NEW Schdule for JUNE is UP!!

Hey there. I know its been a while since I have posted.  Here is am update as to where Im teaching and how you can hook up and do some yoga with me.

Monday, Wednesday and Fridays 9:30-10:30 am   @ Lawton/Ft Sill YMCA

Tuesday and Thursday 12-1pm @ Shape Fitness in Chickasha

Tuesday and Thursday 5:30-630pm @ Yoonhee Yoga in Lawton

Also Saturday June 1st and 15th 10:30am @ Yoonhee Yoga

 

 

Can’t wait to see smiling Yogi faces this Saturday!

Ashley

Month of Gratitude: Day 10

Day 10: I’m grateful for my job and my great co-workers. Teaching is a job but not my day job not what pays my bills of for my yoga trainings and trips. Feeds my dogs, me and J. I sell air. I work in radio. I have to hustle and it’s not always easy. I have had my ups and downs there but things are great now. I’m so grateful that my co-workers and I have patience to work through our differences.

This December I will have been there for 5 years. This is the longest that I have ever had a job. Which is actually a long time for most people. I have realized that the grasses is always greener or so it appears. I know now that if I can be happy here and now that I can be happy anywhere. Life and work are what you make of it. If you want to hate your job, guess what you probably will. I love my job and the people who I work with.

This past year has been hard on all of us. Lots of things have happened to each one of us personally. Its been really nice to see everyone pull together and make the best out of each situation. They are my other family. My work family. I am so grateful for each one of them in their own way.

xoxo
ash

Run Lucky

Let me start by saying I’m not a runner. I have never been a runner. I’m trying very hard to be one though. I love being able to spend some quality time with my husband while I run. He’s very patient with me. He is a runner and runs daily.

Well today was my 2nd 5k ever. I did better than my first one which was last October actually took 4mins of my time. It was a beautiful run in Oklahoma City around the Chesapeake Campus. I did the run with J, one of my best friends Lacie and her cousin. The weather was a little chilly but it was fine.

Lacie did better than I did but that’s fine. It’s not a race to me. Its me getting out there and trying to do it on my own(with J’s help too). I just want to get better with every run I go on. I would love to eventually be able to run the whole thing.

Running is a lot different from yoga to me. I feel totally in control with yoga. Running I don’t so much. I have asthma attacks, my body freaks out about the stress and I’m not sure that I really like it at all but this is some that I WANT to be able to do.

Its kind of crazy that drop backs don’t scare me at all but every time I’m waiting to run I’m all jacked up stressed and freaking out in the inside. I will get better. I just have to do more. It’s a practice just like anything else in life.

Part of my yoga lately has been finding the joy in something that I don’t totally love. Then starting to love it too. Running is hard work. I have a lot of love for people that really really enjoy it. Maybe I will get there maybe I wont. Im sure going to try though.

At least at the end of this 5k they had a beer garden.. 🙂 Nice cold beer finishing the race was awful nice.!!

xoxo

365 Yoga

Day 4:

Laugh Often~ This is what the book says for today. I have had an awesome day with my family. Today is my moms birthday. For my yoga today other than a few twists to work on the kidneys was a nice dinner and many laughs with my mom, J and her BF.

Nothing impressive. Still keeping it pretty gentle for the time with the actual asana practice till I feel 100%.

However me and this nice cup of tea(you can cut your tea bags open and put them in the refillable K Cup FYI, you can also do this with Coco). I still love my keurig. It is awesome.

Hope you are doing well with your own yoga practice. Everything is a practice if you make it one. You just have to be mindful of doing it. Whatever it is.

Marriage advice or something like that..

Before I got married my aunt Donna told me:
“all men are assholes. Is he just to big of an asshole that you can’t deal with?”

Funny thing is I never thought of it working both ways. Which it does.

This is one piece of advice has always stuck with me. My aunt and uncle have been married for over 30 years. I seem to think she knows a thing or 2 about being married.

Xoxo
Ash

Yoga and Love..

Lately lots of things have been coming up.. We may have to PCS(aka move) we may not.  We don’t know and I hate that.  I hate the fact of not knowing when my husband comes home from work that we may have to have ‘that’ talk about moving.

I know that this needs to be his decision mostly.  I can work anywhere and I know this.  I’m not worried about me finding a job.  I’m worried about him being happy.  The Army is his career.

To me I have jobs.  JH’s job is an actual career that he will retire from one day.  I’m super proud of him and everything that he has already accomplished in his 12yrs in the Army.  We have made it through one 15 month deployment that wasnt easy.

I do know now more than anything that I love this man and will be with him no matter what.  We can deal with anything.  I think that we have proved that by this point too.  I wont be the Army wife that you see at the bar the day her husband jumps on a plane to go to War.

This past weekend I met up with some girls that I have grown up with my whole life.  One has been my friend since we were 4.  Thats a long time.  Most of my ‘old’ friends I no longer talk to.

This hasn’t been easy for me but I bet it’s not easy for everyone.

Most of my old friends are on drugs, unemployed, in prison, dead, or I have no idea where they are but really don’t care.  It’s weird to go out in the ‘Sha.  I always see people from High School.  That ‘one guy’ you always thought was hot is now an alcoholic, living in a pain pill coma for most of his days now.  It’s sad to see some of these people who I have always loved just shrivel up and go into these dark places.

I know with out 2 things in my life I would probably be on some of these same paths.  Yoga being a major one and J being the other.

Yoga has changed everything about me.  The way I sit here and type this, the way that I breathe, the way I hold my head up when I walk in a room with a tall spine, hell even they way I drink my beer is different.  Im a better person today cause of Yoga.  More patient, loving, less selfish, more empathic and sympathetic(I use to just not give a shit), and more forgiving of myself and others.

Now with J, he has made me want to be a better person.  Made me understand that I can’t always be the things that I want to do but the things that I HAVE to do to get by.  It’s weird how someone can help you to change.. Not make you change cause that’s wrong i think. Before I was with him I didn’t care about saving money for anything other than that new Coach purse.  And now I want to buy a house.

JH asks me a lot if i want to live in the town that I’m from.  I don’t think that it matters now as much as it did a year ago even.  I can be happy anywhere as long as I have Yoga and JH.  But then again after being in the ‘Sha on friday night I realized that maybe I didn’t want to live there.

Being in the Army in OK kind of limits the places you can live.  Lawton being the main one.  One good thing about it is that is only 30 miles south of where my whole family is.  I guess when we find out about JH’s job we will know more about buying a home.  Im just ready to get started on this next chapter and a house would be the great way to start.

Until then.. I will not stress about this and will enjoy my life, time, yoga, and love…

xoxo

ash

ps.. thats an old pic from right after we got married.. thought it was cute and I would share though!