Breathing

Ann on July 10th, 2012

Breathing is important. In order to live we have to breathe, right? I love to share things I learn in yoga. I feel like I am always learning something new about yoga, my practice and my body. Months ago in Vickie’s class we learned about breathing into our intercostal muscles. I wrote about this new [...]

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Ann on May 26th, 2012

I write a lot about my yoga practice. Sometimes my practice is about exercise. Sometimes it is about connecting deeper with myself. Sometimes it is about breathing. Sometimes it is about endurance. Sometimes it is about remaining calm. Sometimes it is about getting stronger, physically. Sometimes it is about taking care of me. Sometimes it [...]

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Ann on May 22nd, 2012

… Work has been busy, exhausting, overwhelming, frustrating, etc. lately. Sometimes I deal with stress well and other times I don’t. I have been really trying to and focusing on practicing yoga “off the mat” while at work the past few weeks. Sometimes I am successful and other times not so much. I wrote about practicing [...]

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Ann on May 15th, 2012

I took an extra long weekend with having Friday and Monday off as well as Saturday and Sunday. I gave myself an extended weekend for a variety of reasons: I needed to get stuff done I don’t have time for in my spare time; I wanted to do some de-cluttering on our storage unit and [...]

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Ann on April 8th, 2012

From what I have read and what I I just know 7-9 hours of sleep at night is recommended and ideal. Because I get up at 5:30 four days a week I try to get in bed between 9:30 and 10. I usually have no problem falling asleep. A lot of time I am crashing [...]

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Ann on March 25th, 2012

Yoga class was a treat this morning. Even more than normal. I took a friend with me. Our friends Stefanie and Aaron are in town along with their teenage son and 4-year-old son. They are on their way to Disneyland. But stopped in the Bay Area for a couple of days. Anyway, Stefanie and I [...]

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Ann on October 27th, 2011

  My work schedule has been a little weird this week. I worked from home yesterday. And today we were allowed to leave work a little early after being treated to an amazing seafood lunch. (See lobster photo to the left.) Yesterday morning I took a yoga class from the yoga studio, Namaste Yoga Studio [...]

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Ann on August 16th, 2011

One of the many benefits of practicing yoga is learning so many new ways to breathe. When I am aboard a plane and we are taking off I do what I call my yoga breathing, which makes me feel more relaxed and less nervous. When I get stressed out or irritated or upset I try [...]

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Ann on May 6th, 2011

For those of you who don’t follow me on my personal blog, Twitter or Facebook you haven’t heard me talk about my friend Dorothy. Dorothy is a journalist friend of mine who traveled to Syria last Friday to cover the events happening there. She was detained by the Syrian government and her family has not [...]

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Ann on April 25th, 2011

Last night I took a full hour and a half of Restorative Yoga. It was amazing. And it was a great way to ease back into exercise after not working out for a week because of my cold. According to the Namaste Yoga web site, Restorative Yoga is: Gentle yoga and passive restorative postures to open [...]

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