At least half of the reason I go to yoga is to do hip stretches (and work out the IT Band kinks). If I don’t have time to yoga, I will almost always do bound side angle, dragon, and pigeon after working out to keep myself limber (occasionally, if no one is around, and it’s…
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“I eat better than you.”
Awesome conversation overheard today after yoga: Woman 1: “You have the most amazing back, what do you do?” Amazing Back Woman: “This [yoga] and my diet.” Woman 1: “What? I guarantee I eat better than you.” Amazing Back Woman: “Nope, it’s all in the diet.” Woman 1: “I eat better than you. You eat meat.”…
Feel Good Friday 101411
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Video Skype for business. Somehow hilarious and totally professional at the same time. Sweet potato eggplant lasagna with ground beef. Recipe here. This text:…
Austin: Painting the Four Seasons Pink
The ever-conscious Four Seasons of Austin is offering a number of ways to pamper yourself AND give to breast cancer research for October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A month-long lineup of events and new product offerings benefit the Seton Shivers Cancer Center at Brackenridge—their goal is to raise $10,000 in 2011 (they raised $8,500 last…
Austin: Yoga Festival!
September may have been National Yoga Month, but October hosts the first annual Austin Yoga Festival October 8th & 9th at Fiesta Gardens. The Festival will be a celebration of all styles of yoga, bringing together Austin’s finest yoga studios, teachers, ayurvedic practitioners, and holistic wellness providers. Over 30 of Austin’s finest yoga instructors will be leading classes…
BreatheCure Conference at Rice University
I don’t normally write about things super-far in advance, but you might want to plan to be in Houston for this one. The First Annual BreatheCure Conference comes to Rice University Recreation and Wellness Center October 29. The event supports the illness-to-wellness community with educational classes and lectures for participants of all ages and fitness…
Feel Good Friday 093011
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Having skier extraordinaire Nick Devore play a didgeridoo over my body during Yoga Therapy class Happy meat for just $4/lb from Homestead Meats at…
Thank Yourself
Yoga wisdom from today: after class, notice how you feel. You created that with your hard work. Thank yourself for creating that feeling. This can be applied to anything. Any hard workout, task you didn’t want to complete, hard thing you’ve done: YOU did it. You created the result. Thank Yourself.
National Yoga Month
Did you know September is National Yoga Month? Did you know you can get a full week, seven days, of free yoga at tons of studios across the country thanks to National Yoga Month? It’s no secret that I’ve been practicing A LOT of yoga recently. I did a seven-day boot camp in Aspen that…
Seven days of yoga
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the last week of yoga boot camp with Ashley Turner was absolutely phenomenal (5 days yoga boot camp + 2 days of Vinyasa flow). I can’t say it changed my life, because my life is changing all around me with or without this yoga, but it…