Charlie Sheen and Yoga

Say what you will about Charlie Sheen, but he certainly provides some interesting quotes. I rounded up a few of these which I thought were applicable to Bikram Yoga. Below are some actual quotes with a few comments from me.

“If you try it once, your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” (This is what some of my friends think about trying Bikram.)

“I have Tiger blood, man.” (Bengal tiger strength.)

“Know that I’m better solo. I invented solo.” (Look at your own eyes in the mirror.)

“Plan better.” (Get to class on time!)

“We beg for nothing. Beggars beg. Winners win. Period. The end. Suck it. Didn’t make the rules.” (Wait, didn’t one of my teachers say this once?)

“You’re either down or you’re up.” (Floor Series, Standing Series…)

“I don’t believe in panicking.” (Stay in the room! Breathe!)

“Bring me a challenge. Somebody.” (30 days, 60 days…)

“I’ve got mad energy for days. That’s what people can’t get their minds around.”

“Winning? 24/7.” (Absolutely!)

Greg

First Timer Class

My studio offers a "Free at Three" class every Monday which is where people coming for the first time can come for free. It's not open to the general public, just first timers and a few experienced people up front so the new people can see good examples of the postures.

Yesterday due to some scheduling reasons, I took this class. I went up in the front row. Our studio owner, Stacey taught. She is absolutely fantastic dealing with new people, answering their questions, calming them down, etc.

It's a very unique class for an experienced person and I really enjoyed it. There were about 8 first timers and four experienced people. I definitely could tell the people behind me were paying attention to my postures and of course this gave me extra incentive to do a good job. It was a very low key atmosphere which I think is great for first timers. I survived my first class, but I was certainly intimidated walking into a room with 40-50 people who all done this before. I would have loved to do a first time class like this.

Hopefully I can do this again, it was definitely an enjoyable class.

Greg

National Competition

I haven't posted in a few weeks, but I'm still here, still practicing, but very busy. I have a few posts I want to get to in the near future. Just a reminder to everyone that the U.S. national competition is this weekend in L.A. Three people from Vegas will be there competing, two guys and a girl. You can check out usayoga.org for details on the event. Apparently they are going to stream it live on line too, so check it out!

Greg