May 2018

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

Those who are familiar with the practice know what Bikram Yoga is, but might not know who he is. Here’s a fun fact: Yes, there is an actual man behind the “Bikram” name. Bikram Choudhury is the man who developed the Bikram Yoga Sequence, a form of hot yoga consisting of 26 Hatha Yoga postures and two breathing […] Read more…

Inspiration

Happy New Year! My resolutions for 2016 are quite simple – to practice as much Bikram Yoga as possible and complete yoga teacher training. I took a total of 123 Bikram Yoga classes in 2015. For 2016, I’d like to double the number of classes I took in 2015. That means taking 246 Bikram Yoga […] Read more…

Studio Review

For my first studio review, I figured it would be appropriate to review my current, home studio, Sealevel Hot Yoga. According to their website, Sealevel Hot Yoga is Seattle’s original hot yoga studio, operating since 1996 under the name Bikram Yoga Seattle (and prior to that Yoga College of India.) Despite the fact that “Bikram […] Read more…

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

You don’t need to bring a whole lot with you to a Bikram Yoga class, but there are a few essentials I always like to bring with me to make class more enjoyable. Here are eight things you should bring to a Bikram Yoga class: 1 – Yoga Mat Everyone needs his or her own […] Read more…

Inspiration

The more Bikram Yoga classes I go to, the more I start to really listen to the dialogue and hear what the instructors say during class. When I first started going to Bikram Yoga, I only heard the corrections called out by an instructor along with “Lock your knee!” “Lock your knee!” Now that I’ve been practicing […] Read more…

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

Before you go shopping for your Bikram Yoga costume, think about what you’ll feel comfortable wearing to class. Remember, the room is going to be hot. A traditional Bikram Yoga class is heated up to 105F with 40% humidity. You’ll be in there for an hour and a half so be prepared to sweat a lot. […] Read more…

Inspiration

I decided to take my first Bikram Yoga class over five years ago because a friend of mine had told me what a crazy good workout it was and that I’d probably lose a lot of weight, fast, Naturally, I was curious and wanted to check out a class for myself. I had no idea what […] Read more…

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

Bikram Yoga is a form of Hot Yoga, but not all Hot Yoga is considered Bikram Yoga. So what’s the difference? Hot Yoga is a blanket term for any style of yoga that’s practiced in a heated room with temperatures ranging anywhere from 85 degrees to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Bikram Yoga is a specific style […] Read more…

Real Talk

The Universe presents us with a number of teachers throughout our lifetime. Each teacher who comes along is meant to teach us a valuable lesson, whether it be positive or negative. There are a wide variety of teachers. Sometimes they’re people. Sometimes they’re situations. Sometimes they can even be your own personal yoga practice. My […] Read more…

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

Absolutely! Sure! Why not? I mean really, you can do anything you put your mind to. Before you try this for yourself, please allow me to give you a few words of advice. This is all from my own personal experience so feel free to take it or leave it as you see fit. First […] Read more…

30 Day Challenge, Yoga FAQs

Taking one Bikram Yoga class each day for 30 days is amazing on so many levels. Most people associate a 30 day challenge with wanting to lose weight. Bikram Choudhury, founder and creator of the Bikram Yoga series and sequence says, “Give me 30 days, I’ll change your body…” It’s true. Taking a Bikram Yoga […] Read more…

Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs

One of the things I love about Bikram Yoga is that each class consists of the same sequence of 26 postures and two breathing exercises, performed in the same order for a full 90 minutes. I never have to worry about what’s coming next during class. I don’t even have to look up to see how […] Read more…

Real Talk

…getting out of bed in the morning. It’s only because I love taking the first Bikram Yoga class of the day. On the weekdays it’s 6am and on the weekends it’s 8am. There are so many reasons why I love doing Bikram first thing in the morning. It’s a Great Way to Start the Day […] Read more…

Class Themes

Self-care is so underrated in our society. I hear people bragging all the time about how they’re working a double at work, putting in 12, 14 or 16 hours days. I hear people boasting themselves for not being able to remember the last time they took a day off from work. We’re constantly in a rush to get to work, get to the next job and even skip out on getting a proper night’s sleep so we can fit more work into the day. You guys, there’s no prize for the person who works the most. This is a contest you don’t want to win because the only prize you’ll receive is stress, injury, sickness and unhappiness.

