Last week I tried Power Yoga 1 and this morning I went to Power Yoga 2 6.45 in the morning. I am not a person who normally get up and exercise Before breakfast and I thought that doing this yoga Before breakfast might be a mistake. But last week I had coffee with my friend Johanna who also is a yoga instructor and told her about this morning session and her comment was that I am going to feel so much better afterwards.

Who did not walk in then Jeanice, a Coach K Runner friend so we said hello before yoga started.

A lot of the positions that I did a Power Yoga 1 were also here but today we also did Warrior 3 which was new.

Positions I had done before was child position, Salute to the sun , the dog, upward dog, the dove, Cobra, happy child, at the end universal twist that was also at Power Yoga 1 but did not remember the name then.

It really was a nice way of starting the day, I still need to work on the breating, I breathe but am not sure if I inhale and exhale at the right places.

Power Yoga seems to be the yoga that I will do reguarly. It is going to be interesting how it will pay off later for me as a runner but also as not a runner.

As a rookie ultra runner I have tried to find a program to get ready for my second Ultra race in May and there was Yoga and Pilates and of course I wondered what these two trainings would give me as a ultra runner. I believe these are good for any runner. So after some searching on the internet I felt that Yoga is w.orth giving it a try.

Last week I tested YinYoga which I believe is good to do early in the morning. Today I tested Poweryoga. The aim is to get to Poweryoga 2 but first you need to learn the positions so I went to Poweryoga 1.

I got myself a mat and a blanket, this time I had my socks on from the beginning and I did not take them off when we were told to take our socks off (I didn’t take them off out of protest, just because I got cold feet last time and wanted to keep my feet warm).

So first we sat down in a lotus pose and just breathed.

After that we were doing Salute to the sun 1 (solhälsning 1) and Salute to the sun 2 (solhälsning 2). At YinYoga we only did Salute to the sun 1.

The other poses we did was the cat (katten), the dog (hunden), was at YinYoga too, Cobra (kobra), also at YinYoga. The cobra showed up in the combo poses and after a while you could choose between doing the cobra or upward dog (uppåtgående hund). We also did the dog with one foot up in the air.

Then we also tried Warrior 1 (krigaren 1) and Warrior 2 (krigaren 2)

Other poses were the dove (duvan) and the lizzard , butterfly (also at YinYoga), child pose (also at YinYoga) and happy Child (also at YinYoga).

The Yoga plank  was also a pose (also at YinYoga).

The boat was a new yoga pose for me. The boat (båten) ) is one of my core exercises and then the butterfly (fjärilen).

Last was just to breathe and lay on the mat.

Of all the yoga exercises I have done so far I Believe that Poweryoga is something that would be good to do regularly as a runner but Poweryoga 2 (some of these poses today I did at the yoga class we had with Coach K Runners this summer) but there were also balance and power poses.

Then I have to decide if I should do Pilates or Core regularly. Which one is best for me.