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はじめたころはどこが面白いのかまったく理解できませんでしたが、徐々に面白くなってきました。
基本英語でつぶやくことにしてます。
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はじめたころはどこが面白いのかまったく理解できませんでしたが、徐々に面白くなってきました。
基本英語でつぶやくことにしてます。
ということで、こちらはしばらく放置します〜
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それでは!
忘れないようにメモしておきます。
I have a 10-pack! Still I have a 10-pack!” The Beverly Hills “bad boy” of yoga, Bikram Choudhury, who owns a fleet of 40 Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and has a global army of acolytes sweating it out to his copyrighted “hot yoga” sequence at temperatures of 40C, is keen to prove he has defied his 63 years. The diminutive mogul leaps up like a coiled spring from the sofa of his luxurious Park Lane suite ― black candyfloss ponytail bouncing beneath a trilby concealing his bald patch ― and yanks up his disco top to reveal a yoga-trim torso and chest stubble (he teaches only in Speedos and a radio mike: perhaps he shaves for aerodynamics).
Sufficiently famous to ditch the surname, Bikram is his very own poster boy. He insists he never gets sick, doesn’t sleep (no, he hasn’t been to bed, having just had “a kind of party”) and doesn’t eat ― well, just a little protein in the late evening. But, then, the Calcutta-born yogiraj may not even be 63. “I don’t say my date of birth,” he smiles enigmatically. But it’s on your website ― 1946. He won’t budge. “I feel 20 years old,” he declares emphatically. Bikram Yoga, now with more than 4,000 studios and rising worldwide, is seen by its legions of devotees as a cure-all. Andy Murray raved about it after taking it up this year ― the toughness helps his mental strength, he says. The Williams sisters practise it, as do all the New York Giants. And Lily Allen. And Madonna. And, erm, Peter Mandelson, who has been on the phone. “He wanted me to make more yoga schools,” Bikram deadpans. “Since he’s been doing my yoga, he write me that his life changed. He feel everything so clear, he could do things much more faster.” Phew.
The Bikram Yoga website features testimonials covering more than 50 ailments (as diverse as tinnitus, kidney cancer, anorexia and hepatitis C) that have miraculously improved or been cured.
“It is beyond medical science,” Bikram shrugs. He tells me how Nasa scientists tested Bikram Yoga on osteoporosis patients for eight months, seeing a “100%” improvement, but ― his eyes widen ― “They couldn’t write a thesis how this happened; I prove this every single day. Whether a president [such as Nixon, whom Bikram taught in 1972 and who then gave him an open invitation to live in the United States] or a prime minister [Indira Gandhi, whom he calls his godmother], or the Pope [Paul VI].” Bikram claims to have rejuvenated them all. “I saved years and years and years and years and years.”
A yoga prodigy, Bikram was spotted at the age of four by the yoga master Bishnu Ghosh (like, huge in yoga circles) and, from 13, won the All-India Yoga Championship for three consecutive years. He headed to Hollywood in 1971 to set up a yoga studio. Blame Shirley MacLaine. “She was after me for so long to come to Hollywood” after taking lessons at his Bombay studio.
Now a multimillionaire, he is the exemplar of the American dream. So, how much is Bikram Choudhury worth? “Priceless,” he beams. “I ask you question: what is the worth of one human life?” Well, priceless. “So all the money in the world can’t price Bikram.” Ballpark? “Millions, millions.” Last year, The Wall Street Journal estimated his wealth at $7m, but he has previously admitted earning $10m a month.
It’s the money that gives him the bad-boy tag. Yogis are supposed to be spiritually rich, not materially. And it’s just not yoga to copyright, profit from and litigate against an ancient practice that has never been owned. Bikram threatens legal action against any Bikram studio that deviates from his “McYoga” script (as detractors call it). The insults fly: “spiritually bankrupt”, “materialistic”, “egomaniac”. Bikram laps up the attention: “So, a lot of people criticise Jesus. Is he bothered?” he says. “I am a super-duper-duper-duper star.”
