I skipped 8th Grade in the 2 Year SP - Specialized Program of accelerated learning.
I graduated in the Top 10 percentile of my high school class of over 1250 graduating students. Yes, 1250 seniors; the Far Rockaway High School student body was so huge that freshmen and sophomores went in the morning, juniors and seniors in the afternoons.
What I really learned in school was how to be a People Pleaser. I was never asked to consider what was important to me; what I wanted for myself. Were you?
You're off balance in Tree. You can't bend in Half Moon. You can barely breathe in Pranayama. You're getting hot and bothered thinking, "What's wrong with me?"
My answer to you: Fahgeddaboudit.
Even if you figure out "why," by your next class things will be different - you'll be different - so how will it help to dwell on today?
For years I experimented with different forms of physical conditioning - everything from swimming at the Y to weight training at home (an exercise physiologist friend prepared a personalized weight training regimen tailored for my size, shape and age.)
What they all had in common: I was bored.
I dreaded doing it. I played music, put on the TV, anything to distract me from the drudgery (now I see people riding stationary bikes or treadmilling-it at the gym while watching little personal-sized TV screens. I feel their pain).
I was tuning out while I was trying to tune up. Something about this just didn't fit my idea of whole-self health...
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The latest fitness secret that's piqued everyone's interest is Peak Fitness.
Peak Fitness is a form of exercise that works you as hard as possible for a short burst of time, and is followed up with slower, more relaxing movement. It's all the rage.
Hot yoga had this system down to a science over 50 years ago. Hot yoga is finally being proven by modern day science, but we hot yogis already have our proof, in our results...
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Could doing hot yoga at a new time of day boost your benefits?
Do you feel sluggish afew hours after lunch?
Do you have trouble sleeping at night?
Do you need a coffee the size of your head before you can function in the morning?
It could be that your circadian rhythms are confused. In this 24/7, globally awake, in your Facebook, tweet-tweet-news-flash, no interest in Pinterest, attention medicated world, we're all a bit confused.
Blogging all night can leave you feeling blah. Even when you finally fall asleep over email, sleeping in a lit room when your body expects darkness can wreak havoc. Jet lag, for those who think a vacation will fix you, is another common culprit.
Everyone knows yoga can help your body, mind and spirit; but try yoga at a time of day that syncs with your own natural rhythms and you might you might just open up a whole new world of benefits. Here's how yoga affects you morning, noon and night...
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We love it when you guys do a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge.
It's one thing for us to tell you how much you can transform your body and your life; it's another to watch it happen. What's even better is having our students write about their hot yoga experiences.
Not a bad way to look at the 30-day challenge. But honestly, it doesn’t take 30 days. It takes just a moment: that moment in which you set the intention to do something good for yourself, to incorporate hot yoga into your life. Come every day for a month, or just drop in on occasion, but once you’ve made your mind up to do it--wham! Yogi.
Hot yoga seems extreme, right? It’s hard to argue that it isn’t: 90 minutes of pushing yourself to your limits in a 105-degree room? Not for the faint of heart. But it isn’t reserved for the über-athletic or ultra-flexible, either.
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You're ready to learn a game called the Yoga of Abundance. It's one of the many Challenges in our Online Yoga Community to transform your life in an area we'd all like to expand: abundance.
The Yoga of Abundance can change your money blueprint. You'll learn to enjoy spending money. LOTS of money.
How will you do that on your limited budget? Open your mind and your Magic Wallet, say authors Abraham-Hicks in their book, Ask and It Is Given.
I took the Challenge for a full year, and it is brilliant. Here's how it worked for me...
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I felt like a kid again.
I haven't seen Cindy since high school. We were friends in PS 42 in Queens, through grades 4, 5 and 6. When she moved back to NY from California 18 months ago, we began threatening to get together.
Last week we set the date.
We met at Spring Street Natural in NYC. I already knew what would happen: we would spend hours reliving our childhood at this NYC restaurant where you can sit all day (we tipped the waiter 60%)
What is it about old friends that is so intoxicating?
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Give us your tired, inflexible, overworked and overtaxed, beaten down and stressed out, and we'll light a fire under you.
That's our promise at Riverflow Yoga.
It's tax season; just add that to your usual pile of stress. You may arrive with all sorts of physical and emotional issues, from low back pain to low moods. And right away, you're in the right place. In my 15 years teaching and practicing hot yoga I've seen a wide variety of issues...and a great many hot yoga miracles.
Our responsibility as Riverflow hot yoga teachers is not just to deliver the hot yoga instructions, but to guide you safely into the person you want to be; to do so, we hold you in a delicate balance:
Life is good when you're calm enough to enjoy it.
Doesn't that sound less stressful already?
But sometimes, even taking time for those stress-relieving techniques can feel like one more thing for your overwhelmed To Do list.
Well, you can do this one right now.
Ask and Receive is an oh-so-easy technique created by Sandi Radomski and Tom Altshaffer with a simple premise: your answers are locked in your subconscious. Now unlock the door. Literally in under 3 minutes.
We have a host of these simple, guided Ask and Receive meditations recorded by my friend and gifted Ask and Receive guide, Toby Calandra, on RIVERFLOW YOGA ONLINE our online yoga community.
Or you can do it yourself by following these simple steps from Toby herself:
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