Weekly Training Recap

Tuesday I joined Emily at barre for our somewhat usual class. It was a lot of fun and I'm finally starting to feel strong in the plank series. #progress

Wednesday morning started at 4:45 for me with my first class of the ashtanga series I signed up for. We went through the primary series with some abbreviations for time, and it was an awesome way to start my day. Let's just say this frenchie is way better at this asana than I am.

Wednesday night I hit barre again and it almost killed me. Back to back days PLUS a class taught by Andrea on day 2 will kill most, I think. Woof.

Thursday I skipped my usual sculpt class to let my body rest up for weekend 3 of yoga teacher training, and to enjoy a beer and some cheese balls with Kyle at happy hour. #priorities Or just lazy, not sure which.

Friday morning started off with another crack at the primary series of Ashtanga. It is painful to get up that early, but once we start class, there's no where else I'd rather be at 5:30am than on the mat. 

Friday after work was my first experience with kundalini yoga. If you've never tried it, find a class! It's so different and awesome. I'll share more in my yoga teacher training weekend recap. Way cool.

Saturday we started our yoga teacher training with a power flow based on the five elements. 

Later in the day we did a yin yoga practice as well.

Sunday I spent hours doing and teaching yoga. Seriously. I think there was maybe 90 minutes of non yoga during the day, including lunch. Thank god for vacation and rest days!

Ashtanga Yoga Series

A couple of weekends ago, during yoga teacher training, I got to experience my first attempt at ashtanga yoga (or astanga yoga, I'm still not sure which spelling I'll land on), and it was fun and challenging. One of the instructors at the studio I go to recently started a Monday night class, but since I work Monday evenings, I can't attend. Womp.

Luckily for me, she recently announced a 6 week Ashtanga series at a dance studio really close to my apartment. Unluckily for me, these classes aren't included in my monthly yoga studio membership. Womp. The classes are at 5:30am, and while that's earlier than I like to wake up, I find that if I do it consistently, it's much easier than just a random day or two each week of 4:45am wake up calls. There are classes at the studio on Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30am that I could attend to make my bedtimes/early wake up more consistent during the week!

I'm excited and terrified to get my ashtanga on!

If you're in the area and want to sign up, there's still time; classes start Wednesday and there are drop in rates if you can't commit to the full time. Shoot me a message and I'll get you details!*

Has anyone else practiced ashtanga regularly? I'm excited to give it a go. #alltheyogaplz

*Disclosure: I'm not receiving any compensation for promoting these classes and will be paying the full fee as normal. I just want to promote the classes because the world would be a better place if more people found bliss on their yoga mats!