Bikram Yoga El Paseo

HEY YOGIS AND YOGINIS, ME AGAIN……. now that I’m feeling all RE-ENERGIZED after my whirlwind LA/Vegas trip, then down for the count for a few days with a sinus infection….. I’M BACK!! (Guess I can’t party like a rock star anymore, and will leave that up to my younger students…. yes that’s you Tyler Kaban (I forgot my sunscreen) and Jacqulyn Stanton (beautiful blonde partner in crime)!! LOL…..

Yesterday marked the PERFECT DAY to regroup and re-energize……My morning started out with an AWESOME Lululemon sponsored hike with Marley Benshalom leading the way on Eisenhower Trail in the LIVING DESERT… 7am-9am and it was spectacular!! Perfect final LULULEMON Thurs. hike club!! Thank you MARLEY!! Then off to breakfast with Lululemon Keyleader, good friend,and AWESOME YOGA INSTRUCTOR Stephen Kaleda!!

If you haven’t eaten breakfast out on the Patio at the Miramonte resort and Spa – please do!! It’s so relaxing and gets you SPA READY. Off to the Spa for a Eucalyptus steam ( no better way to clear the sinus`) Full body scrub (rid those nasty dead skin cells ) and Full body Massage………..can you say R-E-L-A-X-I-N-G??? THEN OFF TO RECHARGE MY BATTERIES in what else but my FAVORITE PASTIME AT MY FAVORITE PLACE…….BIKRAM YOGA!!!!!…. and what an awesome class I had THANKS to one of my FAVORITE teachers – ANGELINE PRIEFER ( yeah , I know, they’re all my favorites!! Lucky me for having such a great teaching team !!) Angeline didn’t disappoint and her class gave me just the added energy I needed to teach the 7:45pm community class!! What a great group of Yoginis. All WOMEN -3 brand new students and NO ONE LEFT THE ROOM!! They worked HARD and ALL OF US HAD FUN !!

HIKE * SPA * TAKE YOGA * TEACH YOGA………NEED I SAY MORE????

YEP!! I ALWAYS have more to say. (Us Italian’s have the gift to gab…….and cook)

What’s NEW AT BIKRAM YOGA PALM DESERT EL PASEO?????……..WHAT’S NOT??

OUR 30 DAY CHALLENGE IS JUST STARTING AND YOGIS CAN SIGN UP ANYTIME ON OR BEFORE JUNE 1ST!! We are making it a CHARITY CHALLENGE by teaming up with LULULEMON ATHLETICA to help the Oklahoma victims . ALL CHALLENGERS CAN TAKE A PLEDGE SHEET TO GET FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COWORKERS TO PLEDGE THEIR 30 CLASSES with donations to help the victims, or (monetary -i.e people can pledge .50/class , $1/class , $10, $100 or ANYTHING THEY WANT …..EVERY PLEDGE NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL IS GENEROUS AND APPRECIATED FOR THESE VICTIMS)

IN ADDITION TO CHALLENGING ONESELF , (perfect mind/ body commitment) AND Helping the less fortunate, the 30 day challenge will culminate in a PARTY at PGA WEST that I will host. Raffle prizes including spa certificates, dinner certificates, pottery barn certificate etc. GRAND PRIZE TO BE 7NT/8DAY STAY AT 5 STAR CABO SAN LUCAS MEDANO BEACH FRONT RESORT AND SPA !!!!!

IF all of this wasn’t new and exciting enough, our STUDENT WALL OF FAME continues to unveil our beloved BIKRAM POSTURES with some of our awesome students!! The neat thing about this wall of fame is that THESE ARE REAL STUDENTS with REAL STORIES. They are not models, master teachers, competitors etc. Their postures are done well and are truly motivating for the average student to give them incentive and to inspire them to progress in their own individual practice. I don’t want to alienate ANY student by thinking that they have to have a certain body shape, be a certain size, or have a certain look to improve their postures to the best of their abilities!!!

The STUDENT WALL OF FLAME …….oops I mean FAME…..(ALTHOUGH THEY ARE DEFINITELY ALL HOT!!!!)……Is actually a very ‘hot’ topic these days. I had an out of town student come in and sign up for our week special. She wanted to take a pic of our wall and asked me if she could steal my idea for a Bikram Yoga studio client of hers. Turns out she is a Marketing expert and runs a marketing company!! She stated that at first she was confused at why some frames just had names of the postures, while others had pics of students in the postures. She was in our “unveiling” class and saw it all come together!!! It’s funny to see all the different impressions of students regarding this wall!!

I had a funny thing happen the other day. I taught a special class for the employees of LULULEMON one evening. One of the students who had NEVER done Bikram Yoga before, looked up at the wall between the 3rd and 4th postures – AWKWARD POSE/EAGLE ……I watched her eye gaze slowly work its way down the wall to the final posture picture. The ‘wheels started turning’ and an interesting expression came over her face when the ‘dawn’ came that these postures were IN ORDER!!!! “Yes, My dear , we have a little ways to go in the series , probably best not to concern yourself with how many postures we have left to go”…………………”

IT’S ALWAYS THE JOURNEY AND NOT THE DESTINATION !!!! LEARN TO ENJOY THE PROCESS, SMELL THE ROSES (or the SWEAT) AND STAY PRESENT!!

I WISH ALL OF YOU A WONDERFUL MEMORIAL WEEKEND !! BE SAFE, HAVE FUN, AND IF YOU ARE AROUND SUNDAY NIGHT, JOIN US FOR OUR “SOCIAL SUNDAYS- GATHER TOGETHER” AT 3RD CORNER BISTRO -6PM . They are the LAST SUNDAY of every month. ALL ARE WELCOME –BIKRAM YOGIS , ALL OTHER YOGIS , NON YOGIS. COME for socializing , networking, brainstorming,etc.

UNTIL THEN , SEE YOU IN THE HOT ROOM!!!!!!!!

NAMASTE`
ANN MARIE