How to relax about being tight

“I can’t  do yoga – I’m not flexible!”

I hear this complaint a lot from would-be hot yoga students. I try to explain that hot yoga is the antidote to inflexibiity. In fact, the tighter you are the more quickly you may notice the before-and-after of your hot yoga body.

But hot yoga is more than skin deep. 

While you're busy twisting and turning and stretching, yoga is expanding you on many other levels, loosening your mind, for example

Is there such a thing as too tight to do hot yoga? 

If you believe you’re inflexible,  you are likely to think so. Becuase a tight mind is even more painful. So loosen up your old ideas about yourself and come in closer...

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Hydration Part 2: The Electrolyte Balancing Act

Water, water everywhere and drink you must, in hot yoga, especially in summer, particularly on a 30 Day hot yoga Challenge (go Pam, Lori, Megha, Teri!)

But that's only half the hyrdation story.

For intake, the rule of thumb is half your body weight in ounces daily for normal hydration.

But if you do hot yoga, you're not normal. So how much water is enough? And is there such a thing as too much?

Turns out - there is. As well as a simple fix for balancing it all out.

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Your Eulogy...or your life?

Everyone has written a resume, but if you were asked to write your own eulogy, what would it say?

Would you rather live your resume or your eulogy?

I did this exercise for a seminar I attended awhile back: I wrote my own eulogy, describing in detail the things I'd want to be remembered for.

And interestingly enough, it looked completely different from my resume....

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Thank you, hot yoga, for all that I don't know

Yoga is one of the best life coaches I could ask for.

Yoga helps me tighten up not only my body, but my focus and drive. I have a lot of projects, and things I’m working on seem to flow to me - ideas, circumstances, energies and intuitive decisions - all that and much more by doing my yoga. I am in control.

But today online, I read a Meghan Currie pearl of wisdom: “The only thing we know...is that we DON’T know.” And that struck a chord with me....

You don’t need to know. You need to BE. And there’s a big difference.

Embracing non-knowing removes all the pressure of thinking you NEED to know and control.

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Pissing in your ear

A six year old boy rushed up to his mother, all out of breath.

"I found a dead cat in the yard!" he exclaimed.

"Are you sure it wasn't just sleeping?" his mother offered.

"No, he was dead; I pissed in his ear and he didn't move at all."

"You pissed in its ear??" his mother asked, somewhat horrified.

"Sure," said the boy. "You know; I leaned over, got real close to his ear, and said, 'PSSSSST!'

We make so many wrong assumptions.

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