Yoga Dance! (Said in the voice of Dhalsim)

I've been practicing Yoga for about a month now and I'm getting better.  Today a new instructor started at the gym and he was straight to business.  He ran us through a couple of minutes of warm ups that left about thirty percent of the class sweating and then started the actual workout.

One of the most interesting experiences to have is to practice Yoga with different instructors.  Each Yogi brings their own personality and twist to the practice and I have never had two practices that were exactly alike.  I enjoy Vinyasa or Flow Yoga where the poses are held in short bursts and instead flow into other poses quickly like a dance.  I do think that I prefer what I call "power" Yoga better though.

Power Yoga involves many poses held for a great length of time.  There is a logical sequence to the poses, but not much in the way of variety.  The routine is repeated and the poses seem to focus on either upper body, or lower body strength depending on the instructor.  Today the instructor was working our arms in every pose from Warrior One, Warrior Two all the way to Warrior Three (which I have never done before tonight).  I prefer Power Yoga because I can get almost to muscle failure especially in my arms and if you have never experienced true muscle failure you should as long as you do it in a safe, well structured environment.
Yoga to me allows me to finally be silent.  I talk a lot and anyone who knows me knows this very well.  I talk to smooth, soothe and cajole.  I blab to excuse, entice and excite, but when I'm practicing Yoga, I can just be silent and listen to me.  I find a peace there that combined with vigorous exercise gives me such a sense of "everything is okay."  I need that feeling in my life.

Of course, I don't practice everyday, but I do find that any sort of vigorous exercise has that same effect on me.  I've always been an athlete and physicality touches every part of my life some way or the other.  I dance when I'm singing in the shower.  I dance when I'm walking to work (it also doubles as a defense mechanism) and I often give my downstairs neighbors a little bit of the "pound-pound-pound-what-the-hell-are they-doing-up-there" style of techno dancing.

I've gotten better at being sensitive to others and I don't wake up singing at the top of my lungs like a did a few years ago to the delight of my six other roommates I'm sure, but I do still enjoy a good ol fashion physical, musical, spiritual release.  I'm turning towards the simple pleasures more and more as I see the shortness and suddenness of this life.  I want to live every moment and if that's the case, I should supply a soundtrack.