I am empty of good posts. I feel like lately I been so busy with work and keeping up with my not very busy social life that I haven’t thought of anything good to write. So, I haven’t written anything, at least nothing worth posting.
But I just started thinking about recent incidents and there is a common denominator happening; it’s like a disease. It’s spreading!!!
Its easier to be a party popper and be the bitch at the party. And with party I mean life. I see it all the time. The lady in front of me at the line in the grocery store screaming frantically because the line is too slow, or “friends” making rude and unnecessary comments, people talking poorly about others, or just people being dramatic.
Maybe it’s you.
You may not even notice yourself, maybe you are too used to it. But you may be the dark energy in the room. Think about it. Nobody is going to tell you. Here’s a tip: analyze yourself. Do people call you to invite you places all the time? Or do you have to call them? Do you have friends calling you or nocking on your door without any particular reason? Maybe and I am just saying maybe, you are the bitch in the room. And slowly but surely people around you are not willing to spend a minute of their time with you. Nobody wants to be around negative energy. It’s important to keep a low level on your bitchiness. Being a bitch is never OKAY. Stop the brat before you wreck yourself. Make the shift and be the lover!
If you are unsure if you are crossing the line ask family and close friends and be open to the response. LISTEN without objecting/refuting/refusing.
There you grow!
Peace.
I always have new students coming to my yoga classes and I love it. My secret plan is to rock their world and show them something new and get them to go crazy about it so they keep doing it.
You know, I want to brake all the myths about yoga and pass on to them my deep love for it. Specially for the ones that have never ever done yoga and are experiencing their very first class with ME.
I must confess I get a little bit nervous when they tell me, my class is their FIRST.
NO PRESSURE right?
I want the newbies to fall in love with yoga and really appreciate it. There are so many types of yoga and it’s hard to know the student’s expectations. But I sure try very hard to put my heart on the mat for them so they like it so much they come back for more endorphins. Sometimes they do and they commit to it, and sometimes they don’t. Maybe it was not the right time for them.
I believe that no matter what everybody is going to end up doing some type of yoga in their life as regular practice especially if their goal is to live a healthy and dignified life.
I am especially concerned with the new students doing their first yoga class because I want to fulfill their expectations. I want to teach them what makes yoga so special in one single class. But maybe I don’t succeed. Maybe the magic doesn’t happen in 60 minutes.
There are so many types of yoga, and every single person teaches their class differently. It’s hard for the teacher to be all for every student. I know a lot of yoga teachers feel the same way. We get concerned about not teaching what every single student is looking for.
We, teachers, forget to remind ourselves that we really don’t have to “do” anything to make yoga amazing. Yoga is all ready amazing. Yoga is simple and it comes down to really not “teaching” and just paying attention to our breath, to fit your body into the shapes, and basically yoga teaches you itself.
If you are the student that hasn’t found your own yoga. I just say to you: don’t give up. There is a type of yoga just for you. Just know, that like me, there is a teacher waiting just for YOU.
Every Day for the last two weeks I had the same thing for breakfast and I love it because it’s super yummy and very filling. You are going to love it, too. It’s full of protein and fiber. So, this is what you need:
Two slices of Rudi’s bread—I get the double fiber but the white kind tastes amazing, too. It just doesn’t have much fiber or protein. It depends on what you are you looking for.
2 tablespoons of peanut butter from PB2.
1/2 cup raisins and unsalted sunflowers seeds mix (or whatever you have, fruit, dry fruit, more nuts, honey, etc.)
And about one table spoon of organic powdered cinnamon.
Well my sexy friends, if you have never tried PB2 you will be surprise when you see that this peanut butter is different because it comes as a powder. Don’t be scared about it’s texture. It’s super delicious and very healthy for you because it doesn’t have as much fat as the regular peanut butter. If you are like me and adore peanut butter this is a great alternative because you can eat a ton more without having to make sure you eat the right portion. I mean regular peanut butter has like 200 calories in two tablespoons, and it’s not like a ton of calories, but if you are like me and like to go crazy and live to eat peanut butter then totally go for the PB2. It’s your best option for natural flavor, and calorie content. I buy mine at Grass Roots Natural Market, because it’s the only place they have it in town.
