yoga 2, 3, 4

Day 2: The biggest challenge of doing a yoga challenge is turning out to be finding 15 minutes of peace when I can actually do it. My journey almost ended before it even began. 9pm on Day 2 and I still hadn’t done anything. In my defense the Oscars were pretty crazy the night before. How was a not supposed to spend my morning reading twitter reactions? I’m only human. As my household wound down and the kids and my husband all went to bed, I snuck out into the dark living room and made space between all the baby paraphenlia and did 15 minutes of moon salutations. They are supposed to help you sleep. I did drift into a peaceful slumber as advertised, but it was soon disturbed by a marathon of feedings throughout the night. I woke up more wrecked and grumpy than I have in weeks.

Day 3: Decided to try to fit a session in in the morning this time. My daughter wanted to do ‘gymnastics’ again, so I figured we’d finish the ‘yoga with youngsters’ session from the other day. It’s pretty impossible to do yoga with a 4 year old. My form was horrible as I contorted to look at the iPad screen as she jumped all around me.

Day4: Ok. New plan! I have determined that silence is a prerequisite to this challenge and I’ve pretty much lost any semblance of that since having kids. So I decided to drop the baby off early and come back home to fit a session in. 15 minutes of sun salutations all alone in the apartment. The only sounds were the very heavy breathing of the instructor and police sirens in the neighborhood. I feel energized and ready to take on the day. This could work.