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Yoga for the Faint-Hearted
By Suzie Richards
I have never considered myself a fit or even athletic person but after watching a yoga dvd one day, thought how hard can it be?
I soon found out following a moment of enthusiasm! I had tried to mould and bend my less than supple hips to allow for the lotus position, I realised that to be good at my new found passion, I was going to have to undo all those years of abusing my body through drinking and eating and that my days of over-indulging were going to be well and truly behind me.
Fit at forty sounded good and it would only require a little dedication, a whole lot of enthusiasm and a very understanding husband. Squeezing into a leotard after bearing two children meant that I preferred to strut my stuff in relative privacy and I was sure that although the postures felt like I was toning up my body, I wasn’t at all convinced that I managed to move more than a few inches or look anything like the svelte lady on the video.
My husband started murmuring ‘ If women were meant to get their right leg over their shoulder, they would have been born like it’ every time he heard me grunting or huffing and puffing. I kept repeating the mantra that yoga is supposed to be good for you over and over, every time I stretched my body into a new position.
For all that my yoga practise was far from effortless, I have to admit, I really was enjoying it. Ok, I hadn’t lost any weight, still had my flabby belly and no waist but it was early days. I did feel that I walked taller though and some of the tension around my neck and shoulders were starting to disappear.
Although my body protested…loudly, I did find focussing on the breath and the postures the hardest as my mind kept racing ahead and thinking of the weeks food shopping and what my next job was for the evening, still, nothing ventured nothing gained, and I am determined to stick at my yoga until I become like the woman on the DVD. I may have years ahead of me!
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