1. When I'm practicing yoga I am not thinking about how fat I feel or how giant I am in comparison to the other yogis in my class. I feel strong and powerful and as I'm moving about my mat I feel myself growing stronger.
2. While I still have a long way to go towards improving my posture I've noticed that I carry myself taller when I walk. When I stand still I am aware of my lower body strength and notice that I don't slouch into myself as much.
3. I learn something new in every single class. Sometimes it's a new pose, sometimes it's a new way of getting in or out of a pose and sometimes it's something that the teacher will say that brings an aha! moment.
4. When faced with a new pose I don't immediately think "I can't do that!" or "I don't know if I bend that way!" I jump in and try the pose without hesitation. Sometimes I fall over, sometimes I discover that my body won't bend a certain way and sometimes it comes easily. But I always try.
5. I can be in the worst mood or totally stressed out before yoga class. By the time I get through class I am calmer and more focused and whatever was making me super grumpy has faded away.
. . . And one reason I don't like yoga so much:
It's been 4 1/2 years since I broke my elbow and it still hurts to put my entire body weight on my right arm. It hurts just to put bend my right arm with any body weight on it. The nice thing about yoga is that there are modifications for everything so I can alter the pose sequences as needed to protect more poor little elbow.
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