I hjärtat av cyklonen

Jo: För att finna en juvel måste man stilla vågorna; det är svårt att finna den om man rör om i vattnet. När meditationens vatten är klart och stilla kommer sinnets juvel helt naturligt att bli synlig. De flesta skulle hoppa i vattnet om en juvel tappades i en damm och på så sätt röra upp vattnet tills det blivit så grumligt att man inte kan hitta annat än sten och tegel. En vis man skulle vänta tils vattnet lugnat ned sig så juvelen helt naturligt kom att skina av sg själv.

Idag firar jag Bror, han e grym, han fyller år, han firar inte födelsedagar men jag firar honom!

Idag firar jag N, han har Mod, äkta Mod!

Idag firar jag att min deklaration är inlämnad o klar - I DID IT!

Idag firar jag att jag har fått ha världens bästa pappa och sen en världs bästa pappa till! Dom är alltid i mina ögon, mitt hjärta, mitt leende!

Idag firar jag vilkorslös kärlek, screw up, fuck up, I will always love u!

Vad firar du?

BHAKTI

Too Fat, Can't Fly

Honey I'm HOME

Jo: After a succesfull day in Tallinn I flew to Helsinki. Landed and crashed in my hotel room (which was very comfy by the way!). I ponderd over if I should head down to the Sauna land but then I found a LINGONBERRY BUBBLEBATH bottle in my bathroom and that was it, I was stuck in the bathtube for the rest of the evening!

Firday: I sleept in, enjoyde a BIG hotelbreakfast MO style :). Did some work for JIRA and Hagabadet before I took a cab to Lauttasaari Liikuntakeskus (a fitness club where I was booked to teach a BODYJAM guest calss). As I arrived the club looked at me as if I was from another planet. -What, no. No bodyjam class! They had totally missed that I was coming. Being a pro I adapted to the situation so instead of teaching my class at 5pm I participated in the BALL class and then at 7pm I tought my BODYJAM class (there were 2 participants, and one of them was the teacher of the orig class. This must have been THE MOST EXPENSIVE FITNESS CLASS/per participant in this clubs history, well well). Lets not even talk about the BALL class... heppaheppadiscosteppa... its started 20min late, exercises from outer space in a pumped up tempo out of this world, all taught in Finish!

One thing I liked about this gym: (See below)
A nicelly desigend, functional machine that lets you do pretty much anything!





Saturday: Teaching LesMills Quarterlies again! A beautiful tirbe of Finish instructurs I must say:)

After that I DID HELSINKI BY DAY:

Found my favvoritue shop! This boutiqe makes me soo HAPPY. I feel like a.... hmm... don't know but if the previous generation collected Strindberg, Piccasso, Klimt, then our generation collect Plastic Bears, Hello Kitty and MobilePhone Stickres from Japan! I LOVE IT!










Strolled down to Stockmann, a must! Love their flowers and food section!










Susanna from the Finnish LesMills Team picced me up in her PIMP car and we drove to Tampere. I not only the only Swede in Tampere, but I was THE ONLY PERSON Hejjandes på SVERIGE woowawa, SVERIGE wowwawwa! It was a hard night. The swedish flag went DOWN! Did anther round of classes early in the morning and then jumped on the train to Helsinki.














I could barelly hold up the ticket to the ticketman, I was in a thousand little pieces :)

After about 4 flights, 2 train rides, 1 Pimped Car ride, and several several Taxi journeys later I was on my way home!

At tha airport I decided to step out of my Box! I SHOPED!!!! And not just shoping, shoping! I stronglly belive in balancing your YIN and YANG so after a work/fitness longweekend like this I Balanced it up with 2L AbsolutVodkaVanilla, 2L AbsolutVodkaRasberry, 1L Captain Morgan Gin, 2 boxes of Fazer Delux Choclate, ! pack of Fresh Tranbär, 1 Pack of fresh Hjortron and some beautytuttifrutty!
The only thing is that I'm not used to buying alcohol så I was bumping the bottles into every seat, every, door all the way through the Swedish Tull! Oops! Never ever ask me to smuggla kokain anywhere, I can hardly bring 100% legall Buze across the boarder :)

SHOPPING :)

ART from KAISMA (my favv Museeum),
FASHION and FUN

This little loover is Mr CINNAMONROLL
I carried him all the way through the streets of Helsinki!
The two of us aren't just your ordinary HEROES ;)

A Criminal

Mo I am so so sorry!

