Epic Success

So, I recently felt the need to redeem myself a little bit after my latest Epic Fail in the Hot Yoga studio a little over a week ago.  Although I have been practicing more at home now, I still felt this need for redemption and to make peace with the whole hot yoga thing once [...]

Epic Fail

Sometimes, mistakes are valuable.  They can often serve as immediate portals to that ultimate ‘ah ha’  moment when the inevitable challenge or difficulty you happen to be experiencing makes it glaringly obvious that you’ve fucked up and, hopefully, what you need to improve to prevent it from ever happening again.  I just happened to experience [...]

Yoga Music Pick #6

Lately, I have been focusing more on my home practice as I’m now a much longer drive to the Yoga by Sarah studio, not to mention that my Ironman training schedule eats up just about every waking hour that I’m not already at my regular ‘9-to-5’ professional job.  While there’s a lot that I miss [...]

Yoga Myths

There has been some interesting press around yoga as the veritable ‘all-encompassing workout’ lately and it has been causing more than a stir in my lycra-clad yogic circles.  On a few occasions, friends (and fellow practitioners) have forwarded  me some interesting articles regarding some rather, shall we say, interesting views and perceptions about yoga.  Maybe [...]

Hot Yoga Groove

Today (Saturday) was the kind of day you’d rather be inside sitting by the fireplace with a cup of hot chocolate, well, providing you’re legitimately sane anyway.  Me?  Oh, hell no!  Apparently I am the kind of guy that would prefer to strap on a pair of YakTrax , don the Sonclite mittens, sync up [...]

Eat, Pray, Poop

(WARNING:  this post may contain content of a graphic nature, including more information than you ever wanted to know about my bowel movements.  Viewer discretion is definitely advised.) I experienced something rather, well, both fantastic and unexpected yesterday after my usual Thursday morning hot yoga class.  In fact, just saying that I “experienced” it really [...]

Yogi Types

(Disclaimer:  understand that I have no ill feelings towards any particular personality type, particularly while practicing yoga, but, I am also a jackass at heart and despite accepting everyone as the unique and beautiful snowflake they are, I am also not above having a little fun at their expense as I hope they do about [...]

Yoga and Farting

My first introduction to yoga was not necessarily a positive one.  Of course, this was nearly three years ago long before my current practice at ‘Yoga by Sarah’. It occurred one evening while I was attending the “Beginners Yoga” class at the YMCA, upstairs in what’s known as the ‘Mezzanine’, a little annex in the [...]

Hot Confession

I have a real hot confession to make; and not the explicit Penthouse Letters kind of confessional although it may tend to be a bit “juicy” (right, Andrea?).  Okay, here it is:  I actually missed  hot yoga.  Yeah.  I know, right? After the Cancun 70.3 event, I thought to myself, “Thank Christ, that’s over!  No [...]

Yoga mat for sale! Used once – $1

This was forward to me by a friend (thanks, Jeff) the other day and even though I may not exactly be marrying myself off to anyone during class in the near future – because, hey, ‘sexy’ is not how I feel during any hot yoga class – I still think it’s pretty freakin’ hilarious.  I [...]