http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html asana daily is my yoga journal, or in today's fashion, my yoga blog, but myogablog sounds gross, so asana daily! Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:01:37 -0800 60 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#iij252827861 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:57:41 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#bch252741716 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:01:56 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#pvb252656469 Jason Winn will be leading the beginning yoga series and the advanced series! He packs a lot of wisdom and insight during his time with you and, seriously, you’ll be so happy you reserved your space. Here’s a cute picture i found on his website!

Today was cold and gray, even raining at times, that made for a humid and sweaty noon class. really, i din’t feel like i needed water at all today, but i was sweating so much, i drank a couple times, just because it seemed wise. okay sweat friends, see you tomorrow ~m ]]> Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:21:08 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#lyg252570609 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:30:09 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#dck252481685 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:48:05 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#nrm252385362
i have a good rapport with some of my teachers. after class today my teacher pardoned her generalization and told me that men burn her up. that’s okay, i said, i don’t like women, ha ha. That’s not true, it’s just that most women are not to be trusted, is all. Well, maybe i should get to my point. Just because we practise yoga does not mean we are well-adjusted mentally. i’ve got 37 years of negative energy in my body before i found bikram yoga, i think i’ve got a long way to go until i am even close to being well-adjusted. i’m okay with that because it’s all about little steps. like tearing one page out of a phonebook everyday, it’s a slow process, but it will happen if you just keep at it. okay sweat friends, see you tomorrow!]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:02:41 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#rlv252305372
Did you know Saudi Arabia exports $400 million dollars in oil a day? In 5 days, that’s 2 billion dollars! If you ask me, the automaker bailout money should have come from saudi arabia, not the U.S. government. If you drive and don’t get disgusted with how much money the saudis make—fuck off. seriously.

One drawback of bikram yoga always being the same routine over and over again is that a lot of people get on auto-pilot. Our teacher today must have said “wait for me, please” before every posture until she finally accepted the fact that the guy behind me wasn’t gonna wait for her. My buddy did something similar the day before—we were going into standing forehead to knee, but he was going into standing bow. Our teacher called him out *by name,* but he was oblivious, so i whispered to him “you’re xxxx” and then he finally got with the rest of class. I think we’ve all done similar things, my point is that it’s really important to be patient and wait for the instructions. Treat every class like it’s your first class! Let go of your memories and listen to the instructions like you’ve never heard them before! Seriously, you’ll have a better practise, i promise! Just try it once, honest. hasta tomorrow ~m ]]> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:49:31 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#kgn252220474 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:14:34 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#stu252134474 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:21:13 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#pbl252038415 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:40:14 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#uva251947186 ]]> Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:19:45 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#nnq251864812 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:26:52 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#okm251792662 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:24:22 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#cqm251703405 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:36:44 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#vmo251605318
p.s. don’t forget heartbreakers, reduced class times the next couple of weeks, plan accordingly. ]]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:21:58 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#uwg251522126
I had a good class today, where was everybody? i guess even yogis need to christmas shop. it was still pretty warm despite the lack of bodies. some days it is so hotsy-totsy and today was one of them. After class i rode down to the cliffs. The rainy week was fun, but it was nice to ride my bike in the warm sun today. What a blessing to live and practise so close to the beach! We’re lucky, heartbreakers, and today i took advantage of it. What a great feeling to be on the edge of the state, looking out on the horizon and seeing nothing but sailing boats and birds—nature. I’m from long beach, our ocean view is filled with oil tankers and huge shipping boats in from china.