Jo: I thought that I would have time to buy new nail polish at the airport but I got lost at Arlanda (Terminal 5 is a really long way away).



I will never ever forget the time when I had lunch with Mo a sunny day and complimented her on her nails; they were sweet apricot and dazzling to her skin color. I asked her:
- Do you have the same beautiful color on your toes?

She looked at me as if I was sent from outer space. I looked back not knowing what GRAND misstake I just did!

She answered me in a very focused voice:

- NO! You never ever, ever paint both your toenails and fingernail (do you say fingernails? Our conversation was in Swedish) in ONE color! NEVER!

I am so so sorry Mo!
Since that day, I have NEVER painted all 20 nails in one color, but now I am in Helsinki, in a Hotel room, all by myself and I was bored!

Can you forgive me?!

LOVE Jo

Tallinn is in Estonia!

I did it!

Tallinn CHECK!

Back on the road...

Mo: I´m leaving for Crete in a couple of hours... the bag is packed (well, things have randomly been thrown into the suitcase...). Yoga mat, sunscreen lotion, sun glasses, contact lenses, 5 bikinis and the camera have all been ticked off the list. I´ll find out exactly what I have forgotten in the next couple of days, I´m sure.

Read more about Triopetra, where the retreat is held, on http://www.astanga.gr/triopetra/

I´m delighted that Crete is not a shopping destination. My shopping ban is still in full effect. I had a VIP-invitation to the Fornarina sample sale yesterday and I managed not to go...(although the thought of not going got me to break out in a sweat at 4 o´clock - the time when the sale started).

Wish me luck with the Monk. I´ll keep you posted (well at least every other day, anyway). See you in 2 weeks!

Without passing GO

Mo: Anyone who owns up to breeding a son with a totally meaningless, bored expression in his face, dressed in brown Gucci loafers, worn with narrow navy slacks and a Fendi-belt, hair in a long greasy back slick, sporting a small pot belly whilst smoking extra thin, extra long cigarettes between his thumb and his forefinger??? Age: between 16-18. (Famous for high fiving his facial hair free friend in a similar outfit, wishing to look, I don´t know...street???)

If you know this BOY, please extract him from my local coffee place immediately and send him by DHL to GULAG, Siberia without passing "GO".

(Or I will have to smack his sorry ass next time I see him and shout "BOOO" really loudly, just to have the pleasure to see him pee his pants and plead for his life...)

What´s wrong with the world today? Does anyone actually WANT their offspring to look and act that WET? God damn it, I´m glad I´m not 17 again.

WE R FAMILY, wanna join?

Leaving on a JETPLANE so so early in the morning! Don’t know if I’ll be back again!

Jo: NO just Kidding, I love my Gothenburg. But with this wicked schedule I might lose myself on the way :)

Thursday – Les Mills Quarterlies Master Classes in Tallinn (flying to Helsinki from there).
Friday – Guest teaching Les Mills Classes in Helsinki
Saturday – Les Mills Quarterlies Master Classes (driving to Tammerfors)
Sunday - Les Mills Quarterlies Master Classes (train back t Helsinki, flying back to Gbg)

I have just finished learning the new programs and they are wicked. These kinds of deadlines (i.e. learning the new programs) and trips come with a “Positive Externality” (this is: * A beekeeper keeps the bees for their honey. A side effect or externality associated with his activity is the pollination of surrounding crops by the bees. The value generated by the pollination may be more important than the value of the harvested honey. Get it?)

My Positive externalities are:

• My apartment is as tidy as ever
• I have done all my laundry
• I have freshly baked bread (which I have to put in the freezer now)
• I have like 10 matlådor (since I can’t leave food in the fridge, I decided that I either had to eat it or cook it, I did both : )
• I have paid ALL my bills
• I have erased all OLD e-mails
• I have “fräschat upp” my Facebook page from all the unnecessary applications and friends
• I have counted all my EUROS
• I have bought new meditation cushions
• I have charged my Camera, Mobile Phone, computer, Ipod,
• Am about to paint my nails
• Have answered all OLD “hang around” e-mails
• Have erased all “this is a quite sms, I must keep it” sms
• And the night is still young ☺

I have found these great pics online! I love them!
Which one are YOU?
Please please let me know!

