bikram

for my birthday this year peter gave me a gift certificate to bikram yoga. unfortunately at the time I was cooking a little guy in my belly and even though they had a "pregnancy corner" I didn't feel comfortable exposing him to 100+ degree heat for 90 minutes at a time. maybe if I had already been a regular it would have been one thing, but that room is intense enough for me sans baby, I can only imagine how it would feel with baby.

anyway.

so recently I busted out the gift certificate and have rededicated my life to bikram yoga. I'm hoping that by loosening and opening up my body it will take some pressure off my nerves and lower back, thus speeding up the healing process. we shall see.

the up side to bikram is that the latter part of the series of postures are all supposed to work on the spine. the down side is that those postures involve sitting on your knees or laying on your stomach which places the top of my foot, the most hyper sensitive part, directly on the floor. so I'm not even getting the full effect of the spine series. today I wore a shoe during those poses and it helped--I was able to do more of them than last time--but it was still a little painful. hopefully one day that won't be the case.

I have three more sessions left on the gift card. maybe after that I should buy a pass. this will be my rehab. too bad it's uber expensive.