STILL, and I see That there are quite a few ultra-short practices where the calendar suggests you can do two on one day.
That fits great with that month where a few of us are also doing the Pilates challenge. I think I can then do both Pilates and Yoga, with me sometimes only doing one of the short YWA sessions, or separating it to morning and afternoon.
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