Sunday, Yoga Sunday

Sunday I went to the 8:30 AM teacher-trainee yoga class. Basically, whoever shows up from our class gets a chance to teach and participate, and we usually go around in a circle and teach a few poses. It's fun, but early... luckily, my body's pretty happy about getting up at 6:30 lately (except for this morning), so I have a couple of hours to veg and drink my tea. There were only two of us there, but it was great.

Then I stayed for my teacher's 10:00 class. Since they've opened another studio in Burlington, their time has been split, so her classes at the Cambridge studio are usually pretty packed. It was a great class- very relaxing. The hubby came with me, and had some mat slippage issues. It's either time to start storing the mat towel with his yoga man, or time for me to sell his mat on Craigslist and get him a Jade mat.

Then I had a couple of hours to kill, so we came home, made lunch, and I scarfed it down and went back to the studio for teacher training. This week we started our section on Kundalini yoga, and I'm not gonna lie- I was hoping it was just going to be lecture. And I lucked out for about an hour; we learned about the chakras, through which the kundalini energy is supposed to rise, and we talked about different poses or series of poses to help align everything. Then we did about an hour of Kundalini. And let me tell you, Kundalini is not kidding around. I felt like the room was buzzing with energy by the time we finished.

Then I was finally done with yoga! But I had to stay and observe a class at 5:00. So I went next door to this awesome Asian cafe and got some iced coffee, then went and watched people do yoga in the hot studio for an hour and a half. Have I mentioned the heat wave? The studio is not air conditioned, so it was about 95, give or take, all day.

And after that, I had the greatest sleep ever.