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My participation for the character design challenge of this month

The theme is: tarot

I chose to represent “the MAT”

#Character Design #character desing challenge #the mat #mat #fou #tarot #Black and White #yellow #dog

flatlining bc im not gonna be woken up with a pretty girls hand wrapping around my throat as she says sorry for waking me up before spitting on my face and forcing herself inside and laughing when i cry and shake and beg her to not cum inside

#anyways heres my address **** **** ******** the keys ubder the key #the mat #or break the window. ur choice

I'm so excited cause I got a nice ass yoga mat for Christmas and I get to use it tomorrow 😁

#the mat #lululemon

If everything you need to know is ON the mat What's UNDER the mat?

#meditation #yoga #the mat #mindfulness #daily practice #devotion

the bridesmaid dress is too small + other stories

(You know, that title really doesn't suck that much. Dibsies for my future auto biography that no one will read.)

Anyway. Here we are. Week four-ish is over and week five is beginning - and it's really obvious where I suck at cutting out sugar:

Alcohol (plus inevitable mixers)

Ice cream

I like to drink. I enjoy drinking because friends are usually around. I really like being around friends, especially now that I'm single. It's also brutally hot here in Utah and sometimes the ice cream in the fridge just calls to me like siren to a sailor and I can't stop myself from self-sabotaging.

So, last week I tried on the bridesmaid dress for best-girl-friend's wedding and it doesn't zip all the way up. We got the dresses over 6 months ago, which in retrospect was an oversight, and I understandably gained an-inch-or-two in my upper torso from muscle (as a ski instructor, I lifted a lot of children) but most likely from drinking too much beer this winter post-ski slopes. I've been trying to get best-girl-friend & her fiancee to go to hot vinyasa power yoga with me at Salt Lake Power Yoga for the last month and this was finally the motivation I needed to start going - I guess it was pretty motivating for her and the fiancee too, because they joined up as well! (It's the best deal ever - introductory pricing of $39 for 30 days of unlimited yoga.)

Thus, the yoga journey began and holy shit, I was really not expecting it to be the best idea I've ever had. I'm completely hooked. Most awesome part: so is best-girl-friend and her fiancee. She said she's never felt so calm, and he's really losing inches. I don't know how much of a difference it's made with my body, inches wise that is. I've definitely put on some muscle and I feel much stronger and balanced. In 5 days I went from normal person balance to bad-ass yoga eagle pose balance. Caw caw, bitches.

By day three of the hot-yoga experience I was learning just how much sweat I was capable of producing. I was slipping on my mat, my towel was too short to do proper warrior 1 & 2 poses, and I felt like the whole "oh my god this mat is like a lake of sweat" thing was not only disgusting but hindering to my entire practice. I looked into a bunch of remedies: mat topper towels, new mats with towel-like tops, etc. All were from $40-60 bucks and I was just not impressed by the reviews. Plus I hate the idea of having to adjust a towel every five minutes. I'd rather just have one thing that works and is consistently amazing. Which led me to the most expensive yoga/atheletics store on earth: Lululemon.

I purchased their yoga mat (appropriately called "the mat") for a cool discounted price (professional ski instructor for the win) and I have never looked back. The color is fantastic and it manages to absorb all of the sweat. Yep, all of it.

It's kind of majestic and magnificent.

We're on week two of the yoga challenge and I have no regrets. I've spent money on yoga clothes I would have never considered before (booty shorts? really???) and yoga mats I thought were far too overpriced (and found were completely worth it). I can't stop thinking about how bad-ass my chaturanga up dog to down dog is and how it just keeps improving every day. The results and rewards are immediate, and I love how calm and clear I feel after every session. It just makes me want to go more and more until I only do yoga and never get anything else done ever.

The one idea that has been hard to come to terms with is the feeling that I'm doing yoga to fix myself. Like if I do x days of yoga, I will lose lbs or inches or whatever. Which is just something I made up - no one promised that to me. It's a fallacy that I have anything to fix, because I'm not broken. Knowing all of this doesn't stop a little bit of hope that maybe - just maybe - it might help me lose that extra inch that's keeping me out of that bridesmaids dress.

#yoga #vinyasa #the mat #lululemon #salt lake power yoga #bridesmaid dress #burn fat not muscle #body image

after a long inner debate, i purchased lululemon's Mat

i had my eye on a few different mats because i'm really diving head first into my yoga practice, and the studio i just joined offers hot and regular classes, so i needed something that i wouldn't slip and slide all over even in the hot class.

so i marched into lululemon today - i know many of the girls who work there, just because i'm literally there ALL the time.i asked if i could do some moves on The Mat right there in the store, so i did a few flows and realized that i wasn't slipping at all! amazing right!

so i bought it in green, because it's the colour of the heart chakra, and it's so inviting! i'm heading to class tonight, so i will give a FULL review once i give it a few go's in class for those who are on the same yoga mat quest!

#lululemon #the mat #yoga #personal #project-nutrition