Yoga Teacher Training

Hello!  I know I rarely post but I thought I needed to share about my current goals. I am getting very close to being certified to be  Triyoga basics yoga teacher certified.  I am choosing not to pursue the Yoga Alliance certification because I do not plan to practice at a gym or studio that requires it. My plan is to offer free classes to the public.  I live in a town that has a lot of organizations like the YMCA, senior centers, Women's clubs, and a spiritual center. I also hope to meet some people that would like private sessions.  I chose to study Triyoga because Kaliji the founder is a 30 year vegan who focuses on the flow of the breath and movement along with proper alignment.  As a PT this resonates with me because poor posture and alignment are major no nos in all aspects of functional movement.  Triyoga also focuses on Prana and meditation.  Yoga is not all about the asanas (body postures). Yoga means the union of the body, mind and spirit.  It is not just stretching and handstands. The breath is key and we use the postures to show how no matter what difficulties we may experience in our lives if we control the breath we can experience it with clarity and no stress.  How many times do you see people straining so much in their workouts that they cannot get a good rhythm of breath?  Stress to the body raises cortisol levels (stress hormones) which can effect your adrenal glands and keep you in a constant flight or flight response. I run/cycle/swim but always keep my breath rhythmic and yoga has helped to strengthen my lung capacity. 

So my goal is to be done by fall and hopefully begin Level 1 certification studies with my teacher when she returns to the states from China.  Her name is Gina Kray and she is awesome.

This month marks my 5 year anniversary of Veganism by the way!  :)  

Please subscribe to my you tube channel for videos of me teaching yoga.  I need to work on my editing but it is getting better with practice.   Dr Joberry Sweet  on you tube.  Come on peeps I only have 32 subscribers haha.  I need to make more vids! I need a better camera though and maybe a microphone. #goals

www.triyoga.com 

Fitness/events log during my 15 day Princess Cruise to Hawaii

I am back on solid ground afer my cruise from Dec 19th to January 3rd 2015. 
Day 1: Butt Bible Upper body Level 3 with 3# weights and stationary bike and eliptical machine for 50 minutes
Day 2: Ran 13 miles on the treadmill.  It was hard to balance because the big waves so I had to hold on with one hand for most of it.  11:30 pace
Day 3: Yoga 20 minutes focusing on deep stretching, Zumba live class on the ship about 40 minutes, stationary bike 35 minutes about 9 miles
Day 4: Monday. Ran on Deck 7 (3 laps= 1 mile)  for 5 miles Saw a beautiful double rainbow over the ocean!  So pretty! Later Butt Bible Lower body level 3
Day 5 Tuesday:  Butt Bible Upper body level 3 and stationary bike 50 minutes, then yoga 20 minutes.
Day 6:arrive in Hilo Hawaii on Big Isle.  In the morning I rode a helicopter to see the active volcanos.  Amazing red lava flowing.  My phone got wet on the ship so I had no camera :( wah  After the ride I ran 5 miles along the black sand beaches.  Beautiful  Pace 10:31
Day 7: Lahaina, Maui went on a walking tour about 2 miles.  Learned a lot about the history of the Hawaii.  I feel sorry for the natives.  White man brought war and raped the land.  The mumu was invented to cover up the "savage" natives to become more modest converted christians. Back on the ship BB lower body level 3 and some stretching.
Day 8:  In Honolulu Ran 17 miles pace 11:21.  Nice tour on foot.  Went up to the Diamond Head Recreation area, near mansions beach side and near the many poor homeless people.  According to locals a gallon of milk is 7 bucks.  Explains why they must resort to processed foods like spam.  The natives are mostly obese and diseased.  So sad. I got a tattoo of cherries on my foot in town!
Day 9: In Kauai my beach snorkel was canceled so I went on a river boat ride to a fern grotto.  I also went on a hike up to a view of an animal sanctuary.  This isle is my favorite. Full of chickens and laws prevent building anything taller than the tallest coconut tree.  I got free cocktails after I found a small piece of glass in my first drink.  I couldn't finish them though.  Light weight.  Back on the ship did BBUB3 and some stretching.
Day 10: Back at sea. Zumba with the group and Tracy anderson arm/ab section about 10 minutes, stationary bike 25 minutes, yoga 25 minutes
Day 11: Tracy anderson leg section about 20 minuts and Ran on treadmill 5 miles, streching about an hour
Day 12: Ran 8 miles on treadmill and stretching 45 minutes
Day 13: Tracy A, arms/abs and stretching
Day 14: Tracy Legs and some stretching along with a Day in Ensenada Mexico.  I bought a magnet and went the history museum. 

