<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from yogagirl.blog-city.com</title><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 yogagirl.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:04:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from yogagirl.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>relaxed and refreshed...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/relaxed_and_refreshed.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/relaxed_and_refreshed.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=relaxed%5Fand%5Frefreshed</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[oh it feels good to get out into the forest and decompress. Except that when we got home this afternoon? We both smelled like a smoked chicken. Courtesy of the yummy teriyaki chicken/pineapple/red onion kabobs we cooked over the fire last night..fini]]></description></item><item><title>Gone camping....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/gone_camping.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/gone_camping.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gone%5Fcamping</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hello. You&#39;ve reached the blog for Yogagirl. She can&#39;t come to the computer right now because she&#39;s on&nbsp;her way to Oregon&#39;s largest state park, Silver&nbsp;Creek&nbsp;Falls, for a fun filled weekend of camping, hiking, and relaxin]]></description></item><item><title>Demolition......</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/demolition.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/demolition.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=demolition</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So every now and then I have to keep you posted on the DIY projects around chez Yogagirl. Behold.&nbsp;Our backyard. We knew when we bought this house in the summer of &#39;06 that the nasty rotten deck out back would have to be replaced.&nbsp; We br]]></description></item><item><title>Touch my body ...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/touch_my_body_.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/touch_my_body_.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=touch%5Fmy%5Fbody%5F</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The teacher intensive workshop yesterday was fabulous. We spent almost half of the time (2 hours) doing hands on &quot;enhancements&quot;....I&#39;ve been using that kind of wordage in my yoga classes for years. It always seems more forgiving and mor]]></description></item><item><title>no judgement....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/no_judgement.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/no_judgement.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fjudgement</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ugh. Sometimes it is *so* very hard. So I was teaching at the yoga studio this morning. A man showed up for the beginner class at 10:15am. He said that he understood the first time in any class was free. I explained to him that yes his first visit wa]]></description></item><item><title>May Day..</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/may_day_1.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/may_day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 01:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=may%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[it&#39;s finally the first of May. And what a wonderful month we have ahead of us around here at yogagirl-land. This Sunday I&#39;m going to a Yoga Teacher Intensive 4 hour workshop at Flow Yoga in Hood River. It&#39;s all about creating intentions a]]></description></item><item><title>the x-factor...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/the_xfactor.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/the_xfactor.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fxfactor</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[all this talk recently of how I got into teaching fitness brings to mind that age old question: What makes a good fitness instructor? I&#39;m sure many of you readers have taken a fitness class at least once. Maybe it was step aerobics, spinning, a b]]></description></item><item><title>Seattle sights...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/seattle_sights.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/seattle_sights.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=seattle%5Fsights</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We had a wonderful weekend in Seattle. Where no trip is complete without a visit to the public market. The mushroom shot is for my friend Connie in Houston. True morels for a mere&nbsp;$49 a pound. &quot;True&quot; in this case meaning&nbsp;*insanely]]></description></item><item><title>having said all that....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/having_said_all_that.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/having_said_all_that.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=having%5Fsaid%5Fall%5Fthat</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[teaching did&nbsp;NOT come easily for me at first. In fact it&#39;s probably&nbsp;a miracle I&#39;m still doing it. Let&#39;s rewind to when the small neighborhood step instructor told me I should teach. She was QUITE pregnant at the time and unbekno]]></description></item><item><title>two roads..</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/two_roads.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/two_roads.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Froads</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Or..&quot;How I made the unlikely jump from Point A to Point B (being a fitness instructor)&quot;. I was an active kid but not exactly&nbsp;&quot;athletic&quot;&nbsp;growing up (despite my seemingly athletic build). In fact I was solidly terrified ab]]></description></item><item><title>goin&apos; down...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/goin_down.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/goin_down.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goin%5Fdown</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It probably was a HUGE mistake making that statement last week. Something to the effect of &quot;yeah I haven&#39;t been sick this year at all&quot;. I had a sore throat come on last Monday..completely overdosed myself with vitamin C for two days and]]></description></item><item><title>coach vs. participant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/coach_vs_participant.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/coach_vs_participant.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=coach%5Fvs%5Fparticipant</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The age old debate as far as teaching styles go.