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The Five Pillars of Health

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Health CollageHealth is on my mind lately. Lately has been going on strong for about 3 years now.

In August, I finished yet another challenge: The Wellness Challenge from the beloved Sync Studio for exercising (at least an hour for me!) every single day. Twenty seven fantastic spinning classes and a dozen yoga sessions later, I am already ready for another challenge. Never before have I felt stronger, healthier, leaner, and happier in body, mind and heart! This month of rejuvenation and vitality gave me the impetus for our third podcast! [Read more…] about The Five Pillars of Health

A Step toward Change: Mastering our Reactions

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Meditation Breakthrough

My first reaction is not my best one when confronted with unforeseen circumstances – even at my own doing – but to my delight, my second reaction seems to be improving dramatically over time!

On a beautiful Saturday morning in August, my first reaction when I promptly locked myself out of my house was paranoia. I had no car keys to go anywhere and no house keys to get back in. I ran down the street to my best friend’s house to see if she was home. I knocked hard on her door several times. After all, this was an emergency (or so I thought at that moment)! No one home. I called and left text messages in hopes of finding her while at the same time, telling my husband, who had just driven 20 miles across town, in too many hurried words that this accident is partially his fault (I reasoned it out, don’t ask)!

End of First Reaction. [Read more…] about A Step toward Change: Mastering our Reactions

The Soundtrack of Your Life: Living with Music

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Conductor in Rome creating Music

“What would the world be like without music?”
“Eerily silent. Uninspiring. Slow. Undesirably quiet. Sad, very sad. Unsettling. Lacking balance. Confined. Starving. And lonely.”

A conversation in my mind and happily, without any consequence to reality – but can you imagine a world void of the sound of music?

So fortunate we are to be born to this age where music is so abundantly accessible to us. Music, the discovery and the gift we would not know what to do without, continues to fill our lives in ways we hardly notice. Music can change a mood and set the stage for everything. It can fill empty space with rays of happiness and sorrow, love and hope, excitement and nostalgia. It can pump us up and calm us down. It can ignite our fire of creativity, productivity, and self-improvement all in one song. It can revive forgotten memories and make us believe in impossible dreams. It can keep us company and give us courage to go gently down the path of healing and recovery. [Read more…] about The Soundtrack of Your Life: Living with Music

14 Yoga Etiquette Tips: Respect your Fellow Yoginis

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Observing Yoga Etiquette

Etiquette is an accepted social behavior in a particular setting; it defines the proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or occasion. Etiquette is not a loud and explicit rule; it is soft and subtle and yet always carries you further when you observe appropriate etiquette in the right setting. Master the etiquette of the occasion and you will immediately draw favorable attention of the crowd. Yoga, which everyone can do, is no exception. A tradition as ancient and beautiful as yoga comes with a certain level of implied etiquette and it is the sincere hope of any devoted yoga practitioner to see all his or her fellow yoginis observe the same unwritten proprieties. [Read more…] about 14 Yoga Etiquette Tips: Respect your Fellow Yoginis

A 31 Day Yoga and Meditation Challenge

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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.

One Toe Yoga Seated Pose [Read more…] about A 31 Day Yoga and Meditation Challenge

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