Yoga in Skinny Jeans

Today I did yoga in my jeans.

It wasn’t the best I’ve ever done at yoga. It was the first time I’ve done yoga in jeans though. Hopefully it’ll be the last time as well…

I forgot my yoga clothes at home. They were nicely folded on my dresser waiting to be put in my bag and brought with me to work. I have made a commitment to do yoga each Monday at lunch time. Today was Monday. And now I had no stretchy clothes to change into at lunch.

I had two choices:

1. Skip out on yoga
2. Practice yoga

I’ll be honest, I was able to come up with many excuses on why I should skip out. I mean I had the obvious excuse of “I’m wearing skinny jeans” but that was just the tip of my excuse snowball.

Ultimately, I decided to practice yoga. The benefits outweighed my excuses and I needed a break from sitting at my desk. These are some of the benefits I came up with:

• I always feel refreshed after yoga

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• Moving my body feels good

• If I can’t keep my commitments to myself, what good is my word to others

• I always have the choice to modify a pose to find what feels good

• Worst case scenario, I can do shavasana and meditate for the entire time

I wasn’t able to do all the poses (low lunges were a no go), but I’m very happy I decided to take the time to move my body and reap the benefits of yoga. If you’re curious, I didn’t spend the entire time doing shavasana.