Yoga diaries

Do you believe in second chances?
I most definitely do. Also, I believe in falling in love twice. If you are following me on Instagram you can probably guess what I'm referring to: my renewed passion for yoga.

About three years ago I fell in love with yoga for the first time. I went to yoga classes, mainly hot yoga, and did some videos at home (Bob Harper: Yoga for the Warrior and Jillian Michaels: Yoga Meltdown). By the choice of these videos you can see that I was mainly concerned about burning calories and getting toned fast. Nothing wrong with that, but also not the main idea behind yoga.
As much as I loved doing it, I wasn't very consistent: I would skip weeks at a time, and never see the kind of progress I was hoping for. Eventually, the weeks turned into months, and then I abandoned the practice altogether.

Cue the awesomeness of the online community. My blog-friend Mary started her yoga journey about a year ago, and participates in all sorts of fun challenges on Instagram. Almost every day when clicking through her inspiring photos, I thought to myself: "I should get back into yoga".
Of course I didn't do it right away - it's been months and months of  vaguely thinking about it, but not actually doing it (a well-established and annoying habit of mine).
It wasn't until I came across Kino MacGregor on her YouTube channel that I got bitten by the yoga bug once again. And I got bitten hard.

It's as if something inside of me had been asleep for a long time - a yearning, a desire to treat my body the way it deserves - just waiting to be awakened. And now that it has, I feel more alive and passionate than I have in a long time!

With Kino as my teacher, the IG yoga community as inspiration, and my dogs as faithful companions and cheerleaders, this yoga journey is different than last time. It's about finding peace within myself, and to become the best version of myself I can be. Happy people spread happiness, and that's my goal!
To keep myself accountable and document my progress I will share my journey on the blog - but you saw that one coming, didn't you. ;-)

I'm still finding a routine, and it will surely change and evolve as I go along, but here are some of the poses I'm currently doing every day:

Downward facing dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)

Plank pose (Kumbhakasana)

Upward facing dog(s): Urdvah Mukha Svanasana

A tree amongst trees: Tree pose (Vrksasana)

Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)

Triangle pose (Trikonasana)

Dancer's pose (Natarajasana)

Camel pose (Ustrasana)

Wheel pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana)

Bow pose (Dhanurasana)

Crow pose (Bakasana)

Three-legged downward facing dog (Tri Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana)

Headstand pose (Sirasana)

Are you into yoga? Any videos/teachers/poses you love?

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