Long time

So I'm Alive!!!! I've been super busy this month with all sorts of stuff. I have officially been a yoga assistant at Prana in Cambridge. I have really enjoyed it so far and I find it a great way go on Friday nights. I purposely picked a class on Fridays because to thought it would be a much easier way to make sure that I practiced on Fridays which I like to do anyway.

I've also been going to crossfit Boston regularly twice a week. I totally have noticed a difference even in this short of time. I still need to add some more running because I want to get ready to do the princess half marathon. So I'm definitely going to be even more busy.. But it's all good.

Now back go to project runway

Something scary

Its been a busy time lately.  I feel like I barely sit down any more but that's not exactly a bad thing.  Though this week after Monday crossfit, I think my legs decided to go on strike.  I barely could bend for three days... oops.  Hopefully this week will be better.  I mean I'm all a fan of pushing myself but the goal is not to do it so bad that I'm incapacitated for almost a week.  Fortunately I'm all better for the most part today, so I'm going to go and do another partner WOD at 11... hopefully I can walk at the end of it :)

Today my plan is also to do something scary... hello bassoon...nice to see you after almost two years.. But I've actually been missing it.  I realized that I am such a bassoon player is so many ways because I appreciate things like

I mean this sort of thing is exactly what bassoonist are like.  Lets get together and play something silly for bassoon quartet. I mean.  Its nice to be associated with a group of people that as a collective don't seem to always take themselves seriously.  Which is me.  So i'm going to pick up my bassoon for the first time in a LONG  time today.  Wish me luck :)  

Nash in pictures

Jack Danials Distillery

 The Hobbit as a Tree House

Walden Tree House

Japanese Zen Garden...Cheekwood TN

The Giver

Lord of the Flies

The Painted Fish

Peter Pan

Nashvilled up

Nashville and seeing the E family was wonderful. Once the travel was underway it was relatively uneventful and I was met by T at the airport in Nashville. Because baby E had to go to bed so S was on bedtime duty.

Anyways, we drove back to their place and chatted with S for a little while. Before bed. T and I played street fighter for awhile and definitely had a blast from the past moment.

The next day we relaxed through the morning while the baby played and then we made our way to the jack Daniel's distillery. Which was really neat. The science geek in me really liked it. It did smelly kind of funny, but the fact they make JD with water fro this one spring in TN is kind of cool.

After that we got ice cream :) yes please and a good thing to do after spending the day in the hot TN sun Though it wasn't as hot as it. Could have been.

The next day we went to church. Yep church. It was good to have some god time and reminded me that I need to get back go church / find a church closer to Cambridge. Cause getting out to Wellesley may or may not happen regularly. And it might be nice to go to a church where people don't all know about the cancer. Not that's its a bad thing, but sometimes I don't want the big doe eyes of how are you.

Anyways I digress. After church we had lunch and went to cheek-wood botanical gardens. They had an exhibit of tree houses. It was really cool. They had a tree for Walden, the hobbit an lord of the flies.... To name a few. It was super cool, until it started to rain. We all loaded into the car and headed home, by way of aopi headquarters. Which was fun to drive by. Just a building though.

We had a lovely evening at home involving 5 guys burgers. And T cut
The grass.

I woke up the next day and travelled home. Which was equally uneventful. And the two hour layover wasn't even too bad. Thank goodness for books and iPhones :)

All In all, wonderful trip, wonderful weekend and wonderful awesome people:)

Anxiety driven

So the past two weeks I haven't been doing much yoga and Ive actually noticed. Weird cause it's never happened before. But interesting that I noticed. I have definitely become much more in tune with body. At least more often so that is good. I definitely not at 100% but we're getting there which is really what it's about. We are all works in progress :)

Lots has been going on lately. I started back at crossfit. At a new gym which is really close to my new house. I'm really happy that I started again because really I just had to jump off the fence and go for it. I have had to heavily modify almost everything but it's still been worth it, and just the ability to finish a WOD in the time cap has been exciting. There has also been two times in the last three weeks I've realized mid workout that I couldn't do something and had to spring it on the coach. ... I almost wrote couch...hehe. I felt alittle bad about that one but whatever. It's a learning curve for me too. So deal with it.

