{"id":5430,"date":"2011-01-13T22:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2011-01-28T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:12:26","slug":"from-moms-journal-trying-hot-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/from-moms-journal-trying-hot-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mom&#8217;s Journal&#8230; Trying Hot Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to my first hot yoga class. This morning I went to my second. Tomorrow will be my third and then I&#8217;ll take a day or two off.<\/p>\n<p>I had been thinking about it for years but, at 90 minutes, the classes seemed too long for me to want to work in and have to push something else out. I&#8217;ve enjoyed yoga off and on for about 10 years, but had not made the jump to the hot stuff. And, aside from the time, I have always been leery of trying a new yoga studio for fear of any groovy, non-Christian stuff that might emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning a friend shared with me that a studio somewhat near us is now offering &#8220;express&#8221; classes at 50 minutes. It had been months (maybe a year) since I had been to yoga at all.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the studio website and decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>And I am so glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p>It was HOT in there and I sweated like it was July in Houston&#8230; except it was by choice this time.<\/p>\n<p>The studio was great. The instructors were fantastic at explaining the poses and reminding newbies when to take it easy. And I barely noticed my cellulite in the mirrors. Plus it was all exercise and relaxation&#8230; Nothing groovy or anti-Christian at all.<\/p>\n<p>I think I just might schedule my Bible reading right before my classes for awhile so that I can reflect on my reading while I stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I am starting to feel a tad bit sore in a few new places. Hopefully tomorrow will stretch me back out again.<\/p>\n<p>And hopefully I&#8217;ll get the hang of it and see (and feel) some great results. I&#8217;m throwing myself in for a month as I ease back into MS150 cycling training. Then we&#8217;ll see what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>Just had to share in case anyone has any tips&#8230; Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to go drink a big glass of water and relax!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to my first hot yoga class. This morning I went to my second. Tomorrow will be my third and then I&#8217;ll take a day or two off. I had been thinking about it for years but, at 90 minutes, the classes seemed too long for me to want to work in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-beauty","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6078,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}