The new YWA NOVEMBER calendar with daily short Yoga video sessions popped into our mailboxes over the last few days, so here is our virtual workout space all prepared and ready for the start on the first of November.
And there is also a new Halloween 🎃 👻 practice on the last day of October, so be sure to join in on a “Yoga for when you are scared”. I had a peek and it’s so much fun!!! Bookmark it for that special Halloween practice! You’ll love it!
For me, it’s also a return back to daily Yoga, returning from BCUK Catford Pilates! It was a wonderful Pilates practice but with less production quality and I actually missed the great audio, the confident expression and guidance, the camera flirty presence and the calm, Benji-rich personal practice that is YWA!!
The November calendar looks great, as always, and I am all up for a month of which Adriene says:
“November is always a treat of gratitude-bearing and fun practices”
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 a month’s Virtual Workout Room looks like, here the one for April ‘21 :
I haven't been doing yoga or pilates for the last 4-5 months and bits of my body are starting to feel stiff, so I'm going to make a real effort to get back to it this month (coupled with more walking at weekends too). Happy yoga everyone!🧘♀️
CBDBAdministratorGraduate Gold in reply to CookieM
Fabulous! Yes, do join us! Just save/follow this post, and then you’ll be notified of others reporting back on their daily practice. This post is kind of our virtual mat! Happy yoga! 🧘🏻♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏽
Day 0: I’ll just call this one, 31 October, day 0 for the November calendar. It feels right to me as I’m now returning back from a month of Pilates (with a week’s break in there) to the daily YWA practice again… and …..
…. it was soooooo niiiice!!!
It really feels now like coming home, and giggling at the starting credits where Adriene and her camera partner have a bit of fun with the scary Halloween theme!
But it was so good to stretch out my legs, my back and to spend some time focussing on breath again.
Day 2: Slow motion, this one. So slow that it’s really hard… or r e a a l l l y y h a a a r d!
Otherwise great. The squatting doesn’t quite work for me due to knees, but I’m getting deeper than I used to. Two bricks help with a bit support for a kind of higher yogi squat.
Day 4: Ok, so I didn’t feel like a 28min Yoga party, it just sounded too active.
I was still snoozy this evening and strangely my Intervall run took it out of me this morning. I didn’t work today as I’d booked a leave day, so I could just have another snooze in the afternoon.
So by early evening I still was tired, took one look at yoga party and decided to rather do…
… 7 min post-run Yoga.
That felt great, so great in fact that I added a video from her foundation series, to check if I’m doing everything all right …
… 8 min easy pose ….
… one thing led to another and I ended up doing also the
… 8 min staff pose
… 8 min butterfly pose
… 8 min runner’s lunge
So in the end I had done ca 40’min of yoga, enjoying it immensely but avoiding the too strenuously sounding Yoga party! 🤣🤣
Day 4: This was the 33 min Fundamentals of Ease and it went back to basics! With that it was great, focussing back in posture doing lunges and tabletops. It is really great to revisit the basics again, checking your posture and movement against what it should be!
Day 6: I know this is only 8 min but this got me up this morning! I really was looking forward to starting the day with this short standing practice and here I am: happy, energised and ready for a great Saturday.
Day 8: Did the 15 min sunrise yoga after sun down, but also good. It gave me just that little bit of heat 🔥needed in my living-room 🛋 as our heating has just stopped working today 😡.
Day 10: Very quick and easy standing practice. It’s lovely to have some very quick ones thrown into the daily practice. As much as I love coming to the mat, it is suddenly a joy to know it’s only 7 min long. Enjoy!
Day 11 & 12: two very short sessions. Day 12 focussed on neck with a couple of new moves! The Fish was a new one, as was the rocking on your feet whilst lying flat. Nice. Only thing I struggled with was the camel.
Day 13: Ultra-short and ultra stretchy! And very kind to knees and feet and back.
Cleaned my mat with a yoga spray beforehand so it was again sticky as new (for hands or bricks not to slip away in down dogs), and smelled gorgeous as well.
What spray do you use? My mat is quite slippy now!
CBDBAdministratorGraduate Gold in reply to CookieM
I got a spray from Decathlon, and that seems to work. YWA has also a video for making a mat spray oneself, but haven’t tried it, and as I was buying from Decathlon, I threw a mat spray in.
Day 14: did the 25 min yoga session right after my 5k run this morning (after post run stretching& taking a shower), and it was great session for just getting most kinks out of my spine from running. Felt good.
Day 15: a lovely 25 min morning practice that also felt good to do in the evening. And I successfully held the handful of planks thrown in here and there. But all quite gentle.
Day 16: Nice fast moving practice and I can just about keep up. New move, I think, was an adapted cat -cow which moves between cow-ext child’s pose. Nice!
Day 18: A 21 min practice focussing on core … oh my … core … core! I have now definitely reconnected with my core! Not sure I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s 40min 😱 Kiss! 🤣
Day 19 and Day 20: did both session yesterday and today, and day 20 was definitely the more gentle one, focussing on breathing linked to movement. Both were ca 40 min long.
Day 27: a 40 min long session called Detox and Reset, but one which didn’t quite feel like 40 min as it included substantial slow sections of stretches, twists and breathing. Nice.
Day 28: very long stretchy practice, with deep stretches! Felt great. Only the cow legs I opted out and couldn’t watch my poor hubby get his painful-looking legs in a twist! 🙈 my knees just hurt hearing him moan! But we survived, with knees intact!
Day 29: only 18 min with some lunges, some balances and some sun salute flows. Lovely.
For more advanced yogis: yeah, go ahead, I dare you to try doing that flow from chair pose into chair pigeon, to leaning forward with hands on floor (legs still in figure 4) and then balance on that one squatted-on toe with everything else elevated… I dare you! (Beware of the yoga dangers to toes!😂😂🦶)
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