Well, at least this is my goal.. will I ever gonna get there, that is written in the sky but as Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois said: “Do Your Practice and All is Coming”. And that is exactly what I will be doing and I will be writing about it.. here a little bit about me:
I am 29 years old, I spent half of my 20ies pretty much pregnant or with a newborn and way to lazy to seriously working out or giving up certain eating patterns. I pretty much fell for the idea that if I only took enough of these super expensive diet pills and starve myself or even dumber, eat just like before, I would get the body of my dreams in no time. Of course it didn't work the way I imagined it. and honestly I don't even wanna know how much damage I did to my body swallowing this crap.
After my pregnancy with my first daughter Ally, which took me from 125pounds to maybe (ah that hurts..) 163pounds which I never really recovered from, I wanted to be wiser with my second pregnancy with Mia. I ate a lot of Tomatoes with Mozzarella and started walking every day for around 30 minutes. In that time I started to read a lot about nutrition and a little while after Mia arrived I stumbled upon the book "Eating Animals" from Safran Foer and since than I am a Vegetarian. I also tried to go Vegan for a while which helped to bring my weight down to 145pounds.
And than along came baby number 3.. Damon! He is now almost 4 month old. I kept fairly active during his pregnancy, I even walked two 5K's and did some Yoga but it did not help... cause here I am now again up to 163pounds.
My pregnancies have been an amazing experience and having these three buggers around is the greatest thing ever but now that I am feeling that our family is finally complete, I am really ready to whip myself back into shape. Or at least try it...
I have always been interested in Yoga.. it is always the thing I go back to cause I just plainly enjoy the stretching, the breathing, the time for myself and to just let go. I am not a person who likes to let go or maybe that is more correct, I have a hard time relaxing, so Yoga kinda forces me to relax or focus just on my breathing and that feels amazing. Trying to learn more about Yoga, I stumbled upon Ashtanga Yoga, which is a system of yoga popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009).
"This method of yoga involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures—a process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body, and a calm mind." - www.ashtanga.com
And this system of breathing and moving just has me fascinated.. it feels like that you are diving into a big pool of water and you won't come up until the hour of practise is over.. it is a little scary to me and amazing at the same time. But for sure it is something that I really wanna conquer. Thing is that half of the postures in the primary series are very very hard and you have to be very flexible to be able to hold them, but thank goodness does Amazong have a "Half Led Class" which stops right before these postures. So I will do what Sri K. Pattabhi Jois said in his famous quote,that I already mentioned at the beginning and do my practise and hope everything will come.. and I will, with time be able to conquer more and more of this amazing practice.
So the goal that I am setting for myself is to master the primary series of Ashtanga Yoga which will hopefully come with a great body or at least with loosing some pounds but Yoga is not just about postures it is so much more.. the way you think.. act.. breath! It is quite a path but well worth traveling!
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