since, i actually did enjoy the nature scene today, i don’t feel bad that i spent this evening watching the lakers over the internet. i don’t know what’s more disturbing in this screenshot—the score or pj’s expression as kb24 approaches the bench.
great teams don’t lose three in a row, tonight was the second loss in a row for the lakers, let’s see how they do on monday. what a scheduling conflict! my beloved packers are taking on the dreaded bears in a classic monday night football contest at the same time. i actually feel like going out to see the game, since the internet coverage will be weak, curse you espn! but i don’t wanna miss out on the lakers either. what’s a fan to do? Stay tuned friends, i’m sure i’ll bore you with the answer soon! ~m]]> Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:15:26 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#axh251445277 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:54:36 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#fvl251353487 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:24:47 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#mqo251268445 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:47:25 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#tcv251192381
While i’m at it, the Lakers really need to tighten up tight their terrible defense. How could they let the knicks score 60 in the first half? What an exciting start to the 3rd, i’ll admit, but i would have rather had them come in with a lead. I know pau was home with strep, but, still, they gotta keep the home floor. Yes, they won, but they should have done it with more authority. it was an exciting night though and thanks to nba.com for letting me listen to the radio broadcast! i feel so plugged in!

i also gotta give it up again to yahoo for keeping me entertained with full episodes of “chuck!” They say the soap opera is dead, but i’m here to say it ain’t. it’s alive and well and being doled out in weekly segments via chuck, my new favorite tv show. i just finished watching last night’s episode, i’m becoming the total internet nerd, aren’t i? i gotta say, chuck needs to man up and admit he’s got a badass girlfriend. sorry, heartbreakers, chuck’s girlfriend on tv is so hot and she just got even hotter with the christmas episode. i’d sleep well at night. see you tomorrow ~m]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:39:41 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#aep251099789
Speaking of great starts, don’t worry, i’m not gonna talk about the Lakers! Speaking of great starts, sweat is finally in our first studio! Pick up these cool tanks at my favorite studio, village yoga!


Now that sweat is in one studio, the other 499 are sure to follow suit! Oh hey, i was screening tanks this weekend and i made this cool one for my moms, one of a kind, just like her! see you tomorrow ~m
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I gotta give it up to GWB. Did you see him at the podium with the shoes flying? Holy cow—he ducked the first shoe and stood right back up for the second! What a man. If i was in iraq and somebody was throwing shoes at me, i’d be ducking for bullets.

Barely made it to class this morning! I might not have made it on time if the clock on the wall hadn’t stopped! It wasn’t too crowded, but i did have to practise on the “cool” side of the room. However unlikely it is, one side of the room is always cooler than it should be. That’s the price i pay for getting to practise so late on such a crowded day. I should know better, but i’d rather not be attached to a particular spot anyway. After class, i got invited to a post-bikram breakfast with a bunch of friends! That would have been so much fun, but today is sunday, i gotta rush back to watch my packers lose again. Hey, i sat in a bar through a 4-12 season a few years back, this isn’t that bad. I guess. Go Lakers! ~m]]> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:48:44 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#dph250934126 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:55:25 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#eri250751366 ]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:09:25 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#waq250670301
My hands don’t do that. Your hands prolly don’t either, do they? it was kinda bugging me yesterday during practise. my teacher and i must have a psychic link because during garurasana, when it was bugging me, she corrected me on my hand position. After practise, we talked about how to get my hands straighter and she told me to go back a step. My hands are meeting top to bottom, but not side to side. She suggested going back to gripping my hands. I tried it today during practise and—wow! Folding and gripping my hands made me feel muscles in my arms and back that i din’t even know were there! It just goes to show that when you skip steps, you really miss out on all the benefits of learning the pose the right way.

After practise, my friend gave me hand written directions to a party she is planning. As she was going over the directions, i was totally waiting for the “can you make it into an invitation” request. it would not have been the first time someone asked me to design a party invitation and then not invite me!

