Hip Rotations

94 l 6 to go

Busy day :: 6 to go :: 6 to go :: 6 to go :: commuting from Redwood City in the middle of a remodel project that will not end. High hopes for yoga inprovement despite aromatheraphy breathing problems = head, inner ear, lungs knees are all taking a hit

Carry on, make it work, as Tim Gunn would say.

My suits are now beginning to hang off me abit, this I attribute to Dr Joel Furhman's book, "Eat to Live".

Bikram Yoga tip of the day: Tulansana Balancing stick pose: Adjust your hips before you tilt so they are parallel. Lock your standing knee. Make sure you arms and elbows are locked against your head and keep your chin up so you can see your front knee or your fingertips in the front mirror. Pull with equal force from your elbows to the tips of your fingers and from your knees to the end of your big toe. Rotate your elevated leg so your knee cap is facing the floor.

Total Recall

I may be enslaved to my amygdala, but I do know rats are different from us.

New York City Rats - They only go out at night, they are fatter than beavers, have shiny fur coats. They all seem to carry Fendi bags.

Rats have the great "brown fat", which allows them to burn fat fast. Do not trust weight loss drugs developed by testing on rats. They process fat burning much differently. Still talking to my mitochondria about revving up their engines.

They don't have ears though.

NPR did a story erasing stressful memories in rats.

They mess with the rats' amygdala.

Yoga is a tool to avoid the amygdala hijack -

when you wig out, go postal, choose your own term.

Yoga tip of the day: Full Locust Poorna-Salabhasana Each pose is made up of several components working together. Be happy to master a small part of any one pose.

Keep your legs straight, feet and knees together as you lift.