The Breath Is The King Of The Mind

This morning I woke up, made some tea and committed to doing at least 15 minutes of restorative pranayama. My mother is a devout Iyengar yoga devotee and has been for almost 40 years. After I was done, I had the urge to look up the word "pranayama" on the internet. What did it mean to my mom's guru, BKS Iyengar? Among other things I found this: "Pranayama" is a Sanskrit word meaning "restraint of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "āyāma", to suspend or restrain. It is often translated as control of the life force (prana).

My search also pulled up some videos of Iyengar himself. The first is his take on pranayama, the other is him practicing in his ashram in Pune, India, a place my mother has visited numerous times. Make sure to realize in the first video that the weird whooshing sound you are hearing while he is standing still is actually him breathing once in and once out. I also have to note that in the second video, he is 73!

Morning Denver! Today's Project Is:

I bought this lamp at a mexican/asian fusion store in Colorado Springs. It's basically the greatest place ever to pick up the following things:

1. Bamboo plants
2. Club wear
3. High-heeled boots
4. Marijuana leaf blankets that are usually sold on the side of the road
5. Felt piggy banks in the shape of giant bulls
6. Contact lenses
7. Wigs
8. Quinceanera supplies
9. Bedazzled Obama shirts
10. Cowboy hats

This lamp was pretty gaudy when I first picked it up, but I sprayed it with a gray matte base and am going to use acrylic black, white, gold and red paint. I'll post photos to show my progress!

Jasper Rathbone and his band, 100 Monkeys

Ohhhhh man, so the ladies and I just got back from this show at the Marquis Theatre. To be honest, the band was not that terrible, but extremely boring. They also sounded like they had been listening to Man Man non-stop. The high amount of screaming girls was laughable and Jasper Rathbone aka Jasper Hale in the Twilight series definitely looked like a pirate with glasses. Check out the band if you dare: http://www.myspace.com/these100monkeys

Despite the semi-lame show I had a really good time with some of the coolest girls in Denver. And on another note: we ate at Scruffy Murphy's across the street before the show and a guy whose breath literally smelled like poop sat down to play trivia with us. No, his breath wasn't bad. It literally smelled like he ate a piece of poop. We ditched him with the quickness.

I started a blog! Now what?

Hey friends! I decided that since I have zero commitments to be accountable towards right now that I would start my very own blog. I'm growing up so fast! I'm not too sure exactly what the content will be. I've been cooking a lot lately so I may throw up pictures and recipes along with other crap you may or may not want to read about. Anyway, wish me luck :)