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Kay, good morning, Tuesday morning , it’s Ifer. Just a quick blog on yoga and smell.

It’s actually kind of funny. Last weekend I got to bring my son Greg, who I’m going to talk a lot about, because I adore him, to a CorePower yoga class. He’s 14 years old, and I brought him to a core power yoga class, taught by Brandon. I don’t think he wanted to come to a class, but he came with me because I asked him to come. He’s doing yoga in his basketball practices at school.

So we had a good time, we sweated a lot, and Brandon played some great music, and it was really nice practicing next to Greg, but what’s really kind of interesting is that same week — or in that same timeframe — I was really getting kind of concerned because my yoga mat was really starting to smell. And I guess this was bound to happen, because you sweat so much in power yoga.

So I raised my concern to one of the instructors, Naomi, and she told me to just take my yoga mat in the shower with me And so I started doing that and using Dr. Bronner’s soap, and it started to fix the problem. So this morning I was walking around the house, starting to gather my yoga things together and I was thinking about the smell, and Greg, my son, who is six feet tall and has a size 12 foot comes to me, looks down at his shoes and says, Mom, can you do anything about the smell of my shoes?

And this is about three minutes before we’re leaving for school, and I was kind of like — well, hmmm… — I thought about taking them in the shower with me, but then I thought that wasn’t a good idea at the present time — and I said, “Actually at the moment, I don’t know, but maybe if we just put them outside some of the smell will subside.” And then I thought, well, maybe we’ll buy you a new pair of shoes, and he said, “That’s a good idea, but what should I do today?” We changed out the shoes, and placed the smelly ones outside.

So, he was pretty concerned about the smell as well. So, as we walk the journey of life, smell is part of it. And I hope you enjoyed this blog. Namaste.

Hi, it’s Ifer again, Monday night. So, one of the things I’ve found that I’ve really connected with again, (I keep finding the things that I’ve really connected with) , is music. Music, it’s a wonderful thing. It’s got breath, it’s got sound, it’s got feeling and emotion, and for the most part it’s talking about “the now,” right? People are singing in the now.

So one of the things that my son, Greg, does for me (he’s 14 years old) is he loads my iPod Shuffle with music and he calls it the “Mom shuffle.” and so I’ve been listening to these Mom shuffles and I’ve been thinking about the music that I want to play in my CorePower classes — some Elton John, some Pink Floyd, Lyle Lovett, even parts Dan Fogelberg that could work — so keep an eye out for the Ifer shuffle CorePower yoga class. Namaste.

Hi, it’s Ifer, and it’s Monday after a long weekend of core power training, and I’m taking the day off from yoga because I feel like I deserve it.

But I wanted to just note that one of the benefits that I’ve been getting from taking this yoga and spending the time for myself and, pending the time to share the yoga practice with my friends, is that my ability to focus has increased, I want to say, hummm, 100%.

I mean if you try to add up all the things I’m trying to do, an additional 20 hours of yoga practice and training on top of my 40 hours of regular paying job, on top of whoever knows how many hours of little consulting jobs that I can’t seem to kill — (I guess that’s in part my fault because I tend to love it) — and a son, and a … I guess you could call my husband, and two houses, and three dogs, and a cat — and trying to balance some kind of a lifestyle and some fun that I’d like to have — maybe some fall running in Boulder — how am I able to focus?

And the only thing I can attribute it to is this training of core power yoga that I go to, that I spend six to 10 hours a week doing. It helps me focus. So on that note, namaste.