Today was hard for me. I went to spinning first at ponte vedra and then went straight from there into yoga. My spinning teacher worked us hard, and her music was good, i felt great while spinning, but not so great when it came to yoga. In Mia's yoga class, we had 40 people!!! Insane since the group exercise room is small. We all crammed in there and our neighbors were so close. It didn't bother me, but the room got so hot and I was sweating alot (not a bad thing either). Mia teaches ashtanga style of power yoga and after doing some modified sun a salutations, full sun salutations a, full sun salutations all straight, I felt beat. We continued through our warriors, standing poses, balancing postures all with another sun salutation/vinyasa in between each one. Some of the vinyasa I had to skip, and come into down dog or childs pose. My ego said "Dont rest, you need to work out". But I gave in to my mind and body and gave myself the opportunity to compose myself a bit. I know it was my mind taking over here, but I was tired (as my yoga teacher mark says "you arent tired, tired has you!") Yes Tired had me. I was glad though that I took those "breaks", because towards the last 20 minutes of class, I was able to do some more vinyasas, and find some joy in my practice. My yoga breathing "breathing in through your nose and out through your nose" was really strong and audible, I have noticed it improving this week. And for the first time this week, I was actually able to rest my mind during savasana, it was one of the best savasanas for me ever. I guess I was more tired than I thought I was.
Tomorrow is easter, and I am not sure if I am going to be able to make it to the gym for yoga at 4pm, since I have family coming over to my parents house for lunch and a beach day, but at the very least I will do some yoga on my wii or perhaps one of my yoga works dvds, or maybe some sun salutations out by the beach in the morning.
It's amazing, it's only been 6 days, but I already see a major difference in my body and mind. I am less cranky, and my it band doesnt hurt after I do yoga.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Friday Day 6
Friday April 22
I knew today was going to be a busy day, I guess I took a nap thursday night at around 5:30pm and woke up at 7:30pm. Big mistake I couldnt go back to sleep until midnight. Ughh...And got up at 5:30am groggy. I debated what to do, should I try and rest a bit and go straight to yoga at ponte vedra at 8am, should I skip yoga in the morning since I was teaching at merrill lynch for a teacher on vacation, should I go to the gym and do the elliptical and forget yoga? I really wanted to go to do cardio, but I also knew I needed to save my energy for teaching later in the day. In the end, I ended up watching a rerun of project runway on bravo at 6am. HAHA...I love that show..it was such a good episode with sanitino (one of the contestants talking like tim gunn their mentor). And comprimised I guess, and got on the bike for about an hour and then went to suzi's yoga class which felt soo good especially after the bike. And it turned out to be good I went in the morning since my class at merrill lynch no one showed up to since it was good friday.
It feels really weird to give up some of my cardio time for yoga...its so weird, foriegn to me. But in the end, I was glad I did. Plus I ended up doing the elliptical later in the day. Yea, i'm slightly crazy I know :)
I knew today was going to be a busy day, I guess I took a nap thursday night at around 5:30pm and woke up at 7:30pm. Big mistake I couldnt go back to sleep until midnight. Ughh...And got up at 5:30am groggy. I debated what to do, should I try and rest a bit and go straight to yoga at ponte vedra at 8am, should I skip yoga in the morning since I was teaching at merrill lynch for a teacher on vacation, should I go to the gym and do the elliptical and forget yoga? I really wanted to go to do cardio, but I also knew I needed to save my energy for teaching later in the day. In the end, I ended up watching a rerun of project runway on bravo at 6am. HAHA...I love that show..it was such a good episode with sanitino (one of the contestants talking like tim gunn their mentor). And comprimised I guess, and got on the bike for about an hour and then went to suzi's yoga class which felt soo good especially after the bike. And it turned out to be good I went in the morning since my class at merrill lynch no one showed up to since it was good friday.
