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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
OMFG! I am not sure if I survived the Bikram yoga class after all! Yesterday morning when I wrote about the class, I had a small patch of sore muscle between my shoulder blades. As the day went on, the ache spread out from there into my entire back and ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
OMG. That was the first thing I said to my workmate Ritu in the locker room after the Bikram yoga class last night. I survived! We all survived!
By the second of the 26 poses I was beginning to have my doubts whether I would. Not due to the heat, which at ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
I printed out the 26 poses for Bikram yoga yesterday, and spent about 40 minutes practicing the poses, with 6 ujjayi breaths per pose per side. I used David Swenson's Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual for insight into some of the poses, but he doesn't use all of the Bikram poses ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Yesterday I continued the Reach Out Challenge with the Fall Seasonal Vinyasa Flow class on My Yoga Online, taught by Melina Meza. I am loving her classes. I've gotten used to the fact that the instructions are audio-recorded by the teacher, while a student is shown doing the poses in the video.
Melina is ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Last night I finished the work week with another restorative yoga class from My Yoga Online. I chose the Fall Yin Restorative Practice, by the same teacher as the Yin Yoga for Winter class (my Get Out of Jail Free card), Melina Meza.
I was so tired, this class seemed like the perfect choice. ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
Last night I went for a run after work, so I began my 30-minute practice with some of the poses from my regular yoga routine. After I run I do a sequence of stretches aimed at keeping my legs relatively flexible and my knees strong. Some are actually physio stretches to ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Last night I tried my first ever Anusara-style yoga class. I love the possibilities for yoga exploration that have opened up through My Yoga Online and the Reach Out Challenge. This particular class, taught by Christine Price Clark, was a thirty-minute after work wind-down called Coming Home: Anusara Yoga.
I was confronted ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
That's exactly what I did on Day Two of the Reach Out Challenge. I was so energized by opening blocked channels in my body from the previous two yoga sessions from My Yoga Online that I didn't sleep well the night before. So last night I chose a class called Get Set ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
I did the official Day One of the Reach Out Challenge yesterday, with a 27-minute class from My Yoga Online. I searched for classes by Sara Ivanhoe, and found one called Yoga on the Edge: Sunset.
Sara is the teacher who inspired me to become a yoga teacher to begin with. When I ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
Today is the first day of the Reach Out Challenge for Yoga Outreach, and I've already got a Get Out of Jail Free card! I did a 30-minute yoga session last night, and will count this for one day of yoga if it so happens that during the October 10 - November 10 ...
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