My neck feels great! Could it be because I stopped yoga a year ago?

I started taking weekly yoga classes in the fall of 2008. Within a couple of months I began to have low-level, intermittent but annoying neck pain. Aspirin, ibuprofen, tylenol, and aleve all worked to relieve the pain. I assumed the yoga was the cause but I didn't want to give it up. And I thought that maybe my body would adjust. (Magical thinking.)

In January 2012 I stopped taking classes. A conflict came up with the class I had been attending for years but there are tons of options in this area so I could have managed. I didn't. I procrastinated. I just kept saying "I'll start again, when I feel like it." Now it's a year later. I almost never take pain meds for my neck and I'm back to not remembering that I even have a neck. (Which is nice, because I hate my neck. It's too long and floppy, like Alice in Wonderland when she's eaten a mushroom.)

I miss yoga, and I think it was good for my strength and balance and brain and a bunch of other things. What I should do, since I know the basic moves, is create my own routine, making sure I do only movements that put zero pressure on my neck. That leaves out a lot of moves but it could be done.  Even if I did it only once a week it would be something.  It's a thought. I'll file it with all the others.

I won't be stopping in but I pass this each Wednesday driving to my yoga class. Cute!

Another bit of easy yoga that doesn't involve doing very much.

Love her outfit!

A friend told me she didn't want to try yoga. Something about the floor. Try this. No floors involved.

Yesterday I took my first yoga class here in historic Greenbelt, MD (and maybe it's a placebo effect but I feel pretty damn limber today).

From MarylandHistoricalTrust.net:
The ... City of Greenbelt ... was established and expanded between 1935 and 1941 as one of three "green towns" founded by the United States government under the New Deal as an attempt to solve social and economic problems confronting the nation. ... Of the three towns, Greenbelt is the only one to still retain many of the original features such as the buildings and sections of the surrounding "greenbelt." Greenbelt also continues the concept of community responsibility as the majority of the housing is owned by a cooperative.