Showing up

Day 11

I am so surprised how easy it is to get to class every day, compared to how it is when I have not committed to do 30 days in a row. Where did my reasons NOT to go to class go? Seriously? I am wondering where all those things I had to do before went. I am starting to worry a bit. I asked my friends, coworkers, and family: is there something I am missing?
It feels so great to get to do yoga every day. It really feels like I am making myself my own top priority. Today in class, my teacher Audrey was talking about how morning classes are the best. She reasoned that nothing in the day could possibly seem any harder than the class you did first thing in the morning. I think that this is true for people who do not do yoga: doing 90 minutes of yoga in a hot room SEEMS like a hard, impossible task. In fact, it is the opposite. It is 90 minutes of feeling really good about yourself and being surrounded by lots of happy people. I have rarely heard somebody in the studio being hard on themselves or lacking self esteem. The worst news you hear from fellow yogis is that they had a tough class; we have all been there so we all sympathize.
So it is not the doing of the yoga that is hard, it is the getting to the yoga that is the real feat. As Woody Allen said, in a quote that I try to live by: "eighty percent of success is showing up."