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prAna Yoga Pants

Posted on June 17, 2010 by sheila| 14 Comments

Okay, I anxiously awaited the arrival of my new prAna yoga pants.  The UPS guy pulled up and stopped outside my house.   Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…PLEASE let it me my prAna yoga pants!   omg…IT WAS!  Like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looking for a golden ticket….I ripped open the package and folded up was a lovely pair of ‘dusty rose’ colored yoga pants.   The first time my fingers touched them a lovely soft sensation went up my arm and tingled my brain.  Mmmmm these are so soft!   I unfolded them.   They looked small.   I ordered them according to their sizing chart.  Usually in clothes I wear a medium-large.   But  their chart was clear….a small…..but these looked small.

I held them up against my body.   I immediately thought…”Nope…there is no way.  No way that I will stuff my ‘yes I had 3 babies and no I’m not pregnant‘ pooch into these lovely little pants.  No way.  No how.”

I went into the bathroom to try em….if I did spill out of them, I was gonna be the only one who saw.    So I went to try them on in secret.  I closed the bathroom door.  Thankfully everyone was busy and didn’t know what I was doing.   I slipped one leg into the little prAna yoga pants.   OH MY GOD.   The foot that was going in felt as if it were entering another dimension.  I am NOT lying.  I am NOT embellishing.  I pulled the pants up and they felt like I was wrapped in heaven.   If heaven feels soft and like cotton candy.  Yup.

I let out a giggle.  Like when a little girl makes a happy giggle.   Not only did they fit.  They fit beautifully.   I immediately had visions of doing everything I do in a day in these pants.   I imagined how fun things would be in these crazy comfy pants.

Then someone needed to use the bathroom (of course) and I had to change back into my regular clothes.  Remember, I don’t do yoga when anyone is awake.  That is my morning time.  And sista’s   I will tell you….morning yoga will never be the same.   I have a feeling that I should pass these pants on when I’m done.  Maybe write a book.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling YOGA Pants.   They are that pretty.  They are THAT awesome.   (note, I will never pass these on.  I will be buried in them.)

Funny thing is…I actually really like them while doing yoga.   The comfort level is through the roof and I love that they don’t make me sweat.  In fact, I did yoga out in the back yard and it was 85 degrees.  Long yoga pants and not a bead of sweat.   Weird.   Nicely weird.

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Although I received a pair of these yoga pants for review this did not affect my opinion. I received no other compensation. All opinions expressed are my own. AND did I say….I LOVE these pants?!

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Yoga Diary – March 2010

Posted on March 21, 2010 by sheila| 11 Comments

*sigh*

FINALLY.  I’m back to my morning yoga after 5 days of a yoga vacation.   See, I was transitioning from one pose to the warrior post and pulled that major muscle in my back.   I can’t remember what the muscle is called, it’s the one under the bottom of the wing bone in the back.   You know…the one that like holds the whole body together?  If you lift your leg it pulls that muscle.  If you raise your arm it pulls that muscle.  If you fart…it pulls that muscle.  (well, maybe not, but whatever.)   Now I know what a marionette feels like.

Anyhow, I DID get to sit with a heating pad in my recliner for two days and have everyone ask me if they could get me anything.  “You don’t have to cook dinner mom…there’s plenty of leftovers”.   It was like music to my ears.  They love me.   They realllly love me.  (or…they were afraid I might die and they’d have to clean the toilet and go grocery shopping by themselves.)
:)
Anyhow, it feels great to be back into the morning routine.  And I now know first hand the purpose of slow and steady regarding yoga poses.

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My Yoga Diary ~ This hurts just looking at it.

Posted on January 14, 2010 by sheila| 20 Comments

Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on my yoga happenings.   But I have, in fact, been practicing yoga faithfully now for months.   I did get the yoga mat that I asked for for Christmas.   To touch it and lay it out…it’s like mapping out my own personal space on the floor.  *warm fuzzy sigh*

Yesterday I was poking around the net checking out some new poses, and found this one.   It’s the Crane Pose.   All five of us were sitting in the living room and I presented this photo.

“Oh, I can do that!”  Shane said.   *yeah right….*

I explained that it looks like her knees are pressed up into her arm pits!  I tried it and said, “Oh, there is NO way!”

We all tried it over and over,  some ending up doing a somersault but mostly we ended up laughing hysterically at our inabilities to do this pose.

Have YOU ever done this pose? I bet right now you are contemplating trying it aren’t you?  (be careful!)

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