For this week @LadiesofHive - Contest - #119, I will like to answer this question.
1️⃣ When was the last time you went out of your comfort zone, and what did you accomplish?
I have always been in a habit of challenging my limits and setting targets and goals for self which would take me that extra mile to achieve. I believe that when things get comfortable in life that means that life is losing it's spark. Of course at the same time I do not wish to invite unnecessary stress.
I have always been into Yoga and around 2 years back, I came across this concept of Aerial Yoga and I was carried away. I checked out many online videos as to how it's being done, and then I decided to go ahead and learn this form.
Honestly I am a person, who is very cautious about self, meaning that I would never do any such physical activity that can possibly harm me. I have never been a sports person also. This was a challenge for me. On the look of it, I felt it was not very difficult, and I joined the class.
The first class was very easy going. I was familiarized with using the cloth and doing some very simple Yoga forms using the cloth, and I felt this is so simple. In the second class, came the actual challenge, where the instructor took it to the next level, and I realized that this was not easy at all and for that time I also felt that this was not my cup of tea. There were free falls, twists and turns, lifting up the body in the air with strength. I wanted to run away from the class. I felt I made a mistake trying to venture in this space.
After the second class, I had severe body aches and stomach cramping and I was down with a high temperature. For 2 days I was not able to move easily because of all the aches and pains and the high temperature was draining me out completely.
In that moment I decided to quit. After a week, my instructor checked with me, why I was not attending the class, and I told her that this was not for me. Then she gave me a pep talk, saying that not many people at my age would try new things like this, and I should give it some more time and effort before giving up. By that time I was feeling better, I decided to go ahead, though in my mind I was fighting it out if I should or not. My mind was saying, what is the need of doing this and my heart was saying this is the moment that I can defeat my fears and overcome the obstacles of my mind. I started attending the classes. Thankfully after that I had some aches and pains but they were bearable, I did not stop, I kept going on class after class. I was the slowest, also taking a lot of help of my instructor, and she was very supportive.
It took me 2 months to get comfortable and eventually I started doing it myself without help from the instructor, now I am enjoying it. Though I am not perfect and nor am I a pro, but I have managed to take that step to reach to a level of comfort and enjoy doing it.
Some pictures from my training, and you will see that I am enjoying doing this. It hurts, makes me feel giddy, uncomfortable but I do not want to stop.
I feel freedom now :-)
I am in love with doing this activity. But the sad part is that I have no class here in Muscat and I have to wait to get back to India every time for doing it. My last class was in the month of November when I was in Mumbai and the next one will be in March when I will again travel back to Mumbai and I so eagerly look forward to it.
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