Day 15 Back home!!! BRRRRRR its cold and I want to go back to Hawaii weather!!! 

6 week Butt program!!!!

Ok guys so I ran a marathon last weekend in 5:20 in Santa Barbara! I am recovered.  I am getting better at recovery and speed every time I race.  Last Marathon was in March and I ran it in 5:42.  I am registered to run Sedona Marathon January 31st. So no time to relax gotta get into it again.  Unfortanately and fortunately all the running has made me lean but I lost my booty.  Runners tend to have flat asses haha.

So here is the plan for the next 6 weeks!  I will still be running and riding my bike to keep the cardio up for the next marathon which is about 1200 ft of climbing so I am not aiming for a PR on this course.  Santa Barbara was about 700f t elevation climb. Follow me on Strava: Joberry Sweet for details on my training. 
Wish me luck on bringing booty back! I'm all about that bass! No treble!  Still a skinny bitch tho!

My week's fitness

Hello to my devoted readers and followers!  This week was a pretty tough training week.  A lot of social time has to take a back burner because of the training time I have to put in.  I had to skip the LA County Fair with my siblings to go to bed early for a long run today. Not like I would have done much there anyway but would have been nice to hang with them.... Oh well.  At least the weather was really nice today.

Here is what I did this week:

Sunday went on a walk with a friend in Malibu but did not get far because it was too hot. So went to the beach and sat on the sand and ate fruit instead hehe

Monday:  Recovery day just rest.  Too hot out to do anything anyway

Tuesday:  Bike ride canceled due to extreme heat outdoors.  Stayed in and did 60 minutes of Zumba Wii World Party game.  Good times Then Yoga 30 minutes "Backbends"

Wednesday: Still too hot outside 104 degrees.   Butt Bible DVD 20 minutes Level 1.  Ouchie and 30 minutes of power yoga "Legs"

Thursday:  ran 5 miles pace 10:58 in AM
PM after a very long day of work in this brutal heat....Power yoga "Abs"  ouchie have not done all those boats, bicycles and planks in a while.

Friday:  Bike ride 10 miles and Yoga "Twists"  Tonight made Vegan Pozole with hominy and lots of veggies.  It was delish!  See pic :) And btw I ate two large bowls of this! 

Saturday (today):  Ran 18 miles pace 12:55 whew I am beat!  I take water on my long runs and ate a couple of Luna bars and some dates. Time for a long nap!

My Biography

I wanted to share my biography with everyone.  I am on the brink of big changes in my life.  I am ready to begin a new business venture that I am praying will take me to a bigger and better future helping people achieve whole health.  The business planning section is still rough as it does not have the name of my clinic yet and other details have not been planned but it's a start. 
Thank you for reading this.  :)

The Birth of An Innovator & Market Leader: Like most who become the trailblazers for new trends and practices, Joanna Hernandez is the product of a childhood story of survival and determination. Like managing a startup business, family finances and stability were never predictable and always uncertain. Being raised in an environment of uncertainty taught Joanna the ability to focus on a future goal with determination and steadfast toughness until the goal was achieved. Joanna Hernandez was born June 1, 1981 at San Bernardino Community Hospital in San Bernardino California to 16 year old Hilda Aguirre and 19 year old Martin Hernandez. Her mother finished 8^th grade and her father finished the 9^th grade then met and started a family.  Joanna was raised in San Bernardino with 3 younger brothers and one younger sister.  Her father worked as a gardener and part time drummer for a band.  Her mother worked in multiple warehouses throughout the years.  As the eldest child Joanna was required to take care of her siblings while her parents worked due to lack of funds to pay for child care.  Most often she was left alone at the young age of 8 years old to prepare meals and change diapers for her siblings. Joanna would later realize that her childhood while void of being a child, would prove to be the perfect upbringing to master the discipline and tenacity to become a Doctor of Physical Therapy with the insight to integrate multiple disciplines into one mind, body, and life transformation service.

