I love yoga. I love the idea of doing yoga. I love how I feel after doing yoga. So you would think that actually being motivated to do yoga would be a breeze right? Ha! Fooled you! While it's still easier to get myself to do yoga versus the much loathed exercise bike motivation does not come easy to me. Then I had a great idea. My boyfriend is pretty good about working out. All I had to do was convince him to do yoga with me and then if we did it together motivation would be easy-peasey. Right?

Erm...kinda? It took a wee bit of prodding but he was ok with the idea of trying yoga. We talk quite often about doing yoga. We'll often say that we'll do it at this time or the other time. In reality we've done a full yoga workout together once. In the last few weeks since I hurt my wrist (tendinitis - yay me!) we've barely even talked about it. I've kept up with my weekly yoga session at work (modifying poses as needed) but that was it. The visions of a combined weekly yoga workout did not materialize.

We had originally thought that a great way to ease Lee into yoga was by doing the poses on the Wii Fit. We thought that he'd do a few shorter yoga sessions on the Wii before we launched him into a full yoga workout with DVDs and mats. After watching his attempts on the Wii Fit I've decreed that he is not allowed to do yoga on the Wii Fit - at least not right now. It's all that fault of that dot inside the circle - you know the one that tracks your balance? Lee sees that as the Wii challenging him to a duel and well, he just can't have that. He contorts himself into positions that only have the smallest resemblance to the pose that he's supposed to be holding but I'll be darned if his balance isn't bang on according to that stupid circle. The exception to this is tree pose he makes a lovely tree (except for that time he fell off the balance board while in tree post - then he made a lovely shrub).

The one time we did do a full DVD yoga together it was fun. Really! It was! I mean, I'm always impressed with the inventive phrases that come out of Lee's mouth when he's swearing at other drivers but that pales in comparison to what he'll yell at a fitness instructor on the television. I think it gives him a good opportunity that to use some of the Hindi swear words he learned while working in India. I figure all that laughing is an added benefit for my abs. It's win-win! We'll probably always talk about doing yoga more than we do it but if we can laugh when we do it? Well, that's the best part.

Read more about couples/partner yoga:
Gaiam Life's advice for couples yoga:

Don't expect miracles.

If you begin a couples yoga class with an existing partner, talk with each other before going to the first class about what you want from this. Try not to let your expectations get overblown in terms of how the class can remedy any specific relationship challenges you're having. Go in with an open mind and heart — not with a sense that this is going to fix something, but a willingness to learn and grow together by sharing and connecting through yoga.

Will and Jessie go to a prenatal couples yoga class.

For the most part it was great and taught was some good ways to deal with labor and to work through the pain (or so she said) but there were of course funny moments. For instance when Will had to keep telling me to release my shoulders, my face, my legs...I got the giggles and when we had to be on all fours and press our heads together picturing how Gracie is going to feel.

Psychology Today blog - Improve Communication in Relationships With Partner Yoga.

Don't fear that your relationship is doomed if you can't do the poses perfectly. It's not about perfection, assures Carroll. "It's a process of working it out - there's no finished, perfect pose. It's about how you connect, cooperate, support each other and figure out the pose based on what works for the two of you."

The Blonde Leading the Blind: Why I Won't be Doing Yoga With My Husband Again.

Trying to talk the wrestling fan in your life into doing yoga? Tell them former wrestler Diamond Dallas Page not only does yoga but he wrote a book on it.

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