Woke up with fatigued legs & altered plans in light of that.   Took one early hot class rather than two & took it easy.

How does one take a class easy?  First, leave off some of the “vinyasas” (colloquialism for half suns frequently done between poses or sets of poses).  (Though I tend to leave some of those out anyway in faster-paced classes — I don’t care for any overly quick transitions into backbends, including/especially Up Dog.  It’s bad for my back & bad for a lot of other people’s too, reading bodies & expressions.)  Second, don’t go as deep into poses, especially bent knee standing poses when the legs are tired!  Three, rest as needed in child’s pose or down dog or other pose appropriate to what’s going on.

Why take a class easy?  (As opposed to taking a day off.)  Well, for one thing, sometimes when you go to class when tired, it turns out to be a surprisingly excellent class anyway, in terms of what you learn, or how it makes you feel, or suddenly you get there & don’t feel tired anymore.  And, right now anyway,  it feels better for my body to do some movement rather than rest — it’s keeping things “lubed up” as it were.  I suspect if I took a full day off at the moment, the next day I’d feel MORE sore rather than less as things locked up.  Oh yeah, and there’s that whole stubborn/discipline thing that is useful to cultivate sometimes. 

Felt mentally & emotionally fab afterwards — even went & got a haircut at 9 am!!  Decided to embrace the fact that I have thick, wavy, uber-voluminous Big Hair & got bodacious amounts of long layers.  Thankfully, the stick straight fashion phase seems quite over & Beloved Husband is a child of the 80’s & deeply looooves Big Hair.