I like to leave my sandwich open and I like it super crunchy, so I toast the bread and then add peanut butter then I throw anything I can find on top of it, sometimes it’s fruit sometimes cashews, you can really add whatever for a POWPOW for your sandwich!
There you have it, a super easy and totally a glamourous breakfast!
I turned 27.
This year is different from my other birthdays. It just hit me, I am getting old, I and I don’t like it. I used to love birthdays, I mean birthdays rock! You get presents, you get to eat all the cake you want to, and people call you to say they love you. What’s not to love about that? Right? Well this time, I just didn’t want to have a birthday. I was not ready for 27. I didn’t feel 27. I actually was feeling more like 22.
And in some kind of alternative reality I saw 27 as a super cool age where you have all your shit together. Well unfortunately that is not my true reality. I don’t know shit. I am okay with it, I just think I should stop having birthdays because I am still super silly and ridiculus like when I was in my teens. Seriously.
I have nothing figure out. And I am okay with it because that is where I am right now and I know I can’t force things to happen in my life. I am trying to go with the fucking flow. I may be one of those people that go thru life with out knowing everything around them. I am okay with that. I am feeling more Zen and just trying to live every moment. With out any expectations on the future. Just enjoy the now and smile. I sound like a total yogini, right? Yeah!
My 27th birthday has a different energy from my past years, it’s sad because I am older and nowhere near where I had envisioned my self. I realize part of that vision was created by outsiders. Leting go of those expectations has taken some time. But I am here now, and I am smiling like a crazy happy maniac and thinking 27 can be pretty amazing.
27 means silly, fun, with a wisdom that no 26 year old has. Hell yeah! Better things are going to happen this year to me. I can feel the crazy good energy in the air.
The End.
Wait it’s not completely the end. If you want to you can keep reading how my crazy head works. You don’t have to. It’s up to you but definitely its not necessary.
*Interesting fact:
I have some type of mental disorder where I like numbers and I play with them in my head. Like if I see the plate numbers of a car I start adding the numbers from left to right, or sometimes I separate the numbers in even groups and then add them, and then add the groups and keep adding numbers until I find a single digit. Or if I am turning 27, I think 27 is a perfect cube, being 3³ = 3 × 3 × 3. Then it gets even more exciting because 3 is my lucky number and 2 + 7 = 9, and then 9 obviously comes from 3. So awesome! And yeah, it doesn’t stop there because the number seven is my favorite number. And then my head starts finding interesting personal dates and just finding connections to all those numbers like when I kissed my husband for the first time it was 8-8-8, the sum of those numbers is 24, and I happened to be 24 years old when that happened. And 2+4 = 6 and 6 is the smallest perfect number (since 21(22 – 1) = 6), the next perfect number is 28. So exciting for my next birthday; 28!!!!
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I Feel Like In This Post I Wrote The Word -Sankalpa- Like Twenty Million Times, And Of Course I Am Just Exaggerating Because I Just Wrote It Like 9 or 10 Times.
Sankalpas are totally understimated, they are totally cool and super important. Your yoga practice goes to another level when you have a Sankalpa. It’s like you give wings to your yoga own practice.
I usually try to start my yoga classes with a Sankalpa. Sankalpa is a Sanskrit word and basically means Intention. So I encourage my students to set an Intention for each class; it can be anything they want it to be. I always share my personal Sankalpa with my class, to encourage them. Every class it’s usually something different, but for the first time I decided to have the same Sankalpa in every class I teach for the whole month of March.
I decided to make my Sankalpa Surrender – it is not from Diana Ross’s album. Which I like because it reminds me my childhood. Not as much as the Beatles though.
Anyway, surrender can mean so many things and it can apply to so many situations. The word screamed at me after an awesome yoga practice I had last week. My teacher made every movement dedicated to surrender and after that specific class I knew right then it was something I needed to work on.
Sankalpa’s are important to have before the class because it gives your yoga practice a more dense feeling, a purpose. Like you are not just practicing yoga to get super flexible and to show your man you can bring your legs over your head to the sky. Or to impress your friends at parties and say look, look I can do the car wheel and I had 5 shots of tequila in me. Seriously when you have a Sankalpa for your practice you are not just practicing yoga to get a sweat or de-stress your self. It’s bigger than that.
