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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.