Creator: Ketut Subiyanto | Credit: Photo by Ketut Subiyanto

This was my first week doing my yoga everyday, and I realized a few things I’d like to share. Firstly, I will admit that I completely forgot to do yoga on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday hit and I felt so annoyed with myself that I’d forgotten. Regardless, I decided that I need to put yoga into my schedule (I always stick to my schedule), and also not be so strict with the amount of yoga I am committing to. When I give myself more freedom to spread out the yoga throughout the day and not be so rigid on the exact timing of it, I feel a lot less stressed and overwhelmed about it. I want to take this inquiry seriously and still aim for 15 minutes per day to see if yoga can give me benefits mentally, but I don’t think it can give me those benefits when I am stressed about fitting in doing the action itself. . The point of this inquiry is to see if I can lower my stress levels with yoga, so I don’t want to stress myself out more by putting pressure on myself to do things that sometimes just aren’t attainable.

When I did my first session on Wednesday, it was easy, because Wednesdays are my days off of school. I ended up doing 20 minutes instead of 15 since I had the time. Thursday rolled around though, and I was so busy that I felt stressed to fit in the yoga. I got home late and just wanted to go to sleep. I ended up doing 10 minutes instead of 15 that day, and I felt even more tired after the session, and I slept really well. Then I did my 15 minute sessions on Friday and Saturday, I felt especially relaxed and tired after. On Sunday, I did the yoga after my workout, which made me feel exhausted right after, but then energized after around 10 minutes. The point of sharing this information is that after almost all of my sessions this week, I felt very relaxed and pretty tired after. I have been doing my own yoga moves and not following any yoga videos, but I am wondering if I followed an energizing yoga video that maybe I would feel less tired after.

So the plan is to stick with a daily goal of 15 minutes, but to not stress if I do a little less one day. Next week I will try an energizing yoga video like this to do earlier in the day and see if my body feels more energized after!

I really liked hearing about my learning pod’s inquiry projects! Everyone’s inquiries are so different from one another’s and I am super interested to continue learning more about everyone’s findings. I am in a group with Emma (her inquiry is on growing her social media), Michael (his inquiry is on how reading affects our perspectives), and Rick (his inquiry is on how to be a better parent).