Can't beat a good ol' tree pose

Today is Saturday, and somehow I am not hungover. Usually after my full week of punishing young Chinese children all I look for is a drink and a party. Lately I haven't been feeling that. Just not wanting to feel like a bag of shit on Saturdays I guess, but maybe it is something else.

Since I was around 14 years old I started weight training for hockey. I was a tall skinny fellow that needed to put on some beef. Biking, plyometrics, and painful lifting sessions instilled in my mind that this was the only way to get my BODY into shape. It did, but no matter how hard I worked, I just didn't feel like I was satisfied. So for the past decade, wow I said decade, I have been training for 10 years! I never realized that until I just typed decade, oh my...Anyways for the past DECADE I have been training specifically for hockey in the only way I knew how, to punish yourself.

When I first arrived in Taiwan up until about just over a month or so ago, Weather it be on the treadmill or lifting weights, I had still been trying to punish myself. At the gym where I go to (World Gym) they have all of these classes where you can do variety of things that fit your taste. Well I have a friend here, her name is Lisa, she introduced me to this one class, Yoga. I have been going to the yoga classes for the past month now and I feel refreshed after going to the gym, not beaten down. I have always heard about yoga before but I thought it was for girls or for hmmmm ummm feminine men.

I was wrong. It involves a lot of stretching and deep breathing to relax the body, all the meanwhie you are working your ass off. It is pretty tough at the moment even though we're really only doing beginner exercises. I am not even nearly as flexible as most of the other people in the classes but hopefully one day I will be. I have also been having this feeling of calmness over my BODY and MIND. Yoga not only exercises your body, but exercises your mind as well. So far I have been sold on it. I feel great inside and out. Oh except last week I went out on the friday on a binge, and on Saturday morning at 10 I had yoga. Well I felt like shit and was so unfocused during the session, that it almost wrecked my day. I was disapointed that I didn't have proper form and the proper mind set. Dave-o out.