Yoga class

Wednesday the 3rd was yoga class, at the Dean West Clinic which is a whole five minutes closer to home than then Edgewood building we have been going to for the last couple years. We're back in the gym, which is kind of chilly and has wood floors instead of industrial carpeting.

We did a lot of shoulder mobility stuff, and high time too. We always start with breathing and centering, then stretching. Table Pose, tiger rolls, Child's Pose, then bending elbow-to-alternate knee and extending to Songbird pose. Did this on each side, with Child's pose between.

Susi discussed shoulder alignment and core bracing, and standing with the belt held in front we stretched arms. This is a thing where you are supposed to be using the muscles between your shoulder blades, which I am pretty much not, using all chest and front shoulder muscles. We did a kind of military press type move to stretch arms overhead, with tension on the belt held with hands shoulder-width apart, more or less. I was having a bad day for pain all over, and started feeling kind of faint. We did another stretch standing close to the wall, with arms extended overhead against the wall, another way to explore range of motion. Then we tried holding the belt behind, to raise it, which extends shoulder and back. Much discussion of postural alignment.

Then we spent a while on the Warrior 2 Pose, with discussion of arm position modifications that we need cause none of us are all that flexible. I am not the only one who can place feet for a wider stance to get a better stretch in the legs. After that we lay down on our backs for Knee-down Twists, and then our 15 minutes of Shavasana.

I wore my houseshoes again, and was sorry later when the parking lots turned out to be slushy and they got wet right through and tracked all over the grocery store and then the kitchen.

No walking.