Last Thursday a couple of friends talked me into going with them to a Zumba class, being that I hadn't had any real intense physical activity in a month and half, I figured why not. It actually was a lot of fun and physically very demanding, but I wondered if it fit into my summer of serenity.
Would I be better off getting a "workout" through a yoga class - the studio that offers the Zumba also has multiple yoga classes?
There is a part of me that thinks jumping and moving around to loud hip/hop and Latin music is not really serene and since this is the summer of my serenity I am checking out the yoga classes this week. The yoga studio has a restorative yoga session that uses props and is slightly more physical that the normal yoga class, I am thinking that this might work better in the summer scheme.
In the past couple of weeks I ventured away from serenity by traveling to New York City for a day and Philly for the weekend and while it was wonderful to see my family and have my son fix my Mac issue I found that I truly missed my greenery and waterfall and being alone in the house in the country. It was wonderful to wake up this morning having slept under a ceiling fan listening to the sounds of water rushing and absolute darkness (the home I stayed in Philly had an unusually large number of people so I slept on a couch in the basement with the sounds of compressors and people walking over my head). I feel refreshed and ready to begin July. Although I am very sad that this summer is moving so quickly. I wonder how hard it will be to leave here in August and return to the "chaos" of the real world.
That was a fleeting moment and it's gone as quickly as it popped into my mind, the waterfall and Hercules purring have brought me back to serenity.
Sometimes serenity comes in different forms. Try to recognize them.
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