#16 Doubling Up!

I have done a few more things since my last blog that I had not done before. First of all I took another Hatha class from Brandy, who I just love her enthusiasm and great spirit. Because all of these yoga instructors have never had someone with a prosthetic take their classes before it is a learning curve for them also. At the end of class Brandy showed me a little bit of what I can expect when I attempt Power soon. YIKES!!! Am I really going to try power? YES I AM!!! I love that these instructors are challenging me to do new and sometimes scary poses in yoga. I just want to get better and to improve myself physically and mentally. Have I mentioned just how much I love yoga? ha ha ha

I then took another Hatha class from a brand new instructor to Spark Hot Yoga but definitely not new to teaching yoga. She is a great teacher and has been doing it around the puget sound area for awhile now. Plus she has great pirate jokes. ha ha. I think it is great for all of them to be exposed to me as much it is for me to try their classes. We all learn from this experience.

Since I had eye surgery today I thought I would double up last night and take two classes back to back from Christiana. I took a Hatha class first and then a Yin class right after that. I can really feel that I am sore today but a great sore. It just means I did something and I love it. During Hatha Christiana came over and said you are going to try something challenging our next Hatha class. It is where you balance on one leg, grab your foot.ankle and pull it up and behind you while putting your opposite arm out in front of you and learning out forward all at the same time. I said sure!! I am actually excited to try it my next class and to keep pushing myself. Speaking of pushing myself, during Yin she cam over and was thinking how I could pretty much do the splits and still support my residual leg without hurting it. She did it and then I duplicated it and came pretty darn close to doing the splits. Each time I try something new I get really excited. I love how they think outside the box for me and modify things to support what I can do. Just plain amazing!!! Christiana has been so amazing on my journey and I don;t think just how much she has meant to me. I think we met at a perfect time for this journey.

I have had some more people come up to me or wrote something about me on Facebook what an inspiration I am to everyone. It really makes me feel great inside that I can do that as that is pretty much the point of this blog. If I can do hot yoga, anyone can!! Please keep coming up and saying HI, that inspires me even more. BTW. Hello Carrie again. ha ha. I love these new friends I have met through hot yoga. Everyone is so kind and supportive and makes me feel so great inside.

Keep smiling and stay amazing!!

Namaste

Darin