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

June 2005



what a difference a director makes...

Thursday, 30 June 2005 7:16 P GMT-08
Holy freakin' teenagers batman! The director sat in on my classes today and the kids were absolute angels! I mean they were quiet, every one was obedient, they arrived on time, settled down immediately, interupted class to ask questions and make comm
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end of an era...

Wednesday, 29 June 2005 7:04 A GMT-08
today marked the last class I will teach at the facility that started it all for me. When I moved into this neighborhood in August of 2000 I was pretty stoked to see that the club house offered step aerobics on Saturdays for free. Well soon after I s
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oh look..another Tuesday!

Tuesday, 28 June 2005 2:00 P GMT-08
serious doldrums here people...it's the dog days of summer. It poured rain yesterday about a mile *away* from our house and we got nothing. Not even a drop. It was raining so hard at the gym around 5pm (only 8 miles from home) that I had to wait in t

weekend update

Saturday, 25 June 2005 8:39 A GMT-08
although not much to yammer about today I did want to point out that my calve is 99% better. And I was laying on the sofa lastnight, watching some documentary on China on HDtv, enjoying an adult malt beverage (eh hem) ....when suddenly it dawned

ooooh...snap.

Thursday, 23 June 2005 8:48 A GMT-08
ouch. I pulled something in my left calve during class last night. My calve probably? Duh.  (yeh..i'm a dork) It was pretty bad..I was doing these quick power lunges off of the step. All I could see for a few seconds was white hot light. I had to wa

blah-g

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:14 A GMT-08
pouty lips...shoulder dents..not much else going on today. It's one of those crazy mixed up days where I teach, have 3 hours, teach again, wait 3 more hours, teach again...and so on. Tonight *should* be the last Wednesday night I have to cover for qu
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time suck..

Monday, 20 June 2005 11:45 A GMT-08
so I got this hair (hare?) brained after visiting my cousin in California (who makes up these really need DVD slideshows of trips, family pictures etc. to play on the tv) that I would get some software and give it a try myself. I also downloaded Itun
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calmer seas..

Sunday, 19 June 2005 9:57 A GMT-08
well all of a sudden in the last week I've chopped my schedule down to a measely 7 classes a week. Holy sittin' around on your ass Batman! I've not had just 7 classes a week for what? 3 years? It all feels soooooo weird already. No more 3 or 4 class

this and that.....

Friday, 17 June 2005 10:51 A GMT-08
well it's friday. not too much going on. What am I saying? There's high drama here today people...and this is how the day started. woke up with a hive in my left eyelid..no make that my eye half swollen shut. I should have known better than to tweeze
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reverse psychology....

Thursday, 16 June 2005 3:13 A GMT-08
I'm already feeling better about quitting the neighborhood facility. Probably helped I emailed all of the instructors and told them why I was leaving and now they are all up in the new coordinator's grill about what she is doing with the wonky paysc

fair is fair..

Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:05 P GMT-08
well as of today Yogagirl is a one gym instructor again. I resigned from teaching at the neighborhood facility this morning and now I'm solely at the new gym. Yeah I quit the neighborhood one......the one 2 minutes from my house. But I'm not sad, I o
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what a difference a decade makes...

Tuesday, 14 June 2005 2:01 P GMT-08
ugh. these teenagers. they are going to be the DEATH of me. I have never encountered so much negative attitude about yoga as I have with this group of inner city upward bound kids. I don't know where they come by it, their parents? Each other? The me
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yogagirl...out

Thursday, 9 June 2005 6:28 P GMT-08
I'm off for a much needed long weekend vacay. aahhhhhhhhh. 4 days of not working out? Heaven. We're going to where there are hills and lots of walking and you can go just about anywhere you need to without a car..or air conditioning for that matter.
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on 2nd thought...

Tuesday, 7 June 2005 3:27 P GMT-08
I am *not* getting paid too much to do the Upward Bound program this summer. Heh. Cuz ya know at first I was all smug and shit thinking "wow..they are going to pay me *that* just to teach some yoga and relaxation techniques to high school kids?

red flags...

Monday, 6 June 2005 1:52 P GMT-08
am interviewing a prospective instructor tonight at the gym after yoga class. We chatted on the phone last Friday. In a 5 minute conversation she managed to insult me about 3 times. It went a little somethin' like this: her: I'm an instructor at Ball
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on the menu..

Friday, 3 June 2005 10:32 A GMT-08
I often have people ask me what kind of workouts I do to keep in shape. Most people comment on my arms of course....but last night I had this woman after class actually ask me "what I ate" to keep my physique. I almost choked. I told her li
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lead feeling...

Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:04 A GMT-08
ack. I'm carrying my legs around this week like they have rocks in them. Just been teaching too many crazy ass classes. Sports conditioning three times already this week? That's insane. And on top of that,  I have to turn around and teach powerpump
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upward bound..

Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:32 A GMT-08
so I had the introduction meeting today for the summer seminar. It's the grant based Upward Bound program. 50 selected students (from over 22 different countries) from this certain high school are enrolled. Apparently they are paid a "stipend&q