{"id":94,"date":"2012-07-30T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:46:49","slug":"yoga-is-a-balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Is A Balancing Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last week’s classes, we focused on balance. Yoga<\/strong> is a great tool to increase<\/strong> your<\/strong> balance<\/strong> and restore your balance<\/strong>\u00a0it if it’s gotten away from you.<\/p>\n

When I first started taking yoga classes, my balance was way off.<\/strong> I had always had really good balance. Anytime I’d go through a parking lot, I’d turn the sidewalk edges and cement parking stop thingies into my personal “balance beams” and boogie on across them with a big grin and no problem. However, it got to where I could not balance! Ugh! How frustrating! After taking yoga classes for a while, I noticed that my balance was back<\/strong> and I could have fun on my parking lot “balance beams” again! Whoohoo!<\/p>\n

One of the cool things about yoga is that what you do in class translates to your life. So, as I was learning balancing poses in class, it was building balance back into my body, mind and life!! Yeeeehaaaaw y’all!!<\/p>\n

I now use balancing poses as a barometer for my life.<\/strong> If I’m all wobbly, it tells me my life is a bit (or a lot) out of balance, so I need to practice my yoga more to bring all of me back into balance. And you know what? It works every time!<\/p>\n

Yoga builds balance in so many ways – here are just a few:<\/p>\n