Om~

Our local yoga studio occasionally offers a work-trade that they call "karma yoga" which involves you helping out in the studio in exchange for class time.  Being a stay at home mama and therefore working very hard for no financial compensation, I was quite interested and just recently got on board.  Yoga was part of my daily routine while I was pregnant and I so looked forward to it, even when I could barely see my toes.  And now?  Well now my body is feeling pretty ragged and kinked from carrying an ever increasing weight on my hip and spending hours every day hunched over, squatting, or crawling after Claire.  I know that's just how it goes, that it's much easier to take good care of yourself when you are pregnant and that little one is still tucked away than it is once they are out in the world with you needing to be fed and diapered and played with and loved.  Gone are my monthly massages and daily yoga practice.  But now that we are nearly a year into this adventure, I'm going to get them back!  Perhaps not monthly massages, but surely regular yoga and massages when finances allow.  Mama needs tending to, too.

*update: I attended my first class as part of my trade and it was wonderful! A Gentle Restorative class in which I was (with 1 exception) the youngest by decades....I left feeling centered and quite gently restored.  I think I'll stick with this slow and gentle class for a couple more weeks and then jump into some hot flow classes.  Something about Winter and 90 degree yoga sounds delicious, doesn't it?