The Problem

Criminals.

Making money off education is a crime. The education system is a mindless factory. Our defense expenses are a crime. Our government is criminal and irresponsible. Interest is an abomination. Health insurance rapes it's customers and corrupts health care. Our minimum wage and debt reinforce slavery. Taxes and tolls towards empirical abominations overseas. And at home. Twenty five cents in sales tax from this coffee went where? Who's in jail? And what's this about marijuana curing epilepsy and cancer, while pills kill us? And what about addiction, depression, and anxiety? What about complacency? And humans on auto-pilot drifting through their lives? The ice caps are melting. The storms are getting stronger. Does that make you feel anything? 

Leaves

Sometimes I get so caught up in the dark I can't even see the light. But then I remember looking at you and just being stuck on how beautiful it was. It glows when I see it like that. It also reminds me how you wrap up around me. I get it then. I think about all the seasons now that I'm back, incase you can't remember the constant flux. Well I'll remind you. Nothing will stay the same, and isn't that funny? The leaves are floating as I drive through their atmosphere and I remember that it can all be beautiful.

Indian Toilet

I talked and talked about my fear of spiders in the bathrooms and it almost consumed me. It made me so sick. Sick to the point of waking up sweating in the middle of the night running for that same bathroom. And suddenly that fear was gone. And that same bathroom was within salvation. Isn't it funny how the universe gives you exactly what you need if you're conscious enough to realize it? It made me just sick enough, to get over my fear of spiders, and darkness, seems like I spend most of my time awake in the night. Sometimes things only come alive in the dark, just like spiders. We were talking and he was saying with everything having duality why avoid the darkness and only live in the light. Embrace both and find balance.

Optional Death

oh-glob

I had a dream about you last night. And it was weird because it wasn't of when we were five and rolling around in grass. Or when we we're 15 and trying to figure out what kissing boys was about, or even 21 when we went through our first stage of growing into adults and spent half our nights up in diners talking about everything over too many coffee cups. No, it was now, it was you and us in our apartment and in my mind I made this special place for you to be there. To be in my life, but it's weird, for the first time in my life you're gone. And I don't think you're ever coming back. And I remember when my first boyfriend broke up with me and I thought it was like voluntary death, and I couldn't imagine anything worse. Well this is so much the same, no matter how much I want what was to be there still, it's not. I went this way and you went that. And I accept it but I guess sometimes it haunts me in my dreams.

Simplicity

India seems to be easy for everyone else. Maybe it's the easiest place I've ever been and that's why it's so hard. Looking at my ego in the mirror when I can't do something, when I can't sit still. She told me to be careful of what I'm writing (I've never been careful of what I wrote). I need to send words into the void of the Internet to release. Maybe someone somewhere out there will get what I mean through all the abstractions. I'm learning what I'm not, and what I need to strip in order to see myself more clearly, but how much growth can you expect in five weeks? I think I need five lives. Om Shanti.

Fear of Spiders

 Everyone told me India was going to change me but all I can see so far is the smell of my sweat and how it reeks of India. That I'm terrified of the spiders the size of my unclenched fist in the hole in the floor that's supposed to be a bathroom but I think it's more the spiders in my head that make me want to cry. I'm frustrated that I've already cried more times that I'm proud to say and I still can't do a fucking handstand. My boyfriend's sick and even through all the fucking meditation and chanting mantras I can't fucking understand, we're fighting. And the only thing I can figure out to do is stay. Stay with the frustration and sadness and my stupid ego I can still hear in the back of my head. I guess I'll just sit here in silence until I can figure out what to do next.

Dharamsala; Part One.

After a 12 hour taxi drive from Delhi to Dharamsala, stopping (no joke) 20 times for directions, and one of the windiest mountain drives up the side of the first sight of the Himalayas, we finally got to town. But...cars can't drive up the road we're staying, so we get out, backpacks and all and start walking up this windy street. But then the street ends, with some foot bridge and we start climbing stairs up the side of the beginning of a mountain. Then the stairs end and we're just climbing. From behind in the dark we hear footsteps, and ask them if we're going in the right direction. Karo asks "Sam?" and we realize we ran into my yoga teacher. Night one.