The Invisible Hand Phase: For no known reason, life’s circumstances, like an invisible hand and/or perhaps the hand of God, leads us in a particular direction in life and this was clearly the case throughout Joanna’s childhood. Joanna demonstrated a curiosity and desire to learn at a very young age.  Her mother taught her to read and write at age 3 and introduced her to books and music.  She was reading at the 8th grade level when she was in the 4^th grade.  She excelled in school and was promoted to a gifted and talented children’s program in the 4^th grade.  Her parents continued to work long hours and Joanna spent most of her time reading on her favorite tree and babysitting her siblings. At a very young age Joanna was aware of the tribulations that surrounded her including the gangs, drugs and alcohol in the neighborhoods.  She was taught to avoid playing outside where she was visible by neighbors and learned the sound of gunshots and what to do when she heard them. She also witnessed and suffered from her father’s alcoholism and drug use that caused turmoil in the home such as violence and emotional and physical abuse. This led to a highly stressful childhood for her in which she escaped as much as she could through reading and daydreaming outdoors on her favorite tree of a better life.  Her parents recognized her talents in school and expressed their pride often instilling her with their hope for her to take advantage of opportunities that they did not have. Throughout this phase of Joanna’s life, she developed an ability to intuitively peer into the future and view the potential opportunities of life through the books that she was reading as an escape from the reality of her immediate surroundings. This ability to intuitively peer into the future to solve the problems of today is one of the most common personality traits of a Fortune 500 CEO and thus one of the most important talents that Joanna was lead to discover and develop during this phase of her life.

The Outlier Phase: In Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Outliers, he outlines that extremely successful people often have stories of intelligence and ambition that push them out of the statistical mainstream of society. This constant isolation leads the Outlier to repeatedly perfect their skill, insights, and talents. Joanna Hernandez fits the profile of the Outlier to perfection. The conditions of her life have always pushed into environments of isolation where her survival and strategic planning instinct skills emerged. Joanna’s teachers often expressed concern due to her extreme shyness, quietness and isolation.  She often played alone and did not have many friends.  Nevertheless, Joanna excelled in all subjects especially reading comprehension and writing.  When she began high school she was in all honors classes in preparation for college.  She continued to be socially awkward as she was immature for her age.  Her father was very strict and did not allow her to wear makeup or dress in anything revealing. She still played with dolls up to the age of 15.   As she entered the 10^th grade she made friends with a couple of girls that introduced her to makeup, boys and fashion, and alcohol. She ditched classes frequently as this was her way to have a social life as her father did not allow her to hang out with friends away from home or talk to boys.  She was distracted from her studies and slowly transitioned away from AP and honors classes to regular and college prep.  At the end of high school she graduated with extra credits but a GPA that did not allow her to attend a university right out of high school.  Despite her distractions in high school she still kept her eye on the prize, determined to escape a life of poverty and abuse she witnessed growing up. One of the phenomena presented in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Outliers, is that all amazingly successful people have logged in at least 10,000 hours of repeated training and practice doing what they do before success knocks on their door. In Joanna’s life, she started logging in her 10,000 hours at the age of 8 years old.

