Yoga Is Awesome, #1,809: When faced with a door that is ajar, which opens towards you, and your hands are full: reach up and grab the door knob with your toes to pull the door open. Without straining anything, falling over, or dropping stuff. Gimme another few years and I'll be able to hide on the ceiling like River Tam.

(oh, stop laughing.)

Dogs + yoga = "Doga." No, really, go read that.

I would say I don't have words, but I've thought about it and I have quite a few. I'll skip the WTF, because I'm sure you're right there with me. I'll also skip the "but dogs don't need yoga," because again I assume you're right there with me.

I'm sure some of you are thinking, but this is just ( Read more... )

Last Saturday bleukarma and I were discussing our (lack of) exercise programs, and how we're lazy slacking slackers. I told her that I does the yoga, but not as often as I'd likes - and since I've never really been a physical sort, preferring instead to be lazily buried by sixteen tons of books, it's the habit-forming part of this that I'm having the most ( Read more... )

Doing yoga without the dog in the room: smart ( Read more... )

Stephen Fry, stuck in an elevator, tells the world. Too funny. This is what the internet is for, people. #FRYLIFT ( Read more... )

1. Cannot find Infusium shampoo that is anything other than For Dyed Hair. Mine is not dyed; therefore that shampoo does not apply. This is frustrating. I don't want to go to CVS because they promote fundy pharmacists, but I also don't want to drive all over fucking town for one bottle of shampoo. (Shut up. I know they're all basically the ( Read more... )

Have ordered new toys with which to pretzel myself. They will be arriving soonishly. I am excited. They were on sale.

( Mat and bricks. )

I shouldn't be addicted to this already. I haven't done it enough times. I still get confused by some bits. I really shouldn't be a yoga junkie yet, so I'm confused because I am. I'm doing it once every other day, because I'm learning by myself with a book, and I figure it's better to take it slow than to overdo it and hurt myself somehow. I ( Read more... )

1. From Cat/Cow pose, inhale and come to a neutral spine.
A. Remove dog's foot from book. Remove dog's face from own neck.

2. Exhale and pull your abdominals in as you curl your tailbone toward the mat, widen your upper back, and tuck your right knee toward your chest.
B. Splutter as dog licks your face. Shoo her away.3. Relax your neck and ( Read more... )