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September 22nd, 2010 
levis25
I have a confession to make. Sometimes I do yoga for ten minutes. It’s not my ideal scenario, but sometimes my life is too hectic to do any more.
A few years ago, someone sent me an exercise video called 10-minute Pilates. I would see it on my shelf and smile to myself about how it sounded like such a gimmick. When I was younger–and able to go to an hour-and-a-half yoga class three times a week–I used to laugh at the idea that I could see a change of any kind in ten minutes.
But as I got older–and busier–it became clear that ten minutes could actually make a difference. Sure, I couldn’t completely banish tension from my mind and body completely, but I realized that ten minutes can really chance the tenor of my day.
I started thinking how we live our lives in big increments–an hour for lunch, eight hours at the office, ideally eight hours of sleep. But I wondered about living our lives in smaller increments, and how this might affect me. Now if I do come across a stray ten minutes, I decide what I want to do. Sometimes I stretch. Sometimes I breathe. I became interested in what other people do, so I took an informal survey of friends, finding out what they like to do (G-rated) to relax with ten minutes. Here’s a few responses:
Read trashy magazines.
Stretch and self massage on my face, neck, and shoulders
Ten minutes of anything on Bravo!
A walk while doing deep breathing.
We want to know:
What do you do to relax with an extra ten minutes?
Nora Isaacs is a Bay Area-based health writer and editor.
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
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