Gym tyme!

Finally was able to wake my lazy self up and get to the gym. It was miserable at first but now that I'm fully awake I feel great! I climbed 63 flights of stairs and did some quad exercises and lastly went tanning. I'm very white and lacking in the muscle definition for this time of year. With my yoga teacher training I'm in some desperate need of weight loss, I hate packing around an extra 15 lbs when I'm trying to do an arm balance. Motto for this summer do what makes ya feel good without thinking! Ha hope everyone enjoys the day!


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

It just clicks

Had a realization at school today. While doing a verbal practice it just hit me what a proper sequence should be partaining to hip alinmemt, intension, and themes. I love when you have those moments of lighting; BOOM and it makes sense. I've had my realization and am thankful because my final is in a month. Nervous and excited can't wait to start the next chapter


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

Hostility

Holding in alot of hosility toward the people I work with. My festering anger and frustration is not doing anyone any good I have come to the conclusion that I need to get out of my job. I'm on a different life path now and am just waiting until school is over in a few months. Just wanted to vent and get this off my chest because I can't bottle it in any longer. Harboring all this pent up rage is making me not like myself anymore. I want to be free to fly and be my own boss!


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

Best advice I ever got!

Most of the best advice you get comes from someone close in my case that is many family members but the one piece of information I remember not for it's profound intelect but for how common and reasonable it is. Is what my grandma told me about boys she said, "if a boy dose not drive safe with you in the car then he dose not care for you". This is always been something I remember when driving with someone I'm dating and they decide to race a friend or road rage all over the freeway, it shows they have no concern for my saftey and don't care about my well being. It's smart if you think about it an easy test of someone consideration of others. Think about next time you are in the car with a new date I know I do but luckily I have found a gentlemen!


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

What are you tired of people telling you?

I get sick of hearing the same statement over and over... You don't listen! Yes that is true but I have to tell them the specifics of my selective hearing which is I don't listen to negativity! If you are complaining and whining I'm not going to hurt my ears over it. I'll listen when it can be an up lifting tone of voice but other than that I'm not interested. So I will not waste my time on listening to negativity and actually now that I think of it lately everyone only has negative things to say. I'm hearing that I don't listen alot but would you want to listen to yourself complain? Didn't think so ;)


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

Do you love the present more than the past?

I saw this on my daily question and it really made me think about how I'm looking at my life. Do I dwell in the past and make my decisions about the furture on past mistakes and instances or do I follow my heart and were it may lead? I love the present. And I think that I would not change anything about my past hence I would be able to enjoy my present with no regrets. Though this point in my life I've got school, work, and a home life to keep up with I wish I had more motivation I am feeling drained alot and wish I had a more high energy atitude. That is just one more thing I have to work on for myself but presently I'm watching my fav tv show and folding laundry currently blessed with everything and everyone in my life! What about you?


-- Namaste Alyssa
Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga

Follow me!

Follow me on Twitter! My new found addiction. Twitter.com/sunkissedyoga I love the tweets and I'm a tweeter myself! Tweet tweet!


-- Namaste

Loving school!

I am still very greatful to be in yoga school each class I am wanting more and more to quit my day job and just live the yogic lifestyle. One day soon I will be able too but until then I will keep dreaming.


-- Namaste

New yoga book

Great book! Love the CD in it as well a must have for any yoga teacher!


-- Namaste

Favorite Yoga Quotes

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar


The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub


Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. ~Bob Harper


You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon


Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois


By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~Phillip Moffitt


Yoga is 99% practice and 1% knowledge. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois


Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff


For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself. ~Mary Glover, "Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind," Arizona Republic, 6 April 2004 (page E3, article by Connie Midey)


A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~T. Guillemets


The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com


The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~The Quote Garden


Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung


Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown


Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more. ~Patricia Walden


When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." ~Author Unknown


Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields


If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~T. Guillemets


Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Astadala Yogamala


Don't just do something - sit there! ~Author Unknown


I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." ~Ellen DeGeneres


Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika


Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~Patanjali, translated from Sanskrit


Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. ~Jason Crandell, quoted in Yoga Journal, November 2005


Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. ~Ymber Delecto


Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. ~The Quote Garden


Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~Baxter Bell, quoted in "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006


Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~Melanie Haiken, about yoga and anxiety, "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006


Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. ~April Vallei


Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~The Quote Garden


Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff


I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace. ~The Quote Garden


All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. ~The Quote Garden


When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar


The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga - the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body - you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. ~Richard Faulds


Tree pose grows confidence. ~The Quote Garden


Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya


For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~T. Guillemets


Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~The Quote Garden


Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams, an Ashtanga yoga teacher in Maui, Hawaii, quoted from yoga.com