happy, sore, and sad

this weekend was the final teaching weekend for teacher training. i taught on friday night (it went fine, as well as i can judge myself, which is not very well). this meant saturday i was done - except for participating in 7 hours of yoga while the rest of the class taught their classes.
i did take breaks, but wanted to participate in everyone's class to the extent that i could.
it was amazing to see people come into their own teaching. and it was fun, people took the opportunity to do fun things with their teaching. we had soundtracks with everything from some where over the rainbow to def leopard and star wars quotes mixed in with yoga philosophy.
such an amazing group of people! it's great to be done, to have completed this training (and have some of my time back), but i will miss the energy and intensity of the group of people i did this training with.

update

• spring/summer has finally arrived. we went to shenandoah on sunday and it was down right hot. a wonderful thing.
• i am nearly a certified yoga teacher.
• wedding invites are sent or nearly sent and ceremony planning has started.
• i told my boss i wasn't sure i wanted to stay with ES, but lack a what is next plan.
  

fun with google maps

i have been a fan of google maps for quite some time, but now it has gotten even better. not only have they developed the ability to map a whole string of destinations together - which is great - now you can make maps of your own.

i have created this map for our wedding. much fun. now i just have to resist the temptation to make maps for everything.

chopped - now w/ pic

this past weekend i got my hair cut. very short. i have hair ties to donate to anyone who needs them.

as per request:

Words of Wisdom

Pizza Zen

March asana of the Month

pincha mayurasana/forearm balance
recently i have been having trouble with my right wrist while doing yoga. i don't have a lot of flexibility in my wrists and yoga can put a lot of pressure on tight wrists. this is particularly frustrating since a lot of the more advanced poses (arm balances, handstand) are hard on the wrists. so normally i might have been a bit panicked about the pose of the month being forearm stand. but i am so excited about it being a pose that is not hard on the wrists i am practically eager to give it a try!

jak's manifesto

Climb mountains

Enjoy the view and the heat, effort, and impatience

On the way up

Do yoga

Eat strawberries from a pick-your-own farm as often as possible

Be a friend

Spend more time in the coop than at target

Do nothing

Make curry from scratch

Allow change

Be change

Live with awareness

Love

Practice kindness

Gentleness

Stand barefoot in the dirt form time to time and breathe

Find the perspective of nature, a grain of sand, the grand canyon

Sunshine

Laugh out loud

Believe in peace

Make good coffee

Climb mountains