“Why on earth are you going vegan again?” my husband cried as though he has just heard another of my craziest new ideas yet. “Because I want to!” is usually my first stern reaction. It shows that I am the boss of me while at the same time affording me time to collect my thoughts for a much better answer! I then explained to him that my primary motivation is to become familiar with the delicious world of vegan food. I feel towards vegetables and fruits how a connoisseur feels towards wine. I reap immense pleasure from exploring new vegetables and fruits and he, the resident chef, thinks up fresh ideas for us on how to consume them. This “going vegan” move would be the impetus to explore more uncharted territory in vegetable land. That was my primary reason to turn to a vegan diet but certainly not my only one. [Read more…] about Recounting My Vegan Diet: The First 20 Days
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Back on the Bike: Reawakening the Cyclist Within
On Tuesday morning, the last day of June 2010, I met a new woman at the 5:45am cycling class: myself! A new woman with the stamina, perseverance, strength and power that I would not have otherwise believed existed in me were it not for the image in the mirror staring back at me.
This was my 5th indoor spinning (cycling) class in 2 weeks and the seemingly impossible task of surviving a 60-minute basic spinning class was now softened by ounces of progress and heaps of determination. The impossible had withdrawn again, making room for new discoveries.
Yes, I used to consider myself in decent shape, what with all my power yoga and all the stairs in my house and well, you burn calories when you tango and go for a walk, you know!
Ha!!! Wishful thinking! [Read more…] about Back on the Bike: Reawakening the Cyclist Within
A 31 Day Yoga and Meditation Challenge
Yesterday, I marked the end of my 31 day yoga and meditation challenge. For the entire month of May, I committed to a minimum of an hour of daily yoga practice and a few minutes of daily meditation. Like most great ideas born of small stuff, this one started from a casual question; I shared my 10 Day Yoga Challenge from last year, wondering who may want to join me for a second round and seriously expecting no one to respond in kind. I was most delightfully wrong.
Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig
One look at the beautiful photograph of Kathyn Budig in a gorgeous yoga pose on the wall of a studio and I instantly knew that this workshop had my name written all over it. My name. My heart. My soul. My very core.
My yoga teacher Vickie tells me yoga is not just about the beauty and that I need to look past that to really see yoga for what it is and what it can be. One of my favorite yoga poems by Danna Faulds starts by the phrase, “yoga is not about the pose“. And the author of “Light on Yoga“, which I am making painfully slow progress in, certainly does not extol the beauty and grace of Asanas in any way, shape or form. [Read more…] about Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig
A 10 Day Yoga Challenge Experience
It is with a basket full of sweaty yoga laundry and a heart filled with ecstasy that I write to you about my first experience from a 10-day yoga challenge. My goal was to complete 10 straight days of yoga, without injury or over-exertion. The yoga sessions needed to be between 60-90 minute sessions each day, and I was not going to practice yoga religion in this challenge. I wanted to explore many different forms of yoga during this experience. With different styles and types of yoga, I would be able to get into as many possible postures and enjoy benefits of a more well-balanced regimen.
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