Strange to be doing Mountain Pose on a Monday. Did it this evening and it felt quite nice knowing that I could chill out afterwards. It made me so tired!
Slight problem in that I went swimming this afternoon and due to my reaction to chlorine, I was unable to do the Pranayama section because I still can't breathe through my left nostril. Unless I swim frequently and get used to the chlorine, it really messes me up. So I did one set of the breathing and moved onto the meditation. As I get close to the end of the first phase of the programme, this is one of the things I know I need to improve on. It's so easy to get caught up in the physical challenges and bypass the mental ones because they are, in fact, harder. I think I did more meditation at the beginning of the programme and it's tailed off somewhat so I need to really focus on this during phase two.
Today was also the beginning of my three day 'Vegan lifestyle'. I more or less followed it: I had almond milk on my breakfast (banana, apples, almonds, cashews) instead of yoghurt. I skipped the usual sprinkling of cheese over my salad this evening and used cider vinegar as a dressing instead of salad cream. I'm afraid I did have two coffees with cream in them (I tried coffee with almond milk and it was disgusting!). I expect I'll have more or less the same tomorrow and Wednesday - my diet is fairly simple anyway.
I get to try a new DVD tomorrow: 'Gentle'. I'm assuming this is along the same lines as 'Yin', i.e. relaxing and not too physically challenging. I'm going into London early so will probably run when I come back and then do Gentle.
Lots of photos posted yesterday of some of the group in fantastic poses. It appears that there is a headstand in the 'Balance' DVD. I can do headstands but not with my arms in the correct 'yoga' position so I'm a bit anxious about trying that! Balance is on Friday so I'll try and watch it through before then.
Well, up at 5am tomorrow so bed time for me! Goodnight!
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