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100Hour Challenge — Yoga
Plank.
Chatturanga.
Upward facing dog.
Pull back to down dog.
Take a rest here for five breaths…
These were the instructions from the yoga teacher walking around the room.
She was the most beautiful, kind and energetic person you can imagine. Closer to a goddess. So not trying your very best, was not an option.
Rest in down dog? I was thinking. Do you really call this rest???
About two or three breaths into the down dog, the sweat was already dripping.
My body was begging for mercy.
Starting out with yoga
Was this really how I wanted to treat my body?
Were all these people just constructed in a different way?
Did they not feel pain?
As en ex-footballer, who hardly ever focused on stretching, these type of weird body positions did not come naturally. Nothing was easy about them.
But staying in Bali, yoga seemed to be the activity that everyone was into.
