Flexibility

In addition to my silks and lyra training, I've been taking flexibility. Now, I'm not bendy. Have never been, even as a child when most little girls can do the splits, I couldn't. And I'm not impressed with my progress photos. So I don't take them often. In fact, these two photos were taken by my teacher, insisting she saw progress. Yes, I have a bad attitude, but I just don't see anything to get excited about. I do try to focus on how it feels because if I focused on progress, I'd quit.

Puppy! This one feels nice.
I need to work on bringing my butt back to get my knees at 90 degrees.

Splits. She claimed I was near flat. I'm barely resting my hands on a tall yoga block. 

I wouldn't call that near flat. It's just an optical illusion.

Let's roll

Aly is an amazing teacher. She always tries so hard to think of some new, interesting move or transition to keep things spicy for me in fundamentals class.

But I have news! I've been itching to take intermediate classes again. Guess I'm just a glutten for punishment. I emailed the main lyra program manager about it, thinking she'd say I needed to wait. She didn't. She said she was fine with me returning. I have to wait until the next unit, which starts in mid-August. But yayness! I'm back in intermediate. Let's hope I can control the negative thoughts and comparisons this time.