Yoga has done AMAZING things for my back. I am not a limber person and I have to modify a lot of poses but a patient, good teacher is a lot of help. I can't do practice at home because every time I get on the floor, I am piled on by kids. So a class is essential for me.

I just wish I had smaller boobs because I usually end up breathing recycled cleavage air during yoga.

I kind of miss yoga. Maybe I'll catch a class or two at the local studio.

You should look around your class and think, "I am the hottest rocker in the room."

Sometimes I am, sometimes not so much.

I just wish I had smaller boobs because I usually end up breathing recycled cleavage air during yoga.

hah! Yes!

Aims, the red pepper jelly we're talking about is the sweet kind. Jalapenos in New England? Perish the thought!

(Okay, not for everyone, but you get what I mean.)

I desperately miss my power yoga class from Hudson. I had the best teacher and I think that's part of the problem with trying to find a class down here-- I've tried at least a half dozen different teachers and had a difficult time finding a class that I felt had the right combination of intensity and common-sense approach. The class I went to in Hudson had every body type known to mankind in it, all different levels of ability and yet, Carson made each class feel as if it were tailored just for the individual. Great, great teacher.

And with respect to the amazing things that yoga can do-- pre-power yoga

Barb, what made the power yoga "power"? I'm assuming it wasn't gentle flowing hatha yoga, but would you mind describing it a little?

A Danish chain of gyms is now offering membership free of charge, with the only caveat that you have to show up, in order for the membership to be free. If you fail to show up once per week you will be billed the normal monthly membership fee for that month.

You know this is probably an immensely profitable business model...

So, Barb, at the risk of "none of your damn business, Trudy" did your skin shrink down with you and did you do anything to encourage that?

I've lost fortyish pounds so far and ::knock wood:: it seems to be behaving.

Power yoga is usually a vinyasa yoga based on ashtanga.

From the department of what crazy parents do to their poor children, via a friend in CA:

On an unrelated note, I was at D's soccer game this weekend standing beside a new [name of school] dad who's son is in kindergarten with D. I learned that they are wondering when home work will start. Suspecting that they were worried it would be too much I instead discovered that they have been prepping him for homework since the age of 3 by giving him an hour of math, spelling and various other homework everyday.