How my Saturday mornings improve my life.
Most every Saturday morning I go a Methodist church to attend my advanced yoga class. Someone once said to me that they heard that yoga relaxes you. To which I replied, “Yes, the pain keeps you from thinking of anything else.” And, it’s good for you, too.
Anyway, me and 3 to a dozen women pay a five-two, sixty year old, woman $10 a session to beat the carp out of us. It’s wonderful. I’m sure it’s part of the same psychology that keeps me going back to business start-ups. I’ve been doing this for 11 years now, which means that the class I attend is an “advanced” yoga class. This means to get what a beginner gets from 10 minutes and a few basic poses now takes me 90 and a half-dozen moves that have many of the women in the class saying “What the fuck?”
It is corny to say that yoga saved my life, but it did. I see guys my age hobbling around and I know it’s because they have bad hamstrings. I see much older people with walkers because their muscles have atrophied. Yoga will prevent that sort of thing from happening. I expect to do a yoga routine on the day I die. It just makes my quality of life better.
I’m Catholic. About two years ago I saw an article by some priest about how yoga was anti-Catholic because it added to the “cult of the body.” Well, if you have a large enough group of people you get a few idiots. To this guy, somehow taking good care of yourself was a sin. Well, count me in, because if my body is in good shape I can contribute more to society. I can be more productive.
Anyway, if your a boomer, or not, give yoga a try. Now, you have to try it for 6 weeks straight before you can say if it’s for you or not. Anything less and you’re just wimping out.
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2 opinions for How my Saturday mornings improve my life.
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Oct 31, 2007 at 7:40 pm
[...] me, but I’ve resisted. Then I read Jim’s article at Small Business Boomers about how yoga has saved my life. I’m rethinking my [...]
Dean
Oct 31, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I am with you brother. Have been doing yoga for almost 4 years now. I agree … it saved my life.
Namaste.
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