the view along the san lorenzo. look, we have wildlife in santa cruz. you can tell me what this is a million times and i will still forget. click on the picture and enjoy the larger version, the detail is really nice.

yoga karma is when you take a later class to avoid the teacher teaching the early class, only to find out the teachers have switched classes.

yoga karma is when you take an early class because a milf said she would be there, but she skips yoga that day.

yoga karma is when you practise on your day off because a cute girl said she would be there, but then she decides she doesn’t feel like practising.

i’m sure you can add to the list. see you tomorow ~m

that’s the view from here. sitting by the surfer statue on west cliff, another perfect day in santa cruz. i took the day off from bikram and enjoyed the beach, but i’ll be back in the studio tomorrow. definitely click and enjoy the larger version, you can see the paddle surfers or whatever they’re called.

“that’s the view from here.” one of the best gories songs, definitely click and enjoy it. i’m gonna go see the gories on thursday! i bought my ticket months ago and now the show is next week. i haven’t been on a trip in a long time, i’m a little nervous, a little excited. trying to decide if i should rent a car or take public transit. obviously, it’s cheaper to take public transit, less hassle than dealing with a car in the city. not only that, if i rent a car, i’m stuck in a little box, paying attention to the road instead of enjoying the view. the advantage of renting a car is that after the show, i can go home. if i take public tranist, i’m stuck in the city until morning. i hate driving, but renting a car means less time away from trixie. i love the freedom that public transit and being on foot gives me, if i want to stop and take a picture, i don’t have to look for a parking spot. that’s the only thing that makes me not want to rent a car. i guess i’m not going on a photo safari, i’m going to see the gories and hopefully take pictures of them. alright, as much as i love the environment, think i’m gonna rent a car for my trip. what do you think? ~m

israel vibration at the catalyst club last night. oh my god, if you coulda dried out my sweat this morning…. i swear, for the first 15 minutes of class, my sweat was resin-drenched. i don’t know if you could smell it, but i could feel it. nothing like a little bikram yoga to get rid of all the toxins from the night before. enjoy your weekend, sweat friends ~m

fire spinning on west cliff.

good class today. tough night. whenever i get totally dissed by a girl, i imagine myself in the hot room, smile and remember all the awful dates i put wonderful women through. “i’m crying but my tears are faraway…” ~m

bonfire on the beach. figured i might as well share one with you. the only thing about bonfires is you end up smelling like smoke. i don’t mind smelling like marijuana smoke, but wood smoke is gross. there’s a boat light at the top of the fire, not some trick of the flame.

one of my tweeps had over 50 people in class today. quite a difference between toronto and santa cruz, we only had 9 benders. despite the small numbers, i swear that was the hottest class of the year! oh my god, i thought i was gonna die a couple of times. definitely one of those days where i switch to auto-pilot, no thoughts in my head at all, only focus on the words and doing that. i hate to say it, but thank god for coconut water after class! oh, tasty goodness. see you tomorrow ~m

after bikram, i stopped at petsmart and ran into these two. six year old anna is trying to raise awareness about the dolphin slaughter in japan. i din’t get all the specifics, but i thought it was cool that she made the signs and wanted to stand outside of petsmart with them.

this weekend was another two days off from bikram. i wrote earlier that two days off wasn’t showing a dramatic difference in my body, but now i’m really feeling it inside my body.

the other day, my teacher said you “build strength through flexibility.” no lie, i’m feeling way stronger than i ever have. class today was exhausting, an early class, i was still waking up. i din’t know where i was gonna find the strength for the third part of locust, but i din’t even struggle, my core felt so strong. that was the effect of two days off, feeling and being stronger than when i was in the room on friday. okay heartbreakers, see you tomorrow ~m

alright, sweat friends, i gotta give it up to bobby of bobby’s can cookin’. his backyard bbq festival was bombtastic. thanks to this man, my friends and i sat in the park and enjoyed the sun for two days straight. you can relax in the park anyday, but usually you get hassled by cops, homeless people or tweakers. this weekend, my friends and i sat in the park, enjoying our barbeque in the sun, listening to the mellow jazzy r&b bands. i think i was in the park for 6 hours today. when one of the bands would play a good song i would think, “my dad would really like this right now.” not just the music, but also sitting in the park, eating bomb-ass food. funny that i would think of my folks when i’m hanging out with my friends, but that’s the kind of nerd i am. it was definitely better to be with my friends though because we were in the park for so long, at the end of the day, live oak smokers hooked us up fat with chicken! oh man, that was so cool, “you guys want some chicken?” um, hell yeah! alright friends, that was my decadent weekend. well, only the day because i din’t tell you about the bonfire, but that’s another post for another day. xo,m