The morning we finally see where we've traveled around the world to come to, Dharamsala. Completely unlike the endless country side towns (tents and shacks) and cities we've already seen. A tourist town, colorful bohemian tent shops and concrete sided buildings everywhere, nestled in a valley next to a waterfall. We saw a rainbow today, of course forgot my camera, always forget it when you need it. Never really need it though, we've got these eyes. That's all you really need right?

Mark joined the yoga program unofficially. Kind of abrupt introduction but I figured we always get exactly what we need. We're two of four Americans. Everyone else is from every other walk of life. It's a pretty radical rainbow of language and skin colors, clothes and cultures. It's been a trip already even if it ended right now. Signing off from the Internet cafe, where the power goes off at least 5 times a day. 

Taj Mahal and Back

They told us to prepare for poverty. I didn't really understand. There's people sleeping on the ground everywhere, garbage everywhere, and buildings, half built, half tarp all over the place masking as store fronts. It makes your mind shift, somewhere towards gratitude for all you half. I already feel myself softening up, like maybe India's telling me this secret that I didn't even know I needed to hear. To open, or bloom, like that lotus flower.

Mark's sleeping next to me again. Our jet-lag is bad. We slept for two hours last night and spent the next six watching climbing DVD's, ordering veggie sandwiches through room service, and talking about life. This place seems to wake you up a little bit. We left at 8am after a very India breakfast for Arga.

The four hour drive today to the Taj Mahal in Arga was mind bending. In a good way. Our tour guide today teaches old women yoga out of his house for free. He showed me some stuff, some pressure points and breathing exercises. I came to the right place. And I don't mean just for yoga. After the drive, we walked about ten minutes to the entrance of the Taj. It's a tomb. It's said that the architect had his hands cut off so he couldn't replicate it. You get the the line for ticket sales, and it's one for Indians, one for foreigners (our ticket is a lot more expensive, their line is a lot longer). We go through security, and finally to an archway where you can see a glimpse of the Taj. It's literally breathtaking. Huge, hand-cut, marble, wonder.

We spent a good hour there with our guide, showing us all the details and sparing no story along the way. The way back was dusted with Indian children selling snow globes for any price, monkeys, camels, and beautiful Indian people in the most brightly colored clothes I've ever seen.

They are really so unique, they seem to radiate sunshine amongst so much debris. The dresses as bright as all the colors found in a garden, and hand-painted trucks, busses, and cars driving like mad from road to road.

Interested to see Dharamsala tomorrow. I have no idea what to expect. Glad Mark's here.

Travel to New Delhi

We left Jersey around 1pm on Wednesday afternoon, made the way from highway to highway to JFK International airport and waited another 4 hours to board our flight. After a 9 hour flight we landed in Moscow, Russia. Two meals, one yoga practice, one long nap for Mark, and 7 hours later, we finally boarded our flight to New Delhi. We got to New Delhi at 3am, 2 days after leaving New Jersey. We found our way out to the street to find a cab to our hotel (who knew where that was) and hopped into the smallest car I've ever seen. As soon as we left the airport, I realized we weren't in Kansas anymore. There was traffic. Which meant our cabdriver, weaved his way in and out, dangerously close to the hundreds of other cars, none of which use lanes or any traffic codes. We get to our hotel right before 4am. Hop out, I tip the driver, he shakes Mark's hand and walks right by mine already outstretched to meet his. Finally make our way up to our room and sleep until 5pm the next day. We ordered some eggs and pizza (traditional Indian food) before making our way downstairs for the first time as night already set in. We booked some cabs to the Taj Mahal tomorrow, and another to the Himalayas the day after. Mark's already in bed again. I'm using the last 10 minutes of wifi I have before it runs out and we're left in the blackness and horns of India at night. More soon.

