Friday yoga

Yet another fly in the ointment this week: I couldn't run yesterday, because I had to get up at 0-dark-thirty to drive into Bakersfield for several lengthy meetings, so I had planned to run today instead. Then today, it's been snowing and raining off and on all day, not to mention I'm wrung out and tired from yesterday's meetings, so I skipped running.

Instead, I did a lovely 20 minutes or so of yoga, using a YOGAmazing video podcast I downloaded from iTunes. It was very nice, I love doing yoga. I am now downloading three more episodes for later. I subscribed to the podcast feed a week or so ago, but no new episodes have come out since then. There are quite a few episodes already up, though, and a number of other yoga podcasts available if this one runs out.

I found using the podcast to be the next best thing to going to an actual yoga class (and, in some ways, even better, since I don't have to leave the house to do it and can do it at my leisure). I can leave the iPod at my side or in front of me to conveniently grab whenever I want to watch the pose, or just listen through the earbuds if I'm familiar with the pose and don't need to look at it. Since I've taken yoga classes before and know the basics, it's easy enough to follow.

I've been thinking that I'd like to do some yoga as cross-training, and these video podcasts look like a very good way to do it. I will try to do one two or three times a week