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PennyK

(2,300 posts)
22. Six months in and I love it!
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 10:03 AM
Dec 2013

Totally un-fit mid-sixties woman here. Last time I got together with my daughter, she yelled at me but good, and told me to start yoga (she happens to be a trained instructor but lives 1,000 miles away). Well, I am taking two easy classes a week and it's just wonderful. On the days I don't have class, I do about 15 minutes of poses and then read Stephen King on my recumbent bike for 25 minutes.
Two important things that I've learned from class, which I don't think were stressed here, are to Breathe! and to really relax everything in Corpse Pose.
I'll be visiting that daughter this week and I can't wait to do some stretches with her!

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