Lately got back into hot yoga. I feel fortunate to easily remember most of the postures. I find myself surprised at my muscle memory sometimes. I’ve been doing yoga since I can remember, as my mom was a yoga teacher when I was a kid and often used yoga as a way to help me relax and sleep at night. Later on in high school I found hot yoga and began taking classes three times a week in addition to working and taking night classes at a local college. I often refer back to these times wondering how a high schooler could go to college, work part-time and find time to do yoga three times a week. But now looking back I believe the yoga made it possible. It taught me to persevere, challenge myself and how to strictly concentrate.
Now at the age of twenty-nine I find myself back at it. I notice that I’m not quite as flexible as I was at sixteen and to be honest not in that good of shape either. But for some reason by the third class back I was able to do almost all the poses in almost a deeper way then others who look like they’ve been doing it for years. I found myself asking the question is it genetic or is it that I started learning at a very young age. I believe its the later and I’m very thankful to have begun so early.
After writing this posted I listened to this awesome podcast called: Learning, Doing, Being: A New Science of Education.
