Yoga 40:00 [3]
Only made it through Flow 3 today. (That's after warm up, 5 sets of Sun salutation A and 3 sets of Sun Salutation B.) During a forward fold, the teacher (one of the younger ones with less experience) came up and pressed me farther into the fold. I told her I have lower back issues and she said "oh does this hurt?" I said yes but she didn't stop pressing. She told me to bend my knees which I already was. I'm kind of pissed at her for not listening or knowing this info already despite it being the 3rd time I told her. So I left class and took a walk around which was really nice. Our main instructor yesterday told us not to worry if we couldn't do the whole class everyday so I'm working on feeling okay that I couldn't do it. One last complaint, where is the fucking air conditioning?
You have good days (yesterday I did my first headstand!) and you have bad days I guess. Onward ho!
Ps after class and she does not even ask me if I'm okay.
Note
Had a discussion with the main teacher and I am not going to do full practice every day, but instead, I'll do two full intense practices a week with everything tapering up or down accordingly, including some rest days too. I will observe class and learn that way while I'm not yoga-ing. I guess the real hard work I have to do is being able to identify the physical limits of my back injury and also learning to recognize when I'm mentally rejecting the idea of pushing farther, which I typically do out of fear that it might hurt me. Also recognizing when I'm pushing too far because I'm competitive and I think I should be able to do whatever the 23-year olds do.
On another note, Hughmac3 did a headstand tonight during beer o'clock.