a fitness professional's attempt at living a yoga life….one breath at a time
Welcome to the fifth month of My Best Body Happiness Project! It's Thursday and I'm sharing my progress over on Running With Spoons weekly link-up. One element that I have slightly neglected in all of this body talk is my skin. I had a full skin check done back in February when I first visited …
Continue reading The Skin I’m In
Welcome to another rainy Monday at the beach. Do you know I haven't taken my kids to the beach at all this summer? How terrible is that?! Last summer our beach days were play dates and there were many of them, but this summer our beach buddy is also my running buddy and play dates …
Continue reading Meditation Monday #40 – How to Meditate: The 5 Koshas (Annamaya)
So, it's technically three months into this Happiness Project of mine and I'm kind of at the point of starting over. In the first month of my project I focused on getting myself well. Because the whole point of this project is to make me happy by giving me My Best Body, that included getting …
Continue reading Breaking Up with Dairy in the Toilet Bowl of America – A Happiness Project Reset
For me and my body I first wanted to focus on health because of all that has gone on with my body in the first few months of this year. Now that I have resolved a few things with my health: The cyst is out and my leg is still healing The final lupus tests …
Continue reading Happiness Project Month 2: Strength – My Second Big Truth
You all remember the Meatloaf jam from back in your middle school days.....I will do anything for love.....but I won't do that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ViIPA-Gc Well, welcome to another TOLT hosted by Amanda at Running With Spoons. Today I want to expand off of my post from Monday and continue with a series on my own Happiness …
I've been reading Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project book this year. I haven't quite finished it yet and that's why you haven't been privileged to a Fave Reads Friday post on the book yet. But, I thought that it was time for me to define my own Happiness Project. The book has been very inspiring in …
Continue reading Meditation Monday #30 – My Best Body: A Happiness Project
In the past I have been very upbeat about my weight. Part of this has been due to the privilege of being "thin" for most of my life. I didn't come by being thin easily, but I have been thin for most of my life due to periods of restrictive eating and periods of taking …
Another Friday, another reflection on my Yoga Life..... How has your week been? Mine has felt like catch-up due to late flights and sick kids. I have skipped all of my workouts so far and this has added to a feeling of unease and chaos. What's going well? I've been on task this week when …
Yesterday I wrote a post about the election that has garnered at least one email response. It's a post that is not the usual for this blog and I second guessed myself several times as I wrote. I still think that it reflects the use of Yoga in my life and I am glad that …
Happy Thursday Everyone! I'm a little late to the TOLT round up today due to the massive amount of things I'm trying to accomplish before the end of this month so that I can start with a new clean-ish schedule for November. My mornings are trying to get started earlier and activity is getting squeezed …
