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  • Meditate to Unlock Your Hidden Potential - Part 2
    You can be the creator of your own manifest destiny. Through daily meditation practice and focus on changing your life for the better. In fact, you have the ability to redefine yourself in any direction you desire. The power that you can cultivate is limited only by your own imagination.
  • Objective Meditations: What is Reality?
    Is reality a projection from within the mind, or is it an "altered lens" into the outside world? Let's look at the altered lens theory first. Obviously, we are not all looking at the world with the same lens or viewpoint.
  • What is Self Mastery? - Part 3
    The next large component of self-mastery is mental health, and this is much trickier than physical health, due to many pitfalls that affect the mind along the way.
  • Meditate to Unlock Your Hidden Potential - Part 1
    Meditation is often misunderstood by those who do not practice it. Very often, I hear meditation referred to as, "altered states of consciousness." That sounds more like intoxicants, rather than bringing clarity to a cluttered mind. Without going too deep into what meditation is, or is not, let's focus on one of the many things a daily meditation practice can do for you.
  • Nine Things You Should Know About Yoga for Children
    Here are some guidelines and realistic expectations for parents, who are considering Yoga for their children. For your child, Yoga is much more than a kid's fitness class.
  • Listen to Suggestions
    As a customer of any service or product - how do you feel when your Email is ignored, your voice mail message is never answered, and you don't get any feedback or concern, at all, from customer service? We all feel the same - nobody likes to be ignored. The shame of all this is that customer service is getting worse on a global scale.
  • What is Self Mastery? - Part 2
    Some of my clients have literally shed weight away with regular use of an elliptical trainer, Yoga classes, and a moderate diet.
  • Facts About Chakra Awakening
    Chakra awakening is highly a debatable topic, with two distinctly different schools of thought. The answer could be, "Yes" or "No", depending upon which school of thought you are trained in.
  • The Relationship Between Meditation and Self-Analysis
    These are two very powerful tools for self-improvement, but how can you use them in harmony? For example: Self-analysis and meditation cannot be performed at the same time. After all, multi-tasking runs contrary to what meditation is all about.
  • Optimum Fitness for Middle Age - Part 1
    Your family physician, photographs, and mirrors, won't make excuses for you. Some people label it, "middle age spread" or "battle of the bulge," but how do you regain control of this uphill battle?
  • The Truth About Vinyasa Yoga
    When used for personal health maintenance, Vinyasa Yoga is the ultimate cross training system, with low impact movement, aerobic, and muscle toning benefits. Your body will go through an incredible transformation, but it does require determination. This explains why Vinyasa Yoga attracts so many type A personalities.
  • What is Self Mastery? - Part 1
    Self Mastery, alone, sounds like a selfish term; but if you cannot help yourself, you will have limited ability to help others. Self mastery is the ability to make the most out of your physical, mental, and spiritual health. In other words, to be the best you can be.
  • What is Mindfulness?
    The term sounds easy enough to comprehend, but there is a much deeper meaning. Terms like mindfulness and loving-kindness seem obvious, but you have to understand them before you can implement them, into your daily life.
  • Meditation and the Monkey Mind?
    Some find the term, "monkey mind", upsetting, derogatory, and insulting. This is a shame, as the point is lost, the ego is involved, and a natural human defense goes up. After all, we are supposed to be the "king of the primates," aren't we?
  • Optimum Fitness for Middle Age - Part 2
    You should always exercise smart, not hard, and you should never push any joint to lock out. By exercising for longevity you want to maintain your body, prevent injury, and take care of any previous injuries.
  • What is Chair Yoga?
    Chair Yoga is a gentle form of Yoga. With so many types of Yoga available, here is one that most of us can practice. Inversions and complicated maneuvers are not necessary in a Chair Yoga class.
  • Maybe Bikram is Right?
    I laughed at his rhetoric, equally, as much as watching Jerry Seinfeld or Ray Ramano, do a stand up comedy routine. The man is pure entertainment and he has a point.
