Anti-Gravity Yoga

A friend of MP's talked about taking this anti-gravity yoga class and it piqued my interest. So, yesterday I decided to try out a class. Anti-gravity yoga is yoga that involves a hammock, where you can do some aerial moves as well as hang upside down and really get some good stretching in.

So those are the hammocks -- it's 9 feet worth of material. It was really different. You could use the hammock as a bar, as resistance and good leverage. We hung upside down -- the first inversion -- for a good five minutes -- or at least it felt like that. I was losing sense in my legs and with all the blood rushing to my head I was getting very dizzy. I couldn't do any more of the inversions because I was already really dizzy and feeling a bit sea-sick. The best was this cocoon position at the end where you basically lie down flat in the hammock. I dozed off there!

I'm going to try it again. This time eating before I go -- hopefully that will help and I'll be less dizzy.

I know it felt like a good workout, and I'm sore today. Always a good sign in my book.

In other news, I went for a run this morning. Only 3.5 miles, but at least I got in a run before the 90 degree weather hit. I didn't use my Garmin. Instead I tried the GPS version of Map My Run app. I've been enjoying it a lot. It seems more on point than the Nike+ GPS.