Yoga Classes in San Quentin Prison

I've been meaning to write this up for a while now, but life interrupts! Anyhow, I've recently learned about the Prison Yoga Project at San Quentin prison. They now have made available for their inmates ongoing yoga classes, and also the opportunity for inmates to study and become yoga instructors. This seemed a bit controversial to me at first, because it seems like prisons are being made a bit too "comfortable" with cable TV, fancy rec rooms, and state of the art gyms where big, mean felons are free to just spend hours upon hours a year getting bigger and meaner by the time they come out, you know? However, maybe the yoga is not such a bad thing. In fact, maybe they should ONLY let them do yoga! lol!! No MMA or kick boxing classes, please! I'm serious! Anyway....

As controversial as it is, perhaps the yoga program really is helping some of these inmates learn to meditate, focus and calm themselves at certain moments where they would otherwise react violently. One can only hope so, right? I'd rather see them doing yoga than hitting the heavy bag in the boxing room any day. In fact, more people on the outside could also use a bit more yoga and meditation in their lives, if you ask me. So, what do you think? Good program or yet another excessive prison luxury? Don't hold back, now! ;)
And if you're really curious, here's the website: http://prisonyoga.com/

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Fiyah Ovah Here!!! The NYC Firefighters 2011 Calendar!

Well, Lord have mercy...come save me now~~! ;)

This is yet ANOTHER reason to love New York - our HOT as hell firefighters who are not only out there fighting fires, rescuing kittens from trees and risking their own lives to save ours, but who were also kind enough to take out the time to pose and provide us with this nice little yearly calendar. ;)

The New York City Firefighters Calendar is a tradition that started a few years ago, and we're gonna make SURE it continues! And the great thing is that unlike most models you see on some calendar, these guys are accessible. YOU CAN MEET THEM. They are doing events all over NYC to promote their new calendar 2011, and that just means a girl has a chance! I think I'm gonna have to break in some new running shoes to attend the next event their participating in, which is the Race For the Cure in Central Park....

Just look at what they posted about that on their Facebook page...

"HEY LADIES PLEASE DONT FORGET, WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE RACE FOR THE CURE IN CENTRAL PARK ON SEPT 12TH. If you cannot walk, at the very least donate $5. If all City of the Brave fans donated $5 each, we would raise over $44,000. Just simple math and no excuse not to :-)"

All this hotness and they do simple math too.... Love it! ;)


I will have to check some of these events out for sure!

Now, even though the year is already passing by so quickly, I swear, January will not get here fast enough!

Nice to see a guy who makes sure to wear his safety equipment! Gotta keep that pretty face and body protected at all times! ;)

Ok.....had enough of my drooling? Okay. Well, if you're lucky enough to live here in the Big Apple, do come out and support these guys. They certainly deserve it!

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It's All About Balance, Baby!

Pretty awesome, huh? I thought so. Me and MY boyfriend do this ALL THE TIME. Yep! This is what we call "Tuesday". ;) Yeah. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! ;)

At any rate, these two are pretty awesome with these tricks, aren't they? Guy has some pretty strong hands! (and everything else connected to 'em). The girl is not doing too bad with the balancing, either.

Now, tell me, which one of them do you think is working the hardest and showing the most skill? It's really hard to say.....

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