OCD

Magic Crayon

We live inside our heads. In interpretations of objective occurrences that we subjectify with that voice in our head that tells us that we are the center of the Universe. But it's not quite that. It's that you are the Universe. With infinite power and ultimate control of experience. Now what do we do with such a power? Sometimes we're ignorant of it, thinking we are victims of circumstances. And sometimes we begin to play with this idea of the laws of attraction and abstraction back to chemical composition and quantum physics that all allow for magic and alternate reality. Really I've been spinning around dancing with this magic crayon all my life. Drawing on the walls and building mountains to climb that didn't exist and Heavens that can be seen from Hell.

أنا الحمد لله

They said inspiration is like God blowing through you for an instant. And it's not that I believe in "God" I don't think. I think it's more like I believe in order in the chaos. Interconnectedness on such a large scale that we can't comprehend. But it seems like you're everything because everything is made up of you. And she told me to observe life like a film, but HOW? Well I've been asking for what I need. And it's been appeared. And I've relaxed when it hasn't presented itself as I imagined, because I imagined. And everything's manifestation so how are you looking at it? Are you noticed the flower growing through the crack or the littered streets? So can you give up looking for something, because if you can't loose that fine target, you may miss the point. It could be looking at you while you're looking for something else. So relax and let the Universe unfold. Thank God.

أنا الحمد لله

We are all One.

Eternal Life

Sometimes I'm swimming in my own head and lose sight of the clarity of the sun. That's when I know it's time to grow. Those moments where I'm sinking and my mind is bad is when I look at the internal makeup. I was telling her about letting go to find it. And skinning yourself to breed life. And what does that mean? I don't know. Dismiss the dead and embrace the eternal life? That balance. Of dark and light and death and life? 

To be continued...

Going Up

The shadow and the light. Part of be that manifests that radiating light also manifests a darkness that I never know whether to sit with or stare at from a passengers seat and try to see the light rays through the rain out the window. Change course. To change perspective or to accept. Or both. That low in the belly feels so uncomfortable that I'd rather block it out. But I find the inner most light comes out of those moments of shadow and that roller coaster bottom out. She was telling me I'm a receiver, to watch my life and find the truths like it was on a movie reel. And I understood what she meant but I had already confused myself for a manifestor. Or maybe I had just misunderstood the manifestations. And now what to do, besides let those manifestations happen before my eyes and leave the forces and shaping to the Universe. 

Heart Center

They told me to keep writing with wide open eyes. To record this experience that I'm interpreting as life. Because something is growing within me and I can feel the shift. Towards love and awareness of energy and I don't think I've ever felt as steady as after I looked inside. And started being aware of those sensations, those overwhelms, those tingling toes. And I feel it with my hands in center with my thumbs plugged into my heart. That open channel to all and that center root to one. One is all. All is one. Namaste.

Energy Symphony

There's that balance between light and dark that is like a dance of the energy we're composed of.  Well of energy not being created or destroyed but physical manifestations, duplications and mutations happening through every fabric of time what does that say of your own individual universe? That the energy is aways constant but the vibration is constantly in flux. Like vibrating in between those overlapping dimensions that map out the infinitive potentials of your conscious path. You navigate it with your mind. Increasing or decreasing that vibration manifesting your own reality and own experience of your awareness of life. Universes of energy in universes of energy in universes of energy. All dancing at different vibrations deciding their conscious or unconscious experience of themselves or in our specific case our lives. Energy forms that have thought in lettered words that try to capture abstract idea. Humans! Idea is what? Newly formed energetic reaction to a stimulus! Why is everything a metaphor for all is one and one is all? The same components in different arrangements. So think as an orchestrator composing a symphony beautiful enough to be your experience of life. Which notes will you choose?