He lives, appropriately, in a “10,000-square-foot mansion” with his yogi wife, Rajashree, the five-times champion of the All-India Yoga Championship, and their daughter, Laju, 19, and son, Anurag, 17. He’s happy to admit that his one vice (he doesn’t even drink tea or coffee) is shopping, “especially for cars and watches”. On his hotel coffee table is a Morgan brochure; on his wrist a diamond-encrusted watch by Royal Diamond, one of maybe 100, he says. Unprompted, he reveals that he owned the Queen’s car for 11 years, and now owns cars previously belonging to the Queen Mother and the Beatles. He insists it’s nothing to do with having cars fit for royalty, but that Bentleys and Rolls-Royces are “the most typical automobile to restore”. Yes, incredibly, Bikram says it’s about fixing old bangers (and, yes, the palace’s cars really do arrive in disrepair), wheeling out what must be his favourite metaphor about bodies being like car engines: he’s good ― no, the best ― at fixing both. “The critics are just total ignorant,” he says warmly. “I am not interested in material wealth in the way they think.”
What with working “24-hour days”, there’s just a little time left for the Hollywood scene. Bikram is “like a brother” to Randy and Jackie Jackson. Bikram and Michael were friends since Michael was “12½”, but then Bikram gave Michael “the biggest job you have ever seen in your life” (a Supremes warm-up gig in Japan in 1971). Bikram could have saved Michael “110%” (ditto Diana, Princess of Wales, with whom he once dined). “For me, piece of cake, but I cannot chase him. They have to come to me.” Michael, he says, was too shy to attend his classes. Bikram will not do private sessions ― the last person to receive such a privilege was Nixon. But the real disease here, reckons Bikram, is ego: “The biggest problem is them thinking, ‘I am Elvis Presley, I am the biggest superstar.’ ” (Yup, Elvis and Bikram were like that.) Bikram Yoga is the antidote: “I make you forget who you are.” But, Bikram, you have a very healthy ego! “No,” he says, shaking his head beatifically, “that is not my ego. That is my confidence. If I had ego, I would not talk to you.” You see, us westerners have the idea of a yogi all wrong. It’s not about humility at all, he claims. “Do I look like an Indian yogi? I look like a rock star, right? I am a real yogi because I don’t pretend. A yogi never lie, never hurt another soul; he turn the other cheek. I do that. I even teach people, that’s why I’m Bikram and the whole world follow me.” Proof, if ever, that you can do too many positive affirmations.
I have a 10-pack! Still I have a 10-pack!” The Beverly Hills “bad boy” of yoga, Bikram Choudhury, who owns a fleet of 40 Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and has a global army of acolytes sweating it out to his copyrighted “hot yoga” sequence at temperatures of 40C, is keen to prove he has defied his 63 years. The diminutive mogul leaps up like a coiled spring from the sofa of his luxurious Park Lane suite ― black candyfloss ponytail bouncing beneath a trilby concealing his bald patch ― and yanks up his disco top to reveal a yoga-trim torso and chest stubble (he teaches only in Speedos and a radio mike: perhaps he shaves for aerodynamics).
Sufficiently famous to ditch the surname, Bikram is his very own poster boy. He insists he never gets sick, doesn’t sleep (no, he hasn’t been to bed, having just had “a kind of party”) and doesn’t eat ― well, just a little protein in the late evening. But, then, the Calcutta-born yogiraj may not even be 63. “I don’t say my date of birth,” he smiles enigmatically. But it’s on your website ― 1946. He won’t budge. “I feel 20 years old,” he declares emphatically. Bikram Yoga, now with more than 4,000 studios and rising worldwide, is seen by its legions of devotees as a cure-all. Andy Murray raved about it after taking it up this year ― the toughness helps his mental strength, he says. The Williams sisters practise it, as do all the New York Giants. And Lily Allen. And Madonna. And, erm, Peter Mandelson, who has been on the phone. “He wanted me to make more yoga schools,” Bikram deadpans. “Since he’s been doing my yoga, he write me that his life changed. He feel everything so clear, he could do things much more faster.” Phew.
The Bikram Yoga website features testimonials covering more than 50 ailments (as diverse as tinnitus, kidney cancer, anorexia and hepatitis C) that have miraculously improved or been cured.
