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I have re-tasked myself to get back into daily yoga. I miss it SO much and need to simply do it.

Today was *gorgeous* out so I went out on my back porch with my yoga mat and did about 20 minutes of very simple yoga. We're talking just stretching to the sky, trying to touch my toes, plank pose and that sort of thing. It is almost scary to me that I can NOT touch my toes now, when just 2 years ago I could put my palms flat on the ground. I know the flexibility will return but it really shows how important "staying with it" is.

I feel so nice and stretched and relaxed now! I forget how *good* yoga feels. I will make it my aim to do it daily from now on! I think the key for me is to do it FIRST before I sit down at my computer. Once I sit at my computer I see tons of mail messages that need to be worked on and then the next thing I know it it's 3am and I'm exhausted.

That's wonderful, Lisa! And, you are right, the flexibility will return again. Taking that special time every day is worth the effort and the juggling of work/home/you-name-it.

Stay healthy,
Nancy

I went out today again for some back porch yoga and it was so nice! I could touch my toes this time! I felt very happy about that. Flexibility returns if you work at it!

I definitely think it's best for me to do it right away. I did that back at noon and here it is 6pm and I have no idea where the time went. I've just been working and working.

I am so happy you are getting back to yoga, lisa. For some reason, when you do it, I do it.

he he he see we help each other out!

It is interesting to me how we all have different times of day that work out well for us. For me once I start working I just plow through because my backlog is so huge, and I only stop when I get exhausted. So I have to do the yoga first or it won't get done.

It was a little chillier today - about 48F - but I still went out to do my morning yoga. It was quite nice! I added in a new pose to my very simple routine. I think it's called the five point? It's where you stand in a star shape with your hands out, then turn your left foot out, and lean over to the left.

I am doing better about touching the ground

Modern is said to have begun by the young Swami
Vivekananda from India made a deep impression on the American he introduced to. Yoga masters began to travel to the west,

attracting attention and followers. In the 1920's, Hatha Yoga was strongly promoted in India with the life long work of T.

Krishnamacharya . Krishnamacharya traveled through India giving demonstrations of yoga poses and opened the first Hatha Yoga

School.

During the 1950s one of the foremost Yoga teachers of his time, Selvarajan Yesudian, wrote the book "Sport and Yoga", and it

was through this book Yoga entered the world of sports. Today we can observe many athletes and sports teams that has

incorporated Yoga in their injury reducing, strengthening and focus oriented training regimens.

In the middle of the 60s, Yoga got a real promotional boost when the Yogi Maharishi Mahesh taught Yoga to the famous

pop-stars in the Beatles. Many other artists and musicians where influenced to take up Yoga as well.

Yoga became especially popular in Hollywood when Russian born Indra Devi, opened a Yoga studio in Hollywood in 1947. She

taught movie starts like Gloria Swanson, Jennifer Jones and Robert Ryan, as well as educating hundreds of Yoga teachers.

That's great, Lisa! It's the Five Pointed Star pose, and have you ever used Yoga blocks? You can position them on the floor so you have something higher to touch. It can help.

Stay healthy!

Nancy
BellaOnline Yoga Editor

I do have a purple yoga block but I don't use it much.

It was rainy out today so I didn't do yoga this morning. Tomorrow I will be better - if it's rainy I will just set up upstairs. James is back with his Dad so I have my "yoga / meditation" room back again

What a gorgeous spring day today! I went out and did a half hour of yoga. I added in King Dancer pose, which is the one where you hold your foot in your hand behind you and stretch the other hand out in front of you. I also added some sitting leg stretches, like where you tuck one leg behind you and stretch the other leg out before you and try to lay back flat. That used to be VERY easy for me as a teenager, but it's less easy now