The Muse and friends in Gavadona, Lake Como Italy.
This is a relatively new thing for me - I'm not a yoga teacher by any stretch (F**k I'm funny) of the imagination, as always I talk about what works for me.
I didn't even call what I was doing Yoga for the first six months, too many images of hairy arm pitted, sanctimonious..... god knows what were conjured up in my mind. This is how it started for me, I found a book when I was staying on 'the Island' with the Doc, called 'The Supple Body' this appealed to me, really simple stylish pics, 10,20,30 minute sets. I photographed the pages that spun my wheels and started......and didn't stop!
From there I faithfully do at least 20 mins every morning - (or more, or a class), I do it early before the household stirs, and I have to talk to anyone, or think.
SET THE SCENE
What to wear
Anything you like, but for me any excuse to buy some new kit is good, I love poo pants and the more ballet style tops (maybe its a throw back many years at the barre as a child). My favourite site for Yoga wear is /www.freepeople.com/fp-movement-yoga/........so delicious, feminine, wearable.
Music
I have to have music, it helps to lose myself in the moment, when I searched yoga music it was all a bit pan flute, and whispering streams for me..... use whatever works for you, at the moment for me it's 'OM YOGA' VOLUME 2, www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxf6B0-h3o5knKOqZJhsIa1o_MAf7O6jx or old school Groove Armada. Music is also a cue for the family, if the music is on don't talk to Mum.
On the floor
I do it anywhere, at home it's on my favourite persian carpet, you can use anything, a yoga mat, blanket, once again what ever works for you.
Tools
A class, books, blogs, video tutorials, there are resources all around you, use them. My new favorite is the Yoga fan (oppsie another thing that arrived via the interweb).
So for the MUSE, this yoga thing, has become a ritual, the benefits are visible, physically, mentally and spiritually. My monkey mind is quieter, I wear a bikini (never thought I'd do that again), and when I dropped my phone down the back of the storage container (yes THE MUSE has a big one), if I wasn't a bendy Wendy the phone would have been lost forever!.
