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Welcome to SuburbanYogini.com!  It seems as though most of the weekend has been spent moving the blog over here, but I should mostly be thanking Himself, he did the hard work!  It’s still a bit of a work in progress here but I hope to get it  up and running properly over the next few days.

We did also find time to cook fajitas for Ma and Pa Yogini at their house.  Here is my second chef hard at work at the chopping board….

….and not much liking having his photo taken!

Unfortunately, soon after this he had to be sent out for salsa which I’d forgotten to bring with me – I also forgot my camera so do forgive poor quality camera phone piccies.

Nearly ready….peppers of all colours, onions, leeks, mushrooms and Quorn pieces.

…..this was demolished in seconds!

For dessert we had another of my many vegan cupcake recipes.  This is my current favourite – lemon and orange with lemon frosting and a few grapes to pretend to be healthy!

After too much food on a Saturday night what more could you want for your Sunday morning than a nice short flow sequence.  I’m sorry this is a bit late but I’m sure it works on Monday mornings too!

1.  Tadasana – stepping the left leg back into wide legged stance
2.  Turn the right foot out coming in to Virabhadrasana 2 on the right.
3.  Inhale into Reverse Warrior
4,  Exhale into Parsovokonasana (left arm stretching up to the ceiling)
5.  Inhale left arm alongside the ear.
6.  Exhale over the right leg into Parsvottanasana (keep that right knee bent!)
7.  Inhale into Virabhadrasana 1
8.  Exhale into Virabhadrasana 2

Repeat steps 3-8 between two and four times and then repeat the whole flow on the left hand side.

Finish with a nice relaxed Padottonasana.

Happy Sunday!

Caitlin over at Healthy Tipping Point is in the process of writing an article on dorm rooms (or “Halls” as we call them in the UK) and it got me to thinking about my first year at university all those years ago.

I went to the University of Kent at Canterbury for my undergraduate degree. This photo is me outside my college (Keynes) Halls last summer when I went back for a little trip down memory lane. Keynes was the envy of the university back in 1994, because it was the first college that had all single occupancy rooms with “en suites”. I put the words en suite in inverted commas for a reason. You’re probably imagining a proper bathroom aren’t you? Think again.

In reality these luxurious sounding en suites were a small plastic cubicle stuck in the corner of the room. Within this “pod” as they came to be known was a small sink, toilet and shower. It was like the bathrooms you get in Greek hotel rooms, you know the type – a shower and a drain, no cubicle or shower tray or shower curtain. But Canterbury is not Greece and it was rarely warm enough for the water to evaporate. Consequently every time you went to the loo you got your socks wet and the room always had a faint smell of damp. If you ever had a long shower you ran the risk of the pod leaking. Really there wasn’t that much to be envious of.

University was a bit of a strange transient time for me. I’d spent most of the previous two years travelling and living in Australia. By the time I got to university I was nearly 21. Three years isn’t a big age gap once you’re all grown up but the difference between 18 and 21 is immense. I think a lot of my fellow students saw me as a bit of a dinosaur.

Thank heavens then for my Tuesday night yoga class where I met a few fantastic people (I think university was where I first learned Rachel’s Law #3 – if you want to meet people, join a yoga class!), most of whom were considered “mature” students. I think university is the only place a 24-year-old is considered mature.

Rachel’s Law #2 is to make sure you always have space to put down your yoga mat. That bloody great plastic pod in the corner made it tricky but I did just about have space for my practice in my little room in Halls of Residence.

So, dear reader, did you live in Halls/Dorm Rooms at college? What were they like? What are your memories of them?