The Listening Act of Yoga

So just got done with my Tuesday Beginner Yoga class. Justin didn't go tonight since he said he was still super sore from last night's "easy" class.

Tonight was a more standard kind of hard (not sneaky like Monday's) and we did things like crescent  and one legged dog. I find those very hard, especially back to back. My legs aren't shaking as much any more though so I feel like that is an improvement.

Also, I started really listening to how teacher my teacher talks us through yoga poses and I feel like my crescent and one legged dog poses are more stable (that could also be due to the strengthening of muscles, though). But she said things like "push through your heel" for crescent and "push your heel towards the wall" for one legged dog. When I started to follow those instructions I felt I performed the poses better. See differences below:

Without pushing heel back

With pushing heel back

Without pushing heel back

With pushing heel back

 I don't know guess you can tell this but I'm much more stable when I'm focusing on pushing my heel back in these poses. It's like I'm forcing my wobbly-ness out through my heel. Yay!