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

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 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.

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. 😜
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