Do you KNOW what you like? Really?!

Now I remember WHY I don't practice ASHNTANGA anymore....

Isn't it funny how we evolve!

I remember how I used to think that the primary series was soo challenging and I was SWEETING it!

This morning all I could feel was stiffness, since I didn't think there was enough strength, mostly flexibility actually, a lot of sitting asanas and a WHOLE LOTA VINYASA, over and over and over!

The pose I like best is def the Shoulderstand LOTUS one :)

Isn't it NICE when you it becomes SO CLEAR - What you DO LIKE and DON'T!!!

What about you?

Of to some REALLY Yumme yoga now before INTENSATI tonight :)

YUM YUM 

JO

Muddy fields and bad food

MO:

Suddenly muddy fields, bad food and expensive beer seems a bit more attractive.

Training Stuff

MO:

I still have some training soreness today.

I could feel my legs when I tried to push a bit harder at the end of my spinning class tonight.

I did a KB-training session after my run yesterday, which just increased the mounting buzz in my back and shoulders.

Tomorrow I´m having Fredrik around to spot my snatch technique.

If time is on our side next week, P and I will go around this place to check it out.

I´ve met these guys a couple of times at different events, and I tell you, the stuff they and their peers do is truly inspiring.

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Human DOING vs BEING?

According to Deepak Chopra we are human BEINGS not human DOINGS!!

There are 4 forms of intelligence:

The first and highest one is BEING
Second is FEELING
Third one is THINKING and within this one CREATIVITY is the highest form of thinking
The last and fourth one is DOING, and the highest form of DOING is when we DO things for others!

IT was amazing 90min to hear this little man talk and answer questions from the audience at the NEW YORK TIMES office!

He came in wearing a black suit and grey NIKE LUNARLITES with Red/Pink SWOOSH hahaha

It's been an amazing weekend :) Love hanging out with the BEAUTIFUL Brigitte! We have so much fun!!!

The weekend has been full of:

Lounging at Lofts in the West village, lasagna, late night Yoga, brunch in NoLita, yoga, yoga, yoga at Kula, YogaWorks, Strala, Jivamukti, karaoke, up al night dancing, Italian restaurants, beautiful Yogi discussions, drinks at amazing cocktail places, lovely gin and ginger cocktails YUM, sunny realxing sunday in the sun, dry cleaning, home made granola, restorative, brazilian wax, Deepak, and now looking for a new place to stay since B's gorgeous man is coming over and I want them to have some PRIVACY ;)

I admit that I do have a hard time BEING rather than DOING sometimes, especially when I'm in a city like this, I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING! But the last days I've been enjoying BEING more and more!

Wish me luck!

LOVE Jo

Hidden talent

Mine is the yellow one

MO:
I have to admit that getting a NIKE+ Sportsband has helped my spring running. I joined the "Around The World in 40 days Challenge" and that was it. Now I´m obsessed with logging my k´s onto my nikeplus-account.
I almost freaked out earlier when at first, the site refused to recognize today´s run. Restarting my computer solved that problem and I feel happy with being in place 151 (of almost 900 runners) when half the challenge has passed.

Eyjafjallajökull - that´s a handful to spell.
And who would even care to learn how to spell it if it wasn´t for the hidden talent of this volcano to stop half of Europe in its tracks?

Can I just ask one question? Aren´t there volcano eruptions all the time around the world?
I remember visiting Sicily a few years back when Etna had just had a huge eruption just a few days earlier. Was there any airports shut down then in southern Europe? Er, no.
Have you ever heard about airports being shut down because of volcano eruptions before?
Not that I´m volunteering to be aboard the first Boeing to defy the air travel lockdown.
Just wondering.

21.58. Just learned that the volcano needs to be underneath a glacier, to be able to cause the havoc above. Well, you learn something new every day.

How Do you Survive?

Don't know where to start!!!

The last 24 hours and the ones before that to has been INTENSE with NEW experiences, new places, new knowledge, new amazing people :)


After some late night lasagna at an AMAZING open studio appartment in West Village we went to MIDNIGHT YOGA at Laughing Lotus - WOW!!!