It feels really weird to give up some of my cardio time for yoga...its so weird, foriegn to me. But in the end, I was glad I did. Plus I ended up doing the elliptical later in the day. Yea, i'm slightly crazy I know :)
Thursday Day 5
Thursday April 21st
after another night of not sleeping well (4 hours of sleep?...this is not okay and starting to become a problem). I went over to ponte vedra again at 6am to spin in colleen's class which I love. She is such a good teacher, and her class just flies by. It was exciting to hear her talk about her run for the boston marathon (her first one) and how she said her time wasnt good, and at the end of the class she finally said her time was around 4 hours. I thought she was crazy and didnt tell her that though, 4 hours is a great, respectable time and she kept teasing that the good news was she qualified for next year but that bad news that she qualifed for next year. haha...it was her first marathon. Didier's yoga class was right after colleen's spin class and I love his classes. It's very yin and yang with 10 sun salutations and holding the poses for a while and we do meditation in the beginning, middle and end of class. I love the way he talks since he is french. Meditation is always a struggle for me honestly, but today it actually felt really nice to sit and listen to my breath.
after another night of not sleeping well (4 hours of sleep?...this is not okay and starting to become a problem). I went over to ponte vedra again at 6am to spin in colleen's class which I love. She is such a good teacher, and her class just flies by. It was exciting to hear her talk about her run for the boston marathon (her first one) and how she said her time wasnt good, and at the end of the class she finally said her time was around 4 hours. I thought she was crazy and didnt tell her that though, 4 hours is a great, respectable time and she kept teasing that the good news was she qualified for next year but that bad news that she qualifed for next year. haha...it was her first marathon. Didier's yoga class was right after colleen's spin class and I love his classes. It's very yin and yang with 10 sun salutations and holding the poses for a while and we do meditation in the beginning, middle and end of class. I love the way he talks since he is french. Meditation is always a struggle for me honestly, but today it actually felt really nice to sit and listen to my breath.
Wednesday day 4
April 18th
Wednesdays I always teach my power yoga class at bank of america's corporate gym at 6:25pm. Im not a night person at all, but I have really enjoyed teaching this class, my students that come to it are consistent and we feel like a little yoga family. My students have grown so much and held some beautiful poses, this is what I love about teaching! I practice with them, so this was going to have to count for today. I took pilates in the morning and ran with a friend in the late morning and we went out to lunch, after running a couple errands I went over to my grandma's house since she is pretty close to where I teach. We ended up talking and talking and really enjoyed spending time with her. I also showed her my new lululemon clothes and she convinced to keep them saying they made me look good.
Wednesdays I always teach my power yoga class at bank of america's corporate gym at 6:25pm. Im not a night person at all, but I have really enjoyed teaching this class, my students that come to it are consistent and we feel like a little yoga family. My students have grown so much and held some beautiful poses, this is what I love about teaching! I practice with them, so this was going to have to count for today. I took pilates in the morning and ran with a friend in the late morning and we went out to lunch, after running a couple errands I went over to my grandma's house since she is pretty close to where I teach. We ended up talking and talking and really enjoyed spending time with her. I also showed her my new lululemon clothes and she convinced to keep them saying they made me look good.
Tuesday day 3
Tuesday April 19th
After not sleeping well during the night, I debated skipping class this morning. But somehow I talked myself into it. I spinned at 6am, and took Mia's yoga class at 7am at ponte vedra. Somehow during my practice I forgot I was tired and really enjoyed it.
After not sleeping well during the night, I debated skipping class this morning. But somehow I talked myself into it. I spinned at 6am, and took Mia's yoga class at 7am at ponte vedra. Somehow during my practice I forgot I was tired and really enjoyed it.
Day 2 "Mondays"
Mondays I always teach my power yoga class at bank and the class was has been slow lately and I didnt have anyone in my class. I did 15 mins of sun salutations practicing my "Jumps" and then hopped on the elliptical for 45 mins since I had to be at a meeting at 1pm and didnt have time to go home. I met with a web site designer at paneras and ate a greek salad while talking to him, then I ran into lululemon (big mistake) and bought a couple new tops, which are super cute, but I am trying to cut back my spending. By that time it was a little past 3pm and I decided to go to omvelo at jax beach to take a yoga class again...see a pattern here?
