NAMI 5k Walk at Point Loma

Yesterday, a bunch of us from my nursing cohort went down to Point Loma to do a 5k walk for NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness) for extra puntos for my psychiatric health lecture class. My professor wanted us to represent where she works aside from school, Aurora. The students who participated in the walk are allowed to miss a day of pscyh clinical...and I'm taking that Friday off to go visit my Cindy and see her graduate! CRAZY!! I'm jealous ;)

Michelle came down from Murrieta and met me at my house to drive down together. Haha, and we almost ran out of gas looking for a gas station in all the wrong places...stupid gas sucking car!!

We got there just in time for the walk to start, although we were running through the streets of Point Loma looking like freaks and not knowing where to go, haha.

Doing some warm-up acrobats

Michelle, Christine and Michelle

Everybody starting the walk...with our new photo bombing friend

Doing some yoga in a pretty grassy area ;)

DONE! There is no way that was a 5k because we were done in 30 minutes. AND we stopped to do random yoga poses at least 3 times. Haha oh well!!

Twins!

Flagpoles

Now I just have to kill my Pathophysiology test tomorrow, do a few more assignments for the rest of the week and in just over a week, I'm off to Utah to see Cindy for 5 days!!

Can't wait!! :D

Budokon Yoga

Today, Lindsey and I finally got our chance to do a Budokan yoga workshop! I've been waiting a long time for this day! Because of my tight nursing student budget, I'm limited to only the yoga classes offered at 24 Hour Fitness. A couple weeks ago, one of my favorite instructors at all of the gyms, gave a sample seminar of this Budokon yoga, and I loved it! It was a high energy and constant fluid movement class that was a surprisingly intense workout. And it made my body feel extra good (and tired) afterwards. So, I saved up the $20 to sign up for her Budokon yoga workshop to give the full flow and 2 hour class a try!

Budokon yoga is a fairly new style of yoga which combines yoga and martial arts. It mixes the postural tissue strengthening of yoga and the athletic push of martial arts. I thought it was similar to Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu with yoga mix. It suppose to be great for joint strengthening by increasing synovial fluid and stretching and utilizing deep tissue fasciae.

Anyway, I obviously loved it. She will be starting a weekly class soon, so it looks like I might have to start saving up money for a REAL yoga studio! She also mentioned that Budokon training is pretty affordable (for yoga teaching anyway) and is only $495 in Miami Beach, Florida. Obviously I wouldn't be able to do any of that soon, but it's something to look forward to one day!

Here are some of the crazy things we did (or that I attempted) in class today:

Take a look at some of the videos on their Facebook by clicking here: Budokon San Diego