When I lived in Bakersfield, I was a yoga fanatic and did a pretty intense hour-and-a half-long ashtanga yoga class a couple days a week. [Typing that just now made me realize that two days a week of yoga probably does not make me much of a fanatic, however, as someone who gets really bored doing one workout all the time, the fact that I did yoga that often was pretty fanatical for me. I think I liked it so much because as you get more flexible, you can go further into each pose, which in essence makes it a different pose altogether. Or not? I never claimed to be a yoga fanatic.]
Surprising as it may seem, I never found a yoga studio in San Diego that was as good as the one I went to in Bakersfield. I tried small studios, big studios, a hot yoga class where the instructor YELLED AT US LIKE A DRILL SERGEANT (very un-yoga-like, if you ask me) and nothing was the same or even close to the same. So, I gave up yoga and instead, took to climbing the giant hills in my neighborhood.
Now that I’ve moved to a very, very, very flat locale, I’m in need of a new workout. While I love my three-four mile walks a couple days a week, they are definitely lacking and unless I want to start (quell horror!) running, I guess I need to step it up.
I thought getting back into yoga would be great and until I can find a yoga studio, I’ve been doing the free yoga on Fit TV. These yoga “classes” are [spoiler alert!] completely mediocre, but I’m definitely sore, so I like to think I’m gleaning some benefit from them. The funny part of all this (or, I guess I should say the funniest part) is that rather than just showing the women doing yoga in a studio, they change the background so that the women are doing yoga on the beach! Or in the forest! Or in a…bar? Now, that’s my kind of yoga!
Yoga in a bar would be awesome. Maybe I’d finally be able to stretch far enough if I was reaching for a bacardi and coke! Have you tried pilates? I liked it way better than yoga but that is just me. I take the cheap route and do DVD’s at home. I’ve opted for Windsor Pilates and it works! When I was doing it all the time, I had never been so flexible. Good times!
thanks, now i feel like a yoga-novice. I thought i was doing good in thiis yoga world with all the fittv on demand yoga “classes” Where did you go in Bakersfield, maybe i’ll HAVE to give it a try!!!