More Than Four Sides

Category: Exercise

  • Handstand – Yes!

    I mentioned getting back into regularly attending yoga classes again, beginning last fall. I’m now in the middle of my second consecutive session of classes, and had moved myself up to the Level II, due more to convenience of the timing of the class than my ability.  And, this class has been a stretch (pun…

  • So much stuff to write about…Namaste

    I’m overwhelmed.  There’s been so much going on.  It’s hard to know what to write about. We got buried in snow.  It’s melting. Yay!  I feel like I should have written about that, but it’s already feeling like a distant memory.  The main thought I kept having through it was that this was like the…

  • The Yoga journey continues…

    I went to my second class of the winter session at Unity Woods yesterday.  Last summer, when I decided to resume yoga classes (and, I hope, develop a regular yoga practice), I enrolled in a level I/II class that is held at 8am at the Bethesda studio.  I thought that 8am on a Sunday morning…

  • My Yoga Life

    I first encountered yoga in the early 1970’s with my mother, watching Lilias, Yoga and You on our local PBS channel (she has a website now, and a series of online classes). She had a wonderful spare studio, and a leotard with a line on the side to emphasize her alignment. My second exposure to…

  • Running in Sierra Leone – part 2

    A friend asked me about not finishing the C25K program, and, I realized that I managed to get myself distracted midway through my last post, and didn’t reveal my triumph!  I did finish! I don’t know if you can see it, but the top entry is Week 8 Day 3, and marked the final run…