Snoop Dogg is playing here in town next monday. tickets are 45 dollars! what a rad place to see snoop and there’s gonna be no one there. Strong Beach represent! i’ll be representing at home, did i mention tickets were 45 dollars? a’ight gz and hustlas, i’m outta here, 3000 ~m ]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:38:20 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#icj250584370 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:46:09 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#gco250487701 go here. I’m not much of a reader myself, so, if you’re like me *and* you have the time and the bandwidth, this is really good to watch. They din’t have cameras back then, but you know what they did have? Marijuana. i’m not joking, smokey! I was on the discovery website the other day and found an article about a chinese tomb that was 700 BC. The man inside the tomb was buried with 2 pounds of pot! The article is goofy because it’s written by scientists who don’t know much about marijuana and how things work. they explain that he was buried with several “high-value, rare items” as well as the aforementioned 2 pounds of sinsemilla. Yes, it was high-grade herb, not seeded like the bricks you get from mexico! Anyway, he was also buried with marijuana seeds and they say they have no idea who he was or how the marijuana was “administered.” Hello? It’s obvious he was the pot dealer in the area. No one else could afford to be buried with a lot of expensive items *plus* 2 pounds of pot *plus* seeds. Let’s see, a pound to smoke and a pound to sell, that should last until the new plants start growing. How was it administered? Are these people really that dumb? You can make a good pipe out of an apple, thanks to God! In reality though, he was prolly buried with rolling papers that decomposed over the years—good rolling papers are thin and delicate, i can’t imagine good rolling paper lasting 2,700 years. Dumb scientists, any one of my friends coulda solved that nancy drew. So, 600 years before Christ, the Buddha achieved enlightenment; 700 years before Christ, a pot dealer in china died; and 3,000 years before Christ, our yoga poses were being formed. shaped? um, created? Awww shucks, i was hoping to tie all this Before Christ crap back to yoga and today’s yoga class being just like one that could have happened 5000 years ago, but i guess not since the heater was working somewhat. Don’t fault me for trying to wrap up an entry. see you tomorrow! ~m]]> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:55:00 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#jmb250393025 ]]> Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:37:04 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#wpw250320000 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:19:59 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#tve250226500 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:21:40 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#mcd250147013 the other night, my computer powered on all by itself. you have to press a button or move the mouse significantly to turn it on. it was a little weird. of course, my desktop picture is a close-up of my cat who just passed away, so when i rolled out of bed to turn off my computer, i had to stare at his adorable little face. but it wasn’t so cute at that moment, it was actually creepy, like, how did my computer get on all of a sudden? i got back into bed with trixie and then, i’m not kidding, we heard scratching in the litterbox in the bathroom. trixie and i both looked at each other as if to say “what the fuck is that?” it was a little spook(itt)y!

ugh. i had a fly walking *all* over me during a lot of the standing series this morning! flies are one of the most disgusting of god’s creatures. i can stick with my focus if the fly is on me and not moving, but it makes my body convulse if i think about a fly walking on me. stillness between poses was not an option for me at times, i had to keep that awful thing away from me. then the reincarnation freak inside scolded me, “what if you just shooed away your best friend reincarnated as a fly?” ugh, the voices in my head scare me sometimes.

if you’re like me, you prolly fell in love with the concretes years ago. i just discovered the concretes on kcrw and it’s amazingly great. The voices are nice and clear, the arrangements fresh and loud. it’s a great performance of atmospheric pop! just between you and me, “under your leaves” had me in tears—it was so powerful. well, i used to sing that song to motor when he was stuck in the hospital for six weeks and i could only visit him for an hour everyday. maybe that had a little something to do with the waterworks, but don’t let that stop you from listening, okay? hasta tomorrow ~m]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:16:53 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#ngp250057288 poppy de garmo will be setting up her gear and snapping people in the pose of their choosing! if you have a few minutes, check out her website, this is my favorite picture from it. The thing that makes it so great is she captured that lock of hair falling out of her ponytail—that is so aimee! perfect! what a beautiful expression of ustrasana, too. Look at how forward-moving her legs are! oh hummingbird.... see you tomorrow ~m

aimee by poppy]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:21:27 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#ave249976202 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:50:01 -0800 http://www.ilovesweat.com/text/blog/asanadaily.html#gqh249890641 ]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:04:01 -0800