As of May 28, 2009

32. Take a fitness class

My sister signed me up for Lululemon's Yoga Crawl yesterday and I did my first ever yoga class at Kula, downtown. I was a little uncomfortable when we first walked in. Everyone knew each other (mostly Lulu staff) and we had no clue what to do. We eventually got ushered into the tiniest change room (although, it was really beautiful), changed and went into the studio.

When I first got into the studio, my first thought was, "crap, I should have come here earlier to get the back row". But we found some spots close to the door and settled in. Good thing Jay had some idea of what to do, otherwise, we'd look real foolish.

Anyway, I slowly caught on to what each of the poses were. I was always half a step behind everyone else, glancing around at everyone to see what they were doing. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised by the class. I really felt all my muscles working and I have never sweat that much from working out, ever. I guess that's partially because the room was 27degrees as well. In sane. It was just challenging enough and I was able to push myself to do some of the (what I thought were) harder poses. I'm a little more flexible and a little more balanced than I thought.

All in all, it was a good experience and I'd definitely do it again for the work out. I was a little weirded out by the chanting, but other than that, it was good.

My favourite line of the day: "In yoga, everything is optional" haha