A Sankalpa can be about humanity, or other people, somebody that is sick, a friend that is depressed; maybe you dedicate your practice to somebody you don’t know yet, or it can also be totally about you. You choose what you want to dedicate your practice to.
Next time you are on your mat, bring your hands to your heart and let your heart speak to you. Hear the voice of your bright self, your higher self, God, Angels or whatever you want to call them and listen to what your Sankalpa needs to be.
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Therapy Is For Crazy People
There are a lot of things in life nobody teaches us how to deal with. In school we are taught how to do the technical stuff, but nobody teaches you things about relationships; how to be a husband or a wife, a friend, how to be a parent, or how to cope with our super mega busy life. I mean unless you are majoring in psychology, you are kind learning those things on your own at your own pace.
Some of us learn some of that stuff by making mistakes. But sometimes we don’t learn the lesson it all. And we keep making the same mistakes.
There is a stigma about asking for professional help.
For me the stigma of therapy wore off at a very young age. I was sixteen and I found out my parents didn’t have money and I was starting to take on some big responsibilities in my life. I was mad about it. I lived my entire life getting everything I wanted with out deserving it. Silly reason to go see a therapist I think now, but it helped me. I figured things out in like one visit. Seriously!
Ever since then, I’ve seen therapy as something that I can go back to whenever I need it. Not because I need to fix something but because therapy is how I grow, how I figure things out, how I learn about myself, and how I access all of the parts of myself that I need in order to become the person that I want to be.
There has been times I had to go to see somebody because I was truly suffering. And I healed. There is some truly awesome help to be found out there; no matter the nature of your distress.
It is okay not to know, but there are professional people out there that can help you figure things out. We are all complicated human beings and we are a combination of millions of layers. And it’s your responsibility to be the best you can be. Your kids, partner, and friends deserve it. An of course YOU deserve it, and basically you owe it to yourself to step up to the plate.
Have you ever done yoga? You know that high, loud breathing that everybody is doing? That is called pranayama and if you are not doing it when everybody is doing it, it can be distracting and annoying. Pranayama can be done in different ways, it depends on one’s technique. Breathing that loud is obviously not normal. So you better not be doing it unless you are in yoga or meditation room or at your house. Seriously, don’t try it at the grocery store, or at school, or at work, and for sure never ever at the library. You will be kicked out, quick.
In yoga, pranayama is so hard to do, because like I said, it doesn’t come natural. It takes practice to acquire that wonderful habit. I believe my number one constant challenge in my classes is to teach my students to breathe while they are moving through the poses (asanas) in their yoga practice. I can teach them how to get to any pose, but it seems yoga-breath gets forgotten while they are trying to get their head under their legs. My students seem to be more focused on getting the pose right than the breath.
For my classes, I try to put a lot of emphasis on the breathing because I know for a fact it has tremendous benefits. When I do my personal practice I am focusing on my breathing, not on the pose. I don’t care if I have the perfect pose. As competitive as I am, when I am on my mat it doesn’t matter if I get to stand on my hands, or how much I sweat. I let go of the accomplishment of the movement to focus on my breathing. I know eventually I will get there. My body will get to where it is supposed to be.
When I get to my mat I know I am there for A REASON BIGGER THAN ME and to find out the reason I have to still my mind to be able to hear it. Deep breathing people, deep breathing!
Our normal breathing is too shallow and too quick, so we are not taking sufficient oxygen and we are not eliminating sufficient carbon dioxide (I can’t say dioxide with out it sounding funny). So obviously our cells are like anorexics starving for some oxygen and our lungs are like depressed people and just being lazy because they are not working to their full potential. So we end up losing some of our v i t a l i t y. That means we are getting older sooner and as we get older, we are letting some of our body parts become inept.
“With our ‘normal’ sedentary way of living, we only use about one tenth of our total lung capacity. This is sufficient to survive and just tick over, but not sufficient for a high vitality level, long life and high resistance to disease.”
Additionally, deep breathing is also good for your mental health. Which if you know me, you know I have some serious breathing to do. I get tired of my mind. Like sometimes I want a break from all the thoughts running around. I am completely serious, my mind has a life of it’s own. It’s like I have constant clips from different movies made from personal and outsider’s experiences and perceptions running all day long. So annoying. But can you imagine no thoughts running around in your head? Just present in the moment doing yoga, putting your energy towards the breathing, NO thoughts and then at the end the gift for pausing your internal loco-motora; a sense of peace and love.