This weekend I'm off for a relaxing weekend to visit s and t in nashville. So that should be fun and should have lots of adventures to report :)

I just to wait the 3hrs before the flight. Oops

Something new

Today has been a good day do far. I went to my third WOD at crossfit Boston this morning. It was a doozy. We ran Harvard stadium. Yes you heard it. It sort of sucked and was great at the same time. I managed 14 flights in 30 min which isn't bad considering a) the lack of shape I'm in and b) the fact I will fully admit to wanting to stop after the first set. So it felt really good to get 14. Which is alittle over one every 2 min... A+ for me.

Then I had all these plans of what I was going to do, but I'm just taking it easy. The original idea didn't happen cause of timing, so I said to myself let's have a slow day. And thats what I've been doing. Made some spaghetti squash, walked to Harvard square, and going to trader joes with one of the roomies.

All over great to slow down.

The site of this mornings workout

Wanderlust!!!!!!!!!

The day started off great. I actually woke up at 6 which I don't know why I'm even surprised anymore.  But I sort of dozed for another hour and a half which was excellent.  I wanted to get up sort of early because my first class was at 10.    So I wanted to make sure to leave enough time to get there, get the wrist band and figure out where the heck I needed to get to without getting stressed out. 

So I got ready watching Rupauls Drag U, which turned out to be a makeover show.  Go figure.  Anything involving Rupaul is amusing.  So i got ready and then attempted to find the theoretical continental breakfast.  I say theoretical because not only could I not find it I couldn't find a soul to ask.  The hotel is fine and all but its oddly understaffed.  So there was no one around.  Not a big deal since I knew they'd have food at the festival.  So I packed up and headed out.

It was super easy to find because it was one minute up the road.  And because it was a ski resort parking was easy peasy.  Actually getting around in general was pretty easy.  So I got my wrist band and found a yummy vegan smoothie place.  All was GREAT!

I made it to my first class, which ironically turned out to be the only class with flow.  So not as active as intended but whatever.  Still amazing.  Anyway the first class was an intro to Ashtanga yoga with Kate O'Donnell. Who ironically teaches at Back Bay Yoga in Boston.  So I actually felt bad about taking it, but I'd always been curious about Ashtanga so I did it anyway.  So I'm glad I did.  She was an amazing teacher.  If only she taught at some other time then 6am.  I might try it a little.  But I left feeling really good.  I even went into headstand prep, which still doesn't feel good.  But I gave it a 5 breaks go.  And it wasn't bad.  Though I still don't like the way it feels on my head. 

So after that I trucked it to the Lucy tent.  Yes the store.  I caved and bought a shirt last in the day, but they were one of the sponsors so the big tent was theirs.  There I had a lecture about living like a yogi.  It was done by this guy who teaches at NYU and is a Buddhist monk, Lama Marut.   I actually bought his book cause he made some interesting points about how you follow the yoga sutras.  Little did I know I'd come away with a reading list 7 miles long.  I thought I'd just come away sore :)

After that I had some time to kill so I roamed and got some free samples.  And then I found lunch.  Rice bowl with beef.  Then the rains came, which was a total arg moment because I was just going to sit outside until my last class.  And we aren't talking about a little rain.  IT was a ton.  But it was oddly relaxing in a lot of ways because there was quite literally nothing to do and nothing I could do about it. So I curled up on my rolled up mat and started to read my book..the one I just bought.  It was good that I forgot my phone charger because I didn't look at it much and because I didn't want it to die.  But I really wanted to check out and watch netflix on my phone. which  I didn't, So it was a very interesting pull. 

Anyway I managed to kill time until my third class which was given by the dean of the Kripalu Center.  I thought it was going to be a vinyasa class.  Nope it was al ecture.  But that was cool because he discussed Patanjolis Yoga Sutras.  Which I now want to read.  But he discussed how the asanas tape into the body and make us feel things we are blocking.  Then pranayama is the life force which keeps us going also know as air.  So the breath work with asana to tap in the body.  Then daram or manomaya  Kosha is the meditation that allows us to tap into out feelings.  Which lead to the Vijnani maya kosha, which is our higher self.  The self that is not judgmental and content with life.  That eventually  allows us to reach the ananda maya kosha.  Which is Bliss.  OUr completely enlightened self.  It was a really neat way to think about stuff.  By improving the body through the physical we are able to tap into the emotional and therefore improve yourself. 

After the lecture I roamed around a bit more.  Found an interesting booth called Karma Warrior clothes, and bought a tee shirt.  I eventually found my way to one of the restaurants at the resort because i knew if I went home I wouldn't come back for a the concert.  Which was awesome.  MC Yogi and Shakti Sunfire.  Completely awesome.  Then I went home and passed out. 

There was my wanderlust experience.