Self-care should be our first priority. How can we possibly expect to take care of other people if we can’t even take care of ourselves? Just like the airlines always remind us of during the safety announcement before takeoff:

Be sure to put your own mask on first before assisting someone else.

Self-care is putting your mask/life vest on first and it should be your number one priority. Self-care can come in many forms. Self-care is eating well, sleeping well and living well. Self-care is giving yourself a break or a day off. Self-care is allowing your mind and body to rest. Self-care is meal planning for the week. It’s taking yourself out for dinner. It’s spending time with friends. It’s reading a book, getting a pedicure or having a massage. Self-care is sleeping in. Self-care can be going to yoga or going on a hike.

As with anything, if something doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. When it comes to yoga, I always remind my students if something doesn’t feel right in their body, modify it. If a posture hurts, back out of it. There’s no prize for pushing your body into the final expression of a posture, especially if it hurts. Celebrate you and where your body is at right now, at this very moment.

I’ve been struggling with this whole idea of self-care myself, both on and off my yoga mat, which is why I decided to make this a theme in my yoga classes this week. All summer long, I’ve been filling my schedule each week with teaching as many Hot Power Fusion and Yoga Sculpt classes as my schedule will allow. I subbed any class that came my way, as long as it didn’t interfere with my other job’s schedule. I told myself the more classes I taught, especially the Sculpt classes, the more effective my training for my PCT thru-hike would be. To me more equaled stronger. I was wrong. So very wrong.

Today I was diagnosed with Rotator Cuff Tendinitis in my right shoulder, also known as impingement syndrome. This painful condition in my right shoulder has been occurring over time, slowly getting worse over the last couple of months. The pain started about a month after I started teaching Yoga Sculpt this summer and has progressively gotten worse ever since. After seeing a chiropractor for two months without any pain relief, she recommended I see a physical therapist.

Today, I started seeing a physical therapist. With his diagnosis, I was relieved to finally know exactly what was going on with my shoulder and could finally start on my road to recovery.

What does the healing process for an injury like this look like? For one, I have to avoid any activities that cause the pain. Teaching Yoga Sculpt hurts my shoulder a lot. I only have three more months until I start my PCT thru-hike, which means I had to decide what was more important – teaching Yoga Sculpt or hiking the PCT? Since I’ve spent the last year of my life planning and preparing to hike the PCT, I gave up my Sculpt classes to focus on my recovery.

My PT gave me a number of exercises to do every day that are designed to help restore the range of motion and hopefully ease the pain in my shoulder, while building up the muscles surrounding the rotator cuff, helping to make it stronger.

I was also relieved when my PT told me I could still do physical activities like taking Hot Power Fusion yoga classes and go hiking. He recommended I stay away from Sculpt, at least for now until I was fully healed. I’m allowed to go to Hot Power Fusion or Bikram Yoga as long as I modify any postures that cause pain. That means modifying Eagle pose to a hug instead of a wrap, shorter High Plank holds, leaving my arms down to my sides instead of putting them underneath my body in Half Locust and absolutely no Chaturangas or push-ups until I’m fully healed.

I’ve been avoiding hiking over the last month because I was afraid I’d injure my shoulder even more with my weighted pack. With hiking, the only modification my PT recommended was that I start off with a light weight in my pack. As I get stronger and the pain in my shoulder becomes less, I can gradually add the weight back to my pack and hike longer distances with it.

The moral of my story is self-care is NOT overrated. You must put your life vest on first. Listen to your body and take care of it. Otherwise one day, it will shut down and then who will take care of you? And trust me guys, the PCT will not hike itself.

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Class Themes

“If we cannot be honest with ourselves first, we cannot be honest in any other part of our life.”

I’ve been spending the last year of my life training, preparing, saving for my upcoming PCT thru-hike in April. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I’d been excited and looking forward to my trip. That is until I set up my sleeping system in my room, which consists of two sleeping pads, a sleeping bag and an inflatable pillow. As soon as I got into my sleeping bag to see how it felt, feelings of fear and doubt started running through my mind. I laid there in my bag, staring at the ceiling thinking about how this would be my bed, in my tent, all by myself out in the wilderness for five months. Questions like, “What am I doing?” “Can I do this?” Do I have what it takes? “Am I going to be okay?” What if…?” started running through my mind. I woke up about an hour later, still in my sleeping bag. I had literally worried myself to sleep.

