October 4, 2014 in blogging, cooking, diet, exercise, general fitness, general health, weight, yoga
Tags: alameda athletic club, gym, happy, health and wellness, yoga studio, yoga teacher, yoga teacher training | Comments Off on Pursuing happiness
You want to know the real reason I quit my job? I wasn’t happy. I was also becoming a person I didn’t like. And that definitely needed to change. When I started my yoga teacher training about a year ago (can’t believe that was a year ago) it wasn’t my intention to quit my job […]
September 7, 2014 in exercise, general fitness, general health, yoga
Tags: alameda athletic club, alignment, downward facing dog, one-on-one privates, plank, yoga block, yoga mat, yoga teacher | 2 Comments »
At the end of October I will be taking over yoga classes at a gym in Alameda where the regular teacher will be going on maternity leave. She recently went on vacation, which gave me an opportunity to be the yoga sub for four classes at Alameda Athletic Club. I taught a Thursday evening, a Sunday […]
September 3, 2014 in blogging, general fitness, general health, yoga
Tags: happy, job, self-care, teacher, work, yoga teacher | 6 Comments »
Near the end of my yoga teacher training we did a fantasy exercise. We pretended that we were at a reunion together a year later and we talked about what we had done over the past year since graduation. Baxter said if you said it out loud and as if you had actually done it […]
August 28, 2014 in blogging, general health, yoga
Tags: AED, american heart association, automated external defibrillation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, CPR certified, gym, safety training seminars, yoga teacher | Comments Off on Gettin’ CPR certified
In order to be able to sub/teach classes at the gym where I am a member they require you be CPR certified. I recently took a CPR class with Safety Training Seminars (American Heart Association). I am now CPR/AED certified. I learned how to administer CPR to an adult, child and infant. I also learned […]
August 22, 2014 in general fitness, yoga
Tags: alameda athletic club, challenges, gym, maternity leave, meditation, props, supta padangusthasana, vacation, yoga, yoga sub, yoga teacher | Comments Off on Gym yoga teacher sub gig
Last night I taught my third yoga class, but my first gym yoga sub gig. A friend of mine who I work with and lives in Alameda helped me get this sub gig. (She is also a yoga teacher.) She knew Alameda Athletic Club was going to need a yoga sub when the regular yoga […]
June 30, 2014 in general fitness, general health, yoga
Tags: mindful yoga studio, yoga, yoga teacher, yoga teacher training | 2 Comments »
Yesterday afternoon I taught my first yoga class as a certified yoga teacher. After completing my 10-month teacher training program I planned a trip to Tucson to visit family, get in a little relax time at the Arizona Inn and to teach my first yoga class. My class was called Do Good While You Feel […]