{"id":453,"date":"2010-10-28T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/?p=453"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:11:14","slug":"yoga-chocolate-and-music-in-karmiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/yoga-chocolate-and-music-in-karmiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga, Chocolate, and Music in Karmiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_6103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-457 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;border: 5px solid black;\" title=\"Jojo making chocolate cake\" data-src=\"http:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_6103-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_6103-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mehmehs.com\/aliyah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_6103.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Following a rather depressing few days, I decided it was high time my children experienced some positive energy.\u00a0 So off I went to try out a yoga class in Karmiel.\u00a0 There is a Matnas (community centre) up the road that seems to think it&#8217;s normal to charge English Country Club prices in the north of Israel for fairly average activities. 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I had already attended a mummy and baby group there which cost more than I would consider spending back in Bushey.\u00a0 And these mums aint half as posh, let me tell you.\u00a0 Goodness knows how anyone else afforded it, but lets just say we have been eating a lot of pttitim this week (Israeli equivalent of cheap pasta).<\/p>\n<p>So I turn up to the yoga class, late of course, as the baby did his usual trick of wanting to have a 3 course meal just before I left.\u00a0\u00a0 Thankfully I was rescued by my good friend who scooped me up halfway up the hill to the matnas, and drove me the rest of the way so I wouldn&#8217;t be too horribly late.\u00a0\u00a0 The class was all in ivrit, but as yoga classes are fairly standard it was easy to follow. \u00a0 Bizarrely, there was a very high ratio of men to women, which you almost never see in yoga or dance classes. \u00a0 There was the usual question from the teacher of &#8220;have you ever done yoga before&#8221; etc.\u00a0 I told her it was my first time since my labour, but I am experienced.\u00a0 Anyway all was fine until she gave an instruction just to me which I didn&#8217;t understand.\u00a0 I explained I am an <em>olah chadasha<\/em> and she needs to repeat it slowly.\u00a0 So up she gets and suddenly starts making obscene gestures at me.\u00a0 I was a little shocked, until it dawned on me she was telling me to contract my pelvic floor muscles.\u00a0 Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>The class was a good level and the teacher was great but it&#8217;s hard work doing yoga post-partum.\u00a0 Anyway eventually we get to the nice relaxation bit at the end which was slightly less relaxing than usual as I had to concentrate to follow the mind exercises.\u00a0 Just as I was starting to get into it, the fat russian bloke behind me let out a ridiculously loud snore.\u00a0 Then the bloke across the room joined in, and soon there were three of them, snoring in almost perfect unison.\u00a0 I snuck a look at the teacher and she smiled at me, obviously containing her giggles.\u00a0 That was it.\u00a0 All over.\u00a0 No chance of me entering zen mode.\u00a0\u00a0 I dissolved into fits of laughter and had to stuff a hand in my mouth so as not to make too much noise.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day I felt a little sorry for Jojo having a miserable mummy so I put on some cheery music and finally gave in to his request to bake a chocolate cake.\u00a0 Usually we only bake healthy cakes during the week, saving the sweet ones for shabbat, but he approached me with this lovely recipe book I was given as a wedding present which is devoted ENTIRELY to chocolate cakes.\u00a0 I have always stared at it longingly but never quite been able to follow it. \u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0Jojo looked at me beseechingly, begged &#8220;cake, cake, chocolate&#8221; and then marched over to the cupboard where he started pulling out flour and sugar.\u00a0 It seems sometimes he is a little <em>too <\/em>much like me.\u00a0 So after about 2 minutes I gave in and we made these fabulous Chocolate Coconut Fingers.\u00a0 We were both covered in chocolate by the end (all innocent I assure you) as was my kitchen but it was great fun.\u00a0 And I was very impressed at myself for following a recipe in ivrit.\u00a0 Well done me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a rather depressing few days, I decided it was high time my children experienced some positive energy.\u00a0 So off I went to try out a yoga class in Karmiel.\u00a0 There is a Matnas (community centre) up the road that seems to think it&#8217;s normal to charge English Country Club prices in the north of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,45,19,46,44],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aliyah","tag-cake","tag-chocolate","tag-karmiel","tag-music","tag-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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