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I just came back home from a morning yoga class and I bought I coffee from Lorca near the studio on my way home.
There is one spot on my left side between my shoulder blades that has been making me wake up at night every time I turn a different direction for several nights now. This is effecting the whole left side of my body. Tight in my neck, hip is sore and my left knee hurts. I’ve been taking it easy on the upper body all weekend and tried to stretch and loosen up other body parts. Taking a yoga class today felt great. I had to modify some things but moving felt better than skipping going there at all.
Since it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, my husband is off work. It’s nice to have him home for another extra day. Sure, we are going on vacation soon and will spend a lot of time together, but I never get tired of just having him around:) We are going to see a movie later and tonight I’m teaching at the gym.
Have an awesome week! 

from a workout this weekend

Good Evening! My husband is watching some football game so I’m hanging out on my computer tonight, cause I really don’t care about college football:)

This morning, I took my first yoga class of the year. A lovely class with Megan. I really like her, it’s clear that she knows what she is talking about. We did a little bit of everything today, a lot of different muscles working which was nice. She put focus for this class on how our body respond to fear or anxiety or similar things that can creep up on you especially around the winter months when motivation might fail you. When we feel stressed or anxious we tend to put that in our bodies. Doesn’t matter if it’s big life decision kinda of fear or if it’s something small like fear for not standing in a certain yoga pose correctly, our body respond. First thing that happens in my body when I start thinking a lot or feel stressed or something, is to clench my jaw, especially now when it’s freezing outside. So during the whole class today I put a lot of focus on my jaw and face muscles. Other people might have felt that their hips were tight, they got lower back pain or their shoulders went up to their ears. It’s always good to be reminded to release and relax. And breathe it out.

Very nice to go back into yoga. This week I will try to mix both yoga classes and workouts at the gym. Besides hiking, I can’t imagine we’ll work out much during our vacation, so it’s nice to be a little active now before:) 

I bought new “dry-pants” last week, the kind that is supposed to dry quickly when working out. I’ve been looking for more of a jazz type of legging, you know, wider around the ankles, not the slim all the way like normal leggings. I simply just missed wearing those type of pants. And I did find that and bought them and they are so comfy! Really nice material and I could wear them every day all day long:)
I was excited to wear them in yoga class yesterday morning. I knew it would be a sweaty day but I still like to be warm during class and it was so early in the morning that they seemed perfect. The class was wonderful, a teacher I haven’t take class for before, and it was very sweaty in there with the sun coming in through all the windows. Sweaty and muscles well warmed up. I felt absolutely awesome afterwards!
But!! These pants was not dry and it looked like I had peed myself (which I had not of course).  I noticed it in the end of the class and I felt a bit weird about it but didn’t really care, we were all sweaty. But then I had to go home.
I’ve been a dancer my whole life and I never cared about being sweaty or stinky, if I had messy hairdos, ripped clothes or whatever it might be in public around “normal” people. But yesterday I was actually a little embarrassed, cause the other sweaty parts on the pants somehow dried before I left the studio and now it only looked like pee pants:(
Luckily the studio is located not far from my apartment. My original plan was to buy a coffee on the way home, but no way I would stop looking like this. Pretending to write on my phone, holding my yoga mat in the front of my body hoping nobody would notice, I quickly walked home. I changed pants, took Thor for a walk to the coffee shop (right by the yoga studio) and then walked home to find life being awesome again:)
My new comfy nice looking jazz pants is probably better to use on colder days (and not when it’s over 25 degrees outside and even warmer inside). But if i really want to continue to use them on these hot days, then next time, I’ll bring a pair of other pants to walk home in after class:)