Mastering the flow of your life

Hot yogis are Masters of Bliss

Here are 6 Reasons Why

Reason 1. We go with The Flow

Hot yoga teaches you about your power under all conditions.

You are unfazed by the sweat dripping from your elbows.

Your are unmoved by the Gumbys and Yoga Rock Stars in the room with you.

You are the Source of your calm.

You move into a yoga pose and feel the flow of your life

You are not about the struggle, and ther eis nothing to resist; for you, it is all about ease and flow.

If anyone can find relaxation outside the hot yoga studio, it’s you....

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The power of awe

Want to improve your life? Go do something awesome.

So says this WSJ article: Feeling Awesome: Studies Find An Emotion Has Myriad Benefits.

Awe is not the only emotion that heals....but it is one of the most awesome.

The feeling of awe and experiences that inspire it, benefit us in ways from stronger health to improved relationships, making us more generous and more humble. Awe increases empathy so we recognize another person and respond with concern. Awe makes us more willing to connect authenticallywith others.

Awe is an emotional response to something vast. It challenges and expands our way of seeing the world. It might be triggered by nature, art, a significant event. We’re just not likely to find it on a treadmill at the gym..

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Yoga Wars

"I moved a mat—just a tad—to make room and I got, "Did you touch my mat?” from its angry owner. I rolled up my mat, walked through the sea of rubber and left...in tears."

People are getting hotter in hot yoga...and not in a good way

"I attended a packed hot yoga class with a mob of sweaty strangers staring me down. I left more tense than I came in." 

"Hot yoga classes are dominated by bee-yotches.  I will pay $500 to do a one-on-one with an instructor before I set foot in another a crowded yoga environment."

Doesn't sound like the yoga I started practicing 43 years ago.  Yet I hear these stories regularly from students who come to our small community studio, from what I call BIG BOX YOGA STUDIOS: rooms that hold 70+ people and feel more like a circus, only no one is amused.

No doubt about it, hot yoga can be a crowded, sweaty, stinking experience. But does it have to be?

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The Perfect Person

When you look at yourself, who do you see?

"I used to get my hips way up in Rabbit; now I barely get my forehead to my knees."

"I went on vacation for two weeks and now I can't even fold over in Forward Bend."

"Ugh, I am so out of shape."

When my dear yoga students make these self-deprecating comments, drop these hints about their self loathing or voice their internal self-sabotauge,  I feel sad. 

I always want to ask, who are you comparing yourself to?

When you are thinking about the flexibility you wish for, the job you think you should have, the relationship you thought you'd be in by now, you are measuring yourself againt The Perfect Person.

But have you ever asked yourself, "Perfect...compared to what?'

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You've got to work on your warrior, girl

CEOs run marathons. We do hot yoga.

There’s a reason why people run marathons, hike the Pacific Crest trail, or do 30 day hot yoga challenges: endurance training.

The life you want takes endurance. Not struggle; but perseverance. To keep showing up, getting out there and putting in the best of yourself, even on your worst days.

Physical endurance training teaches you about maintaining your momentum no matter what.

Hot yoga is endurance training, for living your life.

Because the same road-blocks keep showing up:

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