19 Things People Who Do Yoga Secretly Know

    There's always someone who launches into the full bloody cobra when everyone else is in child's pose.

    1. You love the idea of doing yoga before work, but in reality it's bloody hard to get up at 6am.

    2. But when you do make it, you always feel great.

    3. There's always one annoyingly talented person at your yoga class who can do every pose without breaking a sweat.

    4. Meanwhile, you're the kind of person who finds downward dog challenging.

    5. There will also always be people in your yoga class who are better dressed than you.

    6. No one warns you that yoga gives you serious foot cramp.

    7. Completing a full vinyasa flow makes you feel incredibly powerful.

    8. But nothing beats the feeling of making your head touch the floor for the first time.

    9. And if you ever actually manage to do a headstand, you'll be immeasurably proud.

    10. That said, no pose beats child's pose.

    11. But cat-cow feels pretty nice too.

    12. There's one person in every yoga class who breathes incredibly loudly.

    13. Your yoga teacher is probably unreasonably attractive.

    14. And your teacher can contort their body into the most incredible poses while maintaining conversation.

    15. Sometimes you leave yoga thinking that you've definitely improved and the workout hardly affected you. But then you try to stand up later and realise you literally can't move.

    16. And you always leave yoga thinking that you can eat anything.

    17. You always try to make the people you live with try out the new poses that you've learned.

    18. But eventually you start to feel yourself getting stronger.

    19. But most of the time, doing yoga makes you feel like the best, most accomplished version of yourself that you can be.