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secret communication
Yesterday I was walking to yoga class, thinking about how happy it made me to walk to yoga class. I love that I wear essentially my pj’s to yoga. Which says more about my pjs (yoga pants and a ...
it was, perhaps, a bit too much
I started my day with 108 sun salutations. There were 11 of us, including Sarah, the teacher. I admit to being surprised that there were that many of us. We sweat amazing amounts during those 108 su...
108
I made a mala today, and I learned that 108 is significant in the making of a mala. Malas are used in meditation, and we were able to choose the different beads that had significance for us. Differen...
Yoga Nidra
This weekend is both the one year anniversary weekend of my local yoga studio’s opening, as well as the autumnal equinox. In celebration, there are a lot of different yoga classes than normal. ...
a return to yoga
I stopped going to yoga classes about six months ago. I’m not sure why. Laziness, maybe. Good habits are as hard to start as bad habits are to break…but really it is the same thing. Start...
yoga with cats
When I practice yoga at home, I have gotten into the habit of grabbing Tempest’s sparkly wand toy and having it at the front of the mat, where I can easily grab it in certain poses. This isn...
Photohunt: different
I took this picture a few weeks back, when I was taking some yoga portraits of one of my yoga teachers for a class project. We had fun playing around with long shutter exposures, and so this is a por...
Photography Class #7 - portraits
This past week we had an assignment, the only specific assignment we were given, and it was portraits. I asked to make sure what he was looking for, and indeed he wanted more than candids, he wanted ...
Summertime in Feb
I’ve been working on a post that will be a collection of things that my photography instructor has said in lectures throughout this class, but it is taking me a long time! It is going to end up ...
mojito pie and gas station pick up lines
I seem to have zero free time lately. I’m not sure how that happened. I wrote out today how long certain things would take so I could make sure to get it done, no fooling around. I even wrote d...
backpack of thoughts
I was at a different yoga class tonight, “rocking yoga”, which was actually more thoughtful and less vigorous than I expected. Which isn’t to say that it wasn’t challenging, be...
yoga theme tonight: practice
I’m finding the themes or lessons that my yoga teacher comes up with to be amazing in how perfectly they seem to align with what others are telling me or with what I know I need to learn or pay ...
non-judgement
That was the theme at yoga tonight. Mary, I know you’d approve of my yoga teacher’s choice! This is something that is really difficult for me, and probably for everyone. I find myself jud...
rough edges
We did a shoulder stand today in yoga class. I don’t remember what it was called. We also did tiki something or other, aka firefly. That was hard for me - I couldn’t get my hands flat on t...
the texture of silence
“What do you want today?” our yoga teacher asked us. “Beat us up,” we said, almost in chorus. And so she did. The hardest post for me ended up being shavasana. Corpse pose. A ...
first snow of the season
It had to happen sometime… I am lucky - easy commute, and neither the traffic nor the roads were bad going to or coming home from work. Many of my coworkers were not so lucky, and had 2+ hour c...
On the exercise habit: what I’ve learned so far
I’ve successfully achieved my daily exercise so far in the month of December. Okay, that’s only 4 days, but that is four days in a row that I’ve done at least 10 minutes of exercise!...
sunday bliss
I had been interested in yoga for years and years before I finally took a class. I was intimidated, too easily intimidated, away from it. I’m not flexible, what if I can’t DO the stuff, et...
three things
I have homework from my therapist: every night before I go to bed, I’m to write three positive things. Big, small, silly, or significant. Three positive things. I might include them in my pos...