About My Crazy Quest to Do The Wheel Pose + A Question To All Reading This Post

I realize of course that as an absolute yoga neophyte I still have lifetimes to go before I can perform the full yoga wheel pose … beautifully.  I get near-discouraged at times, especially when I had a picture of myself taken and saw that my elbows were bending outwards and my legs & arms were far, far from straight 😐

I guess that’s the thing with beginners, we’re so idealistic!

But not to be sidetracked, I stepped back and dove deep into YouTube for some very beginner, preparatory exercises, and now feel more hopeful about this ‘quest’ 🙂

These I am gonna try this week:

I’d like to learn from you guys reading this post, help me out:  Have you ever taken on any fitness challenges in the past?  How did you keep yourself motivated?  And did you reach your goal? How or, why not?  How long did it take?

Wheel Pose

I have recently become obsessed with this yoga pose.  When I first saw it performed on its own and without haste, it looked so graceful and felt like such a luxurious whole-body stretch, the kind that frees the body from all types of tightness.

I wanted to be able to do it.

I have been adding it diligently to the tail-end of my daily exercise routine and am now able to make it on my hands (previously, only from the crown of my head) although still clumsy and shaky and my wrists still complain.  But I’m getting there! 🙂

Here is my favorite instructional video of it:

And this too:

Meanwhile, this has beautifully gotten me into yoga and I’ve found the following instructional videos of foundation poses to be very very helpful.

This is so going into my January List of Awesome 🙂