Rained In

I woke up at about 5am, and went back to sleep. When I awoke again at 7am, it was raining outside, and very quickly turned into a thunderstorm. I've run in the rain before, and yet didn't feel like it this time. I'm going to have to change that mindset. For now though, I've started some cross training, by doing about an hours worth of Yoga.

I originally started doing Yoga with a gentleman from India, while I was in Ghana. I was at a conference, and he did Yoga every morning, and offered to teach anyone who wanted to learn. I had never been interested in Yoga before, I decided to open up though. I didn't keep it up after the conference though. I then visited him in India a few months later, and again practiced Yoga with him, and again did not keep it up afterwards. I met up with him this past summer, and once again, practiced Yoga with him. This time though, I have practiced a few times since seeing him.

I'm very slow at remembering the poses and the breathing patterns. Some of the come back to me in flashes, as I'm doing one pose, my body will suddenly remember the next. For some reason, I am not as flexible as I was this past summer. I am wondering if it is because I am missing poses that stretched me out more before I got to a certain one, or if running has tightened me up (or maybe some as yet unthought of third option). 

My mind is very impatient when posing. It is a great counter to running, where my body is moving over the ground with a certain amount of speed. I find myself wanting to speed poses up, and get through the Yoga, but that is not the goal. So I wait, and I focus, and I try to go through at an even pace. It was pleasant to practice with a thunderstorm outside.