Anytime I have something heavy on my mind, I always make more time to show up on my mat and practice more yoga. There’s something about yoga that helps me sort of the tough things in my life. If I need to make an important decision, I go to yoga. If I need some creative inspiration, I go to yoga. If I’m really worried about something and can’t stop thinking about it, I go to yoga.

This week, my theme for my yoga classes has been Satya, Satya in Sanskrit means truthfulness. Satya is one of the five Yamas in the Eight Limbs of Yoga. The Yamas are the first limb of the path that focus on a person’s behavior and how they conduct themselves in life. Satya means much more than just don’t tell lies. It also means be honest and be true to yourself.

The next day after my sleeping system test fiasco, I went to yoga. Yoga always helps pause any anxious feelings of fear and doubt I may be having and helps me be honest with myself – Satya. When I show up on my mat, I’m reminded of who I am, what I’m capable of and how strong of a person I can be. I tell myself over and over, “I got this!” I even give myself permission to be okay with being a little scared. Honestly, if I wasn’t a little bit scared about hiking over 2,650 miles by myself for five months, there would be something seriously wrong with me. On my mat, I also remind myself why I want to do this massive hike in the first place.

If there’s something heavy on your mind, a big decision you need to make or a fear you need to face, show up on your mat and practice Satya. Being honest with yourself will help guide you in the right direction and to the answer you’re looking for. Let your yoga practice be your guide and help you figure out what your next step will be.

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It’s now less than two days before I start my thru-hike on the PCT. All of my emotions have been bubbling up to the surface over the last week – excitement, fear, nerves and anticipation. It’s crazy to think all of the planning, preparation, research, gear purchases and numerous training hikes has finally come to this. These final moments with my family, my last few warm showers, one last load of laundry, easy access to running water and my final meal at In-N-Out Burger will be savored over the next 48 hours.

Over the last year of planning this thru-hike, I’ve spent countless hours thinking about and finally deciding what I will be bringing with me on the PCT. Making the choice of what to put in and what not to put in my pack have been some of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make during this whole planning process. Is it possible to know everything I’d need to have with me while hiking over 2,650 miles, in three states, over the span of five months? What would I absolutely need? What could I do without? What would be deadweight in my pack? Anything I put in my pack has to be carried by me on my back. Obviously, the less stuff I bring, the lighter my pack, ultimately making it easier to hike 20+ miles a day along the PCT.

My overall base weight, minus food and water, is 23 lbs. This is a little high according to PCT hiking standards. Most PCT hikers aim to have a base weight in the range of 15-18 lbs. I’d like to get there, but after countless pack shakedowns and endless hours going through my gear, I couldn’t decide what else I could live without. At this point, I really won’t know what else I can shed from my pack until I get on the trail and start hiking.

For now, every single piece of gear has been weighed, added to my lighterpack.com profile and has a value attached to it, meaning I have a strong reason as to why each piece of gear is in my pack.

Here is my official gear list I’ll be starting my PCT thru-hike with:

Pack
Osprey Aura 50 AG + pack cover

This pack is a bit on the heavy side, weighing in at 4 lbs, but the comfort factor has me sold making it well worth it’s weight. I’m recovering from a shoulder injury and even with the pack fully weighted down, it’s still comfortable enough to wear without aggravating my shoulder. I love the fit, pack design, how it feels on my body and the hip pockets. I refuse to hike without hip pockets.

Shelter System
Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL 2 + matching footprint

I opted for a two-person tent even though I’m solo hiking because I like having the extra space to keep all my gear inside. I don’t feel claustrophobic in this tent and have plenty of room to spread out should I need to. Since the weight difference between the one and two person tent wasn’t all that much, I opted to have a bit more space.

Sleeping System Sierra Designs Zissou 12 sleeping bag + dry sack for storage (to keep bag dry) Cocoon Mummy Silk Liner Cocoon Camp Inflatable Pillow

Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XLite Inflatable Sleeping Pad

Therma-A-Rest Z Lite Sol Sleeping Pad

Montbell Breeze Dry-Tech UL Bivy (sleeping bag cover)

I originally had a heavier inflatable sleeping pad that weighed 2 lbs. I discovered the NeoAir XLite through the recommendation of another hiker, tested it out and happily made the switch. My new pad is comfortable and only weighs 12 ounces! I could use bunched up clothes as a pillow, but I opted for an inflatable pillow. It weighs and folds down next to nothing. Again, truly a comfort thing. All of the other items in my sleeping system were chosen because they will either help keep my sleeping bag clean and dry or make it warmer should I run into some super cold nights out on the trail.