  • This is Not Your Grandma's Rocking Chair
    Is it possible that grandparents are working out more than any other members of the family? Absolutely - I see energetic Chair Yoga classes with as many as 50 people in a single class.
  • Why Should You Meditate?
    Your mind needs rest and a vacation. Have you ever noticed that when you take a vacation, you come back with fresh ideas, a better attitude, and establish clear priorities?
  • Realistic Expectations for Chair Yoga Students
    The first thing you will gain from a Chair Yoga class is knowledge. The concepts of good health, longevity, and making the most of your life right now, are powerful tools taught in every style of Yoga.
  • Practice Yoga with the Best of Intentions
    Of course, you practice Yoga with the best of intentions. Now, your thinking, doesn't everyone practice, learn, and teach Yoga with the best of intentions? In a few words: No, they do not.
  • Yoga and Neck Problems: What's the Risk?
    If possible, get a doctor's referral to a particular Yoga teacher, who is more knowledgeable in this area. Many doctors often network with local Yoga teachers, studios, and ashrams, for the benefit of their patients.
  • Yoga in Practice: Speak with Mindfulness
    Within the average Yoga class, or ashram, the principles of mindfulness are mentioned for the benefit of Yoga students, their friends, and the people they associate within the course of a day. Mindfulness is living in the moment, and putting the wisdom you have learned, during Yoga class, into practice.
  • Restorative Yoga for Stress Management
    Are you looking for a way to release stress, tension, and pain from your body? Are you tired all the time and feel the need to rest, but you know you should get some exercise? How can you do both? The answer is to start regularly attending Restorative Yoga classes, and reap the rewards of healing without a tremendous amount of effort.
  • Yoga is "Unity."
    Yoga consists of many facets; Asanas is just one of the many parts of Yoga...
  • Chair Yoga for Senior Independence
    Until a certain age in life, words like dignity, quality of life, and independence seem to be more suitable for descriptions, or reasons, why independent nations had revolutionary wars, than for senior independence. However, for seniors, these words reflect the need to stay the course of independence.
  • Yoga and Christianity a Conflict?
    Some critics argue that Yoga and Christianity cannot co-exist, and yet we know that Yoga is not a religion. Are the Salem witch trials still so close to our hearts?
  • Eight Amazing Benefits of Teaching Yoga
    If you are thinking of becoming a Yoga teacher and want to find out some reasons why you should here are eight great ones.
  • The Formula for Preventing Depression
    While it is arguable that depression is not always preventable, there are many cases, when using the following ideas, will keep you in good spirits - most of the time.
  • The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Yoga Business
    The dark exists everywhere and so does the light. The dark side of human personality is in all of us. Unfortunately, Yoga teachers, priests, politicians, and police are human too.
  • Optimum Fitness for Middle Age - Part 3
    Let's start with choosing the right daily vitamin for you. Daily vitamin supplements are gender and age specific, so you want to pick one that fits your age and gender profile.
  • What is Self Mastery? - Part 4
    Let's cover the last component of self-mastery, which is spiritual health. Sometimes, the discussion of spiritual health is considered "politically incorrect." This is a shame, because we want to live life to the fullest and cannot ignore our spiritual side.
  • Understanding the Yoga Sutras
    After practicing asanas and pranayama, I mentioned that we would start a meditation session. To my surprise, two of the students stood up and left. This natural event in a health club is almost never seen in an Ashram.
  • Positive Energy
    Learn the secrets of cultivating positive energy...
  • Why Chair Yoga
    Many of us struggle, most of our lives, to find the optimum exercise routine, in order to stay in shape. As time goes by, we look for low-impact fitness solutions, due to excessive wear in our joints.
  • Don't Overeat on the Holidays
    It's that time of year again - when all of us could learn a little restraint and still be able to enjoy ourselves at the same time. Please observe, or pass on the following information, to your loved ones, friends, and students.

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