Nothing like it

I wasn't comfortable going to yoga for a week and a half after my wisdom tooth operation - and as happens to me, I find getting back to (any kind of) exercise after more than five days exceedingly difficult. I went to my first flow class after the pause on Thursday, and I remembered after five minutes why I love it so... the feeling of a stiff body getting more malleable, busy monkey brain calming down to the mantra of breath. Nothing like it.

Yoga has really changed my life - I've never in my life considered doing any kind of physical challenges before. Hell, I've never had a physical skill before... I've never been confident in anything like that. In many ways last October's 30 day yoga challenge was a turning point - I had a challenge that I wanted to do, a goal, and I proved myself I could do it.

And now I sometimes surprise myself. Today I signed up for Vancouver's Sun Run - the annual 10 km run held in April... I'm not going to run it (but walk), but am taking part - and the funny thing is, I really wanted to do this and as the company is sponsoring a team there was no reason to delay signing up. And it was only later on that I stopped to think - what has happened to me that looking for physical challenges has actually become pleasurable and desirable? It's a weird and wonderful feeling.

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