Soy and David, all small good things come in great packages :)











Hmm, no names.....











Ohh so QT! PETITE, this must be MANGO :)











Bror? e de du?











Robert, Wish you all the luck on Göteborgsvarvet!
Let loose! Go Go Go











ME, at the moment! Hoppandes, skuttandes, lurandes, Meet the new Jo, the PUMA (still sponserd by NIKE though!)

WHY DON’T YOU KILL YOURSELF?

This is the only question worth asking according to Nietzsche!

The first person I talked to in India told me this.
After hiding in my hotel room until noon I gathered courage to go out and face the busy streets of New Delhi. I walked and walked and walked.




After 8 hours of walking I decided to sit down (I took the “safe” option and choose “THE COFFEE HOUSE” in Coughnout Place, recomended by Lonely Planet : ).
There I meet this wicked old Irish fellow who walked EVERYWHERE, and I mean EVERYWHERE!!
He was just about to walk into the dessert of India to watch the famous Camel Fair in Pushkar. We clicked and shared many things (I told him more about myself then I’ve ever dared to tell anyone before, maybe it was the heat, maybe it was the sweet chai?).
He showed me how to use the underground, how to drink Black Coffee from Kerala and after that I never saw him again.


But he will always be with me, and his voice when he tells me:

The only question worth asking yourself is: WHY DON’T YOU KILL YOURSELF?



N. is on his way to the 10day VIPASSANA retreat in Sweden. I did it in Dharmkot, in the Himalayas, and then a second time in Sweden.

I envy him!

I guess that India thought me The Art of Dying, which in a sense is The Art of Living!

MAY YOU BE HAPPY

Speak up!

Mo: Top 5 Things you should NEVER accept from anyone - in your private life, your professional life or in your relationship:

1. People talking down to you or belittling you.
2. People trying to put the blame on you, trying to cover up their own mistake(s).
3. People notoriously being late.
4. People back stabbing you.
5. Bitterness, jealousy, continuous lies or violence.

You deserve better than that. Speak up! (..."or forever be quiet")

May I Jam your Body?!

Yees, I made it through the day and now I can’t seem to stop.

On Thursday I’m on a plane to Tallinn, getting ready to ROCK, literally!

I am teaching three BODYJAM 45 master classes.
BODYJAM™ is the cardio workout where you are free to enjoy the sensation of dance. An addictive fusion of the latest dance moves and hottest new sounds puts the emphasis as much on having fun as breaking a sweat. Get high on the feeling of dance!

Right now my HIGH is this song! Its' the 4th song on the playlist and the style it Contemporary Rock, h..ll yeah! The feel is unleashed Hard Rock, and I am working on the Butterfly Jump (must admit that I DO NOT feel like a butterfly at the moment but I am hoping, that will have changed till Thursday : )

My other HIGH is my big fat NIKE BAG filled with goodies. I am definitely wearing the mini gold/black shorts in my masterclasses. I just haven’t decided if I shall wear the brown/gold leather boots or my purple/gold dunk lows? What do you think?

Anyway it is gonna be HOT HOT HOT

U can join me in Gothenburg on Sportlife City next week Thursday 610pm!

Until then I guess you just have to wait….

Work hard but play HARDER (Life is what´s going on right now)

Mo: About a year ago, I decided that, yes, I LOVE my work, but what is the price of working more or less EVERY day AND every weekend from Jan-Jun and end of August-mid Dec?

Well, judging from my relationship history, the answer is simple. My work always came first. And at best my relationship would come in a good second. This, as you might gather, would lead to quite predictable results.

So what to do? If you don´t change anything, you will always get the same results.
What I decided to change was: the way I work and live and play.

I decided I would continue to work hard, 7 days a week, when I work, but then take at least 1 month off during the summer, 1 month off during the winter + time off during the term.
NOW is the time to do it - to LIVE and to LOVE - not later...
That´s how P and I end up going to Crete less than 2 weeks after NY...

1 week will be spent with the MAD, incredibly talented man below, Jonathan Monks.

The man who defies gravity and makes flying possible.
The king of inversions and unbelievable challenges.
I can not wait to have a full week of inspiration from this man! Even if it means facing my fears of going upside down right in the core of their being!
The rest of the time (1 week) will be spent running, sun bathing, mountain biking, hiking and reading in the warm, Greek spring sun somewhere on the island together with P.
I´m traveling on Thursday evening and I´ll be back Friday 2 weeks later.