Sleeping Clothes Smartwool base layer top and bottom Sports bra Pair of socks to sleep in

Pair of underwear

Hiking Clothes Pair of running shorts Tank top

Pair of Darn Tough knee-high socks

Long-sleeved white desert shirt Sports bra Pair of underwear

Salomon Odyssey Pro trail runners

Pair of Dirty Girl gaiters Liner gloves PCT trucker hat

Black Diamond Carbon trekking poles

*Whatever I wear while hiking will not count towards the weight of my pack

Town Clothes Lightweight Salomon tank top Lightweight Salomon running shorts Lightweight Salomon pants Sanuk sandals to wear at camp/in town

Two extra pairs of Darn Tough knee-high socks

Town clothes are used to wear while in town, while washing hiking clothes at a laundromat. Some people opt to wear their rain gear while running errands in town and doing laundry. I opted for a lightweight outfit. Thanks Salomon!

Warm Clothing Layers Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisper puffy Patagonia R1 Fleece hoodie

Arc’teryx Norvan ultralight raincoat

Hiking leggings

Since I’m used to hiking in the PNW in all of my cold weather warm layers, it makes it really hard to let any of these items leave my pack. I’ll be starting in the desert where it’s forecasted to be hot and sunny, but I want to make sure I’m prepared for the cold nights and early mornings. I’ll be saving the rest of my rain gear for Washington. My microspikes will be in my box sent ahead to me in Kennedy Meadows for the Sierra portion of my PCT hike.

Navigation System Suunto MC-2G Compass Printed maps of the current section of the trail I’ll be hiking Paper trail notes

Letters from friends and family from the latest town stop

Plain and simple, I don’t want to get lost.

Misc Homemade first aid kit Homemade poop kit + lightweight trowel Toiletries bag

Emergency Beacon (registered)

These are all VERY necessary items needed for my hike. In my toiletries bag, I only have enough supplies/vitamins needed to hold me over until I hit my first zero day in Big Bear Lake. In Big Bear Lake, I’ll be reunited with my bounce box and resupply these items.

Cooking System
Jetboil Stove Stove fuel Titanium Folding Spoon

Waterproof matches (just in case the starter button on my stove goes out)

Some hikers shed weight by going stove less. Not me! Having a warm meal for breakfast and dinner will be a huge morale booster out there. I know thru-hiking will be a suffer fest, but there’s no sense in making my life downright miserable by denying myself a warm meal.

Electronics Anker Quick Charge charging adapter GoPro Hero 5 + selfie stick iPhone 7 Black Diamond headlamp Misc cords for electronics

RavPower Battery Pack Charger

This whole section is technically considered luxury items. As a P3 Hiker for the PCT Association this year, I will be documenting my hike along the way through the images I take and the blog posts I write. In order to do this, I’ll need a camera and phone for documentation and the means to be able to keep all of my electronics charged while on trail until I get into town and am able to recharge everything again.

 Water System Sawyer Squeeze Filter + 62 oz bag Osprey 3 Liter Hydraulics Reservoir

Two Smart Water bottles

This system will be my means to filtering water and storing it in my pack. I was going to go with the Platypus Gravity System for a water filter, but once I realized it was almost double the weight of my Sawyer Squeeze, I quickly put the Sawyer back into my pack.

Please note, this above gear list is subject to change once I start my hike. In fact, it most likely will change in some shape or form. As I mentioned before, I have no idea what I can live/live without on trail at this point. As I come across items in my pack that aren’t being used, I won’t hesitate to send them back home. It will be super interesting to compare my start pack list to my finish pack list. I can’t wait to see what stayed in my pack and how my base weight shifted throughout my hike.

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Awhile back, I spoke about gratitude and offered it as an intention for the students in my yoga classes. We hear the word “gratitude” over and over again and know on some level that we should express gratitude for the people and things in our life. But what does it really mean?

The word gratitude is defined as, “the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.”

