YOGAGIRL: As a mantra of fact.......

January 2008



snow day...

Monday, 28 January 2008 9:46 A GMT-08
After months of constant warm rains, winter has finally arrived here in the pacific northwest. It snowed over 7 inches in 6 hours while we were skiing/snowboarding yesterday up at Willamette Pass and our SUV looked like an ice cave at the end of the

Observations....

Saturday, 26 January 2008 9:00 P GMT-08
Either the room was not as hot at Bikram class last night or I'm seriously becoming accustomed to doing yoga in a 105 degree oven. I still struggle with the head to knee pose (standing on one foot grasping the other and sending it forward) b

Kipper on his 4th birthday

Thursday, 24 January 2008 1:01 P GMT-08
Oh how he loves to jump into the pile of warm towels right out of the dryer!

14 days and counting...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008 2:42 P GMT-08
Two Tuesdays from now I'll be in Ensenada Mexico, in the middle of enjoying a 4 night/day cruise with my entire family. Ahh...I can almost see those tiny little umbrellas waving around in a frosty drink. Speaking of umbrellas: watched t

education

Thursday, 17 January 2008 3:48 P GMT-08
Our gym is doing the annual "I lost it at the gym" promo again. It's basically a "Biggest Loser" style weight loss competition designed to promote personal training and increase membership...well and to help people lose w

Now that the dust has settled...

Wednesday, 16 January 2008 1:40 P GMT-08
We can finally get back to a more even keel around here. Whew. Unfortunately, it's not all roses, wet puppy kisses and rainbows for my husband yet. Instead of getting hired into the higher end of the pay range (with his years and years

exhale

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 4:28 P GMT-08
He got the job!

fingers crossed...

Monday, 14 January 2008 2:24 P GMT-08
We're waiting on pins and needles around here. My husband decided in early December that he'd done all he could to try and help with the family business, and all on his very own he figured out he was just repeatedly banging his head agai

la 'tea' da....

Saturday, 12 January 2008 4:36 P GMT-08
I've been enjoying lots of tea lately, in part to soothe my "angry" liver. Well...eh hem. Giving up the daily beer and wine consumption has probably helped more in that regard but I digress. I am also enjoying lots of tea 

baby fish mouth..

Friday, 11 January 2008 4:08 P GMT-08
that's a really old "When Harry Met Sally" movie reference. But today, it applies. I've blogged a few times over the years about my problem with chronic hives. They come and go and sometimes they are worse than others. Here lat

kismet:

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 8:36 A GMT-08
(noun) Definition: the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do......I ordered a mat bag from "Life is Good" a week ago. The new manduka yog

pain in the neck...

Sunday, 6 January 2008 10:20 P GMT-08
Ahhh. Eeeee. Owwww. I'm recovering from my 2nd snowboarding adventure today. Yesterday morning started out GREAT! The week in between allowed my brain to process a lot of new information and getting back on a board already felt very familiar

what's your dosha?

Friday, 4 January 2008 8:22 P GMT-08
Little did I know that my yoga teacher/nutritionist friend actually spent some time in India studying Ayurveda a few years ago.   She nailed me spot on as a "pitta" (visit http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv-pitta-char

glutton for punishment..

Thursday, 3 January 2008 4:33 P GMT-08
Originally I had scheduled a 2nd snowboarding trip up to the mountains for Sunday January 13th. But then last night at the gym I found out that all of our classes on Saturday are canceled this weekend in order to do the weigh-in for our &qu

2007 fitness wrap up....

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 1:54 P GMT-08
During the winter of 2007, I learned a new format to teach and started doing "Silver and Fit" at 24 hour fitness. I also expanded my teaching schedule and got more water aerobics classes there. I have to say that teaching sen