This is (just a taster) of what can be expected in Crete:

Hiding the leg-asana...

Windmill-on-handstand-asana...

Which direction Am I going?-asana....

I´m sure I put my leg somewhere over here???...

...and on a different note, before I go. I know that readers of this blog are getting quite used to my speeding habits and weekly-almost-run ins with the police. Therefore I had to do a second round in the Allén tonight, so that I could take a photo of the 4th speeding control that I have passed through in as many weeks-without getting caught... I wasn´t sure you would believe me otherwise!

I´ll be on my bike for the rest of the summer...

Tell me WHY..I don't like MONDAYS...Tell me why...

I usually LOVE Mondays, but this Monday is not such a Monday!

U know the feeling when it is realy really hard to stay in the present. I am already imagining the coming days, the coming weeks, the coming month and it all forms into a big snowball (like the snowball effect u know. Faster, faster and faster and I can’t stop it!).

Isn’t it weird or funny how your entire apartment, your desk, your drawers, even your neighbors entrance is as tidy as ever when you have that THING you have to finish (like for example din deklaration). All of the sudden you have 15 lunchboxes with home made bread. I mean what’s up with that?

So if you see me running away as “Monday” takes a quick nap, please tell him when he wakes up that you have NO IDEA what hole I went down!

THANKS

Ps. By the way, DAVID GUETTA rocks my world!!!

How can you be so damn...not fat?!!

Mo: A lot of people do not believe the amount of food I eat. For almost all my life (except from that spell in my teens, see the thread "Body Beautiful") I have been eating more than most people I know, both men and women - and fast with it too. I LOVE food! Particularly on a day off.

So here goes, "What Mo eats on a day off":

Breakfast/Lunch (after a 5k run)
Half a rainbow trout (the one that M caught in the lake last night!)
1 Omelette - 3 eggs, cheese, peppers and mango chutney
1 smoothie - 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 handful of frozen strawberries, full fat yogurt and 1 table spoon of organic peanut butter.

Lunch
The rest of what was left of the morning smoothie.

Dinner, see below

2 pieces of spare rib, 1 large piece of pork loin...

1 home made hamburger made from elk meat + 3 fresh potatoes + a huge portion of salad with feta cheese and bulgur...

...followed by 3 home made waffles like the one above - covered in full fat whipped vanilla cream mixed with kesella, topped with fresh strawberries...

...ending with 1/2 cup of coffee and a small piece of mum´s home made cheesecake with raspberries...

As covered before in this blog, I don´t do diet products and I don´t do half-fabricates. I take butter instead of margarine and I believe that fat in your diet makes you as obese as vegetables in your diet makes you go green. I could never become a vegan or a vegetarian, because my whole life would be spent eating, trying to induce the sufficient amount of proteins (not to mention how not social you feel after digesting 2kg of beans...) and fat to not shrink into a bean stalk.
I avoid sugar to the most possible extent and I stopped doing soft drinks all together about 1 year ago.

I eat crisps and ice cream irregularly and once in a while I like to eat some really salt or sour candy, but most of the time (and forgive me for repeating myself) I just love my FOOD!

I truly believe that different people have different inclinations - some of us are more protein and fat prone and others lean more towards carbohydrates. If you take some time to listen to your body and your body´s reactions after you´ve eaten different types of food (ie bloated, sore, tired, drained or energetic, strong, powerful, awake), you will actually instinctively know which type you are.

Great love and food makes the world go round... :)

Det finns ju för fan ingen jultomte.

Jag älskar mitt jobb!

Jo: Ja, jag vet Klockan är 2320, en lördag kväll. Och, JO, jag är på väg ut, David Guetta spelar på ParkLane ikväll och jag ska ta på mig mina NIKE Dunk Low o dansa järnet.
Men först ska jag förbereda klart jobbet för morgondagen:
Nämligen 3 klasser som ska presenteras i SÖMN Tälltet på Stora Livsstils dagen i Slottskogen imorgon 10-16.

WAKE UP
ENERGY BOOST
DYNAMISK MEDITATION

När jag nu sitter med sköna tapas, rött vin och Bob Dylan Live så flödar det extra lätt denna kväll, trots att jag fått hoppa över grillning i parken, på balkongen, muffins-dejter, öl på Storan & Hard Rock. Jag NJUTER. Jag har rivit ut alla mina favvis böcker ur mitt bibliotek, jag googlar fakta kring sömn, mental träning, stress, Bodil Jönsson, heartbeats per minute, antal dagar i ett svenskt liv etc etc.

