Showing posts with label strike a yoga pose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strike a yoga pose. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2011

Crazy Cat Lady Links

I am an unrepentant crazy cat lady. My biological clock has sort of gone off--but I don't want babies. I want kittens!

Need a gift for your own crazy cat lady? Try Crazy Cat Lady board game or the Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure (No, you don't get half off the Nancy Pearl figure with purchase of both. Sorry.)

I got these from the hilarious blog Animals Behaving Badly

Take a look at this Advent calendar featuring darling shelter kitties. I cannot believe that both Hampton and Naomi have not been scooped up and adopted. I would take either of them in an instant.

And did you see this amazing video of a cat doing yoga with its owner?

Monday, January 24, 2011

Yoga Resources

So as my workout these days, I am trying yoga. The place around the corner from my house doesn't have the best schedule, so I do it at home. Aces got me two DVDs for my birthday, Yoga For Every Body and Yoga For Anxiety and Depression. But I like to follow this "Yoga for Hangovers" routine that I found on the NYTimes website at the beginning of the month.

Two other useful sites are Yoga Journal's directoru of poses and the Yogamazing video podcast is covers yoga for different needs.

Last weekend the Times ran an article on "Yoga Rebel" Tara Stiles, who has a YouTube channel and espouses an easy-going approach to yoga. I'll be checking this out too.

I am fascinated how just moving in certain ways increases your strength and flexibility, how by the 3rd set of lunges I can press my heel further down and hold steadier. It also helps with my nagging left hip pain--due to bilateral symmetry (ie, my screwed up right shoulder), it tends to hurt if I wear crappy shoes or walk too much.