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

June 2008



Pushing boundaries....

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:49 P GMT-08
I suppose sometimes?  You just gotta get out of your "box". So last Saturday after dinner at our friends' house ( a couple we have known for many years), we all got in their hot tub. Buck Naked. And eh hem.....this is HUGE for

Summer students...

Tuesday, 24 June 2008 1:41 P GMT-08
Our local gym runs a summer promo every year. 3 month memberships for students at a rock bottom bargain. We are a college town and typically we lose about 200-250 members when the university students go home for summer but we generally pick up a

Yogoverload........

Monday, 23 June 2008 1:30 P GMT-08
Whew. What a weekend. It was my turn to teach at the yoga studio. At our last meeting I also offered to teach the special "Summer Solstice" yoga class at 6:30 on Friday night (eve before the day of longest daylight) and then

Beachy keen...

Friday, 20 June 2008 1:59 P GMT-08
Kipper on the beach last weekend. Whew. It was windy!  

Curb Appeal......

Thursday, 19 June 2008 8:36 P GMT-08
Long time readers know this house we bought in Oregon was a real "fixer-upper". Today I give you another installment in our continuing DIY saga.....our front entry way. BEFORE AND AFTER  It's really too bad the door was shut o

So you think you can teach.....

Monday, 16 June 2008 8:18 P GMT-08
I arrived at the big chain gym this morning to teach my water aerobics class. As I walked past the front desk, I overheard the manager talking to this woman. The woman said, "well I'm probably putting the cart before the horse but I've w

Wanderlust....

Sunday, 15 June 2008 10:45 A GMT-08
I'm going to link to this blog about my jetsetting Uncle Dave (dad's older brother) because clearly they can write about his upcoming journey better than I ever could. With amazing blue skies and warm temps out there in Oregon-land I'

off to the shore...

Friday, 13 June 2008 8:04 A GMT-08
We joke around here in the summer that every weekend in Oregon can be a "mini vacation" ....but it's true. Heck that goes for winter now too with my new found love of snowboarding. But I digress. Sure we have yard work to do,

backyard buzz...

Monday, 9 June 2008 10:55 P GMT-08
We've finally had some progress here at Chez Yogagirl in the ongoing backyard beautification project. The old deck was completely demolished last month and Mr. Yogagirl excavated 510 square feet of dirt, about 5 inches deep, to pre

Friday night Kula...

Saturday, 7 June 2008 2:29 P GMT-08
Kula definition: A Sanskrit word describing a community dedicated to exploring and inquiring into the science and practice of Yoga and life.Every now and then, all the yoga teachers get together and we have a "kula"

Group of Folks...

Friday, 6 June 2008 1:34 P GMT-08
We've been adopted into a fun little social group. It's made up of a bunch of local couples (and a few singles) and most of them are a bit older than us, kids grown or they don't have any. Which inherently isn't a bad t

Cheers to camping!

Tuesday, 3 June 2008 10:44 A GMT-08
It's funny.....sometimes this "fitness" blog of mine seems more like an article in "Sunset Magazine" what with all the camping, home improvement, decorating, wine, pacific northwest travel, and cooking stories I share fro