Yoga Mat Secretz #2

Although I appreciate the complement given by Laurie in her most recent post, I do understand the limitations of my writing. I blame it on lack of practice since becoming a math teacher, but really it's just me and I am the luckiest girl to have a wonderfully bright and articulate husband to edit my papers!

Honoring Laurie's request for a yoga reflection, here is my contribution to the conversation in a more creative fashion. I challenge you, you, and you, to do the same with your next posts.

At the recent Yoga Journal Conference in San Francisco, Grant purchased his very own yoga mat which I'll introduce to you in this installment of yoga mat secretz. It's the green, orange, and yellow mat. Mine is the plain lavendar mat who is not lonely in the mornings anymore!

Giving your 100%

At my PYS Advanced Studies Program this week, our instructor, Tony, asked us, "How many of you are giving 100% to your yoga practice?" and no one raised their hand.

Ya'll thought I was just kidding with that Yoga Mat Sectrez on Monday, but it is sort of true.

This question came after Tony spent 10 minutes lecturing us about our behavior so far in the program. Regular people may come to public yoga classes late or leave early, but you're "advanced studies people" you should be more serious than the public... come on time! pay attention! don't leave early! do your home practice!!

So last night, home alone, as my husband was on call at the hospital, I returned to "the bible of modern yoga," to help give me some comfort and encouragement.

It worked. This morning I read through the appendix of the book (thank God my Sanskrit has improved and I actually know the name of the poses!) where Iyengar gives you a work out schedule for the next 180 weeks. Using this as a rough draft, I am going to create a practice schedule for myself. I've picked some key poses that I want to work on and then I'll build in some creative time to do poses that I feel like doing but aren't on the list.

Ok! Here we go... ready... set... YOGA!

Yoga Mat Secretz

In the spirit of lolsecretz and postsecret, I bring you Yoga Mat Secretz, the next thing in community blogging. Here is your first secret from the life of a yoga mat...
Please send me pictures of what your yoga mat is saying and I will post them here for the world to see.