Oh, I agreed with you that we shouldn't be doing work towards inversions and I appreciate your having brought it up. If nothing else, I'm clearly not in any such shape to be doing more risky moves but I think we were doing that stuff way too early regardless of one's fitness.

After your comment confirmed my feelings, I resolved to pay more attention to my body when doing yoga. I tend to put up with a high discomfort level because, (a) everything is uncomfortable when you start, and (b) I want to give it a real try and that means doing stuff I don't want to...But between the pain from the toes and your comment, I decided I need to take a more active role in choosing.

Since I came to that conclusion, we haven't repeated any of those moves so I haven't been forced to sit something out. :) I do like the class and it pushes me in a way I've never been pushed before. Yoga forces a different posture and foot/leg positioning from the ways we learned in dance classes.

You know what I always enjoyed at the gym? Being done. ;) Seriously, I need to play Pollyanna, find something to look forward to even if it's just, "being done," and focus on that. I don't think I'll ever be the sort of person who enjoys exercise, though I'd love to surprise myself, but I am the sort who can logically choose to endure because it gets me something I want.