YoGaOT To Compare...

The sweat gushes into my eyes as I make my way from warrior three back to one leg-mountain pose.  My standing leg is on fire and my foot feels like I spent three weeks hiking through the wilderness in a pair of boots that were a size too small.  The room is 90 degrees and we're only half way through the practice.
It feels like torture, and I love it!
Just when it feels like my leg is going to melt, the yogi encourages us to continue to breath through it––or not.
Wait, what?
She continues, "...Yoga is not about accomplishing a pose.  Yoga is you. There is no right or wrong. Don't compare yourself to anyone else in the room.  Accept where you're at and if you can't breath through it, drop down to child's pose and let it go."
Really?!
That's my problem with society now, we're afraid to compete with one another. If something feels uncomfortable we give up.  We've become so brainwashed to believe that it's okay to accept mediocracy.
I get it, yoga is a zen thing...
I practice to better myself.  To become more evolved: mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically.  Remind me how that's supposed to happen without pushing myself?  Which by the way, involves having a point of contact to compare my success.
I'm just saying...
Namaste!

Addicted to Words...

I'm not a huge gamer. I grew up during the original Nintendo generation. I played on the original Game Boy device with the black and grey graphics and have a vague recollection of Atari...
It's not that I didn't have fun playing hours of Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. or Contra, but I just didn't seem to excel at it like many of my friends.
I was far more preoccupied with acting out skits, watching too much TV and (poorly) rollerblading around my cul-de-sac.
Plus, I'm a very competitive person by nature. I hate losing! I'm not a poor loser, I just hate that I can't be brilliant at everything!
So as I grew up, I focused on the things that I was good at which also happened to be the things I enjoy the most.
Now, in the generation of the iPhone, social networking and gamers collide.
One of the easiest was to stay connected to a long lost friend is to engage them in a friendly competition...
Enter- Words With Friends. The fun online game of Scrabble.
I never thought I'd allow myself to play something I'm terrible at (I'm currently losing six of the eleven games I'm playing) nevertheless, I find it incredibly addictive.
The strategy. The satisfaction of using a "Q," "W," and an "X" at the same time! Learning new words... and yes, even the competition is fun for me.
I guess I've grown up a lot since Third Grade, when I threw the Monopoly board across the living room after my dad swooped in and stole Park Place right out from under my nose!
Yep! It was like that...

Exploitation At It's Finest... Toddlers & Tiaras The Parody

Glitter, rhinestones, pageant gowns and a flipper...

I'm pleased to present the latest project from A Group Production:

Toddlers & Tiaras The Parody