After missing yoga on Sunday, and never since then, the marketing part of my brain adapted quickly. The word consecutive disappeared, and I would just switch to saying I’ve done XX classes now, the implication being consecutive.

But today, I fixed things by doing a double class, attending both the 6:15 am and the noon classes. While not getting me back the word consecutive, it lets me say 70 classes in 70 days and such. So, that has a good ring to it.

I was a bit apprehensive about going twice. It is an intense class, after all. But the second class was much easier and seemed to fly by quicker than the first.

From the moment pranayama breathing starts at the beginning, it was definitely different doing a second class. My lungs were immediately filling up more than a typical breathing exercise. And the stiffness of the initial backward and forward bends was gone, my body jamming right into them without stiffness, tension or anything else.

No major differences, though. Everything seemed a bit easier, stretched a bit more, and I think the novelty of seeing how much more I could do (if anything) made for a good class, rather than phoning it in since I’d already done it once today. For example, there are a lot of sit-ups between floor postures. Usually, my fingers touch my toes. In the second class, my toes were hitting where my wrist meets my palm with my fingers wrapping down the bottoms of my feet.

I can’t say I’m a convert to double classes, but they are no longer scary. It is a huge timesuck, though.

But, as a result, I can now say that I’ve done 72 classes in 72 days.

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