To achieve more progress in my yoga practice, more membership is not the key (need to rely on self-practice). I need to feel that the importance deserves more time more /sunshine/.
* Analogy — when I realized the importance of frequent workout, I decided to reduce the difficulty and hit 5/wk
* Analogy — when I realized the importance of coding drill, I spent months doing hundreds of coding questions

I could never have envisioned yoga to take such a place in my life, and shape my self-image.

• It’s heroic because I don’t really see much progress. Very limited positive feedback. 知其不可而为
• It’s heroic because of the spirit of 愚公移山
• It’s heroic because it’s an obvious weakness and shortcoming, since middle school. Through my life, I seldom take on my obvious weakness domain
  • Chinese composition
  • leadership
  • chin-up
• It’s heroic because I experience repeated setback whenever I try to establish some self-practice in my spare time. All other things I set my mind to, I have had more success than in yoga, even though all started from a weak position, on an uphill BATTLE  —
  • driving practice; hand-writing; Chinese compo; weight loss; raw-veg diet; cutting starch; calorie restriction; early rise; quant self-study; coding drill; ..
• See my email to Ashish [[include a bit stretch in your routine]] sent 31 Oct 2016 .. torture
• See yoga centers: no other choice given home practice is way too hard, utterly unsustainable

Absorbency — is highly relevant but not a central feature here, since yoga is less about cognitive saturation