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  • coachdonna
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    April 30, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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    in reply to: I am quite overweight and doing hot yoga #3115

    Yesterday I had a day where I felt like I wasn’t doing anything right in my yoga… I am going back today because I feel discouraged and I think pressing in is the only way to get past my mindset and stay on track…

    I went with a friend yesterday – maybe I need to keep my yoga to myself and also I realize that if I miss 2 days , its too much, I worked on my folks farm on sunday so I took monday off… that was too much… I need to never miss more than one day…

    Today I am going back with a better attitude… and we will see how it goes…

    Donna

    coachdonna
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    April 29, 2008 at 7:46 am
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    in reply to: 30 Day Challenge #3111

    Wow.. good for you making your 30 days… Congrats on keeping your committment to you.

    I was going to go everyday, and my body and my yoga let me know that this wasn’t the thing at this time for me, so I am going two days, one day off, two days on one day off and its working much better for me… I intend to do a 30 day challenge as I move more into my yoga process too…

    I also find emotional release in my yoga, especially in the pose where your on your knees and making a circle by bending back and holding your heals or ankles… that one opens up some pretty overwhelming energy release for me… and truth be told, I know why and I am not surprise… being willing to allow it is the only question i had about it and i have decided yes… I hope you say yes to your energy release… the rest will do whatever it needs to if we say yes to it… thats all I know for sure. 🙂

    Again, Congrats!!

    Namaste,
    Donna

    coachdonna
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    April 28, 2008 at 9:12 pm
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    in reply to: Trouble with legs #3105

    Eagle Posture is a hard one for me also 🙂

    I am fairly new, 2 weeks into going, I go nearly every day – and I went from doing NOTHING because I work on the computer, to doing Hot Yoga which is I think the most challenging and rewarding exercise regime you can have, cardio, resistance, stretching, meditation – holy smokes, its HUGE in what it is…

    I can do a sort of twirl and connect a few of the fingers with my arms and hands, enough to be able to keep my hands below my nose – but just barely… and my teacher says to hug them close in to my chest and pull them down and into myself which does help my balance… also I can cross my legs ( kinda, its pretty funny) and I can point my toes in the direction I want them to go – my teacher says squeeze the thighs together and I do and it does keep my balance better and all this focus on each aspect of holding the pose and myself to it keeps me going…

    I used to focus on what wasn’t working and try to fix or work from that view – for me, and I can only speak for me, what I have learnt works better is to now focus ONLY on what is working, and going deeper into what IS working, the rest comes along and I stay happier – which is I think more realistic – who wants to beat themself up for continuing toward their goals…

    Good for you for being there and for trying…

    Namaste,
    Donna

    coachdonna
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    April 28, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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    in reply to: I am quite overweight and doing hot yoga #3104

    Hey Everyone,

    I did standing bow on both sides Saturday for the first time, funny thing that the kick really makes the balance, when I really focused on kicking to equal out the stretch to the front I felt the balance and then I could do it! Exciting for me!!

    I am doing the tree with both legs now too and much better than before, the one that really surprised me was that I could actually do the ( forget the name) the one where you sit between your feet and go backward, on one elbow then the other then down onto the floor… I did it! I couldn’t stay the full time but I did it and I know that I will.

    I was silently giving myself a hard time about being too fat to get my but to the floor past my knee’s but it turns out that perhaps I was wrong about that 🙂 – its so easy to get upset with myself, and so easy now to turn that around.

    I have this sense that the more transparent and honest I am about my experience the better it will be for me, I am not used to showing or owning my vulnerbilities and my experience for me in my yoga is that the more I do the more loving and suppotive the whole experience is for me – its ok to be vulnerable about something and ask for support to overcome that during a time of change…. thats my big lesson this last few days…

    Yesterday I worked with my friends to clear a bunch of brush and have a big spring burn – I worked hard and kept up with everyone – I prefer my hot yoga to that strenuous work anyday! My work in my yoga gave me the strength to do the work I did yesterday and I know that…. and I am grateful.