&nbsp; I see it discussed at the fitness chat boards I frequent and see it played out in&nbsp;gyms around me all the time. As group fitness instructors&nbsp;we *generally* tend to fall into 2 camps (of]]></description></item><item><title>Lately..</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/lately.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/lately.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lately</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve had my nose to the grindstone. Just been busy I suppose. Teaching my own classes and subbing quite a bit too (22 classes total last week). Since the middle of March the weeks have been going by very quickly. Can&#39;t wait for May when we&#3]]></description></item><item><title>now I remember...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/now_i_remember.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/now_i_remember.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=now%5Fi%5Fremember</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[it&#39;s not just the prospect of chronic&nbsp;taibone pain that makes cycling not amazingly fun to teach for me. &nbsp;It&#39;s the HOURS I spend combing through music, putting profiles together, only to tear them down, rearrange them, find new musi]]></description></item><item><title>perplexed...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/perplexed.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/perplexed.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=perplexed</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve got a member in my 30 minute senior fitness class that asked me today after class if she can wear ballet slippers next time. She says her balance is off by wearing shoes.&nbsp; Mind you this is a circuit style workout involving low impact ca]]></description></item><item><title>master disappointment...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/master_disappointment.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/master_disappointment.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=master%5Fdisappointment</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was asked by my director to do an aqua master class up at one of the big twentyfour hour fitness clubs in Portland today. One in a 3 part series, it was designed for sharing ideas with other aqua instuctors and for introducing land instructors to a]]></description></item><item><title>a new &quot;spin&quot; on yoga...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/a_new_spin_on_yoga.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/a_new_spin_on_yoga.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnew%5Fspin%5Fon%5Fyoga</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I rolled out my new fusion class of indoor cycling and yoga last night. It was basically a compromise for me after having to give up my yoga classes at the studio to take on cycling classes in the same time spot at my local gym. &nbsp;I figured why n]]></description></item><item><title>April Fools...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/april_fools.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/april_fools.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=april%5Ffools</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During the cooldown stretch of my&nbsp;pump class this morning I had all of my members grab a&nbsp;tube with handles. I told them I had been doing a lot of reading lately about the&nbsp;mind/body connection and how it relates to resistance training.]]></description></item><item><title>the inevitable happened...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/the_inevitable_happened.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/the_inevitable_happened.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Finevitable%5Fhappened</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[yep. I split my workout pants in class today. Luckily it was water aerobics where I face the crowd up on deck and don&#39;t tend to turn around if at all. I was demonstrating jumping jacks when suddenly I felt that certain....I don&#39;t know...rush]]></description></item><item><title>off to the mountain...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/off_to_the_mountain.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/off_to_the_mountain.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=off%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fmountain</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Winter will simply NOT slip quietly into the&nbsp;night around thsee parts. It&#39;s been snowing for the last week and conditions are the best they&#39;ve been in over a decade in the cascades. Typically you&#39;ll find 13+ feet at lodge levels! We&]]></description></item><item><title>spin, spin, spin wheel spin</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin_wheel_spin.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin_wheel_spin.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spin%5Fspin%5Fspin%5Fwheel%5Fspin</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve officially taken over the Tuesday and Thursday night cycling classes at my local gym. It&#39;s been awhile since I had my own class, having only subbed here and there for the last year. It felt good to get back on the bike, let&#39;s hope th]]></description></item><item><title>dirty hands...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/dirty_hands.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/dirty_hands.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dirty%5Fhands</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve seriously been knee deep in yardwork this week. Well in between rain, snow, hail, and sunbreaks. We have this HUGE area of our front yard that has been a complete eyesore since we bought the house. The land adjacent to us is built up almost]]></description></item><item><title>in summation....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/in_summation_1.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/in_summation_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fsummation%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[our week? Good friends, good food, good wine. Good times.]]></description></item><item><title>no expectations...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/no_expectations.htm</guid><link>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/no_expectations.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://yogagirl.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fexpectations</comments><dc:creator>Yogagirl</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I find&nbsp;the best yoga students of all ...are those that have never taken or even seen a yoga class before. And as long as they come into my class with an open heart and an open mind..generally they come away with a good experience. 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