Och då hittade jag tillbaka till en av mina favvorit böcker, nämligen HÅNGLA MERA av Klas Hallberg. Han skriver följande:



(paus för grön oliv o klunk rött vin) (visst e det fruktansvärt när man tänker att nu ska jag ta en stor klunk vatten o så är det röd vin man får i halsen uuhhh) (anyhow...)

Han skriver om hur svårt det är att byta mönster. Att vi dricker för mycket TE. Det är ju faktiskt jobbigt att förändras. Vi missbrukar ju TE.
Han gjorde en undersökning i Sthlm över människors lunchvanor. Hurvida de åt lunch och på vilket sätt. Det visade sig att de köpte med sig en ciabatta mellan tunnelbanan och kontoret, hade den i sin väska för att vid halvett tiden mumsa i sig hela härligheten på dryga 10min. Och då sparade tid för att istället skicka några extra mail eller ringa några samtal.

När Klas frågade om hur de skulle göra om de fick välja mellan att gå på restaurang och käka lunch eler käka ciabattan på kontoret tittade de på honom med föraktfull blick och frågade om han överhuvudtaget hade lyssnat på dem! Det var ju inte frågan om något VAL! De förklarade med intensiv blick att: "Vi har inte tiiiid att gå ut och äte. Det går fort i Sthlm serru."

Klas ursäktar sig men säger sedan att om de "leker" med tanken att det ändå finns ett val.

- Men det gör det ju inte!

- Jag vet, men låt oss nu ändå leka med tanken att tillexempel jultomten kom med en valmöjlighet kring att äta ciabattan eller gå på restaurang.

Tillslut fräste de åt honom att det var väl självklart att de hellre gick på restaurang om de nu fick välja.

På frågan om de trodde att de blev mer effektiva när de sparade in tid på lunchen, om de på så sätt skapade mervärde för sitt företag svarade 0 personer JA.

Då kommer den intressanta funderingen, att här har vi människor som alla har en vana som de inte vill ha, för att uppnå något - effektivitet. Som de inte uppnår.

Tänk att ha en vana som man inte vill ha och som inte ger den belöning som man lurar sig själv att den gör. Och när en person kommer o påminer en o situationen så väljer man ändå att f0rtsätta med vanan som man inte vill ha.

Men det är ju ändå skönt att lida... eller hur?

För om man måste.

Då måste man.

Och om man MÅS-TE, då har man inget VAL.


Nu har jag jobbat färdigt med Stora Livsstilsdagen, nu ska jag ut och öve inför min nya Body Jam 45 klass, ute på Avenyns dansgolv!

C YA

Rock on

Mo: Yesterday, I drove 140km to participate in a 2h workshop covering Olympic Weight lifting at Eleiko Education in Halmstad. Somewhere in my head I must be mad...

Try a deep squat after 13 years on the bike and see what happens...

Fab Anders Lindsjö - Olympic weight lifting coach and a former Spinning student of mine!

Today was a stunning summer´s day and although it´s only May 10, P and I went to the sea side for some sun bathing. Nice. Reading about Jo´s weekend, I must say I´m ecstatic about the fact that Jo is in her 20s and single (guuuuys! you better wake up and hurry up before this Golden Girl gets taken!) - it takes any pressure of my back to go out and party for the sake of Mojo during these hot summer months! Go, JO! :)

So instead of rocking it to the Hed Kandi crew (which I LOVE by the way, I have all their Beach House/Back to Love/Nu Cool AND Winter Chill-albums!), we joined sis and M at their country house, barbecued HUGE chorizos and made chocolate banana desserts, whilst the boys were fishing.

It was also Daisy´s official 6 weeks birthday today, and any time you can celebrate such a beautiful (not so little - she´s already 5.5 kg!!!) baby girl, is a great time!
Finally a baby that has the power to melt my heart. Sweet.

Is that a huge chorizo or are you just happy to see me?

Banana/Chocolate dream. 100% organic. 100% yummy.

The smallest and youngest person to melt my heart. Ever.

What the F..ck do you want?

It is all very clear

I want an armkrok

A SK!