“It is beyond medical science,” Bikram shrugs. He tells me how Nasa scientists tested Bikram Yoga on osteoporosis patients for eight months, seeing a “100%” improvement, but ― his eyes widen ― “They couldn’t write a thesis how this happened; I prove this every single day. Whether a president [such as Nixon, whom Bikram taught in 1972 and who then gave him an open invitation to live in the United States] or a prime minister [Indira Gandhi, whom he calls his godmother], or the Pope [Paul VI].” Bikram claims to have rejuvenated them all. “I saved years and years and years and years and years.”
A yoga prodigy, Bikram was spotted at the age of four by the yoga master Bishnu Ghosh (like, huge in yoga circles) and, from 13, won the All-India Yoga Championship for three consecutive years. He headed to Hollywood in 1971 to set up a yoga studio. Blame Shirley MacLaine. “She was after me for so long to come to Hollywood” after taking lessons at his Bombay studio.
Now a multimillionaire, he is the exemplar of the American dream. So, how much is Bikram Choudhury worth? “Priceless,” he beams. “I ask you question: what is the worth of one human life?” Well, priceless. “So all the money in the world can’t price Bikram.” Ballpark? “Millions, millions.” Last year, The Wall Street Journal estimated his wealth at $7m, but he has previously admitted earning $10m a month.
It’s the money that gives him the bad-boy tag. Yogis are supposed to be spiritually rich, not materially. And it’s just not yoga to copyright, profit from and litigate against an ancient practice that has never been owned. Bikram threatens legal action against any Bikram studio that deviates from his “McYoga” script (as detractors call it). The insults fly: “spiritually bankrupt”, “materialistic”, “egomaniac”. Bikram laps up the attention: “So, a lot of people criticise Jesus. Is he bothered?” he says. “I am a super-duper-duper-duper star.”
He lives, appropriately, in a “10,000-square-foot mansion” with his yogi wife, Rajashree, the five-times champion of the All-India Yoga Championship, and their daughter, Laju, 19, and son, Anurag, 17. He’s happy to admit that his one vice (he doesn’t even drink tea or coffee) is shopping, “especially for cars and watches”. On his hotel coffee table is a Morgan brochure; on his wrist a diamond-encrusted watch by Royal Diamond, one of maybe 100, he says. Unprompted, he reveals that he owned the Queen’s car for 11 years, and now owns cars previously belonging to the Queen Mother and the Beatles. He insists it’s nothing to do with having cars fit for royalty, but that Bentleys and Rolls-Royces are “the most typical automobile to restore”. Yes, incredibly, Bikram says it’s about fixing old bangers (and, yes, the palace’s cars really do arrive in disrepair), wheeling out what must be his favourite metaphor about bodies being like car engines: he’s good ― no, the best ― at fixing both. “The critics are just total ignorant,” he says warmly. “I am not interested in material wealth in the way they think.”
What with working “24-hour days”, there’s just a little time left for the Hollywood scene. Bikram is “like a brother” to Randy and Jackie Jackson. Bikram and Michael were friends since Michael was “12½”, but then Bikram gave Michael “the biggest job you have ever seen in your life” (a Supremes warm-up gig in Japan in 1971). Bikram could have saved Michael “110%” (ditto Diana, Princess of Wales, with whom he once dined). “For me, piece of cake, but I cannot chase him. They have to come to me.” Michael, he says, was too shy to attend his classes. Bikram will not do private sessions ― the last person to receive such a privilege was Nixon. But the real disease here, reckons Bikram, is ego: “The biggest problem is them thinking, ‘I am Elvis Presley, I am the biggest superstar.’ ” (Yup, Elvis and Bikram were like that.) Bikram Yoga is the antidote: “I make you forget who you are.” But, Bikram, you have a very healthy ego! “No,” he says, shaking his head beatifically, “that is not my ego. That is my confidence. If I had ego, I would not talk to you.” You see, us westerners have the idea of a yogi all wrong. It’s not about humility at all, he claims. “Do I look like an Indian yogi? I look like a rock star, right? I am a real yogi because I don’t pretend. A yogi never lie, never hurt another soul; he turn the other cheek. I do that. I even teach people, that’s why I’m Bikram and the whole world follow me.” Proof, if ever, that you can do too many positive affirmations.

