happy halloween!!!

a halloween shout out for my hubby who i miss more and more each day!!! i am so grateful for your love and support-only 2 more weeks!

p.s. this is a basenji puppy- we are thinking about getting one :)

group 15 rocks!

i just want to say- i have grown quite fond of my posture clinic group. everyone cheers for one another and is sooo encouraging. we have really good group energy! we spend almost 4 hours a day together or sometimes more depending if there is lecture in the evening. these folks are from all over and i am so excited about continuing the relationships i have built with my new yogi friends and traveling to see them. i am already saving for budapest! ester here i come :) so in ode to my fellow yogis- i am posting some pics of our adventures together in week seven. although i won't miss posture clinic- i will miss our fun times together during yoga lockdown in a tiny hotel room :) love you guys!

camel catostrophy

only kidding- delivered camel tonight and it was my best posture yet! dialog- check-speed-check-flow-check! my ongoing challenge is the voice in the my throat issue...but that will come with time. i just need to get my voice from the belly more when i'm at the height of the pose. as they say in bikram speak...low, slow, flow.

trust

if we simply take what he sends and trust him for the blessings inside, we will learn the meaning of the secrets of his providence, even in times of darkness. 

a.b. simpson

sharks alive!

laid by the beach today- relaxed- did some dialog. saw a surf instructor and asked him if i could take his pic by the board and he took mine. he was selling me big time on lessons which i proceeded to tell him i already know how to surf mister. he talked his hourly rate down to 20 bucks. only because i felt like doing something that was freaking planned out ahead of time for me and i was alone on the beach i actually considered it. but then my rational side talked me down- after all i still have to make it 3 more weeks doing yoga twice a day 6 days awake without crashing and burning. it would so be an 'alli moment' to get hurt surfing and not actually doing the yoga. and plus the staff was saying something about shark season. i actually asked the guy what about sharks? he proceeded to tell me without missing a beat 'oh it only got me once but surfing is life' and pointed to his side where there was a huge shark bite scar!!!

saturday night's alright alright alright

saturday night's alright alright alright

i'll give someone blog bonus points if they know what song those lyrics are from

so saturday night kara and i decided to leave the yoga compound (aka the hotel - where we live, breathe, eat yoga 24-7) and it was the best decision! we went to the galleria mall. an interesting mall where you can actually smoke in the stores?! who wants to buy clothes with a side of ash? thought i said something else didn't you?! get your mind out of the gutter people. kidding. back to my enthralling story. okay so we got there around 6 in the evening and left at 10! the whole night was just what i needed. the minute we walked in we headed straight to starbucks for iced green tea- fabulous! i thought the little halloween chalk drawings were cute and a bit morbid on there beverage selection list/blackboard-but hey it's mexico. we did some shopping and decided to grab some dinner at none other than applebees. why in the world would we eat at applebees in mexico? it's the familiarity of a chain restaurant, you know sitting in the booth was oddly comforting. we got our fix of crap food and our friendly waitor named renee (yes a guy renee) even brought me a kids menu so i could color. listening to early 90's hits like 'rhythm is a dancer' and 'wannabe' by the spice girls while dining made me smile. kara and and i had a really good conversation about life and yoga (yes we can't get away!) that was really refreshing. just being away from the hotel and enjoying ourselves without having somewhere to be on a schedule was so nice. i feel like getting away - no matter how brief- allows for some perspective- which is what i needed for sure! we shopped a bit more and left in an great little volkswagon slugbug, that we both had to squeeze into the back to head back to the hotel. all in all - a wonderful time!

p.s. we did deserve a steak indulgence but don't worry we didn't give into the menu suggestion :)

lecture

dr. divvy spoke last night about western medicine versus the mind/body medicine which is called pycho-neuro-immune-endocrinology. hopefully no one wikapedias that because i have no idea how to spell it. it was by far the most interesting lecture we had. we someone said 'it's already 11 o'clock' i surprised myself by actually wanting to hear more not caring that it would go into my sleep time. she touched on many interesting points about spirituality, illness, yoga and healing. i was quite inspired. she touched on negative emotions how to acknowledge them by not wallowing in them. you recognize your emotion talk about it and move on. what i call not turning to the 'dark side'. my summary of the lecture doesn't do her justice-she went a lot deeper than that- i need to go back to the 3 pages of notes i took...anyways she was pretty amazing. i was quite refreshed by her point of view. one of the reasons she said she is able to remain so positive is because she keeps her mind clean. she said one of the many decisions that she made to accomplish that was not watching tv. as taylor knows this has been my number one request/change for when i get home. no more tv!!! i have not watched or turned on the tv (minus the movie we have watched on the laptop on the weekends) in our room since we arrived. we actually unplugged it to use the fridge. i have been quite amazed at how much you can get done and how less worried i am not watching the news and the fear based crap on tv...and i won't even go into the majority of reality television. now by no means am i saying completely tune out the world and what is going on in it but you can also be your own judge of what you want to take in and how it affects you. 

ok sorry to go off on the tv rant. so my intention for today is to be present and try to be positive. even though it is the end of the week, even though we all never want to see chula vista food again, and even though home is calling my name louder and louder as each minute passes. yes i miss taylor, sleeping and actually being rested, and being able to decide for myself what i am going to do next versus our yoga scheduled out every minute of our life here. but i have to remember - this is a growing process. i am changing and learning each day. the more i embrace it and soak up every nugget of info they give us- the better the teacher i will be in the future. i don't think that was even proper english...but you follow me? just had to throw in that last bikramism. and eventually, in the future i will explain it more in detail :)