Fully Rely On God

Meet my yoga frog that I bought for my office. I just love him. He reminds me to Fully Rely On God. Plus he is just too cute.

My yoga practice just keeps getting better and better. On most days I practice around 5:30 am. I still go to many yoga classes at Midtown. I also still teach at the studio SASY in West Memphis. I teach once a week now. I am very happy with my practice. I get to explore what my body wants to explore each day. I have been adding more breathe work in my practice. The Kapalabhati breath, in particular, I have been adding more and more. I am also working on relaxing more in my arm balances. I find that the arm balance becomes easier when I can just relax. This leads to an important question. How much time and energy do we waste when we try "too hard". When I get busy trying to control everything around me, I become very exhausted. On the other hand, when I just ride the life wave and trust in God, looking at doing 'the next right thing', and just focusing on the moment, then I have much more energy. This just goes to show that what I get to learn on the mat, I get to take into the world. For today, I will just move with grace.
Namaste!

Yoga leads to Mindful Eating

A new study by Dr. Alan Kristal from Fred Hutchinsons Cancer Research Center in Seattle Washington finds that people who have a regular yoga practice learn how to eat more mindfully and are therefore less likely to overeat.
For more details about the study visit: http://www. fhcrc.org

Aerial Yoga

Yesterday I had a private lesson with Grace Harwood at Midtown Yoga. She is incredible. I love her classes and I love her style and grace. She teaches Aerial yoga now and I tried it. I looooooved it!! I think I loved it too much. I felt free and light. I got to do the pike handstand that I've been wanting to try. I loved how the fabric helped me really reach deep into my muscles to stretch them. I loved how the fabric increased my awareness in my hips to stay stable and not wobbly. I loved going upside down a lot. It was great fun! I want more privates now!!! I also want to figure out a way to hang up that kind of fabric in my house. (Except I'm afraid the girls will be fighting over the 'trapeze fabric') Hmm? I might hang it outside on a tree?
Namaste! (Enjoy the video)

Practice. Practice. And More Practice

Now that I am in teacher training I have developed a daily practice. I am so thankful for my teacher Sarla Nichols at Midtown Yoga in Memphis. It is because of her high standards and gift of teaching that I finally have my own personal practice that I have always wanted, but I just didn't really know what I was doing. This is a picture of me practicing one of my most difficult postures to do: scorpion. It is an inversion, an arm balance, and a backbend. This is an advance posture and is not to be performed without the aid of a well trained yoga teacher. I am hoping with more practice I will one day be able to do this posture without the aid of the wall. But the good news here is that I am not really attached to the idea that I have to do this posture. I simply show up at the mat each day and watch what unfolds.

Namaste!

I love this video by Teresa Elliot

Lightness, air, grace, serenity, playfulness, joyful...these are the words that describe this beautiful woman doing a choreographed
yoga demonstration. Enjoy.
Namaste

Advanced Postures from Ashtanga Yoga

I wish I could go to Miami and work with Kino.
:)

Always somewhere to go in yoga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-ANXpbAhs&feature=player_embedded


I love the color orange right now. I have no idea why. I picked this video because it inspires me to move forward in my yoga practice...keep on moving forward....there is always a place to go...