when the tempestuous is calmed by the dawn

I've been avoiding Insta as I get too tempted by the ads, yet a few days ago I succumbed to one. I had been curious about what Yoga could do for a person and had been hemming and hawing about it for many years, and then the Yoga Go ad came up; an app you pay for that; after having answered a dozen or so questions about my health habits, provides a customized routine based on my answers, one each for thirty days. I paid for a three month subscription, and my credit card expires in the midst of those three months, so if I decide I want to continue, I will get in touch with them to give them my new CC number when I get it; if I want to let it lapse, I'll not let them know and they'll reach out to me when the CC doesn't work.

Of course I am a beginner and thus far have done two sessions. It works quite well where there is a nice looking woman who is performing all of the actions that a different calm voiced woman is telling us both to do. I am able to do most of the poses, however, there are two in particular that she (the woman on my device) does way better than I can.

This is the standing forward bend; the woman in the photo is not the one in my app, but both are able to put their torso right up against their legs when they do this. My torso forms roughly a 40 degree angle with my legs. I suppose if I keep this up over many months or years, I could eventually cut that angle down, but who knows if I'll ever get flush as these women do.

This is the turtle pose, and again this photo is not of the woman in my app, but both do it like this, with their torso flat like this and their arms well splayed out. It is the same lack of hip flexibility as the standing forward bend that prevents me from getting down as low as this.

I will definitely continue doing this daily for the remaining 28 days. Each routine take somewhere between 15 & 20 minutes and always includes an extended relaxation pose very near the end, perhaps three or four minutes of just lying on back with arms and legs out a little, eyes closed and to be relaxed and mindful. There's a name for this that I can't recall and I definitely find it soothing.