yoga

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Date: 28 September 2004 11:07:22

Inspired by the health and safety man who told us that if we sit at our desks all day we will be crippled by the time we're 30, I have once again taken up yoga. I have a video that I used to use but had somehow got out of the habit, so yesterday morning I took it up again and did the "ten minute miracle" (for beginners) and the "yoga balances" section.
As always when I start doing exercise again, I walked to work feeling springy, virtuous and able to tell myself that I wasn't completely inflexible. Also as always, this morning was a different story. My arms hurt, and so do my calves, and when I slid the video back into the player this morning, I was feeling a whole lot less positive about it. But it was still ok, and I didn't fall over like i did yesterday (stand on one leg, put one foot on the other inner thigh, hands above your head and then try and bend over and touch the floor - recipe for falling over) - and I will force myself to do it again tomorrow. I long to be the sort of person who is effortless about these sort of things, but I can't see it happening.
In other news, I learnt about something called Open Theism, which I had never heard of before yesterday (I've obviously had a very sheltered life) I don't really know what I think about it - seems odd to me to think of God being surprised by stuff - maybe I'm more of a traditionalist than I think I am.

Today's cake is an apple and pear effort cooked by a colleague who bought a baking tin specially, and said it took an hour to clear up the kitchen after he'd made it. Yesterday's chocolate and kiwi cake was very good. I have devised a voting system so everyone in the office can feel included (except one, who said the whole place was turning into the Women's Institute).