Finding True North Phase: As soon as Joanna could, she initiated the discovery of the world around her at the age of 18 by jumping out of her bedroom window one evening shortly after her high school graduation. Her father’s oppression had become too much to bear. She lived with her boyfriend for two weeks before her parents convinced her to go to live with her grandmother and aunt in Los Angeles. There she began college at Santa Monica College for a semester and then attended Los Angeles City College for two semesters. She worked at the Mann theaters in Westwood along with other retail jobs.  She worked to pay for her education and living expenses.  Her parents did not have the financial means to assist her and her grandmother provided housing only. Joanna moved back to San Bernardino in 2001 to attend San Bernardino Valley College.  Determined to maintain her independence, she rented a small garage with no air conditioning or heat in downtown San Bernardino from her aunt and uncle.  She continued to work part time jobs to support herself.  After she graduated with her AA in Liberal Arts from SBVC she transferred to Cal State University San Bernardino.  During community college she realized her strength in the sciences and an attraction toward the healing arts.  She initially majored in Biology with intent to pursue medical school then switched to Kinesiology Pre-Physical Therapy as she was more drawn to fitness and natural healing methods versus medicine. This move would turn out to be her True North Life Direction.

Life Management Awakening Phase: Embedded in Joanna’s soul is the instinct to take care of her family. In many ways, she was more of the parent to her siblings then were her parents. After Joanna graduated with her BS in Kinesiology Pre-Physical Therapy emphasis she transferred to Loma Linda University to pursue her Entry Level Doctorate in Physical Therapy. In the middle of her first year of PT school Joanna’s brother was arrested and shortly after that her father and mother separated. Two months later her father was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. Joanna decided that she needed to take a year off from school to be there for her family.  She began working full-time at night in bars earning tips to pay for her brother’s attorney.  She spent the days with her father as he went through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. After her brother went to prison for a lesser sentence than he was initially charged for and her father stabilized medically she decided to go back to school. Developed during this phase of Joanna’s life was her interest in counseling others to help turn their lives around in the face of adversity. In both her father’s and brother’s situations, Joanna found herself managing potential end of life conditions. Joanna could not help but to ask herself, why is it that I tend to make decisions that keep me on a path to success while others around me seem to consistently make decisions to keep them on a path to life failure? The Life Management Awaking that Joanna walked away with from this phase of her life is that (1) You Reap What You Sow via the lifestyle that you live, and (2) That a Future Vision of Success was essential to keep your bearing as you maneuver through the obstacles of life. These Life Management Awakenings would soon prove to be the impetus for Joanna to become a vegetarian and set visual goals of success in her life.

Nest Building Phase:   Joanna was now 27 and ready to enter the mainstream of life professionally and socially. After her first year of PT school Joanna met her future husband a second year medical student at the time.  He was there for her during the difficult times with her family. They quickly fell in love.  She graduated as a Doctor of Physical Therapy in June of 2008 and her fiancé graduated with his MD a month prior.  With her influence he decided to pursue rehabilitation medicine and was accepted to a residency in Milwaukee Wisconsin for the next three years.  Joanna accepted a job in nearby Racine Wisconsin at an outpatient pediatric physical therapy clinic.  She had experience in the pediatric setting during her studies at a small pediatric sub-acute long term care facility and fell in love with the children.  She was so inspired by these children that were so sick yet so strong and just wanted to play and be happy. Because Joanna had lived her entire life as an Outlier, a gifted misfit that did not fit in with the mainstream of society, settling down into the status quo began to trigger a fear that she was losing sight of her Vision of Success and knew that she wanted much more than to be suburban housewife raising kids.

Rebirth Phase:  Joanna was influenced by the Seventh Day Adventists at Loma Linda University while she attended to transition to vegetarianism.  She grew up eating a heavy meat based diet and after seeing her father get sick she decided to cut out most meat from her diet based on the studies that link colon cancer with consumption of red meat and low fiber intake.  Her blood tests revealed high cholesterol.  She decided to train for her first 5K race in 2009 after being mostly sedentary her whole life and gaining 30 pounds in graduate school. This race began a future of a deep love for running. It was at this time in Joanna’s life that she began her journey into the world of health and wellness and mastering how it was an essential aspect of physical therapy rehabilitation. As she began to see the physical changes take place within her body, she also began to realize that she was on the threshold of personal identity changes that were to take place within her life.