    Oh ya! I wanted to say too that I think I finally got the feeling I needed to understand the half moon postures, and they are really something!! I don’t know which posture it was that I did I will have to watch but there was another one that I felt something new and I feel it in my obliques in the front of stomach between my belly and chest – the muscles were sore for the first time ever – I have never felt anything there before ever in my life….

    thanks for being on my journey with me – and for the encouragement it makes a BIG difference for me.

    Namaste,
    Donna

    coachdonna
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    April 25, 2008 at 11:49 pm
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    in reply to: I am quite overweight and doing hot yoga #3087

    Thank you for your feedback and guidance.

    After taking a day off to process my experience both mentally and physically I went back to my studio yesterday, I already feel attached to it which is really nice for me because I can tend to have a quite strong fear of judgement ( and we all know what that means, I have to watch not to be judging or I attract it back… tough one!) the more I keep in my own 90 minutes the better it is… I am really liking this a lot!

    I don’t create my own poses, although my poses do kinda look like their own creation still to some degree LOL 🙂 – I listen very carefully, we have very good teachers in my yoga studio they speak clearly and give very detailed support – its much like how Gabrielle writes on here, detailed and clear… its VERY helpful. I can’t reach both feet for the floor bow either, one or the other but not both yet unless someone helps me out 🙂 – Whats cool is I don’t feel bad about any of what I can’t do, I only feel good about what I can do and that I am going. The personal development of recent years is showing its worth to me in my yoga :-).

    In yoga as in life, learning to listen to yourself from the inside out is a challenge and the more I do it the more I notice my poses starting to resemble something like what the rest of the class is doing… I can almost do tree pose on both legs now, but my sweaty foot is a bit of an issue getting into that one 🙂 it keeps slipping out of my hand LOL – it’ll come i suppose just a little patience, hey I couldn’t get my foot up there at all a week ago…

    I can’t get my head in front of my arms yet for the standing bends that you start out with but yesterday I had my head inside my arms almost the full time of the postures which was great I thought! Each day I get a little deeper or a little clearer in 3 or 4 poses and that feels really good for me. I can do the one legged ballancing one pretty good – sorry I forget what its called, and my kicking back supported me to stay in the pose the full count of time yesterday on one side – funny thing was it was my weak side, I think my mind was more focused when we got to the left… that sure seems to make a difference for me.

    I am going to take Gabrielles advice and ditch the scales because I am back up the pounds it said I lost… urghh… but I think they are muscle because I notice a clear distinct difference in my jeans – and… I of hurt everywhere… 🙂 a happy hurt though.

    thanks again for all the advice and support It really really DOES make a difference!!

    Namaste,
    Donna

    coachdonna
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    April 25, 2008 at 7:40 am
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    in reply to: I am quite overweight and doing hot yoga #3083

    Hi There,

    Just wanted to give a little update and thank you for the support and caring. I really appreciate each of you sharing your experiences and offering your encouragment to me for my yoga and my growth.

    I went to a different yoga center on Tuesday and I have to say it wasn’t so good… the energy was negative and I was surprised by that – they criticised my yoga center and I took the energy of that into my yoga that day and hurt myself…

    I also learnt a valuable lesson – my yoga center teaches clearly each class that it is my yoga and my 90 minutes and when i focus on me for my 90 minutes my yoga comes to me and grows with me… I forgot that during my class at the other center and I didn’t make my yoga time my yoga – I had to take yesterday off to allow some healing and thinking… then today I went to my yoga center AND I had MY yoga again today, I focused on myself and my practice and I felt SO much better…. the pain is subsiding, and tomorrow I will go back and face my yoga again and the pain remaining is a reminder to focus on “my 90 minutes” and my growth and happiness from my yoga…

    I feel good – thank you.

    Donna

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