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I picked up Om Yoga Today just before Christmas and finally tried the five minute practice. (Yeah, yeah, It took me almost a month to try something that takes five minutes. Bite me!)

I enjoyed it with certain reservations which will take some explanation.

The mental and physical aspects of yoga interest me for different reasons.

Physical - I am not terribly flexible and judging by my family history when I get old I will look and walk like Bill Ding. 

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Mental - One of the biggest reasons I've been interested in yoga is mental benefits. I have ADD and my psychiatrist once mentioned a study on the effects of yoga and meditation on ADD in kids. He knew the person running the study and she claimed that it all but eliminated most of the symptoms of ADD. 

So here is what happened. My daughter's school is doing health week and having all the kids chart their exercise activities for the week. She's in first grade now and her kindergarten teacher taught them some yoga poses last year. So she was really hyped to try yoga and of course, get a sticker on her chart. So my wife and daughter did the five minute practice first since I was putting the baby to bed. When I came out of the baby's room my daughter was all over me to have me start.  I started trying to do the poses and was surprised to discover that balance was the greatest hurdle for me.   However, an even greater hurdle was my six year old giggling hysterically and jumping around, on and under me while doing the poses.  Talk about your meditational hurdles!

So, the physical aspect was fine.  I was a bit stiff so some poses were a stretch.  (Huh?  Huh?  Get the pun?)  However the meditation was pretty much a total loss.  It was fun though!

Not a complete loss either.  Maybe in another month I'll try the five minute practice again!