YJCO 2011 – Day 2

Let me say that the butt class yesterday was fantastic and I ended the day solidly with Gary Kraftsow’s neck and shoulders session, but I did not plan my Saturday well.

1. Post butt class, it’s maybe not the brightest thing to sign up for Baptiste heated power yoga with Baptiste himself first thing the next morning. That session KICKED MY ASS.

2. Second session with Tias Little was great and a kind of restorative class, but when it hurt to roll over onto my side out of savasana it was VERY clear that I hadn’t worked out all my butt-soreness issues. I HAD, however, compounded them with renewed shoulder soreness from the previous morning’s inversions multiplied by Baptiste vinyasa.

3. Apparently several months ago when I registered for the conference, I was feeling invincible because I had requested ANOTHER Baptiste session as my third of the day. No way, no how. My butt was better but not BAPTISTE better.

4. Before lunch I changed my last session to one on stretching physiology which was pretty great.

Tomorrow we’ve got a closing session at 8:30 that will include some Baptiste vinyasa and then my final session of the weekend is Meditation for the Love of It. It’s a two hour session and I am a bad meditator, so this is the ‘scary’ thing I signed up for in the conference.

It’s really been a great experience overall. I’ve been joking about how yoga conferences are like The Craft but with less dead sharks and more hugging, but it’s not too terribly off the mark. Everyone comes in looking to be hopeful, which is then self-fulfilling, so you’ve got a bunch of happy, hopeful people who want to feel better and help other people feel better. And there are invocations where people call the corners. Still, there are worse places to be.