Benefits of Hot Yoga and Tips To Help You Thrive Hot yoga. It’s hot, sweaty, kinda yucky and…it’s good for you! About 5 days a week you can find me sweating out my edges in a hot yoga or Bikram class. Give me a mat, some heat and a couple of towels (to wipe alllll that […]
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Yoga: Mind Your Own Business (or keep your mind on your mat!)
I hurt myself in yoga class. Yes, if you do it wrong it hurts. Really bad. So bad I did not lift weights for my upper body for about 2 months. That’s a really big deal for me. It’s hard when you can’t move like you are used to moving. And, lifting weights is […]
empowerFit Wellness retreats! But why?
My love of travel began with road trips to Virginia, Gary, Indiana and Washington D.C. in our orange Cougar XR-7 with my family, the car filled with the music of Gary Byrd, The Brothers Johnson and Parliament Funkadelic, the smell of freshly fried chicken and Wise potato chips and me lying across the Popeye-themed sheet […]
Painless as the Truth can be
I’m going to make this intro as quick and painless as possible. Or as painless as the truth can be. Let’s get all the juicy stuff out of the way so we don’t need to have some huge Oprah-type reveal later: Some days I look in the mirror and I see a goddess, an African […]
“These are a few of my faaaaavorite things!”
There are quite a few items – edible and non-edible – that I have started keeping around me as I get deeper and deeper into obtaining a lifestyle of optimal health (I have to mention that optimal health includes enjoying a high quality tequila or an incredible cut of steak every once in a while! […]
The Practice and “Perfection” of My Yoga Self
I used to get really intimidated by the pictures of all those yoga teachers in superhuman poses. They are floating into handstands, bending into shapes I cannot begin to physically imagine my body getting into. And they are all so ….thin. Not unhealthy, mind you. Just a hell of a lot smaller than me! Well, […]
