Yoga!!!

Along with my working on eating better, I am going to strive for a healthier lifestyle in general. I woke up this morning with a horrid headache. One of those where all you want to do is curl back up under the covers and sleep for about 6 more hours. Instead, I unrolled my dusty yoga mat and planned on doing a few back-stretching poses. Once I got through those, I realized that it was only starting to help and I was also feeling much more awake and relaxed. So I continued for another 20 minutes. Guess what? No more headache!!

Here's what I did:
1. Cat/cow pose - hold each part for several breaths and repeat as many times as you like
2. I'm not sure what the next one is called, but you stay on hands and knees and extend one leg backwards with toes pointing down and extend the opposite arm forward and hold for several breaths.
3. Twist stretch from sitting on knees - reach left arm behind your left side while resting right hand on left leg, switch, and then both arms directly behind.
4. Downward dog - hold for several breaths
5. Plank pose - I did it as long as i could before my very out of shape arms gave out, but if you're not out of shape, a few breaths
6. Upward dog - again, hold for a few breaths
7. Plank transfer to downward dog
8. Warrior I -> warrior II -> triangle -> warrior II - hold for several breaths each
9. Downward dog
10. Repeat 8 on the other side
11. Forward bend
12. Run to go get the crying baby ;)

If I hadn't had to go do #12, I would've finished with, I believe it's called, mountain pose.