First and foremost for today’s blog is the winner of the Light on Eyes Giveaway post.

May I have a drum roll please, the winner is……..Tina Herbst! Congratulations Tina!

Believe it or not, since I knew so many of you it would not have been possible for me to make a fair and impartial choice so I  asked my 6th Period Web Design students to read my post, then each of the comments and then chose the winner. This was a great reading comprehension tool for them, but also provided them experience in the world of web design and blogging. They were excited to be a part of choosing the real life winner.  Thanks to my students for all your help!

As usual, I have been really busy lately, taught a Yin class last week at Serenity Stream in Brandon and it was amazing. Thanks to all of you who came and enjoyed the juiciness of a Yin practice. Even though I didn’t practice, but taught it, I was on cloud nine for a little while afterwards, just the aurora of yoga makes me relaxed and sharing what I love with others of course.

If you want to come, I am teaching another one this Sunday 2/21 at 2 at Asana Yoga of Brandon!

I had the day off from work yesterday and headed over to Yogani, to take Ashley’s Shakti Flow class. She returned a few weeks ago from a long trip in California where she beefed up her tool bag with new teaching skills while there. I have always enjoyed her classes.

I am reading several books now. I just can’t read one at a time, I am a little bit ADHD if you hadn’t already noticed, or if I hadn’t already told you. The ones I am reading now are:

My Stroke of Insight- by Jill Bolte Taylor	Meditations from the Mat - by Rolf Gates
This book is about a lady who just happened to be a brain surgeon that had a stroke and she documented her experience from the time the stroke happened, through her recovery. It is amazing and I really love reading about how much our brain sides have so much to do with the way with think and do.	This book is a daily guide to Sutra based meditations for one year. I wasn’t expecting this when I bought it but I have since fallen in love with it. So, far I am reading one meditation each day and trying not to read ahead so as just to digest the current days meditation.

Are you reading any great books now? If so please share, what are they about?

What are your favorite studios in your area?

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Wow, it has been a while since I have posted, hasn’t it? I have got to get more on my blogging game.  Times are busy, boy is 2010 already flying by, with work and teaching yoga, practicing yoga, hosting and attending workshops there is not enough time in the day to do all the things I love.

With that said, last weekend I had the ultimate pleasure of attending Shala Rain’s Detoxification & Pranification workshop in Tampa, FL at Yogani Studios. As you know, from my previous posts, I love her! She has this solid, well rounded, but so much knowledge in her brain you wonder how it all works, way about her. What a grounded girl she is.

Friday nights practice began with a Kapha dosha practice and we began by choosing an oil that coincided the most with what dosha we felt we were at the time. Of course, I chose vata because I am so vata, running around all the time. 
We then proceeded into a more firey practice with lots of heat building pranayama – Agni Sari (breath of fire) and hip openers.
Saturday mornings class was a vata style class, the class was a slow flow as I like to describe it. Slow but stimulating enough for a vata girl like me. Shayla’s smooth way of teaching just glides you through the poses and it just flows right  together smooth and easy.

I was fortunate enough to squeeze into my tight schedule, the Saturday afternoon discussion session all about Ayurveda. We did a dosha test to see what our constitution was and mine came out:

1. Vata
2. Pitta
3. Kapha – although I am really close in all of them (not close enough for a Tri Dosha – 1 point apart in each dosha)

I am mostly a Vata then Pitta.

Then we talked about what to eat for your dosha, attributes of each that affect your daily life, how to be more balanced and eat in a more balanced way for your constitution, and she gave us some really interesting recipes that are great for certain seasons and for our dosha.

Unfortunately, I had to miss the Sunday morning Pitta practice due to my Introduction to Yoga Series workshop at Yoga Asana of Brandon, but it was well worth it, another great group of 18 students (pics to follow soon).  I did hear that the Pitta practice was done by yogis blindfolded. Eeekkk… a challenge for the Pittas in the world.

If you want to learn more about Ayurveda, visit either of the following web sites (Blue Lotus Ayurveda or Holistic Online) or conduct a fun search of your own and take a dosha test to see what constitution you are.

For more follow up come to my Spring Detox workshop just before spring begins on March 14th at Yoga Asana of Brandon.

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Every time, I think I am going to begin slowing down in doesn’t happen. The true of the matter is that I have a little bit of the ADHD bug in me. I don’t really like to sit still (unless I am in a Yummy Yin class- that is). But, when I first began teaching yoga, I just craved teaching and wanted to get as much experience as I could as fast as I could. I was successful in accomplishing that goal, then opportunities to teach just started falling in my lap. As the holiday season and all of its demands (temporary, but yes demands regardless), I realized just how little time of my own I really have. And I keep getting opportunities to teach more yoga (my real passion in life)!

You see, I already teach full time (high school & middle school), then I teach at HCC (community college), then I teach yoga  – now 5-6 days a week, am a Yoga Vibes Ambassador, work out at the gym, and practice yoga for myself.  Crazy schedule, so scheduled that I have to schedule everything else because it is so tight. As the new year approaches, I am in a pickle, do a lessen my schedule by teaching less yoga (my true passion), I just don’t know what to do.

My good friend Loraine says, “Tiffany you have to take care of yourself first before you can take care of others. Honor yourself first.” Although the more I think about teaching yoga is something I enjoy so much, it isn’t really not like work at all and I get so many great benefits from it.

Humm…in time the answer to the question will be revealed, do I keep it tight or make it loose?

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