Mommy Melinda: 10 minutes do matter! After six years, I lost some weight, my vericose veins disappeared, I have a better stamina and more energy!
MomYoga Club became a part of my life at the exact perfect moment: I had been on maternal leave for 6 years, and I had missed doing exercise a lot. Before the birth of my children, training had been an active part of my life (I did ballet, folk dance and horse riding); however, the injuries I have suffered during the years (two scarring muscles around my right shoulder blade, a stiff neck muscle and a 14 cm long opened abs after giving birth to my twins) limits my opportunities pretty much. Also, I did not have the time to go to proper training sessions, and as I have a good knowledge of my body, I have been interested in yoga as an exercise routine, especially that I had never done anything similar before.
It’s great that it takes only a short period of time; we can always find 10 minutes every day for training, many stiff muscles can be mobilised again (and so I do not get up every morning like a defeated army). I’m more energetic and have better stamina, and I have lost weight (but not from breasts :)). That 10 minutes is really about focusing to my internal world: I started to love myself more, though I’m not content with everything, but the “augh” feeling has disappeared. I also became more conscious in a number of areas (time management, planning, subsistence selfishness a.k.a. leave me alone for 10 minutes, dissolving in the here and now. I am becoming more and more sure that our relationship with ourselves and the world are decided in our minds, which means we can have an effect on it, and I’m also more relaxed and patient.) “Only” there things have changed; maybe I shouldn’t have put them into parentheses. 🙂
Nadi Shodanam, the secret magic weapon during the day
I have got to love it very much: breathing focus in the morning and evening to refresh my brain and to help quiescence. I just start to be better at Sun salutation as finally I can do it without panting and gazing at my phone. 😛 I usually do meditation when I am at the ends of my strength and cannot even move; in other words, I do not do yoga then, but lying goes well when I need to turn off my brain. This visualisation thing may also be an important thing as well, I’m still working on solving it.
I have been monitoring myself for weeks: I had ugly purple, palm-size varicose veins on both of my thighs. It is a folk dancer illness, and my pregnancy with the girls did not do any good to it, either. But: the purple colour is fading, and the affected area is getting smaller 😀 😀 😀 despite doing the same amount of house work and running around, so I can only “blame it on yoga”. I’m really glad about it! 🙏🙏🙏
