YWA March Calendar: EMBODY

[CBDB]

Almost forgot! Quick, where is our collective Yoga mat? Ahh, here it is… our virtual workout space all prepared and ready albeit almost a day late! Oops!!

YWA March EMBODY, here our YWA LINKS:

★ LINK to calendar:

yogawithadriene.com/calendar/

★ And the YWA playlist is here:

youtube.com/playlist?list=P...

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. Do whatever feels right to get the maximum enjoyment from these daily sessions. And definitely get creative with props.

Here is a hopefully helpful post about YOGA props.

★ YOGA PROPS healthunlocked.com/strength...

★ 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 :

healthunlocked.com/strength...

Upwards, crow-wards and down dog-wards another months practice!

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Happy working out everyone!

[buzzards]

Thanks for this, 🙏🏼🙏🏼 I want to do yoga every day this month as I found it useful in January, even though I had injured myself.

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold in reply to buzzards]

Yes, the January move session was great, wasn’t it! I liked that it stayed under 30min, as I struggle to find the time for 40+ min sessions. And I saw 👀 that this month a 52 min session is coming up. Gulp! 😳

[buzzards in reply to CBDB]

Agree. I normally do the sessions in the morning before work and find 30 minutes the perfect length, especially if I've been for a run or a walk.

I find it difficult to get into the habit of yoga in the evenings, which would be a better time for me, as I won't be watching the clock or getting hungry and thinking about breakfast. ☺️☺️ I'll have to do that 52 minute session in the evening for sure.

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold]

Finally got back to yoga after nearly 2 weeks of a break due to covid.

Day 19 - Rebirth : title was quite fitting. Nice slow session, I noticed certain things feel easy, others not so. So anything needing core has improved (boat), also anything needing happy knees (child’s pose, warriors). But stamina was a bit lacking and I was sweating by the end of it.

But I used this for the warm-up to rowing which worked really well.

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Day 20: Im slowly getting back to full recovery from Covid-19 and initially thought this 44 min session would be too much for me, but I’m so glad I stuck with it.

It’s a slow, mindful, holding position session which never goes to fast and always holds that pose that little bit longer to challenge you. So by the end of it my legs felt wobbly, whilst I never felt i couldn’t hold the pose.

And I remember this session, from last I did it. And at that time it felt harder than today. So even if still recovering, I noticed that specifically my glutes are much stronger than last time I did this session.

Also, wow! My knees. I seem to not need any padding anymore (for most of the session).

How is everyone else faring in March?

Happy yoga Sunday everyone!

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold]

Day 21 - Morning Yoga Flow: How deceptive the duration can be. Yesterday’s 44 min sounded daunting, but felt so doable! Today’s 21 minutes sounded like a great short workout, but it got me panting to my limits!

So part of it might still be that I’m recovering and don’t quite yet have my full strength back. But this session was fast, energetic and - in my case - full of ‘uffs’ and ‘phew’ and ‘omph’.

It was exhausting!

However in the bright side, I can touch my toes now in a forward sitting bend, I can hold lunges without dropping the knees. My knees though needed again a bit of padding! And I’m thankful for those moments in child’s pose!

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold]

Day 22: Replaced this 11 min Wake Up Yoga morning practice with a 15 min stretching and mindful evening pre-bed practice. Whatever rocks one’s bones 🦴👍🏽🦶☺️🧘🏻‍♀️😀

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Day 25 Sunrise Yoga: (15 min) I’m beginning to sense a pattern. As I come out of the IC and ease back into running, I always thought that between my daily Yoga, daily rowing and regular running something would have to give, at least a bit.

So I think it’s beginning to shape up a lot like I thought it would, with daily rows with each a 15min post-row stretch, 2-3 runs per week with each a 11 min post-run stretch, and 2-3 days of yoga complementing everything.

Pretty happy with that, as I’m pretty solid with post-workout stretches, and on a day where I run and row, I will also have done a total of 26minutes of stretching, equivalent to an average YWA session.

So today, with no run planned, I set out to do a lunchtime yoga session with hubby, and it did not disappoint. A bit too Stand-y-uppy to be in my favourites, but for a session that includes a lot of warrior poses, I really liked it.

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Day 26 Yoga Morning Fresh: 36 min, not feeling quite as fresh afterwards, but rather quite hit, but hubby and I endured! Done! ✅✔️☑️👏

(And that completes my min of 3 YWA of this week)