Talk about amazing hike. We left the ranch at 6am with our back packs filled with water and breakfast and made our way up through the mountains. At 6am the views were spectacular. The sun was just rising over the crests of the mountains and we actually saw some wild horses grazing in the below fields. We hiked up to a rock formation that overlooked a 360 degree view of the landscape. We sat there on the rocks and enjoyed a nice breakfast and gazed at the beauty in front of us. By 9am we were back at the ranch and I had just enough time to shower before heading over to my yoga class. It is a level one progressive class and with the help of the instructors, I am going to look for a yoga class in the city in the same yoga style that I have been practicing, which is Anusara Yoga. Now I know that I was asking for trouble, I mean with just finishing the 7 mile hike and then going right to yoga, but I decided to do a meditation class and then a stretching class. It actually worked out great. The meditation class actually gave me a chance to reflect on my retreat and also life. These days we really don't take the time to just sit and reflect. We are all so busy and just going and going, never taking time to smell the roses. The stretching class was great for working out the kinks that I had from the hike. So what I didn't stretch out in yoga, I definitely stretched out in Stretch class.
The end of the day I took a cooking class with the guest chef, Virginia Willis at the cooking school at the ranch. It was an amazing class that ended with all 18 of us sitting down to an amazing dinner that we all helped prepare with the guidance of the chef. The best part was that it was southern, healthy cooking! I know, right? Who would have thought. We had a great meal with even better conversation. I have met so many great and interesting people that I will be keeping in contact with. The only real downfall of this amazing retreat is that I will have to leave to go back to reality. But at least I will be able to take home what I have learned to help grow with my healthier fitter me. Not to mention that I purchased two of the cookbooks filled with the recipes for all the amazing meals that we have been eating throughout the week. Well, I am off to bed. I have another 6am hike tomorrow. This one is called the Coyote Hike. And yes, there are coyotes here on the ranch. You can actually hear them at night. Till tomorrow.
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