Category Archives: yoga

Thank you all for your very sweet words, thoughts, and prayers in response to my nana’s passing yesterday.  I felt like I had a support system spanning the globe.  Thank you.

Despite the obvious difficulty that yesterday brought it was a lovely day.  Tate was a content birthday boy and we both felt very welcomed into Charlottesville with a great turn-out for his dinner party at South Street Brewery.

As regular readers know, I am all about goal-setting these days.   Regular readers also may have noticed that I rarely actually achieve my goals 100%.   I used to find this discouraging but lately I actually find it motivating to set my sights slightly higher than I will actually accomplish.

On that note, February wrap-up

My goals were

1. get health insurance (I know, I know, it’s preposterous that I don’t have it but I was out of the country and I am a procrastinator!)
2. walk 100 miles (anyone care to join me?  It’s only 3.5 miles a day!)
3. run 30 miles
4. start teaching exercise classes
5. practice lots of yoga
6. begin choreographing my dance for May (more on this soon)
7. start my garden
8. eat lots of amazing food with amazing people

Let’s see how I did

1. health insurance is in process
2. 100 80 miles walked!
3. I ran 33.5 miles!
4. I started classes at my studio but there were no students the first week…I am still going to call this goal reached.
5. I totally dropped the yoga ball!  😦
6. the music is chosen, a few minutes are mapped out, and I am excited!
7. we still need to buy some topsoil to fill our raised beds but I got started on organizing, cleaning up the hibernating herbs, and drooling over seed catalogs.
8. this was perhaps to most successfully accomplished goal ;)!

I also achieved some unwritten, unplanned goals last month.

• I started foam rolling regularly!  I have owned a foam roller for nearly 10 years but have only used it intermittently until now.  Daily rolling does the body good!
• I started meditating.  3 minutes a day, most days, and I am loving it.  I fell for yoga long ago but was not interested in meditating beyond the mat until recently.
• I have jumped on the kettlebell bandwagon!  What started as a cautious and skeptical affair has grown into a full blown infatuation.  I will be purchasing my second ‘bell soon!

And now it’s time for a new set of goals for MARCH!

1. run at least 10 miles a week
2. 3 strength training sessions a week (two Core Four, one kettlebell)
3. walk 100 miles
4. work up to 5 minutes of meditation most days of the week
5. use my car less (I don’t drive that much but lately I’ve gotten a little lazy about driving to the clinic)
6. practice yoga 5 days a week

I also have a long list of “Spring Cleaning” type projects for this month that I am excited about, I’ll let you in on them as they happen.

Set goals my friends! Big or small, epic or trivial, clarify what you want and how to accomplish it!