Yoga at the Beach

Is there a more relaxing arena for doing yoga but at the beach?! The gentle waves rolling in, the soft warm breeze and the quiet. As you can tell yoga class this morning was wonderful. We did a lot of abdominal and leg work and I'm sure I will feel it tomorrow, but today I feel fantastic! Sad news though, my instructor leaves island on Wednesday next week and the other instructor leaves mid May so I guess it's back to the DVD's. That's okay though, I'll still enjoy doing yoga. I tried the program on TV but the guy just goes to fast and I never really get into the pose before he has already moved on. I'll look for one that works at my speed and go with that. I have also been thinking about starting to walk/run. I found a wonderful starters program in the recent Runner's World magazine that I should be able to follow without killing myself. Sure wish my treadmill worked, I loved running on the one at the gym before they closed down. Someday!

HAPPY EASTER

Okay, so I didn't do anything exercise wise for a couple of days now, and I can't see me doing anything today either. Friday was our lazy day, we celebrated our anniversary and exercising was not in the plans. Although I did make cakes (3 of them) for Heidi, I also made potato salad for our dinner and of course I made breakfast, lunch & dinner, so I guess I was busier then I thought. Yesterday I really didn't do much and today I don't see me doing much either, after all it's Easter! I was a bit disappointed that the Easter Bunny didn't show, but you just can't trust the little critter. :-) I'm hoping to get my body moving again this week, I think we have yoga on Tuesday but there might not be but 3 of us because everyone else has left island. That's okay though and even if I don't do the moves like they do (not as flexible) I still move. It will be fun.

Hope the bunny came to your house!

Good For the Body & Soul

I guess I never realized the impact yoga could have on your body until I started taking classes. The more you do yoga the better your body feels. The body opens up and the soul absorbs all of those good feelings. Our class today was at the beach and the gentle movements of the waves and the cool breeze made for an extraordinary class. Flexibility is something we all lose when we start to get older, with yoga you can regain that and more. What a wonderful way to start my day!

Post Office & Speedy Service ?!

You would think by now I'd be used to slow service at the PO, well guess again. I walked down to the PO this morning, a 20 minute walk, then had to stand in line for 30 minutes before being waited on. They have 6 windows, and only 2 were open. The line was so long and speedy service is not in the vocabulary for these workers. After finishing at the counter, I literally started speed walking back to the marina. Thankfully our nice mail lady saw me and gave me a ride to the grocery store on her way to the ferry. I never would have made it if not for her kindness. Then it was off to the races in the store with only 15 minutes before the ferry departed. I zipped through there like lightening and ran back to Crown Bay dragging my bag and my fat a*# behind! Believe it or not, I made it with 2 minutes to spare! Yahoo!!!! One thing that it did impress on me was that I am more out of shape than I thought, so back to exercising with the Wii Fit tomorrow and yoga class on Thursday! Thanks for not letting me collapse God!

3 days ago

It's been 3 days since my last post and because I was still busy straightening up from yesterday's company, I didn't exercise. I think I did enough moving around though this weekend, shuffling plates and bowls, washing a gazillion dishes & silverware (the dishwasher was full and running but still had many things to wash) and then moving tables and chairs around, not counting all of the cooking that went with the whole brunch thing. We did have a really nice time and everyone seemed to enjoy their meal. Who wouldn't like homemade sticky buns! :-) Tomorrow I have to walk to the post office (1 mile each way) and send a certified letter so that will be a good exercise day. I'm dreading getting back on the Wii because I know I'll get yelled at. :-( Don't worry, I'll do it anyway. Until tomorrow...

P.S. It's been 1 month since I started this post, haven't lost any weight but I'm feeling better thanks to the yoga.

Cleaning Day, Again

So yesterday morning, before going over to St. Thomas, I power cleaned, scrubbing everything in site, washing screens, scrubbing floors, all of this before 10:15am. I'm pretty sure that will count as exercise since I didn't sit down long enough to even write about it. This morning was grocery shopping at 6:45am and now I'm baking and finishing my cleaning. The house smells really fresh and I know that next week I'll be back to yoga and Wii Fit routines. The weeks are passing by quickly and 60 is growing closer everyday! YIKES!!!

House cleaning with a smile?!

Although I love a clean house, the fresh smell, the clean touch of the counters, I really never remember smiling while I was cleaning. It has always been a chore to me and today and the next couple of days I'm in the super cleaning mode. We are having company for brunch on Palm Sunday and I thought what better time then now to spring clean. I'm using this as my exercise today and the next couple of days as well. Believe when I say that cleaning is an aerobic exercise, even the Wii Fit counts it as exercise! :-) It really is a good time to use muscles that you haven't used in awhile. And the climbing up and down the step ladder, good stair master exercise. Glad to be cleaning, though I'm still not smiling. :-) Happy Spring!