It's 45 minutes of gentle poses and half an hour of finding new ways to lie comfortably while a kind person covers me with a blanket. It's very soothing.

YASSSSSS.

while a kind person covers me with a blanket

How do you not fall asleep? Conversely, how do you not lock up in constant vigilance over having that much attention paid to you?

How do you not fall asleep? Conversely, how do you not lock up in constant vigilance over having that much attention paid to you?

When both urges exist in perfect balance with one another, then you have found your centre.

So, my center is that moment when you're falling asleep but you suddenly jerk awake for no reason? That sounds about right.

I'm with you, Zen, I'd be saying "Thanks, I've got it, no, really, I've got it."

How do you not fall asleep? Conversely, how do you not lock up in constant vigilance over having that much attention paid

I think I did fall asleep once. The end of class chime woke me up. There are several other students, so attention gets diffused. And the room is really quiet, and I'd hear if any of the others got up, so it still feels pretty safe.

I went back to yoga for the first time in a while last week. The substitute instructor pretty quickly sussed out that none of us (in Beginners' Yoga) were actually new to yoga (mostly we just weren't quite ready to move on yet). I can't tell if she thought that meant we could do more or if she was actively trying to punish us for taking the wrong class, but boy did I hurt for the next couple of days!

I tried "lullaby yoga" a few weeks ago. But I didn't find it very soothing until the last few minutes...and then that was gone when I left into the cold rainy night!

I loved yoga a few decades ago and was in a hot yoga class in Fort Lauderdale for a long time. FL hot yoga is a new level of hot, but it does seem to make the muscles happy. I've tried it a few times in the last couple years, but it is too frustrating with my bulk. I am still flexible, but body parts are in the way. They have a class at my gym that I'll try again in the fall.

I need to start exercising again. ltc is getting heavy, and I'm hurting at the end of the day.

Yesterday was a really good day. ltc took two naps, I was able to get dinner in the crock pot, and I got out of the house to grab some books at the library with outdoor clothes on and even lipstick. This, and maybe some energy to read at the end of the night, is really all I can ask for from my daily life.

This afternoon the in-laws are coming over to play with ltc and are staying for dinner. I'd like to figure out something to make which aren't the two or three things I make every time they're here, and when I got out to do errands while they stay with ltc those errands might have to include finding a quiet place to read a few chapters.