What Jodie Reads

  Next Magazine - December 2010 $8.20  I've always wanted to try Bikram, aka 'hot yoga', but have always been put off by friends' tales of stinky sweaty armpits and other bodily smells mixed with the heat of a 40 degree studio.  Gena Tuffery's Some Like It Hot (p.166) has somewhat convinced me to give it a go.  Talk of devotees wearing next to nothing almost had me running back to the sofa, but as Gena explains "you don't wear a bear suit in a desert, and that's exactly how my cotton T-shirt feels".  So it looks like I'll be more worried about my outfit than the absolute certainty of me collapsing from exhaustion in a buggered heap by the end of it.  Why the heat?  It seems that warm muscles allow you to work deeper and safer, so you see faster results.  Sweating out impurities like last nights glass of wine can't be a bad result either.  So I'm going to give it a go.  Watch this space...... From talk of exercise to...

It might seem slightly ironic that I start my kiwi-centric blog with a commentary on the latest issue of the Australian Women's Weekly (New Zealand Edition).  You see, along with the gorgeous cover featuring rowing's golden girls Georgina & Caroline and an exclusive preview of Portia DeGeneres' highly publicised autobiography,  two fantastic articles particularly stood out to me.  That's what I love about magazines - the hidden gems that you find between the pages. Identity Interruptus can happen to the best of us and Danielle Spencer reveals her experience of motherhood (and her latest album) in an interview with Bryce Corbett titled So much more than Mrs Crowe .   As a mother of two young children myself, I can identify with Danielle when she talks about it: the best known but least talked about aspect of motherhood.   In the article, Corbett discusses how you can read a hundre...