My recent attempts to get back into yoga have been anything but successful. The class times @ the gym are sucky and I don't like the instructor. I haven't tried my @ home yoga since we moved [which yes, was a long time ago] and I don't own Wii Fit yet, though I'm very interested in the whole competitive yoga thing. We have a very overzealous health and safety committee @ work...or rather, we actually *have* a health and safety committee [my old job did not. they didn't have HR either.]. We get internal e-newsletters I think every month and this month it included some exciting new exercises so this afternoon I took advantage of being all alone in my office and I did desk yoga.
The good news is that I did not manage to hurt myself. I seem to hurt myself doing just about everything these days. Honestly, it is a lot easier to relax @ this job than my old one. There is no constant screaming, which helps, and most days the person I share an office with is fine with me not putting on the fluorescent lights. So yoga is maybe not as necessary. I did three different exercises - all of which required me to remain seated. Good times. Good, lazy times. My favourite one was something like the corpse pose in regular yoga - but done in a chair. So, basically just sit in your chair and then pretend you've been shot or something - just slump on down, let your head go and relax...Feel the burn!
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Desk yoga sounds like fun. I'll have to try it the next time I realize I've been sitting still far too long. (I have to admit, though, that if I hurt myself it's far more likely to be doing something like yoga than something like boxing. Desk yoga should be OK, though.)
I dunno if Ottawa [I think you live/work in Ottawa?] has one of the crappy free Metro papers [they are all over the world]...but they feature an article on office yoga once a week I think. I'm pretty sure they are online as well.
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