Head On Collision Phase:  The life and life direction that Joanna wanted was not what she was getting and realized that she was on a collision course with reality. Joanna married in May of 2009 and moved to Wisconsin with her husband a month later.  Life in a new state was difficult for her and with a new professional life married to a very busy resident she decided that the Midwest was not ideal.  Joanna moved back to California 6 months later and after her husband negotiated a transfer of residency moved back after completing a year of residency. During this time Joanna continued to be active in running and wanted to feel healthier so she decided to adopt a vegan lifestyle. She also felt a pull toward yoga, meditation, and spirituality. A few months later she dropped the last 5 pounds before reaching her high school weight and her cholesterol dropped to healthy levels for the first time in years.  Joanna and her husband settled back in Loma Linda and she returned to work at the sub-acute pediatric facility as the lead PT.  She was quickly promoted to Rehabilitation Manager. She worked multiple side jobs at adult acute hospitals and doing in home therapy with children.  Her husband worked long hours and was on call most evenings. This focus on professional life and new lifestyle changes were some of the reasons the marriage failed and they were divorced in December of 2013. Life change is one of the realities of life that is painful yet necessary to thrive and achieve one ultimate destiny of self-actualization. Going forward, Joanna knew that she was now back on course to fulfill her life destiny.

Celebrating The Lifestyle of An Athlete Phase:  Joanna had turned the corner to become a participatory endurance sports athlete and was not about to look back. She had found her lifestyle niche. The training, the focus on vegan eating, and the community of like-minded people that she become a part of was all who she wanted to be and the way she wanted to live her life. Joanna began running in 2009 and gradually ran longer mileage.  She ran multiple 5K races, 10Ks, and half marathons.  She bought a bicycle and began riding.  She joined Ride Yourself Fit, a bicycle club in Redlands California. She decided it was time to tackle a full marathon and ran the Santa Rosa Marathon in August of 2013. She joined the Loma Linda Lopers a very large running group to help her training for her next marathon. She then ran Los Angeles Marathon in March of 2014 improving by thirty minutes.  She decided to run two marathons a year with hopes to travel to new locations for each one.  Joanna had been a vegan since 2010 and felt a desire to promote her lifestyle as much as possible.  She religiously followed many of the vegan leaders on YouTube and other social media. She dreamed of starting her own YouTube channel to spread the word.  She started attending yoga festivals and enjoyed meeting like-minded individuals that fought to protect animal rights and green living for the future and safety of the planet.  

Life Force Alignment Phase: Joanna began to realize that it was time to identify and combine the many beams of light in her life into one life force aligned laser beam. In February of 2014 after a 7 day woman’s raw vegan retreat in Costa Rica Joanna gained courage to leave a stagnant job in Loma Linda and take a job offer in Los Angeles working for Los Angeles Unified School District.  She moved to Pasadena in May of 2014 bringing her younger sister of 18 with her.  Her mother was no longer able to take care of her due to drug addiction.   Joanna joined the Pasadena Pacers and joined a couple of bicycle groups as well.  Living outside of the confines of the Inland Empire she immediately met many like-minded people that inspired her to pursue further spiritual healing and professional growth. She felt a strong desire to promote health and wellness through fitness, diet, and spiritual growth and awareness. Her 10,000 hours of life path focus had been achieved and it was now time to distill the direction of her life down to a Mission Statement, Vision of Success Statement, Organizational Structure, and Phase of Competitive Development. It was now time to develop a life and business plan to become a market innovator and leader within the Physical Therapy Industry. Joanna had proven to herself that she could develop, initiate, and survive life change to achieve the next level of success in life, she knew it was now time to set her sights on a national market Entrepreneurial niche.

