Day 10...Class 10

7:15am...Jennifer

Now it's time to try and tune out the moaning girl in the back...

I've been OK at the "Concentrate" part.. The "Meditate" part I'm still working on! I guess you've totally mastered the meditation aspect of class when you can focus and tune out the heat, the pain, the sweat, your costume having to be adjusted, the people falling out of postures around you, YOU falling out of postures, the heavy breathing when the new students are erratically breathing out of their mouths and they can't catch their breath, whether the fans are on or not, what you have to do that day, and I guess now to add one more thing... The moaning girl in the back.

I ate white flour and sugar last night... It was just a little side of rigatoni with our Sunday Italian dinner at Dad's and a small slice of homemade orange, honey, ricotta cheesecake(tell me you wouldn't have eaten it;)... But it's SO crazy how it makes you feel when you're not used to it! I had a slight headache and my stomach wasn't feeling quite right this morning, but when I got into class I felt a little better..

The temp was great today, hot enough to stretch and pull safely and still push myself. I felt like today was a great class. I felt a little nausea in Camel and I didn't do the second set.. Normally I love Camel. I couldn't get as far back today either because of my lower spine being so sore. I'm still trying to push, I want to get passed it and be able to engage my middle and upper back more and go deeper into the posture. I've been working on stretching my achilles tendon.. It's a challenge for me to pull my toes back in Standing Head to Knee, so I've been really trying to mimic that and work on it in Head to Knee with Stretching since we're on the floor. My Half Moon(going to the left) feels SO much more loose than it was and I can push my hips out farther, especially in second set. Being the first posture of the series, first set is a little tight.

I swear I'm completely deaf in my left ear at the moment from the sweat dripping into my ears:(... I'm going to get swimmer's ear drops that people recommended. Please work!

I felt like I deserved new yoga shorts today. They are cute as can be. It motivates me when I get new yoga gear:) Although, I might go broke and get fat after my challenge... I've been saying "Oh I deserve it because of my challenge!" Haha! I think I've committed myself to 3 or 4 dinners at Italian and Mexican places right after and things I want to get or do for myself! I crack myself up...

Corrections:
Tree(hips more forward)

"Don't take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."