Holly – Youga
I don’t just do Yoga… I’m not into that 🙄. Just kidding…😆 I just mean that I do muh-own thang! – because I’m like that!
Youga… to me, is whatever YOUga-na make it!
I don’t know the yoga beginning like I’d like. I even took the beginning course for being a certified yoga teacher, but decided that I didn’t give a f@ck 🤭 about labels or accreditations.
I was a certified baby sitter and certified puppy trainer when I was 12 years old. It taught me that I like to babysit my own dogs more than anything.
A year into college, I got married which led to my parents quitting paying my tuition. I ended up quitting school. – I was studying how to be an entrepreneur anyway. The internet was becoming more useful and I was optimistic that school wasn’t right for me.
I kept planning on taking Yoga as one of my college classes. I even signed up for one that didn’t have enough students to justify their first class, so they shut it down. No traditional “Yoga” for me, it seems. Which is fine with me.
Luckily, I had been in ballet and gymnastics since I was around 4 years old so I always remembered stretching and certain moves. I was fit until 18 when I felt like life was a bit out of my control (I’m a Virgo) .
I also wore that horrible birth control patch and saw stretch marks in the first week. I hadn’t even had a boyfriend yet, but my sis took me to the clinic, and sure enough. Strip naked. Get on a cold table. Get violated and probed. Get a prescription. Lovely day that was….😵😩😶
Thankfully, after wearing the patch for a week and suffering severe mood swings and weight gain, I tore the patch off and never looked back.
Lucky for me, I’m married now and after 3 boys, my husband got a vasectomy. So no birth control needed. Until that rogue seed goes savage and decides to change my fate, but they went the extra mile when they did my husbands procedure so it would literally take a miracle.
With no worries of kids in my near future, I wanna stay fit. As fit as makes me happy. Enhanced Holly-O, in a sense. Sounds like a cereal. But it’s just optimal-me.
So as 1 part of a multifaceted self-care ritual, Youga, is my version. I make names up randomly for just about everything, and if you’ve heard it somewhere else, let me know because I say Youga, with the thought that I’m doing my own yoga based off of my own flow.
So every time you go rogue, doing exercise just know, that’s your version of Holly-Youga – to me : )
Do you call your practice something unique? Share in a comment below or find me on social media for a real life person!
Have an awesome night! I’m going to go do some pre-bedtime Holly-Youga : )
Happy Stretching!
-Holly
Homemade Essential Oil Facial Scrub
I surprisingly get asked my age a lot. I grew up watching and learning from other women that it was rude to ask your age.
I never really minded because I was the youngest in almost all of my family circles.
Just a few days ago my mom told me, You could be 16 for all they know! After people were staring at us load my Honda Pilot. After we finished a jaunt to Costco for some recycled rubber tire/mulch mixture that we used to cover cardboard boxes to keep the weeds down and hide the cardboard so it looks classy-like (…yet another post ; )
All I know, is that everyone I know is concentrating on looking younger than they are and it can be nearly impossible to hide your age, but you can always do things to help look younger. For this, you do not have to go under the knife, just follow some natural remedies and you can easily avoid aging signs that appear on your skin.
Todays post contains one such natural remedy to keep on hand. One that promises to scrub and remove aging signs like wrinkles or dark spots from your skin in just a few applications.
Make sure to let me know how it goes in the comments!
Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon Baking Soda
½ Tablespoon Honey
1 Drop Lavender Essential Oil (EO)
1 Drop Frankincense EO
After Application and rinse:
Rose Water or Witch Hazel
Directions:
1 Combine the baking soda and honey together until it looks like a paste. Add one drop each of lavender and frankincense essential oils.
2 Place a warm washcloth over your face and hold on skin for a minute or so to open up your pores.
3 Gently rub face with facial scrub using small circular motions (be gentle with your skin!). Keep massaging skin with scrub for 3-5 minutes to fully remove dead skin from face and to let the essential oils work their magic.
4 Rinse off with warm water.
5 Your face may be red for a bit but this will wear off.
6 Use this scrub no more than 1-2 times a week.
7 This scrub is alkaline to the skin, so to even out your pH it is a good idea to splash your face with rosewater or witch hazel afterwards. This will naturally balance your skin.
Most of all! Have fun in beauty mode!
#beautymode
