Namaste.
Happy Sunday Kittens! How has your weekend been? Mine has been great, I'm a wee bit embarrassed to share that I have done some SERIOUS sleeping in the past couple weekends. I mean, for me, anything past 7am is usually sleeping in and GULP I slept in until 9:45am!!! I think that all the travel from January 4th to last week has built up a need for sleep internally that has grown exponentially each week. I'm listening to my body and giving it some needed rest.
I keep trying to REALLY give my body what it needs, which is a vacation in the Dominican Republic with Huge Jackman, but I have to work on those details. You know....the paparazzi would follow us and snap photographs of us and ruin all the intimacy.
Anyhoo- isn't that the coolest picture above? One of my majors in college (yes you read that right, I was a huge overachiever and had TWO majors and 3 minors, my majors were History and History of Art, as I had planned to go to law school if you can imagine that....Danielle is probably laughing right now.) was History of Art and I studied a TON of Buddhist/Hindu art. I'm fascinated by it, and it is on my newly developed Bucket List to go to India and visit all of these temples. I can't wait.
I like always doing Yoga on Sundays. It just SEEMS right. I try to NOT work at all, I get my church in, my Zen time and my chillaxin time. Tonight, I'm doing a wine tasting of some amazing wines from Australia- I'll share my reviews later, and in the future, we're gonna do some wine tweetups from my place, so y'all can "meet" some of my local besties, all while we are tipsy on wine. Good times.
Yea Yea it's Madonna- was this in her "I'm English" phase or was the prior to that season? I can't keep track, but I do see that this was prior to her shoving implants in her cheeks that look like melons. Please people SLAP ME SILLY if I ever get close to 60 and even THINK of implants IN MY FACE. I'm ALLLL ABOUT BOTOX and an eventual boob job but really, the face- you gotta just let it flow to some point. I have gaggly chicken skin under my chin but the thought of doing something to fix that FREAKS ME OUT because I've seen interviews with people where they do face lifts and then like their eyes stop blinking and they have no tears so every day is SCREAMING BLOODY HELL PAIN because they wanted to look TIGHTER. Oy. I'm fine with someone rolling a power sander over my face to help soothe the "fine lines" but cutting and pasting- in my facial region- ain't gonna happen. That's for my PC not my face.
Anyway, my point is- (I think I did attempt to try and make a point here) one of the things I LOVE about Yoga (and I guess this is true about anything- running, weight training etc.) you always can get better. I can't get my groove on like Madonna above NOW but I will. And you can bet I'm gonna show off when I can do that. Of course with my luck I'd get stuck that way and have to text with one hand to my mom or current man-friend to come save me.
If you haven't gone down the Yoga path, don't look at some of these poses and think they are easy. I think that is a big misconception about Yoga - that's it is just stretching and it's "Lame" or "easy". Um, I ask you to check out Mr. Mantastic himself, Tony Horton:
Here's something. I REALLY can't stand people that don't get Twitter and say stupid s**t about it. Tony, I need to help you there. But I forgive you because you are so dang bootylicious. Do you not know who Tony Horton is? Have you not heard of P90X? Um, see below:
He definitely passes the Bark Test. #justsayin #don'tjudgeme
So--- Yoga, combined with serious weight training and whatever your feeling is on "cardio" is a good thing. I'm telling you each week I feel BETTER. And it also FORCES me to, well to shut up. To have a quiet mind. To stop multi-tasking and focusing on work and all that I "need to do" and just BE PRESENT. That's hard for a Type A freak like me. But I'm working on it.
I found some of these videos on YouTube, and I'd seen them on the Fitness Channel or somewhere similar- anyway, some woman got all huffy puffy and said, "Oh why do these girls have to be so sexy!!!" Um, I'd say that's a good thing to be and clearly they do Yoga on a regular basis, I mean the flexibility is amazing. I will say this, I think it's a bit bizarre how they plop these girls into the middle of NOWHERE to get their yoga on-- I wonder what the people in the office buildings or the construction zones are thinking (I'm NOT gonna go there). And the narrator- my WORD! She could be talking about bowel movements and you'd listen to her- I mean really- have you ever HEARD such a relaxing voice?
QUESTION OF THE DAY: What is the weather like where you live right now? Today it is 33 degrees. GAH!
Tony Horton, Yoga
Reader Comments (9)
I love the idea of yoga or pilates on Sunday - a great low-impact, non-stressful workout. I think I may start doing this thanks to you Kelly O! :) I'm glad you're having a good Sunday - mine has been chill, too. :)
It totally made my Sunday peaceful and Zen. ;-)
You're just freaking me out. I majored in Art History.
For Realz? Whoa.
Hey Kelly, I live in Florida and the weather has been around 80 degrees everyday...but don't worry I'm sure it will get warm in Chi soon...well maybe by June..lol
Love ya vlogs
~Michell
oh no...you know the worst thing about monday manjoyment? i have to wait till tuesday to see it, dam time difference...lol keep up the good work kelly i love this blog
Natalie- LOL!
Yup, I live in the Spring Break capitol - Panama City, and it's been mid 70's all week. Sorry it's snowing where you are :( If it makes you feel any better, the beach is non-enjoyable because there are the deadly Portuguese Man-Of-War Jellyfish ALL OVER the beach and they will kill you! At least snow is harmless :)
Angela, are you serious about jellyfish? OMG!! They are alive on the sand??