Ready to Take Flight

Since this blog I am happy to say that I have been practicing yoga about 3 times per week. It has greatly increased my flexibility, I feel less stressed and I have been able to tackle harder poses like a headstand and hopefully soon a handstand. Once I started practicing consistently I found that everything else started falling into place; I started sleeping better and my eating habits also improved. This just isn't the case with yoga it happens with any type of continuous workout routine.

Aerial Yoga

Now that I am comfortable and confident in the hot room I’m thinking the next step is to incorporate a new style of yoga into my daily activities to keep things interesting and exciting. I am currently looking into a rather new type of yoga called Aerial Yoga that is offered at a local studio, Yoga by Sarah. This type of yoga involves practicing will being in the air! It focuses on areas such as your hips, chest, shoulders and hamstrings and probably adds a little bit of excitement into daily yoga practice.

Motivation is the Hardest Part

As I've said before in previous posts I have had a very hard time motivating myself to workout, let alone practice yoga at home. Not having the motivation has set me back so many times, but I have come to understand that it is not only important to do what you love whether it’s yoga, running or training for a triathlon, but to make real life changes and to focus on what you want to achieve in the long run.

I find it helps to schedule in workouts as a daily routine like eating breakfast or showering. Once I started doing this I found myself sticking to my workouts like glue.  Doing something you love is also important if you want to stick to your daily routines. You don’t eat something you don’t like so why would you run if you hated it, or hated yoga because you weren't flexible? Once we all start making small changes to our daily lives working out won’t seem so difficult to fit in.

This One's for the Bros

Since I have been attending yoga classes I have come to realize that the classes I attend are female dominated. I’m not sure why this is, maybe some men feel weird taking a class dominated by women or that yoga might not help them with their overall fitness. Fear not gentlemen, there has been a fad going on for a while called Broga, a yoga class dedicated to all male classes.

The Broga classes don’t differ much from any regular yoga class, they still focus on balance, flexibility and building self awareness, but as The Globe and Mail states “Yoga for guys means more Radiohead, less Enya.”

I think this is a great tactic to allow everyone to feel comfortable and reap the benefits a yoga class has to offer. Everyone deserves to de-stress, relax and get fit in a place they feel at ease.

So to all of the men, Bro Montana’s, dudes and muchachas out there go try a Broga class because you never know you might find the Jobin to your Pistol or just realize that you really like yoga.