I have to admit, since completing the 40 day challenge, I fell off my yoga routine quite a bit. I've only been doing yoga twice a week since, and I've really been feeling it. I haven't been sleeping well because of it, which is a vicious cycle, because then I feel too exhausted during the day to do yoga, and then because I haven't taken that time for myself, I don't sleep well, ad infinitum.
There were a couple reasons I stopped, though really they're just poor excuses. Jaxson got pretty sick and was on antibiotics, for which I have very mixed feelings and so was stressed the whole week he was on them. And just recently I realized a big part of it is that I was bored with the DVDs I have. I was needing more variation in my practice, greater options for class length, difficulty, and types of yoga.
Yesterday, I did a 40 minute class from an online website with my yoga buddy and mommy friend, Brittany. She had told me about this website a while ago, but until yesterday, I'm ashamed to say, I never visited it.
First and foremost, wow! This site is not what I expected. I was skeptical, because yoga is so expensive, I didn't know how good a free website would be. I though it would be a bunch of amateurs posting videos. It's not. This site has given me a whole new drive!
The guy who started it is a Vancouver-based yogi and instructor who wants to make yoga more accessible, so he started this site and runs it purely on donations and DVD sales. So far, it seems to be working. There are hundreds of classes from about 20 different teachers, all levels, all styles. He also has a tab dedicated to instruction on some of the more difficult poses like crow or headstand, as well as the basics like downward dog and child's pose! As well as that, he has a tab with videos teaching yogic breathing as well as one on yoga anatomy, where he talks about muscles of the body and proper yogic posture.
I was flabbergasted by the amount on here, and the professionalism. To be honest, after the class, I spent an hour just sifting through the site! David Procyshyn, the founder, really does make yoga accessible.
The instructor we followed yesterday, Fiji, is insane! An advanced yogi who explains things very well and runs a beautiful, organized flow! I loved her class!
The one unfortunate thing about the site, as a busy mum, is most of the classes are an hour long or more (a standard yoga class, so really, not a downside if you can make the time). However, this is something I'm wanting to work up to, and the great thing about yoga is you make the practice your own, so Brittany and I talked and decided that, really, we could either just do as much of the class as we have time for, stop it, and wind down ourselves, or break the class into two 30ish minute halves. Either totally doable, especially because as a mum, you learn to adapt and get whatever flow you can throughout the day and not stress about how it happens or when.
So I am once again jazzed for my yoga practice and am so very excited to explore this site more and hope that word and support of it spreads!
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