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mango lassi

My latest hobby: Ayurveda. It is translated as "the science of life". Ayurveda not only addresses illness and treatment, but life as a whole including activities, diet and lifestyle.

An example of an ayurvedic recipe is Mango Lassi: the real version would be made from fresh mango, but I discovered an acceptable alternative that doesn't get your hands messy:

• 1 part Mango Peach Party Juice
• 1 part Yoghurt
• add some water, if too sweet

So, really it's a mango-peach-party lassi I have been enjoying, but anyhow, I highly recommend it for hot summer days!

three lakes

lake louise

larch

martin and lake louise


mirror lake

lake agnes

Lake Agnes - Good Early Season Hike - even though there was still lots of snow at Lake Agnes and Martin broke through the snow and got caught in between two rocks. Fortunately he was able to rescue himself. I wouldn't have liked to explain to my family that I left him there for the bears and cougars j/k ;)

Yoga Teacher Training

Trish in Ustrasana - the torture chamber version of it. It looks crazy, but these ropes are a good tool to get in alignment, especially for people with injuries

my first attempts in teaching yoga

This week I am taking a vacation from my regular job to be in a Yoga TT Intensive all week. The training is going well so far, but I definitely still have a long way to go. It is one thing to learn the details of poses to improve my own practice; it's an entirely different thing trying to convey this information to students. Especially if there are 20 of them and everyone is stiff in different areas.


In Iyengar yoga we focus on alignment and as you can see in the picture above, there are lots of props involved. Sometimes I feel like in kindergarten with all these wooden blocks and blankets around; and other times the studio reminds me of a torture chamber.

Nackapanzalen

Flora and Emil dancing in the pool.

Thank you, Pat, for the fun photos!