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Friday Link Love

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Happy Friday!  I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend.

That was a silly statement.  Who doesn’t look forward to the weekend?  
My Friday started with a trip to the dermatologist to get a mole removed.  It wasn’t bad at all besides the fact that I now keep remembering that I have stitches on my chest and they’re getting really itchy.  Oh and also that I can’t do any heart openers or backbends for a week in yoga. Boo.

Anyways, I wanted to do a Friday Link Love post today because I came across some pretty awesome posts and articles this week that I just had to share.  (My blog doesn’t show links very distinctly…just click on the title of the post to get there!)

Hope you enjoy!
A Letter To My Sisters: Our Value is Not Based on Clicks: Such a heartwarming post that really reminds us to live life through our eyes instead of our smart phones.  If you have any pre-teens / teenagers in your life, definitely a great one to share.

8 Things Remarkably Effective People Do Every Day : #1 is my favorite “Visualize Your Success.”  I learned this in my Yoga Teacher Training – Weekend Two.  We called it “Feel it real.”  I’ve been practicing by actually visualizing myself teaching yoga classes.  It definitely helps with my confidence and motivation on my path to getting there.

 
19 Things You’ll Appreciate Only If You Studied Abroad: I swear this article could have been written by me or my friends who I studied abroad with.  It is dead on! #4, #7, and #16 are my favorites.

 

Pesto Stuffed Beef and Bacon Burgers

Happy Sunday people!  Hope your weekends were fabulous.  Mine was pretty fabulous.  I saw family and friends, ate good food, drank great drinks, and oh I nailed a handstand!!

When I say I “nailed” a handstand I mean I held my handstand for about three seconds, away from the wall, for the very first time.  Bid deal. Huge deal.

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Yoga Teacher Training – Weekend Three

This past weekend was my third weekend of Yoga Teacher Training.  We had a good four weeks in between our last weekend and this one, so I was more than excited to get back into that loft and embark on another 16 hours of heart opening and learning.

I’m not going to sit here and write down our whole hour by hour syllabus for this post.  We covered a lot this weekend.

We learned and practiced alignment of Standing Poses, Hand Balances, Standing Balancing Poses, Standing Twists, and basic Warm Up Poses.

We continued our discussion of What is Yoga.  Mitchell took us through the Vedic Period all the way to Buddhism.  My brain was a little mushy after covering all of that ground.  People spend their whole lives studying these historical periods!

What I will share with you are some moments from this weekend captured in photos. These beautiful pictures were taken by Alley, one of my fellow teacher trainees.  She has an amazing talent for capturing beautiful moments and specializes in creating images that promote a healthy, happy, and positive lifestyle.  Check out her website at www.alleymaher.com and her Yogis of Connecticut Facebook Page.

A Few Pictures from Yoga Teacher Training – Weekend Three

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Mitchel demonstrating some stellar hand stands.

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