It’s the beginning of Week 3 of My Precision Nutrition Journey with Coach Emily Watkins! I’ve experienced some great ah-ha moments and takeaways. Here are the details, or the deets as the under-40s might say: The first two weeks were all about mindset. In addition to listening to and reading a daily lesson each day…
Cookies are a kind of compassion… Since Valentine’s Day is approaching, the yoga instructor focused on love today. He suggested that we set self-compassion as an intention for our practice. Then, he pointed out how we tend to be harder on ourselves than we are on those we love. That gave me pause. My brain…
My Mostly At-Home Yoga Retreat was perfectly imperfect. Fasting When it came to the Magical Leek Broth fast that I had planned, I quit. I made it from 5:45 a.m. until 6:15 p.m. subsisting on leek broth alone. I’m grateful that I tried, because it helped me notice elements of my eating choices and patterns…
Online courses are growing in popularity. Turns out many of us do like lifelong learning. Making progress in life just feels good, doesn’t it? When I came across Sadie Nardini‘s Fit and Fierce over 40 on DailyOM, I decided to give it a try. I’ve now “completed” the course. By completed, I mean that I…
Oh my ankles. My ankles and my knees and my back. Yes, all three have been in pain since I started running. Whenever I complain about my back I think of this scene from Friday. Friday Neck GIF from Friday GIFs Remember that movie? Today, as I ran my ankles and my left knee were not…
The idea of going on a meditative, spiritual, and/or yoga retreat has appealed to me throughout most of my adult life. I’ve never been on one. Even now, it’s hard to imagine making going on a retreat a priority. Have you made time for a retreat? Why’s it so hard to prioritize a retreat? There’s…
Do you play the modern, first-world game, I Will Be Happy When…? It’s become so ingrained in my brain to push and be dissatisfied with where I’m at, that I’ve been playing it every day. Striving is great. So is appreciating and expressing gratitude for all that my life is right now. Sometimes I’m so…
Since my blog is 40 Fit N’ Stylish, it may not be surprising that I took notice of the Fit and Fierce Over 40 course on DailyOM. 49,987 people have taken the online yoga course (so far). I decided to join in the fun. After I paid, I fretted and felt that first day of…
Bruce talked about sankalpa in yoga class. It was the first Saturday of 2018. He said something like, “This is a time of year when we make resolutions that are hard to achieve, because they’re surface desires.” A sankalpa is a solemn vow, a heartfelt promise. Sankalpas dive beneath the surface. Then, before our practice, he…
My arms feel weak, and my heart feels full. Today, I find myself thinking about how I want to be in the space I occupy on the earth. Who do I want to commune with? What communities do I belong to? Yesterday, I attended Rochester Global Mala. We did 108 repetitions of Sun Salutation A….