If you've been here before, you may have read my recent post about my introduction to yoga.  Initially, I decided to try yoga for the stress relieving benefits, but have since found that it's helping to strengthen and tone my body and helping with my balance and posture.

As I read more and more about yogis, those who practice yoga as a way of life, I'm finding that most of them are vegans (which I am not) and all of them are very conscious of the planet and our effect on it.  That…

Yoga combines stretching, meditation and breathing exercises, which has shown to have many positive health benefits.  It can help improve balance, back pain or posture, tone muscles, and may even serve as a creative outlet or stress reliever.

There are different forms of yoga out there, with Hatha yoga being just one of the many. If you’re new to Hatha yoga, here’s your chance to give it a try!

Every 1st Monday of the month, Mom Dishes It Out will be…

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Yoga combines stretching, meditation and breathing exercises, which has shown to have many positive health benefits.  It can help improve balance, back pain or posture, tone muscles, and may even serve as a creative outlet or stress reliever.

There are different forms of yoga out there, with Hatha yoga being just one of the many. If you’re new to Hatha yoga, here’s your chance to give it a try!

Every 1st Monday of the month, Mom Dishes It Out will be…

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Here's another whack-a-doozle list of things I've discovered throughout the past week.  Included this time is the realization that you can't help but feel sorry for the poor dude who lets a fart slip out in the middle of your yoga class (especially when you're lucky enough not to be in the…

Nobody told me hot yoga was code for torture. Every muscle in my body aches and I’ve only been four times. Granted 4 times in the last 6 days, plus my runs…..because if you can’t completely and insanely overdo something, where’s the fun?

Last Wednesday night my sister-in-law L sent me a text’ “Hey, let’s do hot yoga tomorrow. Class is at 10:00 AM.” Naturally I said yes. How hard could it be? I run.

I was instructed to drink lots of water beforehand,…

Yoga is more popular than ever, with nearly 11 million Americans practicing. I have been an avid yogini on and off for more than 15 years. I see and feel a clear difference in both the way I look and feel when yoga is a regular part of my fitness routine. A good yoga session leaves you with an inner peace that stays with you throughout the day. The mind body experience of yoga has benefits that go beyond leaner muscles and a more zen state of being. No chanting necessary, so roll out…

There's a personal trainer at the gym who has a body to die for.  She's perfectly tone. We are talking negative 47% body fat.   She's not bulky muscular nor super skinny.  She clearly works out religiously and she's someone that I would actually listen to as a personal trainer because she looks that amazing.  She'd be like "Now squat lift this John Deere tractor" and I'd be all - "I'll lift two if I look like you at the end of all this!"  I first saw her while watching the super…

Check out this yoga pose: Pyramid Pose or Parsvottonasana

Check out this fun yoga pose!

If you follow me on Twitter you know that my favorite thing about office-ing from my house is wearing yoga pants all day long. I’m a big fan of the Zella brand from Nordstrom (same thing as LuLuLemon!), but I don’t like wearing that stuff for actually working out because it’s so thick, which makes work outs way too hot. Plus, they have tummy-sucker-inner technology...Continue reading…

Via Prive…

The thing about hot yoga is that you will have sweat coming from body parts you didn't know could sweat.  Like your elbows.  I was a little intimidated by the idea of trying a 75 minute class where I would be sweating while twisting my body into a human pretzel.  I've taken regular yoga classes before.  I can  feel my heart rate go up and blood get pumping in the cooler temps of those classes.  I was a little uncertain if I might be passing out at some point during the class.

The…

When I am quiet about my workouts and diet, it means one of two things - 1) I am just humming along, working out and eating healthy as normal, 2) I am flying under the radar because I have fallen off the wagon.

 I feel ridiculous talking about my diet and exercise plan when people are losing everything they have, even their lives in tornadoes.  But people all over the nation are talking about who won American Idol, Arnold Schwarzenneger's love child and baby mama (still!), and of…

Sometimes I just feel overwhelmed.  I mean really, how many hats is one person expected to wear?!  Full time Graduate School student, mother to two, school counseling intern, essential oils educator, wife, dog owner, dish washer, floor sweeper, laundry doer, meal maker,…

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You Can Teach a Dog New Tricks

I am midway through my 5th week of my new crazy fitness plan. Crazy for me, that is. I saw my parents the other night at a birthday gathering for my sister, and they had a good laugh over me running outside before dawn on a regular…

A few weeks ago I confessed that I was "downward dogging it". Months had passed since I last attended yoga class and my body, mind and spirit were beginning to feel the ill effects.

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