Yoga Mania!

    This year I have really started to embrace yoga.  I absolutely love participating in the practices. Yoga is more than exercise for me, it's a release, my zen and a chance for me to engage in mind and body development and challenges. I also love it because I have met so many wonderful, open-minded and fun people in my classes.  Yoga also attracts good looking men, so that is the icing on the cake.  

    I have been doing yoga on a regular base since January, twice a week in a classroom setting and twice on my own in the morning. I do a form of yoga called "Sola Yoga."  With this form everyone uses a stick to help enhance poses that might be difficult for some and it helps to further extend the pose. This is the first Yoga class in which I really love and using a stick has helped that love. 

    There are so benefits for Yoga like flexibility, an improved physical and mentally state of mind, openness, energy and it helps to improve your brain memory. I have noticed how much Yoga has helped my snowboarding.  After boarding all day I realized this. I was exhausted after a day of boarding in fresh powder and usually that means I have to stop, but today nothing could stop me! My body somehow continued and continued with ease and with confident. I got better the more tired I got.  It was awesome! Yoga has given me so much more endurance, confidence and flexibility. 

     It has absolutely helped to change my life.  Nothing beats doing some Yoga overseeing a gorgeous mountain! 

     If anyone is interested in incorporating Yoga into their daily lives, then check out www.freeyoga.com, it'll change your life!

      

So I applied to graduate school at Westminster College in Salt Lake for my Masters in the Art of Teaching. I am also hoping to either get a certificate in Special Education or English as a Second Language. I would love to teach aboard for a summer, or perhaps even a year. The one great thing about this year was that I started to figure out exactly what I want to do with my life. I am engaged in the Sport's world as a profession right now and I realize how much it stresses me out. I want to be in a profession, and a job that I love and that I can truly be creative and be myself in.

Westminster is such a perfect fit for me. I did the big University for my under-graduate degree and I think going smaller for my graduate degree is a good idea. The class size ratio is 11 to 1 and I like the way the program is run and set up. I love Liberal Art Schools!

All I have to do now is get in! Hopefully I'll find out in one week whether my dream will come true or not. I have confidence that it will.

I'll keep you all updated.

A few great quotes, for a few great people!

To go along with my last post, I wanted to share some of my favorite quotes that I have seen lately. These quotes are positive and great daily reminders about becoming the best possible you. Whenever I am having a bad day, I will look at some of these quotes and it helps to remind myself of who I am and where I want to be.

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."
- Sacrates-

"Let the past fall away
Let the future fall away
Let the present moment be perfect!"
- Steve Norval-

Life is easy
Life is good
Let all good things come to me!
- The Secret-

"Use the light within you to regain your natural clearness of light."
- Loa Teu-

I am just wanting to spread the love, kindness and positive aura to everyone!
Love you all.

an update

   I feel like it's been forever since my last post.  I apologize about that.  Life has been moving fast for me lately, and I guess I was just trying to keep up.  I have been keeping up thanks to my dedication to yoga and mediation practices which have kept me feeling refreshed and energized. It is absolutely amazing how much more flexible I have gotten by committing myself to practicing yoga twice a week. I also have gotten a lot of tension out of my body by practicing Yoga. During today's practice, I did my first headstand ever on my own. How exciting is that? 

    Whenever I am going through something tough in my life nowadays, I sit down and mediate it out to come up with a solution or just to think.  Mediating my conflicts out of my life has been going really well for me. I urge everyone to try mediation, it not only helps to energize you, but it can work to heal you as well. People have proven that it keeps them healthy and decreases their chances of diseases.  

    In general I have been studying alternative medicine since the beginning of January.  I am so curious about other forms of medicine besides our traditional western ways. Since researching and learning more about my mind and body connection, it has helped me to see different forms of medication. Recently, I have been seeing an acunpunturist and it has done wonders for myself. I have started to feel my chi and my spirits constantly high. I also am doing a research paper on body workers. I don't know too much yet, but when I do I will blog about it. 

     If you are interested in learning about alternative medicines and mind and body connection then check out this book The Perfect Health by Deepak Chopva. 

      

Amo a la Salsa!

    While I was in Oregon, I did some quick salsa dancing with my friend Matt and it made me realize how much I love it.  So two weeks ago I went to this local salsa club in Salt Lake and I had a blast.  Seriously it was so much fun.  I took a free lesson at 9 p.m. and then danced till 11:30. Not only was the dancing fun, but the people were absolutely awesome.  I met so many nice, fun, adventurous and totally cool people.  To add sprinkles to the fabulous night, most of the guys that went were good salsa dancers. They had me spinning, twirling, laughing and moving my hips like I was born dancing. 

     I forgot how much dancing can be. While I dance regardless of my skills, I felt like I was actually decent at dancing salsa. I was throughly impressed with my skills and it felt so good to do something out of the ordinary on a Saturday night. I plan on going a lot more. The club also features other theme dances from all over Latin America.  

   I have taken up three new hobbies lately; knitting, photography and now salsa dancing. I am just trying to mix things up and keep on meeting new people.