Today was my first Bikram class in well over a week, due to being in Boston last week. I attended the morning class with all my yoga buddies. A favorite of mine was teaching and the room was perfect. Perfect teacher, perfect room, perfect that my friends were all around me – the only thing . . . → Read More: Sitting Down In Bikram (An Experiment)
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In regard to last night’s beautiful Bikram disaster (yesterday’s post), I have to say I found the beauty of that disastrous class when I woke up this morning. I woke up in a great frame of mind with lots of energy. It was fit club day and I couldn’t wait to get there. All . . . → Read More: The Beauty Shines Through! I have a cool pink T-shirt that says “Beautiful Disaster” on it. Every time I wear it I always think how could a disaster be beautiful? Today I found out. You know how it is with exercise – maybe today, maybe tomorrow, consistency wains. For the last two and half years I have knocked . . . → Read More: 5 Days & A Beautiful Disaster “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.” ~ Mother Teresa When I first read this quote my mind flitted to the word “replenish”. What do I need to replenish everyday? I need to replenish my mind, my body and my spirit. My mind needs the stimulation of new ideas. . . . → Read More: The Lights Of Our Days After a very busy day I went to 4:30 Bikram yoga. I’ve been pretty consistent doing Bikram and Koko every other day, but today I did both. Usually when I come home from yoga I’m inspired and my head is filled with thoughts. Sometimes there are so many thoughts, I have to reign them in, . . . → Read More: Yoga Quiet No, not me. (Calm down dear. Lol!) Sharon Osbourne is sixty. Sharon Osbourne is pregnant. Sharon Osbourne is sixty. Sharon Osbourne is pregnant. Wait. One more time. Sharon Osbourne is sixty. Sharon Osbourne is pregnant. Nope. Still can’t wrap my head around it. Today I turned on The Talk and my . . . → Read More: 60 And…Pregnant? The other day I noticed how much I was limiting myself in the gym over the years by not ever upping the weights because I honestly didn’t think I could press more. Today, doing lateral chest pulls, it once again showed how I limited myself. I’m doing 50 pounds now, and for ten years I . . . → Read More: Stats! For the past week I’ve done a little yoga experiment. I suspected my hypothesis was true last Thursday, but I wanted one more class to check it. In the summer there were days I had to go to afternoon yoga in ninety degree weather. One time I took an outside shower before class because . . . → Read More: Plastic Wrap …until your body is face down flat on the ground, fists pounding and legs kicking. Your mind has run off over the horizon and your spirit has vacated to hover just below the clouds. Yoga means the union of the body, mind and spirit. When the mind and spirit have vacated the premises and left . . . → Read More: Yoga Doesn’t Grab You… Not too long ago I cited Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote, “Do one thing each day that scares you.” Today I revamped that quote: do one thing everyday that is hard for you. Tonight I went to night yoga, which for me, is quite unusual because I don’t go to yoga on the weekends. I’ve been . . . → Read More: Something Hard |
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