Looking back on the last two months of my life, I can’t help but think about how lucky I am to live the life I live. I’ve got gratitude oozing out of my pores these days. I wouldn’t be able to live my life and pursue my dreams the way I’ve been doing without the tremendous support system I have from my amazing family and friends. For ALL of them (and you know who ALL of you are), I am eternally grateful. Seriously. Gratitude high-fives all around to my peeps.

It’s been two months since I wrote my last blog post. Since writing my last post, I’ve completed Yoga Sculpt Teacher Training and four weeks of Yoga Sculpt Extensions at CorePower Yoga here in Seattle. I’m now teaching Yoga Sculpt here in Seattle twice a week.

I’ve also increased the number of yoga classes I teach each week from two to five – three Hot Power Fusion and two Yoga Sculpt. I’m currently working on adding more to my weekly schedule including SUP Yoga classes.

I left my full-time day job of four years at the end of March to pursue my passion of teaching yoga (and growing my blog.) Many of you may be aware of how teaching yoga isn’t an easy profession to make a healthy living on, especially here in Seattle. I’ve had to supplement my income by going back to bartending two to three nights a week. Thankfully I had bartending experience to fall back on from my college days. Over the last two months, I left one crappy bartending job and managed to find an amazing one, less than ten minutes from my house. My new job pays more and I even work less, leaving me more time to teach yoga and hike. I’m so happy. I’m so grateful.

Since my last post, I’ve also publicly announced on Instagram that as of April/May 2018 (weather dependent), I’ll be leaving for five months to hike the entire PCT, all 2,650+ miles of it. With that announcement means the training for my adventure has begun. I’ve incorporated one to three hikes a week into my schedule and am slowly starting my research and collection of gear for the trip. If any companies out there would like to help sponsor me on my trip, let me know – Osprey, Brooks, Pacific Crest Trail Association, Big Agnes, Darn Tough, ThermARest, Sierra Designs, CorePower Yoga and Mountain House, just to name a few.

I’ve made huge progress on making my dreams and goals come to life over the last couple of months, but there is still a lot of hard work ahead. I’d be lying if I said this transition has been easy. While it might look fun and glamorous online, in real life it’s been quite a struggle. I’ve had to make some hard decisions to get to where I’m at today and I’m not even near where I want to ultimately be. With all of the sacrifice I’ve made, I’ve never been happier, healthier and more grateful. I’ve gladly traded the days of slaving away in front of a computer making a comfortable wage for the days I get to spend outside, on a trail, in the middle of the week without anyone else on it but whomever I’m hiking with. I’ve gladly traded the days filled with conference calls and a grueling, ever-growing email inbox for the days where I get to make a real difference in a person’s day just by leading them through a yoga class. I get to touch people’s souls through my passion and love for teaching yoga. No one ever told me about this benefit when I went through teacher training last year. In my opinion, it has been the biggest benefit of my yoga teaching career so far.

Today, at this very moment, I challenge you to take a moment to give thanks for the many wonderful things in your life. It could be a person, thing or even a situation you’re grateful for. It’s so easy to take for granted things in life. Trust me, I’ve done it for years. Now that I’m living each day with positive intention, I’ve noticed the huge difference it’s made in my own life. I wake up every day excited to get out of bed with a big smile on my face. I smile and say hi to strangers. I don’t get road rage. My emotional eating is at an all-time low. I remind the people in my life on a daily basis how much I love them and how thankful I am for them being in my life.

Tell me, what are you grateful for?

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Class Themes

A couple of years ago, I heard one of my favorite Bikram Yoga teachers tell us as we settled into our first belly-up Savasana in class, “Don’t be afraid to let go of things that no longer serve you.” This was the first time ever in my yoga practice where I really listened to what my instructor said in class, took it to heart and immediately applied it to my life off of my mat. At the time, I was going through a rocky part of life. My marriage was starting to fall apart and I was super unhappy at my job. I did the only thing I knew I could do – dived head first into my yoga practice with a 30-Day Bikram Yoga challenge. I figured if my life was falling apart off my mat, I could show up on my mat each day and help put the pieces back together.

When Kim made this profound statement in class, I mentally agreed with her. I thought about all of the negative thoughts that had been rolling around in my head. All of the negative situations I’d been going through recently. The toxic people who had shown up in my life. The lightbulb went off for me immediately – I’m the one who should be in the driver seat in my life! If someone or something wasn’t making me happy, it should be perfectly okay to let it go to make room for the thoughts, situations and people I did want in my life. After class, I started taking action. The planning for my big release had begun. At the time, I had no idea just how big this release was going to be. In a couple of months, I’d enroll into a 200-Hour Hot Power Fusion Yoga Teacher Training at CorePower Yoga. Eight months later, I’d file for divorce from my husband. Seven months after filing for divorce, I’d quit that stressful job and start teaching yoga full-time.

