Yesterday, I marked the end of my 31 day yoga and meditation challenge. For the entire month of May, I committed to a minimum of an hour of daily yoga practice and a few minutes of daily meditation. Like most great ideas born of small stuff, this one started from a casual question; I shared my 10 Day Yoga Challenge from last year, wondering who may want to join me for a second round and seriously expecting no one to respond in kind. I was most delightfully wrong.
balance
An Alternative to Balance: Focused Intensity
The Problem with Balance
Seekbalance in all things you do in life. This is the well-known and often-heard universal advice to many challenges and problems in life. Experts constantly encourage us to do all things in balance. Corporate life encourages a life-work balance attitude (as though work is not part of life, but maybe that’s just semantics). Balance in our work, in our hobbies, in our careers, and in our relationships. Do you really think this is the best approach to living well? [Read more…] about An Alternative to Balance: Focused Intensity
Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig
One look at the beautiful photograph of Kathyn Budig in a gorgeous yoga pose on the wall of a studio and I instantly knew that this workshop had my name written all over it. My name. My heart. My soul. My very core.
My yoga teacher Vickie tells me yoga is not just about the beauty and that I need to look past that to really see yoga for what it is and what it can be. One of my favorite yoga poems by Danna Faulds starts by the phrase, “yoga is not about the pose“. And the author of “Light on Yoga“, which I am making painfully slow progress in, certainly does not extol the beauty and grace of Asanas in any way, shape or form. [Read more…] about Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig
Celebrating the 100th Post with 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging
This is the 100th Blog Post on Prolific Living and I decided to celebrate this milestone with reflection and joy. In celebration, I have compiled a list of my 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging in 2009. The theme of this experience which most resonates with me is the constant learning. And learning not limited to all things related to blogging, but all things related to life. Either blogging lessons teach me about life, or I am filled with excitement to write about life lessons on the blog. Intertwined and inseparable, they push me to explore, to grow, to experiment and to forever raise the ante on my goals and aspirations.
All of these lessons are from direct experience that I would not trade, good or not-so-good. Some of them I learned again, this time not to forget. Each of them has taught me to be a better blogger and a better person. If even a single one aspires you to be a better person, my goal is achieved and my work is done here in this post. Here is to blogging, to living fully and to you my dear readers: [Read more…] about Celebrating the 100th Post with 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging
A 10 Day Yoga Challenge Experience
It is with a basket full of sweaty yoga laundry and a heart filled with ecstasy that I write to you about my first experience from a 10-day yoga challenge. My goal was to complete 10 straight days of yoga, without injury or over-exertion. The yoga sessions needed to be between 60-90 minute sessions each day, and I was not going to practice yoga religion in this challenge. I wanted to explore many different forms of yoga during this experience. With different styles and types of yoga, I would be able to get into as many possible postures and enjoy benefits of a more well-balanced regimen.
I am Farnoosh, the founder of Prolific Living. So glad you are here. My mission is to empower you to unblock your creative genius to live your dream life.