今日はこのウエアを着て7時30分に集合してボランティアしてきました。

天候に恵まれたいい日でしたね。それで給水は大忙し!!
私は水担当だったのですが、急遽ゲータレードに移動してお手伝いしました。
手際が悪くて選手のみなさんにご迷惑おかけしたと思います。
ボランティアの指示系統がうまくなくて、いつから水入れていいかとか、並べ方とかばらばらで。
特に天気がよかったので、水分補給も昨年よりもにぎわったようです。
最前列でみんなが猫ひろし〜って叫んだらちゃんと「ニャー」って言いながら水とって行きました!
彼本当早かったですよ。
マナーにかんしては、何人かは「いただきます」って言ってくださってから、取って行かれる人もいれば、やはりコップを投げ捨てる人も・・・それでもごみ箱に入れてくれる人が多くて安心しましたよ。

しかしゲータレードのコッププラスチックなので一個づつ取り出しにくい!
それで結構手間かかってますよ!
今年は第二給水だけで56人参加の予定が50人だったので人も少なく大変でした。
ボランティアで来ないのはルール違反ですよ〜〜来年は欠員も考え60人にするとおっしゃってました。
いや〜楽しかったです。

有名なランナーさんのBlogでこのような記事をみかけました。
内容はこちらから
ランナーのマナーについて書かれています。
そして給水のマナーについても。本当に共感したので。テレビで中継されてる給水の時投げてますよね。でも私はそれはいけないと思います。ゆっくり給水なんてできるか!といわれそうですが、余裕がないのは体力ではなく、精神的に余裕がないことを自ら言っているようなもの。
今回湘南国際で給水のボランティアをするので、そのへん観察してきたいと思います。
マナーが悪くてレース反対っていうのはこの先あると思いますよ。
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なかなかよかったですよ、初心者向けです。
とくによかったのは足の小指を使えるようにするテーピングについて。
走る前にストレッチはしないってのもへ〜って。
後半だらけます、新書ではなく文庫でいいのでは?
初心者にお薦めです。
これは購入しました。
なんか腰がおかしい。
昨日のストレッチがいけなかったか?無理しすぎ?
今週はゆっくりしよ。
昨日のストレッチがいけなかったか?無理しすぎ?
今週はゆっくりしよ。
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睡眠の本はいくつか読んでいるので、目新しさはないです。しかしなぜ3時間?3時間についての記述がすくないです。
著者が唱えてる「ビジョンヨガ」とは?ヨガのポーズというかストレッチといったほうがいいのかも?
ヨガとストレッチの区別がついてないような気がします。

時々読むアメリカのYahooでこんなの見つけました。
そう!現在乳以外から作られているヨーグルトとしては大豆が有名で、野菜から作られたものもありましたね。しかしアメリカにはココナッツミルクから作られたヨーグルトが登場してるという、乳製品を制限している人にはこれまたうらやましい話。
乳からつくられていないからヨーグルトと呼んでいいのかは置いといて・・・とにかく新しい何かが開発されるのは楽しいものですね。
ソイヨーグルトが日本で発売された時期から考えると、日本で発売される日はきっと2.3年後か発売はされないかなぁ〜という印象。
今年アメリカ行けるか不明だけど行けたら食べたいものリストに入れておこう。
公式サイト
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女性は生理が始まったら、髪を洗ってはいけません。頭からたくさんの気が出てしまうからです。
現代語に訳された本をよんでみました。これ男性向けの本みたいですね。知らずに借りてしまいました。でもこの本を書いてる方女性なんですよ。だからよしとしましょう。
元の本は基本的にこの作者の生活の指針というかポリシーを記した本と思われます。医学的には間違ってることも多少書かれているようですから。
大まかにいうと「欲を抑えて生きろ」ということでしょうか。
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この本は初めて図書館で予約した本です。予約しなければならないということは、人気があるというわけですね。
一時はやったザ・シークレットこれも予約してるんですが、いつになるか。先に実践編のこちらを読んでみました。
これが本当によい!借りたけど、手元においておきたいと思って購入するかなと思っているほど。中身をよりよく理解するためにノートに自分なりにまとめてみました。すると内容がどんどん頭に入ってきます。コレを読んだせいではないと思いますが、望んでいたことが起こったりしてるんですよ。まだリストは作成段階なのに。内容については書きませんが、とにかく全ての人にお勧めできる本でしょうね。
ザ・シークレットは読まなくてもいいかなという気にさえなってきました。だって理論的なことよくわからない、頭悪いので。
このように褒めすぎましたが、この本は近いうち購入予定。

やはりむくみには「おうちでメディキュット ロング」です。
タイツの代わりにこれはいてます。
むくみにお悩みの方に自信をもってお薦めしますよ。
むくまない食生活をするのが一番いいんですけどね。
タグ : おうちでメディキュット ロング
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立ち読みして気になった一節があった。他の人はどう思うかわかりませんが、私はその内容に賛成できなかった。内容を書くわけにはいきませんが、この本をよんで優しくなろうと思ってはいけない気がした。
レビューを鵜呑みにしてはいけないとは思うが、最近の本は疑問系が多いですね。あの「さおだけ屋はなぜ潰れないのか?」に始まった気がします。その疑問にきちんと本の中で答えてくれていればいいけれど、疑問を投げかけただけで終わることが無いことを祈りたい、特にこの手の本に関しては。
購入するか迷った挙句、今回はやめておいた。図書館に入るのをまとうと思う。

だんだん朝は肌寒くなってきました。
手軽に飲めるスムージーはちょっと冷えますすが、昼間に飲むならよいかなぁ。
バナナが主役のメニューでは一番好きかも。
材料
いや〜うまい。

























