Today I took my first Vinyasa yoga class. That means flow yoga. I haven't had that much exposure to yoga in general, but I think it's a pretty good deal whether you're holding poses or sweating from jumping between downward dog and cobra every five minutes.
This class was a good mix of both of those- although it was just the first class so I'm not so sure what is in store.
It was an hour and a half, doing a breathing warm-up, going through many sun salutations, warrior poses one through three, and then a cool down of lying and concentrating and breathing.
My thoughts:
This type of yoga specifically doesn't make you perfect poses. It's about moving between them. Which is good and bad for me- good because I don't have to feel like I'm falling over when my left hand is in front of my, my right leg is extended back, and I'm balancing on a wandering ankle. Bad because I don't get to try to at least experience more than a half minute of the poses which I would like to try and do better eventually.
I liked that things were interesting, the instructor was good, explained well, and I felt like I was doing the right thing.
The one thing I'm pretty sure I'm not doing right is downward facing dog. First of all, my hands and feet both want to slip off of the yoga mat- outward. So I compensate for that by tucking/walking my hands closer to my feet when we go into that pose- which I'm sure we're not supposed to do.
Things to work on!
About the recital.
Had another painful runthrough with my accompanist today. She will just not take any input about tempi. She doesn't know my Mozart. I am just kind of over it. I'll sing well no matter what, and whatever tempo she chooses will hopefully not mess me up vocally.
In terms of strauss, I think I am deciding to stick to three, not four of the Brentano's. With the extra stress from the accompanist (the brentano accomp. is different and wonderful thank goodness), I have to pay attention to the pieces I KNOW! Which is not what I counted on. Less time to learn pieces I don't know in two weeks and two days.
Waaa.
I'm finished complaining.
-g
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