Morning Yoga.

I toyed with the idea of blogging/not blogging my month long mornings of yoga.
But i decided that my memory is fuzzy at best so i'd like to have a written account to remember my first morning practice.
My friend E and i are doing 30 days of morning yoga, partly for discipline but mostly to raise our awareness to do things more in the way that we want to vs the way we think we should or for reasons we think we should.
Return to self might sound trite or cliched but it is fundamentally a return to ourselves, in the present, where we are, in other words - now is wow too.
I woke up at 5:11 (i scoffed at her before for waking this early! I also scoffed when she started an oh god thirty yoga practice last year SORRY E!)
I brushed my teeth and started at 5:30. Finished at 6:11
I found myself with an EXTREMELY heightened sense of smell from halfway through the practice till after.
Every smell came my way, strongly and sharply..ew.
I have a good sense of smell but never in the morning as i'm usually stuffy or allergied out the wazoo but this morning no siree, i breathed and i smelled.
Also my legs seemed shaky when i tried to stretch them. I also felt shaky after the practice and still do even after having breakfast. hm.
Immediately after my practice i jumped in the shower.
I was sweating, I don't know if it just got hot quick today or i just became incredibly temperature sensitive but i was steaming! The exercises were not those that would elicit a lot of sweat usually so i'm not sure what it was.
I found my focus straying a couple times (normal for me)
I just tried to refocus and keep going without being mad at myself.
I lay on the mat for my meditation instead of sitting and i ended up doing some stretching while i meditated. I wouldn't really call it meditating as i just listened to the mantra and didn't even try to focus inward. I only remembered to chant along for the last few lines (oops) and i didn't feel as grounded as i usually do after yoga.
I felt good that i got through it but i felt almost as if that was what i did. I 'got through it'.
Hopefully tomorrow will be more mindful - i'm just noting my thoughts/feelings i'm not judging myself for being a bit out of it. It is day one and a yogi i'm not.
My computer is going to the computer doctor so i thought it best to get this post written and published lest i forget anything during the course of the day.