Ingrid was teaching, and there were only three students. She kept telling me I was hyperextending in my arms, and I had never had a teacher tell me that before. I told her I was double jointed and she promptly said she was too. I couldnt tell if she was being serious or teasing. She told me a couple more times throughout class and honestly I was getting frustrated and felt like I was being picked on. During my teacher training my teacher mark white said that it was ok, since I was double jointed, but now I was all confused. It contiued to bother me throughout class especially in downward facing dog. Hmm....
Ingrid was teaching, and there were only three students. She kept telling me I was hyperextending in my arms, and I had never had a teacher tell me that before. I told her I was double jointed and she promptly said she was too. I couldnt tell if she was being serious or teasing. She told me a couple more times throughout class and honestly I was getting frustrated and felt like I was being picked on. During my teacher training my teacher mark white said that it was ok, since I was double jointed, but now I was all confused. It contiued to bother me throughout class especially in downward facing dog. Hmm....
Day 1 "choices"
Bare with me as I am playing catch up after a busy week.
Sundays to me are always a fresh start. And for some reason Sunday April 17th for some reason just seemed to work. In the morning, I have been spinning at ponte vedra inn & club for the past 2 years. But lately, its been hard to even go to that class. I ate breakfast at about 7am, and headed over to the gym getting there at 7:30ish. I plugged myself into a elliptical and struggled through it. My mind was racing, and I couldnt get focused. Somehow I managed to push myself through an hour at a low resistance (3-4). I knew it wasnt my best workout. I debated going home and thought what would I do a home, a whole big pile of nothing. My wii wasn't working and I new I would just go home watch tv and probably veg. So I managed to talk myself into staying for spinning and glad I did (as I always am) and was suprised to see merlynn teaching for zena. Merlynn kinda mentored me while I was trying to get some spin classes to teach after I got my certification to teach group exercise and spinning in October. She is high energy, and has great music, she is also really observant (while she is spinning, and teaching) and told me a couple times nicely to relax my shoulders which were creeping up towards my neck. Sunday is distance cycling at ponte vedra, and is 75 minutes of a non-stop workout, no breaks, no recoveries. I really have to pace myself to get through which I am learning how to do. At about 10:30 after stretching I called my grandmother because my aunt, uncle and 7 year cousin had come in the night before and were staying with my grandmother. I asked if I could come by and they said of course, so I showered at ponte vedra and headed straight over there. It was nice since I got to spend some time with my aunt, uncle and cousin by myself. My uncle and his family (my mom's brother) were coming later in the afternoon. I didnt expect to spend so much time there but
I ended up heading back towards the beach at around 3. As I was pulling up to ponte vedra my dad called and asked me if I was coming to dinner at my uncle's house for my cousin (this is another cousin on my dad's side) I told him what dinner? What time? Frankly, I was annoyed since I had just driven 40 minutes back to the beach and driving back into town (another 35 mins) really wasnt something I wanted to do. Plus I knew I was teaching tomorrow (Monday) and needed to not be staying out late, as I explained this to him calmly, his voice got louder and louder and I finally said I had to go and hung up the phone. I felt bad, and throughout my practice my thoughts kept coming to our phone conversation. I am a people pleaser, but I know that I can please everyone since I suffer in the process. I couldnt even remember the last time I took class instead of teaching it, I might have been 10 days ago. Mia teaches this class and she is one of my favorite teachers, she knows how to balance spiritually & wisdom with a hard challenging class. She uses the ashtanga style of power yoga, which is extremelly challenging pyschically. We do a bunch of sun salutations usually 5 modified sun salutations, 5 sun a salutations, 5 sun b salutations. warrior sequence, standing postures and balances, seated postures, core postures, supine postures. I was amazed at how good my jump backs and jumps throughs were. (jumping with both feet from ragdoll to high plank, or jumping from dog dog to ragdoll) this is no easy feat, and I have been practicing them for 2 plus years, and most of the time they are sloppy. For some reason my jumps were so clean, smooth, quiet. Mia even told me "Good Lisa". And just like that, yoga become slightly addictive again because I knew in my next class I wanted to do my clean jumps. Haha...this is not always the case as I tell my students that no day or even time of day is the same for various reasons we cannot control. That's the power of yoga, you have to let go and loose control.
