onslaught
it’s not news that women constantly struggle with body image issues.
we are bombarded hourly with messages telling us we need to be younger, thinner, prettier.
i love this video by dove reminding us that our sweet little sponges get this onslaught as well.
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if this moved you. pass it on.
remember there’s still a couple of days left to enter the power balance giveaway.
have a great weekend friends.
power balance giveaway
rad! rad! rad! i am so flipping excited {john travolta-ing my index finger diagonally up and down my body}!!
i finally got a power balance hologram.
i see these wristbands, lockets and holograms everywhere around southern california.
created by athletes, power balance is a technology which harnesses naturally occurring frequencies which work within the body to improve strength, balance and flexibility. channeling these frequencies into a hologram, power balance has created a non-invasive product with profound effects.
these wristbands are all the rage with pro-surfers and volleyball players. many of my students swear by them for their new found power, flexibility and stability.
watch the demo to see how it works.
cool, huh? which leads me to……{happy dance}
giveaway! giveaway! giveaway!
one lucky reader gets a power balance wristband.
simply leave me a comment, and you will be entered into a drawing for a power balance wristband. even if you’ve already won before you may still enter.
also, if you leave a comment AND add me to twitter and or facebook fans you’ll get an extra entry!!
a winner will be announced monday march 1st at 9am.
good luck!
leggo my ego
it happens. even to the most modest of people. that silly ego swims and squirms its way into our precious hour of exercise. that one hour of our day when we’re to be ego free.
yet, unfortunately it is when we are “working out” that the ego is likely to show up. this defeating, worthless, and most often damaging part of our psyche rears its ugly head when we’re vulnerable or stressed.
yet, that is exercise: physical stress. how else do you get results? napping?
if we’re not careful, we can get hurt. it’s important to push our bodies so that we improve and maintain our fitness; but not out of competition or insecurity (ego).
for me, the biggest injury i’ve ever sustained was an ego-related hamstring tear during a yoga class.
yep, you read correctly. not running, rock-climbing, or back-flipping, but namaste-ing my butt off in yoga: the number ONE place you’re not supposed to have an ego.
i was so clueless i might as well have been wearing an ed hardy t-shirt, driving my souped up hummer to the gym. we were supposed to gently stretch our hamstrings. i decided to show class i could, in addition, stretch my own gall bladder…….{CRUNCH}.
arrogant ass that i am resulted in eight months of not being able to fully extend my left leg, and sixteen months of feeling pain every time i stepped with my left foot. to this day (five years later) i still feel this injury, and have to be sweet to my semitendinosus.
i chalk this up to immaturity (i’m like WAY totally mature now) and the fact i was rather new to yoga. i would like to think a yoga instructor, yogis as they call themselves, would know better. {i would also like to think taylor swift is still a sweet little virgin, but alas this is the world in which i live.}
my friend jill is a yoga teacher. (i use the term friend loosely because she’s super young, pretty, and perky. makes me feel old and gnarly) jill teaches killer yoga classes. she is the epitome of a yoga instructor. she glows happy, warm, authentic, lovely energy. she’s like a beautiful sprite shakespeare would have written about; she floats around bringing smiles and accord to all. people everywhere flock to her flow classes.
but, apparently miss little bright, shiny and all things peace be with you got a little nervy in class last week.
my sweet jill tore the twaddle out of her rotator cuff. the first to admit her folly, “all ego,” she said. jill recounted the injury that occurred from taking a class where she was the only teacher and the desire to be a bit shiny and starry overpowered her yogi zen. in the midst of mastering compass pose she, too, experienced the terrible “tear” of all things tendony and tight.
now she’s out of commission for a couple of weeks (the shoulder to a yogi is what extensions are to britney). she had a very sad (still fetching though) face last time i saw her.
so people. pretty please. use care and caution when out conquering your fitness goals. we can be fierce and still safe. leggo your ego!! it can only bring you harm.
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softer than a baby’s……..
i swear. that’s what my face feels like. i just finished another dermaplaning treatment, and i’m absolutely stunned at the results. skin so fresh i need a diaper.
i’ve seen dermaplaning guru, dawn haymond, three times now. and i am over the moon happy with my results. in under 45 minutes, dawn gently sweeps my face with her magic wand blade, leveling and exfoliating all the dead cells of good times past and ridding any evidence of present time neglect on my part (cough-moisturize-cough). fine lines and scars are sloughed away. pink, plump, baby skin emerges beneath.
i walk in looking like this
i leave, feeling like i look like this:
truly, this is an amazing technique. for fifty dollars and under an hour i see more of a difference than i have in microdermabrasion or IPL. if you don’t live in orange county, and can’t see dawn personally (dermaplaning guru i tell you). you can search your area here.
bye bye meth face.
