Yesterday, Jim went to buy coffee for us and we had a really nice morning together. After breakfast he asked me if I wanted to do yoga on the terrace. Him asking me for a yoga class doesn’t happen very often, so of course I said yes. Our neighbor texted us and asked if we could come over to help her in a bit, so I guided us through 30 minutes of yoga before we had to go.
Very simple stuff to wake up our bodies. It was very hot out there and it only took a few minutes for our mats to get extremely warm. So I made sure that we basically only had our hands and feet touching the ground. With that, I created some challenges for my husband. He’s a strong man but a beginner in yoga so I made sure he got challenged but also really understood what we were doing and why. I was doing the yoga with him the whole time so I had to explain everything without being able to touch for corrections (which I normally do when he does yoga at home), but it looked like he got it pretty well.
It’s not much you get to do in 30 minutes, but at least it was something. Sometimes even 10 minutes can be enough if that’s all you have. But you don’t get your body warm in that time (well, J was super sweaty from the sun), so I personally love longer than that so I can feel that the body has been really working. The yoga classes I take here in Stamford is only an hour long usually and I would love it to be longer than that. 90 minutes is a good length for yoga I think. Then you get to work through the whole body, practice maybe handstands or something else for a little bit and then stretch and relax in the end which is always nice:)
Now, I’m about to take my pup for a walk and then change into workout clothes and go down to the gym. I’m sort of teaching a class for a neighbor (maybe two?) tonight. I will create something that first builds strength and then take some time for stretches, cause that’s what she mentioned last time I saw her that she wants. I don’t know what experiences she has, how strong she is or how flexible her muscles are, so I have to make it up as we go along, which makes it fun.