sivananda yoga ashram

On June 15th, I'm planning on going to the Sivananda Yoga ashram for two months. I've never been there but have heard extraordinary things about it. I'm a bit apprehensive about this whole things, mainly about the logistics of it. I made the prudent decision of pitching a tent vs. staying in the dorm for the sake of saving a few bucks but haven't considered the fact that it's going to be close to 100 degrees and humid. Yay sweaty camping?

chair & twists

Something that I really enjoyed a few classes ago was this relatively simple sequence:

Start out in chair (utkatasana) with hands at heart center. As you exhale, twist to the right, then inhale back to center, and exhale to the left, inhaling back to center, etc. It creates a very nice flow of twisty breaths :)

30-day challenge complete

I finished the 30-day yoga challenge about a week ago and am now entitled to a month of unlimited yoga! I took a break this past weekend and didn't attend class Friday-Sunday but practiced on my own on Saturday. I feel that my asanas have really improved over the past couple of months, particularly over the month when I attended class every single day. I have to admit that I'm completely hooked at this point. I have been since I started yoga, but this time, it's serious ;) I'd like to take a yoga teacher training course some time within the next year. I'd like to do an intensive course, though, preferably at an ashram, rather than a weekend program that stretches out throughout the course of a year. I like the idea of full-immersion at an ashram; plus, I don't plan on living in one particular place for the duration of a year in the near future.