Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Hanging Tough

We had a great few weeks in Sedona. We actually camped with other people...gasp! If you know us, then you know we usually camp alone due to most people not being able to make it to where we are. At first it was difficult, for me, due to expending a ton of mental energy and not getting enough down time in between visits to refresh myself. I love our friends and road family but I'm learning I need a lot more down time for balance...it's quite exhausting to be around people, period.
Having said all of that, even though it was really different camping with people it was nice at the same time. We all got together on Sundays for Football, we did group Yin Yoga classes, the guys got together for guitar lessons while the girls did pedicures and we even went on a "field trip" to Sedona! 


Can't go wrong. Brats, Sausages and burgers!!

Yoga time

Joe's statue!

Silly girls

The gang at the Three Pigs Fountain
 
Lunch at El Rincon
 
I'm sure there's much more fun on the horizon.

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Friday, November 6, 2015

Open your Mind...The Universe has Everything to Show You!

The other day, I plugged my camera into my computer for the first time in about a month. I have to say that if I were a stranger looking at the photos, I would want to track this person down and ask them how they live such a life.
Looking back at the past month, we've had some really great times and we have met some really awesome people. I can say today, (because every day for me is different) we live a great life. I try to appreciate every day although, for me, that can be very difficult. I think the Universe gives us a little bit of everything; sometimes I think I can't handle it, other times it's no big deal, some days I want to run away, scream, cry...and I do, and other days I don't want the day to end. In the end, it's all about balance and I learn that every single day...or at least I'm really really trying to!

In the last month or so, we have met some of the most amazing people that truly respect and appreciate life. I believe the Universe has put them directly in our path as teachers and they probably don't even know it! Pretty cool.

We are getting back on track of a more healthy lifestyle, sure we still like to have fun, but we needed more balance. Once we all got settled into our camps, "The Gang" would meet up a few times a week to learn Yin Yoga. "Catskills Will" is a Yoga Instructor and has been camping with us. We had talked about food, exercise, healthy this, healthy that and he brought up this "new type" of Yoga no one had ever heard of...so we all decided to give it a shot. I have to say, it's totally different than any other Yoga I've tried and a lot more "peaceful". Your body is the one pretty much teaching you how to move, how to go deeper, where you have pain or didn't know you had pain and how to make it better and even go away...it's pretty amazing actually. 

 
Collage courtesy of Cindy Harris

Yoga Talk

Will showing us some poses


Yin Yoga is something you can do every day, it's not only great for your body but also for your mind, as well as emotions and energy running through (or stuck) in the body. It's been really cool to learn from someone who has so much knowledge about it and is eager to teach everyone. At times it can be a bit overwhelming because you are doing things with your body that you normally don't do; you are opening energy centers that are pretty much closed off, touching base with emotions that are repressed, getting in tune with your body. Talk about a major change for the better!

I've come to a conclusion that the Universe really does listen!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

It was a tough job, but someone had to do it!

Being out in the woods gives me much time ...a little too much time to make up things to do. This morning I started off with Yoga. I have a step-by-step book that I used and am pretty impressed with myself...hey someone has to be! I did about 40 minutes and then had some hot tea...Peach! It was so yummy, I almost forgot how great tea was until I saw it shoved way in the back of our pantry. It was awesome following my Yogi ways! hee hee I changed into some 'day' clothes; jeans and a long sleeved shirt, it's been quite chilly the last few days, and did some things on the computer. The battery on my computer only lasts about 2 hours, 2 hours and 20 minutes if I'm lucky, so after my computer started screaming for more power I had to be creative on something to do. That's when the picture taker came out in me, like it doesn't already do that every 5 seconds of the day. I grabbed the tripod and to a flat surface I went. I never have pictures taken of me, because I'm always behind the camera... everyone takes crappy pictures! No, I'm serious. No one 'cares' like I do, so the pictures are always blurry and unfocused or don't turn out at all, so to ease the pain of looking at them later, I just take them...leaving none of me. Booo sad face. So, me and the tripod find a flat surface and Savannah is curious but stays far enough away to not be involved. Now, I am a pretty fun gal (on my good days) and I don't really like too many 'serious' pictures... they get boring. See for yourselves what the next 40 minutes of my day involved...and people say I don't work anymore! HA





[caption id="attachment_128" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Need better timing"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_129" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Getting there"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Break time"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="My Orb is along for the ride (on my heel)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Oh my, there's a lot of junk in that trunk!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_133" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Had to get serious with this one...shirt off!"][/caption]


And what kind of Mother would I be, if I didn't get Nana' in on the fun!?





[caption id="attachment_135" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Me & my munchkin"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_136" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Could be a better pic, but I still love my Nana'"][/caption]

If you have any more fun suggestions for me to try with the tripod, let me know...I'm aaalllll ears!!




PEACE