Yoga Headstands and reuniting with YogaGlo’s Tiffany Cruikshank for some morning yoga!

My hips have been bugging me lately so I’m taking it easy on the running.  I did run a few days in a row and even though it wasn’t a lot of mileage, my body wasn’t used it it.  Instead of running this morning, I did some yoga.

Before I get into the class I did this morning, I just wanted to say that I am so pumped about me improving my yoga headstand!

Before you know it, I’ll be doing handstands!  I did a few wall assisted handstands last night and am going to continue working on them until I’m a handstand master!  Yoga challenges me in building strength and balance to be able to do these advanced poses.  One of the reasons I love yoga is that it allows you to realize what you can do with your own body.  I am alway so impressed by some of the yogis I see and strive to get to that point in my practice some day!

So now that I have the exciting news out of the way, I want to talk a little about my yoga class this morning.  I was tempted to go straight to one of Tiffany’s classes because I love them but I wanted to give someone else a try.  I went to Christina Sell and her “Deep Legs & Hips Flow” class on YogaGlo.  I don’t know what it was, but I just wasn’t feeling Christina’s class.  It repeated a lot of flows but they didn’t seem fast enough for me this morning.  I got half way through her workout and switched to Tiffany’s new workout “Prepare Hips for Hip Opening Postures”.  OH hello my yoga love!  Within the first 20 seconds I felt so much better in this practice.  It was a little faster and felt more rigorous.  It was JUST what I wanted this morning.

I’m not going to write off all of Christina’s classes because I know that there are different classes for different purposes and moods, but this morning I just wasn’t feeling her class.  So this is a reminder to all of you out there that are hesitant in trying yoga because you think it might not be intense enough that you should try a different instructor, class style, or studio!

Now Dave and I are off for a surprise trip.  Updates later!

Are there days that there is a workout you just aren’t feeling so you do something different?

Yes and not just for yoga.  When I was heavy in marathon training I would listen to my body.  If my legs were way too exhausted, I didn’t push it with a tempo or speed workout.

Do you ever have surprise trips?

This may be one of our firsts!