Yoga update.

Part 3 of my yoga journey. For the older parts, go here.

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I've been doing the yoga 'exercises' from DownDog. It's a phone application but (yay) it's also possible doing it through their website. (Easier, bigger image.)

My feelings so far:

Objective: It's a well thought out way to do / learn yoga. The options are many, the levels are too, and the instructions are very very clear. Definitely recommendable.

Subjective: I'm still not convinced this is for me. So far, 2 of the exercises of all that I saw and did (still talking about chair yoga), don't present a problem for me. Of all the others, I can do about half of those for about 70/80%. The rest is far less attainable, if at all.

It's a bit sad, but I think yoga is meant to be relaxing. About half the exercises for me are a struggle, so I tend to skip them, or sit them out.

It's no fun being almost out of breath, or feeling sore shoulders or back after that.

Experienced yoga practitioners will tell me this is because I lack practice. That's very likely. My body, however, has never been anywhere near flexible, and over the few decades I've been around, it received some get-togethers with reality, making things even harder.

As there are more options to explore in the downdog app, I tried Hatha yoga. This is wonderful to see. Let's keep it at that. I'll not venture into that direction any more.

Again, the downdog system is very good. What I tried, so far, isn't for me. Yet.

I basically need something that doesn't require holding your arms up over shoulder level for more than 5 to 10 seconds (shoulders busted in a rear-end car crash), no contortion of the lower back, no lying flat on the ground, and no folding over forward and backwards.

I guess that leaves yoga nidra. 😜