Strategic Planning Phase: Joanna is now 33 and probably ten years ahead of most her age. Though she had skipped her childhood because of the dysfunctions of her family, she had now found life balance as member of the athletic community to express the child side of her personality. In the Pasadena area, Joanna has begun the process of surrounding herself with very success people in a wide range of professions. Joanna knew that she needed to answer a calling in her heart to start and lead her own Physical Therapy organization as an Entrepreneur. She had never been “Just Average” for her entire life and was not about to be the average employee collecting a paycheck while she was waiting around to die. Joanna’s Outlier Instincts were calling again to differentiate herself in the market and take her life to the next level as a business enterprise. Joanna’s primary interest lay in (1) Medical Sciences, (2) Consulting & Helping, and (3) Performing Arts. Joanna has additional interest and skills in the areas of : (1) Politics & Public Speaking, (2) Entrepreneurship, (3) Healthcare Services, (4) Teaching & Education, (5) Visual Arts & Design, (6) Nature and Agriculture, and (7) Athletics. For Joanna to live a fulfilling life, she will have to satisfy innate desires to be some form of (1) Investigative analysis, (2) Social Interaction, and (3) Artistic Expression. One of the phenomena that she has realized in her life is that the healing and rehabilitation process has many phases and that these same phases can be applied to many different areas of one’s life. In her response to her father’s cancer, she realized that lifestyle change was the prevention if not cure for many types of chronic disease. The final key to realizing her future Entrepreneurial calling was that when most enter into the healthcare system for the first time, they often discover that they have a host of poor health conditions above and beyond the injury, high blood pressure, poor diet, life and career problems, and family problems. Joanna then saw the opportunity to capitalize on her three most competitive skills and interest:

1.       Medical Sciences: Helping people as a Doctor of Physical Therapy 

2.       Consulting & Helping: Helping people find nutritional balance to lose weight naturally without having a starvation mindset. Here Joanna wants to use her artistic skills in develop cooking videos on how to prepare a wide range of vegan meals.

3.       Teaching & Educating: Helping those in the mist of physical, mental, and social life change to master the fundamental of Emotional Intelligence to transition into a new state of life.

Joanna believes that the above can be integrated into one life growth and healing business service. Joanna’s entire life aligns with this mission and vision of success.

Mission Statement

To provide physical therapy, diet management, and emotional intelligence training to individuals who are recovering from an injury or transitioning into a new state of physical life and want to approach the physical wellness as an opportunity to repair other areas of their life at the same time. Joanna Hernandez will differentiate herself in the marketplace by becoming an authority on the integration of these three areas of life growth and healing and how individuals are more likely to successfully make changes in their life when coupled with the physical therapy recovery process.

Vision of Success Statement

To develop a network of 120 Joanna Hernandez Physical Therapy & Life Transition Clinics throughout the Greater Los Angeles area employing over one thousand employees. 

       Organizational Structure

Phases of Competitive Development

Phase One - Market Research and White Paper Development

Phase Two - Business Plan Development

Phase Three - Public Speaking and Funding

Phase Four - Business Formation

Phase Five - Prototype Clinic Development, Market Testing, Systems Refinement

Phase Six - Administrative Offices Development

Phase Seven - Market Growth and Expansion

Phase Eight - Profitability Management

Conclusion: As Joanna stands on the threshold of become one of the Greater Los Angeles market innovators and leaders in the field of Physical Therapy, she for the first time in her life is looking at all the trials and tribulations that life has put her through as blessings to prepare her for her ultimate destiny. She now sees her life as the perfect set on experiences to build the Joanna Hernandez Physical Therapy & Life Transition Clinics organization to execute the Mission Statement and then achieve the Vision Of Success Statement. Joanna Hernandez Physical Therapy & Life Transition Clinics is a perfect alignment of all that Joanna Hernandez is and projects to the world around her.

Slutty girl style fitness blog

Hello!!! Happy Saturday. I wanted to write a fitness blog to keep track of my fitness progress and goals. I am training for a Marathon this November 8th, 2014 in Santa Barbara. Last weekend I attended Bhakti Festival in Joshua Tree, CA. A 4 day yoga festival in the desert. It was hella hot but an amazing experience. I ate a lot of juicy melon to keep me hydrated. Here is a breakdown of the exercise I did over the week. Follow me on Strava: JoBerry Sweet  Let's not forget that I am a PT for kids and I run around after pre schoolers all day!

