When Yoga Comes in Handy

A fun blog about how practicing yoga can be useful in your everyday life.

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This made me laugh ☺️how I feel all the time when I get in the ocean or open water.#humor #ocean

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Its so great bumping into other PMCer's when you're training! Especially an inspirational women as Carie who is a breast cancer survivor. 💓#motivation #inspiration #capecod #pmctraining #pmc2014 #teamforzag (at Cape Cod Rail Trail)

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Motivation Monday 👊 If you're feeling like you've had setbacks lately or you keep starting over, don't quit. Stay strong, start over and keep going. Failure only happens when you give up on yourself. #neverquit #believeinyourself #winners #motivation

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Hurray! 🎉 Made it to the finish. 20 miles completed! Now I taper. 😄 #training #bostonmarathon #20miles #running #runningforcover #boylston #boston #bostonstrong #finishline #tapertime #vacationmode (at Boston Marathon Finish Line)

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Please share ❤️Help me reach $10,000 for Melanoma Foundation of New England. Thank You! #mfne #fundraising #bostonmarathon #runningforcover #flipagram made with @flipagram ♫ Music: Rudimental - Feel the Love http://www.crowdrise.com/mfneboston2014/fundraiser/rebeccanorton1

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So many great lines in todays passage. I have to share b/c they truly are wonderful. Read out loud to yourself if you can,it will sink in more. ✨"Unlike birds, we confuse our time on Earth, again and again, with obsessions of where we are going - often to the point that we frustrate and stall out the human ability to fly." ✨ "In truth, wings don't grow any differently to fit south or east or west, and our lives, no matter how we train ourselves, are more fundamental than direction of worldly ambition. **We, like the birds, are meant to fly and sing-that's all-and all our plans and schemes are twigs of nest that, once ougrown, we leave." ✨- Mark Nepo #fly #wordsofwisdom #poetry #faith #marknepo #thebookofawakening

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Happy Hump Day! ✌️😀🐫#humpday

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This image made me laugh but thinking I may have just done that doesn't. I woke up today in a pretty good amount of pain. Hoping its just really sore muscles since I hardly isolate them like I did on thursday. Ugh, I'm telling ya, if its not one thing, its another. Staying positive.#yogawillhelp #hamstringissues #soremuscles #stretchingandfoamrollingismynewlife

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Pose: Extended Triangle Pose (Utthita Trikona) 

Handy Use: Reaching for a menu on the floor when on a bar stool 

My best friend was nice enough to invite me out to dinner with her and her boyfriend.  I am a great third wheel.  It was a mexican restaurant and with the array of drink choices, what was a girl to choose.  My excitement got the best of me, and I dropped the drink menu.  uh oh. On a very high chair, I reached from my chair to grab the menu from the ground.  Nothing like a good stretch and triangle pose to grab what's important :) 

Bonus: Margaritas!! 

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Pose: Cow Face Arms

Handy use: Zipping the back of your dress or shirt up by yourself

The other day @ the gym while rushing to get ready for work (as usual) I found myself in the predicament of zipping the back of my dress up by myself. This wasn't a first for me, as I'm sure many of you have been here before, but being in a rush and flustered sometimes this can just be a pain. However, this time as I started to zip myself up, I realized I had a bit more flexibility in my shoulders and that awkward struggle to zip myself up wasn't so bad!  And Wa-la! I was all zipped up and ready to go. 

Bonus: More time to get ready for work/actually somewhat blow dry my hair! 

Photo taken from Shape Magazine's website: http://www.shape.com/blogs/working-it-out/9-yoga-poses-open-your-shoulders