I have been spending quite a bit of time recently trying to fit in 3 or 4 sessions of yoga a week – in fact, on one occasion I did 5 days in a row.  I have to say I am not very good at it, but I do think it is very good and it certainly helps get you to a more peaceful state in the day, if only for a few hours, after doing it.  It is also one of those things where, without being able to explain it eloquently, you just feel that it is something your body needs.  When you have done a few sessions and you don’t go for a few days, you get that sense that your body is aching for you to go back.

On a more funny side I sometimes idly theorise that yoga has been made popular by women simply to illustrate how useless men are at some types of strength!  In theory it must be something that involves strength, but I find that the men in a class are almost always the most useless.  There are ladies who are in far worse outward physical shape than some of the male participants in the class, but they can still support the entire weight of their body on their hands and do all sorts of other tricks that most of the men are absolutely struggling with.  I go to every class with comfort knowing that, unless there is another man in the class, I am already going to be the most useless person in the entire class and so there is certainly no actual pressure on me!  - and no, of course I don’t do things like headstands – I struggle to balance on one foot standing up in the first place, let alone standing on my head!  Yoga, like golf can do sometimes as well, is pretty good at putting you in your place until you get a little bit more skilled – at which point no doubt there will be other tricks and classes that will put your right back to the bottom again.