Another yoga joke for you on a Friday afternoon…
(Thanks to YogaDawg!)
yogi humor May 14, 2012
I took the Dalai Lama out for pizza once. He went up to the counter and said, “Make me one with everything.”
Ba-dump bump!
(I am ridiculously pleased by this joke (which I read on Facebook, so thank you, Roger) because it involves both the Dalai Lama and pizza, two things that are awesome! But it’s not as funny when you say it out loud. Just ask F. He didn’t get it.)
Hips Square to the Ocean February 7, 2012
Pros and Cons of Practicing Yoga on the Beach
Cons:
- Sand gets everywhere.
- Passerby feel welcome to chat with you about your yoga, which can be distracting and annoying.
- Sand shifts under your mat as you move. After your warrior sequence, the patch of firm even sand you picked out won’t be nearly as comfortable to sit on.
- If the beach is breezy, you’ll have to weigh down the corners of your mat if you don’t want to spend half your practice fixing it when it blows over.
- You don’t need to apply sunscreen before yoga class in a studio.
- Sand really gets everywhere!
- It’s easy to get distracted by all the birds, people, shells, boats, and other items you see at the beach.
Pros:
- Practicing yoga outdoors can be a welcome change to enhance your practice.
- Your beach yoga practice can be a conversation starter with people you might otherwise never have talked to.
- Shifting sand underfoot can actually help to stabilize you in postures where you tend to wobble – for example, you can wiggle your feet more deeply into the sand for extra support during balance poses.
- The ocean breeze can refresh you and cool you off as you practice. Weighing down your mat with shells adds an element of beauty to your plain ol’ mat, and finding the shells can be a fun preparation for practice.
- Once you’re sunscreened up properly, sun salutations to the actual sun add meaning to your yoga practice and remind us of where this sequence of movements came from in the first place.
- On the beach you have plenty of room to spread out so you won’t be touching (or bumping, or smelling) your yoga partners like you might in a studio class.
- Although the beach brings a whole set of distractions, it can also bring new vitality to your practice. The sounds of the birds and the waves can center us and bring us back to our true selves.
(We had a wonderful vacation! Now back to your regularly scheduled blog posts, with more beach yoga photos to follow.)
Yoga in the News: A Yoga Room at the SFO Airport! January 27, 2012
Now this is exciting: SFO unveils world’s first (?) dedicated yoga room within an airport. I think it’s a fantastic idea. On airplanes we get crammed into these tiny seats and aren’t allowed to get up and move around or even stretch our legs. In airports we can sit for hours waiting for a late flight. A little yoga before or after a flight or during a layover would be a great way to stretch out and feel better. I’m excited for the next time I fly into SFO so I can check this out!
It’s official January 24, 2012
I got my paperwork in the mail addressed to “Roxanne H. Ward, RYT”. It’s official: I’m a registered yoga teacher!
You can even go look me up on the Yoga Alliance website. YA maintains a directory of all registered yoga teachers. Visit this page, and search for yoga teachers named Roxanne. There aren’t that many: I’m the last one on the list. I’m also apparently the only yoga teacher in my entire tri-state area named Roxanne, which is interesting to know. I won’t even need to use my last name!
Rox Does Yoga: now on Facebook! January 10, 2012
Just a quick post to let you know that Rox Does Yoga is now on Facebook! Go and like it!
(This is also a test post to make sure that blog updates are now automatically feeding to the new Facebook page.)
(edit: It totally worked! All systems go!)
Happy Holidays December 23, 2011
From my mat to yours, and from my heart to yours, have a bright, safe, happy holiday! No matter what holiday you celebrate, or if you choose not to celebrate at all, I hope you’re able to find joy and peace this season.
I’ll be taking a short break from the blog, but I’ll be back in 2012!
(I also want to say that the photo at left here is not posed in any way. My husband F and I were about to shoot our holiday card photo, and it was taking him forever to set up the tripod, so I thought I’d get my meditation in. He snuck up on me and took this picture. I like it!)
Humor: Yoga Girl December 2, 2011
All my posts this week have been pretty heavy on the spirituality, so let’s take a little break. I bring you “Yoga Girl”. I love this video for mostly-accurate use of and hilarious rhyming with yoga terminology!
(And if you haven’t seen this guy’s Whole Foods Parking Lot video, it’s just as funny.)
Yoga in the News: Good Posture July 19, 2011
Here’s an interesting article from Boston.com about good posture. According to the article, people who sit slumped over a laptop all day, or who simply sit all day, are at risk for developing curved spines and other problems. However, there’s hope: as we all know here, yoga is excellent for improving posture. The article cites a study where elderly people with curved spines either attended a one-hour yoga class once a week or didn’t. The group who went to yoga had much improved posture at the end of the study. The article also recommends tai chi, which involves slow, deliberate movements, and pilates, which works the abdomen and core muscles, to improve posture.
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