I must get some of our politicians to practice some yoga.
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For The Ultimate Bitch-Totally Inappropriate To Write Bitch* In a Title
A couple weeks ago my blue-eyed man and I were browsing through the book store like we do almost every other day. I seriously think in an imaginary world we probably would actually live at book store. We love books! Anyway, the man found one of the best recipe books I have read in the last couple of years and you know how excited we get when we find recipe books with pictures. So we just had to buy Skinny Bitch, The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. This book has me giggling and clapping in the kitchen. Kim Barnouin is the co-writer of the very famous book Skinny Bitch and last year she threw down an amazing cook book.
This book is for anybody; for people like me, a complete idiot in the kitch, or for the pros that have some mad skill abilities with the spatula and want to get inspired from another bad ass. So yeah run and get this book right now. You actually don’t have to run because you can just order online, but totally go for the run because I will be so proud of you. Actually I would be proud of you even if you don’t run.
Anyway, when I was reading some of her recipes I could totally sense she wrote the book thinking about all of us diagnosed with huge cooking-mental blockages. Every recipe is explained to the most minute detail and the ingredients are all things we are familiar with. My favorite part from every recipe is the break down of what each portion has; like the calories, fat, sat. fat, etc. I think that is pretty darn cool.
You got to love the first 69 pages of just pure fun information. I love facts. Give me some accurate facts and I would believe you, and then I would love you, because there is nothing sexier than a smart persona.
The first recipe we made was the Orange Scones, and then for breakfast The Man made Crepes with Raspberry Sauce. Both dishes are very easy to make and so delicious, so it’s a win-win. I will be making some more of her delicious food, so keep posted for more recipes or maybe just go get the book so we can try to make her dishes together.
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The New Los Douglas Obsession
My personal cook and lover made some amazing Crepes with Raspberry Sauce for breakfast on Sunday morning. He got inspired from the Skinny Bitch The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. The recipe is very similar to Kim’s but he used less sugar and a bit more almond milk to thin the batter. This recipe is great for anytime. Seriously, we have made them even for a snack before bed.
Ingredients:
For the Raspberry Sauce:
1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries, obviously you can use whatever you have; strawberries, bananas, etc.
1/4 cup water
1/4 sugar
Blend all the ingredients. I recommend to do the sauce first.
For the Crepes:
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons evaporated can sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whisk the milk and the vanilla extract until smooth. In a separate large bowl combine all the dry ingredients and then when everything is all well mix add your liquid mix. Heat up the skillet and spray it with one of those non-stick sprays and then coat the bottom of the skillet as evenly as possible with the batter. Cook until the edges are lightly browned and then then turn them gently until you see a color you like, we liked them a bit brown. Fold them and keep cooking the rest of the batter. Then pour the raspberry sauce over the crapes and EAT all of them.
Fantastic things will happen in your mouth, I promise!
The Man and I made this recipe from the Skinny Bitch, The Ultimate Every Day Cookbook during the Valentine’s weekend. It was a super sexy-fun night because we made it together and I love cooking with my man—he gets so excited that it’s contagious. We wanted to go all glam and make them 100% organic, but we couldn’t. Our closest stores did not have a ton of organic produce; we even went to three different stores looking for organic oranges. We tried.
This recipe is super easy and so tasty. You can pretend to be English and make some black tea with it.
Ingredients:
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup evaporated can sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon orange extract
1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
1/2 cup Earth Balance at room temperature
Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl, leaving the butter out. Once everything is all well combined add the butter. Lightly flour a flat surface and knead the dought for a bout a minute. Form the dough into a ball and then shape into a small pizza crust shape, lightly flattening down the dough into the desired thickness. Cut them in squares, triangles, or whatever you wish. Since it was the Valentines’s weekend we made them heart shaped, soooooo ADORABLE! Yeah, I am screaming! Place them all in a baking sheet and using a brush, cover the dough with some orange juice and then sprinkle some sugar on top of it. Bake for 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
And then you got some amazing mates for your favorite tea!
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