Haven't done Friday Midnight Yoga before - Go Go Go!!!

Then karaoke in Chinatown, acrobatic dancing at THE BOX!! Oh La la MON DIEU and then breakfast before attending the Deepak Choopra Talk at New York Times!

Now Yoga and cosy time in bed before the moon wholes at KALI MA again and want's here back out on the street to eat the men and spit them out again! Some one has gotta do the dirty job right!

BOM BOM SHIVA!!!

And have some CAKE!!!

LOVE Jo

Phat Planet

MO:

Drove back and forth to Mjölby today to teach MOJO Yoga at Medley Lundbybadet.

A lovely crowd of instructors raring to go in May!

The roads were quiet and I had some brilliant ideas along the way.

Funny how driving very fast (well, you try and drive on the speed limit to the song below!) and running (not so fast) gets my brain to explode with creativity...you know what I mean?

Have a lovely Saturday night, folks!

In Love with Lifting

MO:

PHEW!

Had a great session with Martin today.

Some people have been surprised when I tell them I have a personal trainer. "You? You don´t need a PT, do you???"

My opinion: You want to be the best at your game? Then you can never, ever stand still. You need to be in constant motion and always develop, always learn new tricks. Always be curious. That´s what will keep you on top, whether your profession is fitness/accounting/fishing or web design.

Sister was babysitting, so I could keep full focus on what I was doing. It was great AND I was frustrated. It was one of those sessions when I really got it highlighted to me (again) what my weaknesses are.

(My lower trapz+rhomboids, for example...)

It´s slowly getting better, though, and I´m finally starting to build some muscle mass in the area between my shoulderblades that used to be DEAD before.

It´s a shame most women are afraid to lift heavy weights. If they weren´t, so many of them would:

1. Reach their training goals faster.

2. Feel even more motivated to train - and train HARDER.

3. Look absolutely fantastic. I´m not thinking esteticaly here, I´m thinking about the empowerment it gives you to know that you are STRONG -you walk differently, stand differently and are not afraid to demand more SPACE.

I´ve fallen in ♥ with Olympic weightlifting.

So there.

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Is KARMA a ...

BITCH?

Or what's UP?

Got a funny email from my brother the other day about KARMA :)

Now I'm the one asking - KARMA WAS UP?

A Wonderful day with yummey yoga classes, sunbathing in Union Sq, reading, chillin, getting ready for the Kirtan with oh what's his name, Ram Das and Deva Premal? I'll get back to you on that one...

Looking fw to showing the WORLDS GREATEST City to my LOVE who's arriving Friday night :)

Or let me rephrase that - Was scheduled to arrive Friday night! Now he called and told me there was a Volcano thingie in Europe?!!!

Was all my Yoga this week for nothing?

Sitting in the bar in NoLita talking on Skype about the BAD news, guess who walks in:?

YEUP!!! THE great mother of KUNDALINI POWER, GURMUKH KAUR KHALSA!!!!


I'm pondering the option of hiding my glass of white Chardonnay but then, No, what the heck!

She passes my table and blinks at me!!!!!!!!

Isn't is IRONIC don't you think this little thing we call LIFE :)

LOVE Jo

Up at dawn...

MO:

...to go to a breakfast meeting for sponsors arranged by Göteborgs Varvet.

I was tired. Robin had another bad night and woke up at 1.13am, 3.30am and 5.10am.

My alarm went off at 6.00am.

So, yes, I was knackered actually, but the city, the city was beautiful.

The harbour at 6.50am

I do love my city.

Finn ett fel...

I´m sorry, but was this the best thing you could come up with? Really? Wouldn´t it have been better to build that extra bridge across the water for walkers/runners/bikers instead?

Did some catching up with super-driven entrepreneur Mats from Enervit (the only sportsdrink I would EVER drink), listened to a passionate presentation by Johan Ekman about the development of Älvstranden, watched the new play thing, Mi Coach, from Adidas (hmmmmm....), spoke with lovely, multi-talented Emil about how I thought he should come to Djerba in October and how I in very weak moments think that I just MIGHT run the Gbg Varv this year anyway - even if it has NOT been one of my training goals AT ALL this spring,

and pitched an idea I´ve had for a while with the big boss at GbgVarvet (No, I won´t be able to say anything about it right now).