Sundays to me are always a fresh start. And for some reason Sunday April 17th for some reason just seemed to work. In the morning, I have been spinning at ponte vedra inn & club for the past 2 years. But lately, its been hard to even go to that class. I ate breakfast at about 7am, and headed over to the gym getting there at 7:30ish. I plugged myself into a elliptical and struggled through it. My mind was racing, and I couldnt get focused. Somehow I managed to push myself through an hour at a low resistance (3-4). I knew it wasnt my best workout. I debated going home and thought what would I do a home, a whole big pile of nothing. My wii wasn't working and I new I would just go home watch tv and probably veg. So I managed to talk myself into staying for spinning and glad I did (as I always am) and was suprised to see merlynn teaching for zena. Merlynn kinda mentored me while I was trying to get some spin classes to teach after I got my certification to teach group exercise and spinning in October. She is high energy, and has great music, she is also really observant (while she is spinning, and teaching) and told me a couple times nicely to relax my shoulders which were creeping up towards my neck. Sunday is distance cycling at ponte vedra, and is 75 minutes of a non-stop workout, no breaks, no recoveries. I really have to pace myself to get through which I am learning how to do. At about 10:30 after stretching I called my grandmother because my aunt, uncle and 7 year cousin had come in the night before and were staying with my grandmother. I asked if I could come by and they said of course, so I showered at ponte vedra and headed straight over there. It was nice since I got to spend some time with my aunt, uncle and cousin by myself. My uncle and his family (my mom's brother) were coming later in the afternoon. I didnt expect to spend so much time there but
I ended up heading back towards the beach at around 3. As I was pulling up to ponte vedra my dad called and asked me if I was coming to dinner at my uncle's house for my cousin (this is another cousin on my dad's side) I told him what dinner? What time? Frankly, I was annoyed since I had just driven 40 minutes back to the beach and driving back into town (another 35 mins) really wasnt something I wanted to do. Plus I knew I was teaching tomorrow (Monday) and needed to not be staying out late, as I explained this to him calmly, his voice got louder and louder and I finally said I had to go and hung up the phone. I felt bad, and throughout my practice my thoughts kept coming to our phone conversation. I am a people pleaser, but I know that I can please everyone since I suffer in the process. I couldnt even remember the last time I took class instead of teaching it, I might have been 10 days ago. Mia teaches this class and she is one of my favorite teachers, she knows how to balance spiritually & wisdom with a hard challenging class. She uses the ashtanga style of power yoga, which is extremelly challenging pyschically. We do a bunch of sun salutations usually 5 modified sun salutations, 5 sun a salutations, 5 sun b salutations. warrior sequence, standing postures and balances, seated postures, core postures, supine postures. I was amazed at how good my jump backs and jumps throughs were. (jumping with both feet from ragdoll to high plank, or jumping from dog dog to ragdoll) this is no easy feat, and I have been practicing them for 2 plus years, and most of the time they are sloppy. For some reason my jumps were so clean, smooth, quiet. Mia even told me "Good Lisa". And just like that, yoga become slightly addictive again because I knew in my next class I wanted to do my clean jumps. Haha...this is not always the case as I tell my students that no day or even time of day is the same for various reasons we cannot control. That's the power of yoga, you have to let go and loose control.
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