It's intriguing to hear that you equate mtb'ing with yoga. I've never done yoga but I'm considering adding yoga classes to my fitness routine this winter.

We have rocky, rooty, uphill, sections on the trails that we usually ride but the rocks are smaller and mostly buried, and the roots don't stick up as far as what we encountered today. I usually just power over that stuff on our regular trail but I don't have that kind of strength for the larger obstacles. I'm not sure that we'll do this new trail often enough for me to gain the strength to ride uphill over the bigger stuff. I may have to be happy employing Malkin's motto about never encountering a hill that I couldn't walk, although there were a few sections of this new trail that tested that motto. On the other hand, the shade and vistas on the new trails may be compelling enough to lure us back regularly.

BTW, Indy, are your feet still sleeping on your new pedals? If so, did you see the suggestion in the flat pedal thread about moving your feet a few millimeters on the pedals every few minutes to keep them from sleeping? It's worked for me.