Phew!

I almost didn´t have time to eat my sandwich or drink my coffee.

...and now: the rest of the day! :)

- blingblinged from my iPhone

Wisdom

From today's classes:

"Discipline is what you do when NO one is watching" Hahaha so true - sometimes in the poses... or do you agree:?

It's fun to stand on your hands and lift your heels - CHALLENGE!

Why do we do al these funny, strange, animal named poses? Crow, cobra, frog, dog... - Well, one day when we get reborn we might be reborn into one of these animals and then we are a bit more comfortable in the shape! GLAD I GOT that, no one ever told me that!!!

Good Morning to you - Good Night to me :)

Jo

Step 1 - check!

MO:

Took a run with the buggy today. It was heavy. Robin has been sleeping badly for 2 nights in a row (he´s teething big time) and I could feel it in my legs today.

My reward was a long coffee in the warm sun. I normally find it really hard to relax into the "mamma-ledighet" and I don´t enjoy being off for too long. It makes me restless and bored.

Today I decided to really stick it out, I mean, you never know how long this sun will be around for...

Got back to find a nice email that confirmed I´ve passed the first step towards my May-challenge! Feels good and really motivates me to train even harder before I go to Copenhagen.

Tomorrow is full on. Classes and meetings all day.

WHOHA, life is GOOD!

Sunny madness

MO:

There is a stress connected to beautiful weather in Sweden.

I guess that´s what happens in a country where you freeze your a** off most of the time, (or get your nice shoes drowned in muddy rain water).

As soon as the sun pokes its pretty little head out, EVERYONE rushes outdoors to embrace the light, the warmth and the unbelievable fact that you can have a coffee outside without coming back inside with pnemonia.

Yesterday I was laughing at the fact that we had an Iced Latte (42SEK), a Cappuccino (35SEK) and a (very ordinary) sandwich (75SEK) at Da Matteo Vallgatan - for which we paid 152SEK, to sit by a parking lot, on a wobbly wooden chair, with our backs to the concrete wall, staring at...parked cars?

Yes, the nicest coffee in the city, but hey: 152 SEK???

And yet, we will most probably do it again, because that parking lot IS a sun trap, no wind, just gushing, hot SUN and what could be more important this time of year? Mad.

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Starbucks kisses

Amazing start with coffee and girl talk this morning before my JIVAMUKTI class :)

Strolling down 5th avenue, landed on a bench in the sun in SOHO, a quick stop at STARBUCKS now for coffee (not the best on this island but I needed the internet) and some comp work - looking for a place to stay on the 16th-25th of April since the person I was supposed to stay with changed her mind :) LOVE my YOGA practice - it makes me strong and soft at the same time :)

Now of to KULA for a class with the GRAVITY surfer Ragunath and IF I'm still alive after that session I might take class with the owner - SCHYLER :) Yummy flow!

Shiva Rea

In lower east side today!
A ful day was booked with this long time guru of mine :) first I had no idea she was gonna be in NYC !!!

It was a day of Agni, 108 ( many of you can guesse what this means...) Rasa - which means liquid or body fluids ( yeup there was slot of roling around on top of eachoter... Say no more ;) and trance dance!

To tired to give you all the details now but here is a pick of the venue - wicked!!!




Tomorrow I'm back at jivamukti with uma's brother for breakfast them some gravity surfing at Kula! Any suggestions as in what to do inbetween?

Prana Shakti bhakti rasa to you all

Shanti Jo

- Jo flowing on The IPhone

New, shiny and fancy

MO:

Well done, Linda J, who educated new Incycle spinning instructors this weekend!

New and shiny InCycle spinning instructors, Pia, Linda J, Jocke, Ida, Christian & Anna.

Linda also emailed me this picture today. She found the above in San Diego.

Everyone obviously wants a piece of MOJO, fancy that... :)

- Blinged with my iPhone