Sunday September 7th: Ran 13 miles pace 12:31 along Highway 62 in Yucca Valley early in the morning. First run with my new Altra Torin shoes. Zero drop. Love them so far!
Monday: Recovery day. Saw my dentist. Teeth looking great! Dodger game in evening at top deck. Gott vertigo and bored left early.
 Tuesday: Bike ride with the Luna Chix. Women running group that rides every tuesday evening. Broken into an A grp and B grp. A rides longer, more climbing and faster. I usually ride with B because I am weak haha but today we were a small grp so we just went together to ride up Chantry Flats. Most climbing I have ever done. Kicked my ass tbh. 15.3 miles total Elevation climb of 1421 ft. Yes I am weak haha
 Wednesday: Major heat wave hitting So Cal right now. Have to wait until night time to jog bc I am too lazy to wake up early. Pace 11:31 Cholos trying to holla at me....scary! Came home worked on my hip strength with resistance band side steps, clam shells and some one legged bridges. Then 30 minutes of yoga "Forward Folds" by Adrienne Reed. Gotta love PBS free power yoga classes daily. Thank goodness for my DVR.
 Thursday: Ran 8 miles today again in the evening. It was 90 degrees at 6:30 pm Dayuum. This cannot be healthy! I did it at goal marathon pace 12:32 Then "Hips" 30 minutes of Yoga. Nice stretching Yinnish class.
 Friday: Recovery day just Yoga 30 minutes "arms/upperbody" Damn I hate pushups. I am so weak! Went to bed at 8:45 pm
 Saturday: Woke up at 4:45 am out for run at 5:15am 17 miles completed. Aimed to keep it slow to avoid injury and heat stroke! Pace 13:20 and glad I kept it easy bc my legs feel pretty good. Took a 3 hour nap right after. Ate two luna bars on the run and 4 dates. I stopped at people's lawns to use their water hoses to refill my bottle and spray myself down. As promised here is my weekly slutty selfie lol and a pic from Bhakti Fest a the Labrynth with the beautiful moon

Summer 2014

I had a particularly awesome weekend. Yesterday I ran 14 miles in the morning and then went to a fruitluck hosted by Ryan and Anji from Happy Healthy Vegan. They have a great you tube channel and recently reached 1 million views on their videos! It thrills me to think about all the people that are being influenced to become vegan. I am truly inspired by people that can just share their experences with others and change so many lives. I for example was influenced to eathigh carb low fat from watching you tube videos from Durian rider and Freelee I joined 30bananasaday and have not looked back since January 1 2013. I have been inspired to open up my own clinic one day and help people one on one to improve their health. I was to integrate mental health, fitness, and nutrition into one life transformation process. I have the expertise and the credentials to help people in the fitness aspect and the experience in the nutrition aspect and I am in the middle of learning how to become a MBTI and emotional intelligence expert. I am being coached by a business development leader who is a professer of at UCLA. He believes in me and I am so blessed to have him as a mentor. I have written my biography and would love to share it with anyone who would like to read it. I have to say I am pretty proud of myself. I don't typically think of myself as special or unique because I think anyone can achieve their goals and dreams if they put their mind to it but I have been through a lot of shit and the odds were against me. I overcame and I want to help people realize their potential as well. This weeks physical activity: (please follow me on strava at JoBerry Sweet) Sunday 8/17: 12.6 mile bike ride Monday: Pilates and yoga about an hour total Tuesday: Bike ride with the Luna Chix 15.1 miles Wednesday: Ran 7 miles pace 12:01 yes I know I am a slow poke. Thursday: 3.8 mile run with the Pasadena Pacers pace 12:55 Friday: Zumba World party Wii game 20 minutes and 30 minutes of power yoga. At work that morning I climbed 12 flights of stairs. I have a lot of preschoolers at work that I teach to use the stairs safely and efficiently. Saturday 14 miles pace 12:58 What a wonderful weekend. I had amazing fruit and met a lot of really awesome people at the Fruitluck. I am super excited to begin my new business venture. I am thiking of Treenity Clinics. For the 3 aspects of health I am addressing, rooted deeply like a strong tree in integrity and love for humanity and the planet. Just like the tree of life. We are all interconnected and interdependent on eachother. Here is my weekend selfie with my precious and my abs that I have not worked on much lately...need to work on the core to protect my low back.