September 2011
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arichandrasana asked: Girl, I'm TERRIFIED of full wheel! My tighter than tight tushy shoulders scream in it. That pose just screams injury for me haha.
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new discovery: i'm scared of full wheel. why am i...
it’s not even THAT difficult. i mean, you even get to keep all your limbs on the ground.
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Class 48: happyyyy
the title pretty much sums it up? today at L’s C2, i was simultaneously reminded both why i love and why i hate yoga.
why i hate yoga: OH MY GOD MY QUADS. THEY BURN SO GOOD. L had us do lots of intense crescent moons and warrior IIs and horse poses. LIKE A LOT OF THEM. and now i think i may die.
why i love yoga: i’m 98% sure that my heels are now millimeters from touching the ground...
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August 2011
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i've been terrible about my practice lately.
but all my friends are coming home and doing fun things and i don’t want to miss them and i’m lazy an waahhhhh.
ugh. i really do need school to keep me in line, don’t i.
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class 47: i like being upside down
i really do. mostly because i’m getting almost-good at tripod headstand. and by almost-good i mean i can almost do it without the wall.
also, my new favorite asana is bog toe/revolved big toe. it’s one where i can see a lot of improvement in my flexibility. which is fun.
my brain is broken. i need to try harder to go to more class. this is all.
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any tips on how to avoid getting distracted by...
so, i’m usually pretty good at this. some fairly attractive boy-man plops down in front of me or behind me while i’m soaking up my mat pre-class and i’m like “hey, he’s kinda cute,” and then i move on and don’t think about him ever again unless i happen to see him in the lobby after class, in which case, i tend to duck my head and bolt.
but today was...
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YogaBabes: Breathe Like Darth Vader? →
yogababes:
There are lots of peculiar things we do in yoga, but Ujjayi breath might be one of the strangest. Ujjayi breathing is an audible and controlled breath that yogis try to maintain throughout their practice. It can be described as sounding ‘oceanic’, or similar to the sound you make when fogging…
i love ujjayi and i approve of this post.
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things i'm good at: finding excuses not to go to...
i don’t know why this is such a struggle for me all of a sudden.
so it's torrential downpouring
if it doesn’t stop, i think i’m just gonna stay home and do headstands. because, you know, walking anywhere in a heavy rainfall just doesn’t do it for me. but i do have two hours still.
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Lilie Zen Coach: Getting Ahead of Yourself →
thetaoofdana:
There is this prevalent idea that if you want to create something you have to think of it until you feel it’s done. It’s part of that oversimplified book The Secret: you see something, imagine it’s yours and it appears. That’s half the equation. You can’t live in the future,…
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class 45: a lesson in humiliation and...
so I went to that C1 with K. has there already been a K? I don’t remember. I don’t think so. OHHH yeah there was. she does sculpt, which is why I don’t remember her. because I blocked that entire class from my memory.
anyway, C1 with sub K went pretty swimmingly asana-wise. it was nice to know what was coming up and know that these were basic poses that I knew how to do. It was...
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Everything I ever needed to know, I learned on my...
lifeincoffeespoons:
Take a deep breath. Concentrate. Move forward. Trust your strength. Engage everything. Gaze ahead. Be mindful of your neighbors. Move with grace. Imagine that it’s possible. Relax. Relax. Relax.
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i'm going stir crazy, so new plan for the day:
3:30 C1 with random new instructor, 9:30 candlelight with T. yay.
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D, why aren't you teaching this week?
the ONE TUESDAY I have off, you have to go and get a sub for all your classes. how am I supposed to convince you we’re soul mates if I never even get to SEE you?
…I’ll just have to go to T’s 8pm. I haven’t seen him in a while either.
andddd i may have just sprained my wrists again....
bah i suck at life.
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class 44: practice at my mom's studio is always...
it’s anusara, so we go slow and hold poses for a long time, really focusing on getting them right. it’s small, so there’s lots of assistance from the instructor, M, no matter what. and it’s filled with old people, so they naturally just love me.
i really like the vibe i get there. it’s more social and talkative than corepower, and it’s def good for me to get...
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oh, at last practice i held crow the full time...
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Lilie Zen Coach: Create A Better, Happier You! →
healthysummer2011:
Recently, I had realized I had missed a valuable ingredient in staying happy and healthy this summer. Sure, I would love to look great in my new two-peice swim suit, but what we all seem to loose focus on is our health internally. Yoga and meditation is a powerful…
i should really start meditating again right now, but i should REALLY start meditating again when...
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Today I did yoga to down-tempo marimba covers of...
it was awesome.
class seemed really easy today. I’ve only been to one other class with J, and I like him a lot. he has a completely different style from the other teachers at my studio.
I didn’t have to break at all, and even though we did a lot of the same things, it was in a different order and all seemed new and refreshing. and i finally made it into revolved big toe on the left...
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Bakasana succcess!
you go girl. we should crane together sometime.
i don't know why i feel so bad about skipping yoga...
it’s not like i’m not getting my money’s worth. i go approximately once every 2.5 days, which is kind of a lot.
i’m just bad at these things. i like to guilt trip myself.
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Sick (class 42)
i was it. standing balances make me want to vom all over. SII says it’s probably and inner ear thing. cool. it probs didn’t help that i ate a while blizzard an hour an a half before class.
i almost got up into tripod. twice. it’s my new favorite thing. to work on.
besides the stomach upheaval, class seemed easier than usual. i felt with it. i gave it to people, when i...
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