Back To Hatha (Second Try)

I’m still trying to manage my time and make everything I want and need to do fit into the tight schedule of studying several things at once. The return to yoga I planned in August didn’t turn out as I expected, mainly because I started a four months course in a community college and had to readjust my schedule to having to go there 5 days a week three hours per day; but at least I didn’t forsake my weight lifting training.

 

Yesterday the last day of my most recent payment for one month at the gym ended and so today I am beginning a new hatha-yoga season.

 

It’s nice to have the muscles toned and to be feeling well for the weight lifting training, but I feel that not doing yoga and progressing in that endeavor too (like I have been doing for the last seventeen years) disconnects me from my higher self.

 

Weight lifting is so enlivening and fun to practice, that even when I put myself the limit of doing only mid-bore workouts I forget and sometimes one or two full-bore workouts slip in a month’s schedule, this has to be controlled because it really tires me.

 

Now I’m waiting one week to reboot my weight-lifting, and so, I am aiming now to at least 6 (aiming at 7 really) consecutive days of hatha after waking up, before I return to the gym.

 

Once returning I have to have the drive to combine the two practices; intertwining them. It’s not I can’t because my body is taxed (being tired is good because I sleep and that makes me grow), it’s because doing any of the two all the time, every day either of the two is quite a time sink against study and work.

 

I’m kind of ashamed that for many months now I’m going through a phase when I can’t keep up with yoga, while this isn’t the case with the gym, it’s disappointing anyhow.

 

2012 hatha fiasco:

 

Jan: 1 (session)

Feb: -

Mar: 4

Apr: 5

May: 1

Jun: -

Jul: 3

Aug: 2

Sep: (about to begin)

 

2012 gym workouts:

 

Jan: 9

Feb: 6

Mar: 5

Apr: 2

May: 6

Jun: 5

Jul: 2

Aug: 3

Sep: 6 + maybe another one or two

 

Overall except for January, all the other months I didn’t achieve the quota of combined 12 days per month exercise bare minimum, which sucks… I just needed to be presented with how uncaring I was,  like now I took the work to record and see it for what it is.