An Old School PCT Blaze I remember the first time I heard thru-hiking terms. I had just started planning my own thru-hike along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and was sitting in the audience, waiting to listen to a thru-hiker talk about how she hiked the PCT. A few moments before the event was set […]
Featured One of my FAVORITE sections of the entire PCT… Atlas Guides aka Guthook app is doing a new feature on their blog called, My Trail Story. A couple of weeks ago, Guthook reached out to me and asked if I’d like to be featured. Of course I said yes. Anytime I get to talk […]
Bikram Yoga When I think back to when I took my very first Bikram Yoga class back in 2010, I remember practicing in an uncomfortably crowded, carpeted studio in San Francisco as I sweated my way through class wearing cotton tank tops and cotton running shorts, all the way in the back row, in the […]
Teacher Training So here it is! At last, the first night of yoga teacher training has happened. I feel like I’ve been waiting for this night for the last two months, ever since I first secured my spot in the program back in December. I’ve enrolled in CorePower Yoga’s Hot Power Fusion Teacher Training. For […]
Teacher Training I did something really exciting this week. I started the next stage of my yoga teacher training, the Extensions Program at CorePower Yoga. If the last eight weeks of teacher training were considered the undergrad portion, then Extension would be its master program counterpart. The Extensions Program is where the real fun begins […]
Teacher Training We started off our Group Session tonight talking about the two books we were assigned to read during our yoga teacher training, Journey Into Power: How to Sculpt Your Ideal Body, Free Your True Self and Transform Your Life With Yoga by Baron Baptiste and Hot Yoga by Marilyn Barnett. After our discussion, […]
Teacher Training Week One of Bikram Yoga Teacher Training One of my big goals for 2016 has been to get myself through yoga teacher training in hopes of becoming a part-time yoga teacher. I’ve had to invest a fair amount of money into the training, dedicate countless hours to studying and practice teaching and sacrifice […]
Hiking In a few days, I’ll be on the plane heading to Vegas where I’ll hop into a rental car and drive to the Grand Canyon’s North Rim with 11 other ladies. From here, we’ll be hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim hike in two days. That’s about 25 miles each day […]
Last year when Bleeder and I first talked about hiking the PCT together, I was dead set against hiking the desert section again. Why would I ever put myself through the pain, the agony, the blisters, the heat, the chance encounter with rattlesnakes and the long, heavy water carries all over again? Then I quickly […]
It’s been ten days since I’ve been back home from thru-hiking the PCT. For me, it wasn’t reaching the Northern Terminus monument or walking into Manning Park that symbolized the official end of my 2018 PCT thru-hike. It was the act of putting my gear away. For almost two weeks, I purposely left all of […]
After living out of my tent on trail for the last five months, I’d like to think I know a thing or two about picking a good tentsite to camp at. I’ve spent over 100+ nights out along the PCT from California to Canada. I’ve camped at a wide variety of tentsites along the way […]
Teacher Training Bring A Beginner Guest Day! I can’t believe this day has come. I remember when we were going over the entire Hot Power Fusion Teacher Training schedule back in February and saw this. I kept thinking how far off April 10th seemed to be at the time, a whole seven weeks away. Deep […]
Class Themes Ferris Bueller said it best, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” This has been a reoccurring theme in my life over the last few months. Professionally, I’ve had some pretty big, back-to-back projects at work I’ve had to tackle. Personally, I […]
Class Themes Confession Time: I’m a creature of habit, by choice. I love my routines. I enjoy following a schedule and feel very accomplished when I get to check daily tasks off of my To-Do List. It makes me feel efficient and organized. And when I’m organized, I feel like I’ve got everything under control. […]