Hello all! Today I bring you a post from Lisa at Just here, just now... from a few days ago. I think it is a great read!
How many of these can you relate to? (For me, 15,12,7,and 2)
Hope you enjoy it.... and check out more of her fine work! Namaste.
Let’s be honest, everyone lies on their blog.
O.K., that might be an exaggeration but only a slight one. Everyone leaves things out or pretties up the truth.
I realized something disconcerting the other day. My blog makes me out to be a pretty enlightened, kick-ass yogi.
So not true.
I am trying to be an enlightened, kick-ass yogi and that is why I write about the things I do. This blog has kind of become my version of those dorky manifestation boards. But between the back-bending and the advice (hey, she asked!) I am sort of strutting around here.
So, let me clear some things up and let you in on the ugly bits.
But first, here’s a photo of me falling down.
18. There are a lot of yoga postures in which I
look like a disoriented octopus, however, you will never see photos of
those. I only post pictures of the postures that look pretty and I can do kind of well. You will never see a photo of my awkward pose.
17. The yoga tops I like best are the ones that make my cleavage look good.
16. Sometimes I wiggle my toes a little and pretend to have a cramp so that the teacher will give me a little foot massage during savasana.
15. I have to set up my mat and towel on the other side of the room from a certain yogi at my studio because otherwise I spend my whole practice rolling my eyes.
14. Sometimes the only reason I go to yoga is because I want to avoid explaining to people why I didn’t go to yoga.
13. When I do yoga at home, I get bored in about 10 minutes and can’t think of any other postures to do. Then I sit on my yoga mat and watch TV for a half an hour so it feels like I did a decent amount of yoga.
12. If my husband is traveling, sometimes I am too lazy to shower after class and I just go to bed all sweaty.
11. For every 20 minutes of sitting meditation I do, I have spent the previous 10 minutes having a lively internal debate about whether or not I should meditate.
10. I’m envious of the people who come to the studio looking all cute and put together. I come to class looking homeless because I’m just going to get those clothes all sweaty, anyway.
9. Sometimes when I do Separate Leg Head to Knee pose I look up at the rolls on my belly and I think thoughts about my body that would not count as Loving Kindness.
8. When I go to other types of yoga studios I don’t take my Bikram yoga branded water bottle and when they ask if I’ve done yoga before I say “I dabble.” I am tired of getting shit for doing Bikram and I’m also worried they will expect me to be really good if they know I have a regular practice.
7. I think Rabbit pose is pointless. Probably because I have made zero progress on it in two and a half years.
6. Sometimes, Husband and I will be planning to go to yoga together and at the last-minute he has to work late. I’ll sigh really loudly and then say, “it’s O.K., no, no, I’ll stay home and we can have dinner together.” I make it seem like it’s for him but I am secretly glad and it feels like I just got a snow day.
5. I take a month off from my Bikram practice in the summer.
4. I get jealous when Husband gets a complement or foot walk from a teacher and I don’t.
3. I can’t do Dancer pose and don’t think I ever will even though I really, really want to.
2. I talk about going to teacher training but I worry I am just not strong enough and that my social anxiety will kick in with a vengeance and I will have to quit.
And finally, the number 1 reason I am a bad yogi – because I wrote this entire post in my head during class and then ran out after a very short final savasana so I could write it down on one of the little cards intended for anonymous comments.
Forgive me, Patanjali, for I have sinned.
Anyone else want to confess anything and help me feel not so alone in this?
How many of these can you relate to? (For me, 15,12,7,and 2)
Hope you enjoy it.... and check out more of her fine work! Namaste.
Let’s be honest, everyone lies on their blog.
O.K., that might be an exaggeration but only a slight one. Everyone leaves things out or pretties up the truth.
I realized something disconcerting the other day. My blog makes me out to be a pretty enlightened, kick-ass yogi.
So not true.
I am trying to be an enlightened, kick-ass yogi and that is why I write about the things I do. This blog has kind of become my version of those dorky manifestation boards. But between the back-bending and the advice (hey, she asked!) I am sort of strutting around here.
So, let me clear some things up and let you in on the ugly bits.
But first, here’s a photo of me falling down.
Failed photo-shoot. Falling out of standing bow…almost to my death.
18 Reasons I am a Bad Yogi
17. The yoga tops I like best are the ones that make my cleavage look good.
16. Sometimes I wiggle my toes a little and pretend to have a cramp so that the teacher will give me a little foot massage during savasana.
15. I have to set up my mat and towel on the other side of the room from a certain yogi at my studio because otherwise I spend my whole practice rolling my eyes.
14. Sometimes the only reason I go to yoga is because I want to avoid explaining to people why I didn’t go to yoga.
13. When I do yoga at home, I get bored in about 10 minutes and can’t think of any other postures to do. Then I sit on my yoga mat and watch TV for a half an hour so it feels like I did a decent amount of yoga.
12. If my husband is traveling, sometimes I am too lazy to shower after class and I just go to bed all sweaty.
11. For every 20 minutes of sitting meditation I do, I have spent the previous 10 minutes having a lively internal debate about whether or not I should meditate.
10. I’m envious of the people who come to the studio looking all cute and put together. I come to class looking homeless because I’m just going to get those clothes all sweaty, anyway.
9. Sometimes when I do Separate Leg Head to Knee pose I look up at the rolls on my belly and I think thoughts about my body that would not count as Loving Kindness.
8. When I go to other types of yoga studios I don’t take my Bikram yoga branded water bottle and when they ask if I’ve done yoga before I say “I dabble.” I am tired of getting shit for doing Bikram and I’m also worried they will expect me to be really good if they know I have a regular practice.
7. I think Rabbit pose is pointless. Probably because I have made zero progress on it in two and a half years.
6. Sometimes, Husband and I will be planning to go to yoga together and at the last-minute he has to work late. I’ll sigh really loudly and then say, “it’s O.K., no, no, I’ll stay home and we can have dinner together.” I make it seem like it’s for him but I am secretly glad and it feels like I just got a snow day.
5. I take a month off from my Bikram practice in the summer.
4. I get jealous when Husband gets a complement or foot walk from a teacher and I don’t.
3. I can’t do Dancer pose and don’t think I ever will even though I really, really want to.
2. I talk about going to teacher training but I worry I am just not strong enough and that my social anxiety will kick in with a vengeance and I will have to quit.
And finally, the number 1 reason I am a bad yogi – because I wrote this entire post in my head during class and then ran out after a very short final savasana so I could write it down on one of the little cards intended for anonymous comments.
Forgive me, Patanjali, for I have sinned.
Anyone else want to confess anything and help me feel not so alone in this?
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