I’ve just started my yoga teacher training as another means to teach what it means to be heart centered and live from the inside out. My passion is God and this passion leads me to seek ways to help others realize who they are so that they can bring everything that they have to offer […]
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Today, my yoga instructor called my attention to the fact that when we practice yoga, we practice many of the same asanas (poses) repeatedly. I don’t know why this never really struck me before given that the definition of practice includes the words “repeatedly” and “habitually.” Just like yoga, life is often about the repetition
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I just finished reading “Wayne Dyer’s book, “Your Erroneous Zones” and overall I’d say it was an amazing book that has the ability to help it’s readers become more inner centered rather than outer oriented. As I was reading some parts, especially the chapter on dependency, I could see how some of the information could
Something rubbed me the wrong way the other day after my yoga practice to the point where I went from peaceful bliss to increase blood pressure because my blood was boiling at the audacity of the yoga instructors “teaching” after class. I almost got off of my mat and walked out and had an awfully
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Yoga is all about practicing different states of being. As we journey through our practice we experience different bodily states of self-induced stress followed by calmness. In riding the wave of our practice, we coast on the crest of intensity followed by the crash of the wave back into peace. The practice lies in staying
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I’ve cleansed my land of the weeds that were once choking the life of any fruitful crops and now I’m at the point where I’m beginning to plant some seeds. Yesterday, I realized, though I was planting new seeds in the form of branching out in the area of sharing my authentic self with others
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The purpose of taking is so that you may give. Like the roots of a tree seek to take the nutrients from the soil so that it may give it to the tree so that the tree can in turn provide shelter, oxygen, and nourishment to other creatures. So too must we be both taker
Kids have a way of triggering emotions in their parents. This morning as I was giving my daughter a shower, her lack of listening skills really got to me. Lately, I feel that I have been having to repeat myself one too many times. By one too many, I mean it’s literally like 6-10 times
If you read yesterday’s blog post, you’ll note that I received a revelation about pride being at the root of some of my problems as they relate to my dissatisfaction with some of the individuals I work with. Oddly enough, as I wound down yesterday evening and chose to continue the book that I was
Yoga is teaching me that it is possible to find ease in the midst of disease. Disease as far as I believe is any moment where we feel our ease in life slip away from us. When this occurs many of us admit defeat. We grumble and complain. We sing songs of “why me?” Yoga
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I’ve been practicing yoga for about 6 months now and have been so blessed by this practice. Sometimes, while practicing I gain deep insights as though the universe speaks truth into my heart. I started practicing mainly for the spiritual aspect. I had an experience where I felt myself drawn nearer to God and had
We humans have a way of imprisoning what was always meant to be free. As I rested in savasana at the end of this morning’s yoga class, I tuned into the birds singing their glorious song outside. It was as though they were telling me the secret to life. Freedom is what the lyrics to
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Yoga is about trusting the being within you to support you through the balancing poses. The more I focus, the wobblier I am. It is when I trust my being that I succeed in balance. When I trust in God, suddenly life is balanced, and I feel freedom while exerting much less effort than I
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