Yoga progression: How to turn into the future version of yourself (and stay motivated)
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About yoga boredom
When I started practicing yoga a number of years ago, I was often really bored in yoga classes.
The Bikram yoga classes were particularly hard on the boredom level (90 full minutes and then the same series every time).
But I kept going because it was quite clear to me that I was onto something.
The thing was that I had gotten some very stiff shoulders due to really long hours at my keyboard with many, many article deadlines every week. And I would completely forget about my body for those hours and just exist inside my head and inside the words. And I had shoulder and back massages quite often, because I had to, but skilled masseurs are expensive, and I could also sense that I probably had to go deeper into the shoulder issue and not ‘just’ doing body treatments
– even though I really like body treatments (and I also expanded my regime with body-sds and acupuncture and reflexology.)
So: Yoga.
And while I was forcing myself to go to yoga classes (yes, forcing myself), I often thought:
“What if I get to a point where I actually LOVE coming to yoga. What if I get to the point where I feel like an hour-long yoga class just flies by?”
Well: I just had a class like that this week.✨
I’ve turned into the imagined future-version of yoga-chriszka, who is just like ‘wow, that was a great class’ and ‘whoa, are we done already’.
I’ve always had a very holistic idea of how much my mood and health is connected to the physical flow in my body, and how much a certain point on the bottom of my feet is connected to my liver which is connected to a tight muscle in my inner thigh which is connected to my eyes etc. etc. etc. But I STILL felt really bored in MANY yoga classes in the beginning.
So a big thank you to chriszka-of-the-past for getting up and going anyways – and keeping at it.
Yoga HAS become so much more fun now.
And seriously: If you need motivation for sticking with your own yoga practice (or just motivation to get started), my mats might be the perfect match for you. They will keep your eyes entertained: https://chriszka.myshopify.com
