6/12/2023 0 Comments 10 minute office yoga routine![]() ![]() Sometimes your body gets in the way-and that’s fine. This is a good lesson that goes beyond yoga-making time for something that’s important isn’t actually impossible. Even on days when I didn’t have time to settle down until 10:00 or 11:00 p.m., I could still stretch before bed. When it was an hour-long yoga video I was planning to do every day, those excuses were valid, but 10 minutes on my yoga mat was nothing. My biggest complaint, that I was just too busy to do yoga regularly, went right out the window when all I had to commit to was 10 minutes. ![]() At the end of the month, I still haven’t mastered it. But it was surprisingly hard to match my inhales and exhales to my movements. Breathing deeply in and out of your nose supposedly helps you melt deeper into a stretch, while also aiding in stress reduction, lowering blood pressure, and lifting your mood, yoga instructor Kristin McGee writes on her blog. Practicing yoga is as much about being aware of your breath as it is twisting your body into different shapes. But it came as a total shock to me that the hardest part wasn’t trying to stand on one leg while I held my ankle in one hand and pointed toward the wall with the other (a pose I was finally able to accomplish by the end of the month!). I went into this ready for my muscles to scream at me and for my body to yell, “I just can’t bend that way!” Which, to be honest, it sometimes did. Here’s what I learned.īending myself into a pretzel wasn’t the hardest part. I found some online yoga classes to stream and diligently followed along. So to make myself accountable, I told my editor I’d volunteer to do a whole month of yoga, at least 10 minutes every day, and write about it. I even took the opportunity to snag a yoga mat and a few yoga DVDs from a coworker who was cleaning out her office, but I didn’t actually do yoga.Īfter getting off work at 6:00 p.m., taking the hour-and-a-half-long subway ride home, making dinner, eating dinner, doing dishes, and getting myself ready for work the next day, I’d glance at my yoga mat gathering dust in the corner and flop into bed to watch Netflix instead.Įventually, I got tired of saying the same thing over and over again (and I’m sure my friends got tired of hearing it). Sure, I talked about doing yoga every day. ![]() Or “God, my posture is terrible!” These exclamations were inevitably followed by “I’m going to try yoga-maybe that’ll help.”īut I didn’t. I found the Warrior II really getting to my core muscles-maybe even deeper than the unsupported, usual pose.For nearly 6 months, all I talked about was doing yoga. I've done all 3 of the 30/31 Days practices with you, several times over, and the 31 Day Revolution totally kicked my butt, and I loved it!Īlso, though, I'm always on the lookout from you for "special" practices for those mornings I am really reluctant to get into the yoga clothes and get on the mat-I love Yoga for Hangovers, Yoga for When You're in a Bad Mood, and Gentle Morning Yoga.īut today's Chair Yoga surprisingly challenged me a bit and kicked a little booty! It's going to be wonderful for when I'm VERY reluctant, but really want to push myself further. ![]() Adriene, this IS a really good one! I'm 67 and have been practicing with you daily for about 6 years-I've been doing home practice yoga for about 7 1/2 years. ![]()
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