Week 3: Feeling Sluggish
I've have had a system set in place where I have go to gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays, while I go to yoga on Wednesdays and go running on Friday. This was my whole "mind and body in shape" plan that I so brilliantly came up with.
Though in previous weeks I have for the most part been sticking to it. I think that this past week that was full of trying out clubs and studying for exams that came up, I felt unmotivated to get out and exercise as I rationalized the fact that I have been dieting well so I can skip a day.
Even though I have slacked off on going to the gym. I still went to practice this week and it was lack luster to say the least. The coach who was leading the practice was nice. It kind of felt like she was making it up on the fly and there was nothing really "sacred" to what was transpiring. She would often muter "Okay let's see what are going to do next?" and though the class who was full of women ranging from the age of 18-50, the people who were practicing all looked like they were here for a quick exercise and nothing more. I won't discount the few people who came in for meditation 30 minutes before hand with me, those who came to mediate definitely looked like this was a sacred ritual as they did not move for the entire 30 minute prior to the actual yoga class.
Why not do zumba or run? These question I find myself perplexed by. Even though you can make the comparison that yoga can measure improvement like other physical activities such as running or zumba, the space at which we practice are suppose to be more then just an physical activity. These things are not only good for you to do but can help improve your life in more then one way.
I personally do not feel empowered when I go to this Vinyasa class, to be frank , the Bikram class and my professors class sought more in my curiosity and my feeling of "empowerment" because after the class was done my body felt like it had exercised but more importantly my mind felt clarity which helps me with subjects that require a lot of brain power.
I feel like coming to terms with the fact that I didn't accomplish something that I planned and actually conceptualizing it onto this blog helps me accept that fact that I need serious help with my mental discipline. Being gifted in certain subjects and being stuck in my ways I have come to realize that my mind isn't the only thing that matters and my body really needs to be worked on.
Hoping for the better this week
-Rorym2
Though in previous weeks I have for the most part been sticking to it. I think that this past week that was full of trying out clubs and studying for exams that came up, I felt unmotivated to get out and exercise as I rationalized the fact that I have been dieting well so I can skip a day.
Even though I have slacked off on going to the gym. I still went to practice this week and it was lack luster to say the least. The coach who was leading the practice was nice. It kind of felt like she was making it up on the fly and there was nothing really "sacred" to what was transpiring. She would often muter "Okay let's see what are going to do next?" and though the class who was full of women ranging from the age of 18-50, the people who were practicing all looked like they were here for a quick exercise and nothing more. I won't discount the few people who came in for meditation 30 minutes before hand with me, those who came to mediate definitely looked like this was a sacred ritual as they did not move for the entire 30 minute prior to the actual yoga class.
Why not do zumba or run? These question I find myself perplexed by. Even though you can make the comparison that yoga can measure improvement like other physical activities such as running or zumba, the space at which we practice are suppose to be more then just an physical activity. These things are not only good for you to do but can help improve your life in more then one way.
I personally do not feel empowered when I go to this Vinyasa class, to be frank , the Bikram class and my professors class sought more in my curiosity and my feeling of "empowerment" because after the class was done my body felt like it had exercised but more importantly my mind felt clarity which helps me with subjects that require a lot of brain power.
I feel like coming to terms with the fact that I didn't accomplish something that I planned and actually conceptualizing it onto this blog helps me accept that fact that I need serious help with my mental discipline. Being gifted in certain subjects and being stuck in my ways I have come to realize that my mind isn't the only thing that matters and my body really needs to be worked on.
Hoping for the better this week
-Rorym2
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