This experience was one of those really powerful “ah-ha” moments, thanks to yoga. It was an incredible life changer. I feel like all the really good stuff happens in yoga. Fast forward a little over a year later, I circled back around to this experience and decided to use it as a theme in one of my classes. When I set the intention for class, I told my students to give themselves permission to let go of things no longer serving them. I asked them if there was something in their life that they’re holding onto that no longer serves them – negative thoughts, negative feelings, an unsatisfying job or a toxic person. I then asked them to take a moment to reflect on anything that had been weighing down on them lately and posed the question, “Is this something you can let go of?” Then as a class, we all took a nice, deep inhale through the nose and then open mouthed exhaled to let that shit go. I didn’t say shit in class, but you catch my drift.

Yoga for me is a lot like making a trip to the Goodwill. Not a shopping trip, but one of those “I-spent-all-weekend-cleaning-out-my-closet-so-now-I’m-donating-all-of-this-crap-I-don’t-use-to-the-Goodwill” kind of trips. Each time I come to my mat, I have the opportunity to spring clean my soul and give away all of the stuff I don’t need anymore. Only instead of doing a trip like this once or twice a year, I get to get rid of that shit multiple times a week.

Give yourself permission to let go of the stuff you no longer need without feeling guilty about it. Make room for the good stuff – the positive thoughts, the positive feelings, positive opportunities, positive people and of course more yoga.

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I hate having to rush to a yoga class. The whole idea of taking a yoga class is usually to relax and relive stress from life outside of the studio. Tonight, my husband and I had to rush our way into Sunny’s Hot Power Fusion class because traffic was so bad. Even though we left early, allowing ourselves plenty of time to get to the studio, it still took us over a half hour to get there. Super frustrating. Not the way I wanted to start class tonight.

This was both my husband and I’s first time at the CorePower Yoga U-District studio. Not only did we have to fight traffic, but we also had to figure out where the studio was, where to park, how to pay for parking and get ourselves acclimated to a new location. As soon as I walked into the studio and saw Sunny’s smiling face, the traffic headache we had just endured on our way to the studio ceased to exist. I told Sunny not only was I bringing my hubby with me to class, but that we were also staying for her Yoga Sculpt class after Hot Power Fusion. That’s right. We were doing a double yoga dose with Sunny tonight!

In an effort to get into the room faster to set up both my husband and I’s mats, I almost walked into the men’s changing room instead of the main lobby. Whoops! Like I said, we were acclimating to a new location tonight. I vowed not to take that wrong turn again.

After getting into the room and catching my breath, I stood on my feet and set my intention for class. I could hear Sunny’s voice in my head saying, “Trust the process.” So I went with that for my intention and sent it out into the room on a big exhale.

My husband and I set up all the way in the back of the room. Since we had come in a little late, I didn’t want to distract anyone else in the class by setting up in front of them. Plus, this was only my husband’s third Hot Power Fusion class. I wanted him to be able to watch other people in the class, myself included, just in case he got lost on a posture and didn’t know what to do or where to go next.

Not only was this my first class at the U-District studio, this was also my first Hot Power Fusion class with Sunny. I loved her class!! I loved her energy. I loved her commentary in-between the cues. I loved her music. I also lucked out and got my favorite hands-on assist in Half Tortoise Pose/Ardha Kurmasana from Sunny in class tonight. Score! I really want to learn and master this hands-on assist so I can offer this one to my own students someday.

Right after Full Wind Removing Pose/Pavanamuktasana, Sunny guided us through all of the bonus round postures we covered during our Yoga Teacher Training Group Session on Sunday. We started with Legs Up The Wall and then went into Plow Pose/Halasana, Shoulder Stand Pose/Sarvangasana, Ear Pining Pose and Happy Baby Pose/Ananda Balasana before landing into final Savasana. It was really awesome to get to do all of the bonus round postures, especially since we just went over them in our Posture Clinic on Sunday.

Class #23, Hot Power Fusion with Sunny at CorePower Yoga U-District (HPF-15)

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