spoiled chinese girl

In the past 8 days (Started April 1st), I have gone to 3 classes. My personal goal was to just get going to yoga again, and it's working. My challenge was to go to 3 classes each week, Tuesday's Ashtanga Prep, Friday's 60 minute Moksha Flow & Saturday or Sunday's 90 minute Moksha class. The last half of the month the studio is introducing 9pm 60 minute Moksha flow classes on Monday and Wednesday night, and I can actually make it to those as well so I will do my best to go.

My overall goal I think is to use up all the classes I've built up from my energy exchange, and start going enough that is is once again worth it to get an unlimited pass.

I was so excited I went and bought two new yoga outfits (2 tops, 2 pants). At Wal-Mart. For $40.00. In total. I rule the clearance rack

One week in.  I’m going back to the Ashtanga class.  I have to admit I miss Dave who is the normal guy who used to teach, but it seems like he’s moved onto a new studio.  The details behind this move are filled with enough soap-opera controversy that I find it amusing there is even drama going on in the yoga world.

Last week it was an amusing gentleman named Diago who taught our class.  I liked his style of teaching, he just seemed very casual and open and friendly.

Tonight will be a woman named Lily.  I’m excited to see how class will be like with her, as she is supposed to be the regular instructor for the Ashtanga series.

Ah….. those were the days!

Now that I’m posting these inane rants from 7 or so years ago… I must say I was a very angry teenager! Not really unheard of, but good heavens, my spelling sucked back then.  At least now the spell checker is built into the browsers now so I can check everything before it goes up.  But alas, a sucker for authenticity, I am keeping everything as is! 

the entertainment crowd
these people will be the ones who arrive before the movie starts because they don’t want to hang out in the theater lobby for an hour, oh no they can’t line up for popcorn and drinks and go to the bathroom before the movie as to not interupt others DURING the movie, no they must hike over to chapters and sit at starbucks drinking their $7.00 cappichinos and latte’s while reading every copy of YM, YM Teen, YM Prom, Cosmo, Cosmo Girl, In Style, Vanity Fair, People, Teen People, U.S., Marie Claire, Vogue, Vogue UK, Vogue Italia, Vogue Espania, Teen, Teen Beat, Teen Machine, Teenybopper, Teen Dream, Teen Scream, Teen Scene, Smash Hits, TOTP, Star, Sugar, BB, Bop, Big Bopper, Popstar, PopGirl, PopBoy, BoyBand, BoyPop ect. ect and squeal over Justin Timberlake’s new hairstyle and Britney Spears’ new navel ring (yes. she WILL never show her navel ever again because men think of her as just a sex object, she ISN’T dating Justin Timberlake… she DID have knee surgury!!) and Backstreet Boys AJ new Laberet stud and his latest of tattoo’s (just to put something of body modification onto this rant!) before leaving their 50 magazines in a nice pile spread out all over the MyBooks section (childrens books of the store), on the floor where they sit and on the tables at starbucks. They will then complain when we ask them nicely about 20 times to please leave because we close at 11pm and have since we opened and will continue to do so (we now even close earlier!) because their movie doesn’t start until 11:30pm or 12:15am and after all, they don’t want to be losers and sit there waiting for it to start now do they??

Oh my god.  I’m writing this kind of late, but I went to class at 8am today.  For one thing, I thought people would sleep in and go to the 10am class, because that’s what I used to do when I first started and had all the time in the world.  Sleep in for pete’s sake!  I really couldn’t believe how packed it was in there, and I couldn’t believe I survived it.  Mainly because when I was doing the 30 day challenge last year, I decided that the over-crowded classes just weren’t for me and started sourcing out class times that were not as popular so the studio would be less crowded.

The class was great.  I remembered some stuff, and totally forgot others.  I was disappointed in my lack of flexability and my need to take rests and drop out of the class, but I let those feelings go with every breath.

I definitely enjoyed class and look forward to going more!