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  • To Sit or Not to Sit? What Sitting in Bikram Yoga Says About You

    To Sit or Not to Sit? What Sitting in Bikram Yoga Says About You

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    Ok, you are no longer a beginner to this yoga thing. Or, maybe you are, but you struggle every day to continue pushing through every posture.   My question to you is, “Why are you struggling?” The second you begin to struggle, you are forgetting the first step of every posture, which is normal breathing.…

  • Funky Monkey Protein Smoothie

    Funky Monkey Protein Smoothie

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    Ingredients: 1 Banana 2 scoops protein 1 tbs Sunflower Butter 1/2 cup Coffee 1 cup ice Combine in a magic bullet and you have an awesome 320 cal 31g Protein, 31g CHO, and 10g Fat protein smoothie to refuel your body and keep you awake for boring office meetings or in late night lectures!

  • Focus

    Focus

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    Focus.  Focus is a very small word with a large implication.  The meaning isn’t really that heavy.  Focus (cognitive process), as defined by wikipedia means, “Attention…The cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things.”  The action of focus though is much harder than the definition would make it out to…

  • The quest for coconut water

    The quest for coconut water

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    Today on my way to yoga I had a quest for coconut water.  The faddy fluid you can find at any gas station in Washington, was eluding me in my new city of Nashville. What also seems to be eluding me is the etiquette ingrained in me from my Redmond Bikram studio.  Here everyone breathes…

  • Warning: Following Directions, You could hurt yourself otherwise.

    Warning: Following Directions, You could hurt yourself otherwise.

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    Courtney
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    Following directions shouldn’t be that difficult, but people often don’t do it.  Remember tests in high school? Often, while handing out the test the teacher would say, please read the instructions.  Listed in the middle of the instructions would be those 5 extra credit points for putting a star by your name.  How many of…

  • Sweet Potato Hash

    Sweet Potato Hash

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    Courtney
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    This weeks’ training has started off strong.  Sunday I had a great long run!  Monday I had a medium distance recovery run in the sun + bikram yoga.  Tuesday I hit my best mile repeats in over a year + yoga!  Today I rest!  On the training calendar it says x-train or rest and my…