Month: September 2012

Love city life.

love it!

Yoga challenge over. I loved it and will keep practicing yoga in my “normal” life. I also love how these 10 days have made me feel. I’m filled with energy, wake up early without problem (BIG accomplishment) and just feel really good about myself. I’ve learnt a lot about myself both my physic limitations and my mental ones. In a lot of ways our mind tells us that we can’t do something when we actually can. I think this is something I can bring with me to my wakeboarding and I’m so happy I did this! I can strongly recommend “Bikram Yoga Söder” which is the studio I visited here in Stockholm. All the instructors and staff are really nice and their intro deal (Yoga as much as you want in 10 days for 380 SEK) is what I chose to do.

Yoga is going well! I’m still shaking with adrenalin every time I leave the house to head for the studio but every time I get there I realize it’s just my thoughts making things out to be worse than they actually are. I can’t believe tomorrow is the last day! I’m actually starting to enjoy the yoga (and just as I write this the thoughts of todays upcoming sesh makes the adrenaline start flowing again). Todays to do list:

I started my Saturday morning with watching the walk of shame parade of Stockholm on my way to Yoga practice at 8.30 am. After 90 minutes of great yoga I headed home to load up my car and drive to cable with my friend Martin. Once there, the line was massive so we chilled for an hour watching the European Cable Championship. Congrats to Michaela, Judith and David who all got silver in their division! (:
Then followed a couple of hours of riding in mixed weather of rain, sun, storm and calm water. I had a great time though but completely worn out now. If I have the energy I’ll go back tomorrow as well, cable is fun!

Just made this cake with only fruit, berries and nuts as ingredients. It is so yummie! (:

Wow, yesterday was the toughest day so far. From the start I feelt like I had no energy and really nauseous. I guess it’s true what they say about every session being different. The feeling afterwords is still so sweet though! Every time I leave the studio I can’t stop smiling. Even if it during the sesh yesterday took me both sweat and tears to make it through I can’t help it. These 5 days have teached me so much about my body and about my mind. My body is so much stronger than my mind think it is so whenever those voices in my head start pushing “you can’t do this, just let go early, it’s too heave” I chose not to listen to them and push through anyways. My body CAN do it, if it can’t it will say so by collapsing. Most of the times it’s our heads telling us we can’t do it so we choose not to. I’m not saying that I win over my “voices” all the time. Sometimes I let them win. Actually probably most of the times they do, but I’ve started to defy them and the feeling when I do is the one that makes these sessions worthwhile.

Wow, that was a really messy blog-post but here’s a pic that I found which says it all. haha