Control Your Vibration

My Yoga Online

The truth is that you really are responsible for your own experience and that you cannot control the way other people treat you no matter how hard you try. It is easier to sit back and judge reality by saying that people should treat you a certain way and that they are wrong whenever they don't. However as long as you sing the tune of should or should not you set yourself up on a righteous path towards the vain attempt to change other people. When you want someone in your life to act differently than they are, you create resistance to them and the way they are acting. The old statement that the more you try to change it, the more it stays the same hits you square in the face. The more you tell yourself that your friend shouldn't speak to in that way and get angry and frustrated about it, the more your friend continues to speak to you in exactly that way. You could in fact spend the rest of your life issuing moral dictums about the way other people should or shouldn't treat you. That would be an awful waste of the rest of your life, especially since you have absolutely no control over the way other people act.

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a practice.

Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.


I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

The Eye

Where did you come from? I can't write because I can't describe you. It's like this calm tornado. Like the eye of the storm that we sit in. While everything spins around us in chaos but I'm looking at you steady and still. Trying not get get consumed and swallowed in the storm but with you holding my hand I can't even feel the rain. What are you supposed to do? (Freak out!) Remain calm and take a deep breath before you dive down deeper and deeper. How do you give me this overwhelming calm and make my stomach hurt at the same time? And how many days have you been there? Forever? You were there something? Did I manifest this in my mind, because you're more real than I couldn't dreamed up.

Plunge Down.

To Build A Home

Metta

The Philosophy and Practice of Universal Love

The Pali word metta is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, fellowship, amity, concord, inoffensiveness and non-violence. The Pali commentators define metta as the strong wish for the welfare and happiness of others (parahita-parasukha-kamana). Essentially metta is an altruistic attitude of love and friendliness as distinguished from mere amiability based on self-interest. Through metta one refuses to be offensive and renounces bitterness, resentment and animosity of every kind, developing instead a mind of friendliness, accommodativeness and benevolence which seeks the well-being and happiness of others. True metta is devoid of self-interest. It evokes within a warm-hearted feeling of fellowship, sympathy and love, which grows boundless with practice and overcomes all social, religious, racial, political and economic barriers. Metta is indeed a universal, unselfish and all-embracing love.

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Love Making

Love Making. (Everything) Because I fall in love with everything. Playing with the wonder of if I'll ever see it again. Not addicted to the thing, bringing yourself back to that feeling. Waving goodbye and watching it fade into smallness. I love laying next to it at night. Breathing. Can you feel it breathe with you? Breathing next to you. Slow and steady in sleep. Love; that connectedness to something. Love is making you better, stronger, more grounded. It makes you work harder, because you're in love. Surrounded by the love you're making. Love making. And it loves you for being who you are, where you are. Right now. Radiating Love. Pulsing, vibrating Love. Growing surrounded by the Love.

The Wedding Dresses

Oh the choices!

10 Powerful Phrases of Wisdom From Gandhi

JOE MARTINO

JANUARY 9, 2013

Mahatma Gandhi was a man that left man powerful messages to humanity before his time here was complete. Here is a list of 10 powerful phrases of wisdom he left to us all. One thing I wanted to add to this to help make it very practical is that for each one, try to see how it may relate to a certain instance or aspect of your life so you can truly begin incorporating this into your life. It is great to know quotes and phrases like these, but putting them into action is a big step to begin taking. Be sure to reflect on each one and see how you can make them a part of your life. Of course, share this list with others so they can do the same

 1. Be the change you wish to see in the world

2. What you think, you become

3. Where there is love, there is life

4. Learn as if you’ll live forever

5. Your health is your true wealth

6. Have a sense of humor

7. Your life is your message

8. Action expresses priorities

9. Our greatness is being able to remake ourselves

10. Find yourself in the service of others

Yoga for Lower Back Pain

Healthy Souls: Being Born

One of my new, wonderful, yoga-loving, beautiful, gluten-free, vegan-eating lovely friends, started this food blog. I totally dig it, she inspired me to become gluten-free and intensify my own yoga practice. Check it out!

Healthy Souls: Being Born: You are present, you are healthy, you are happy. You are healthy, you are happy, you are present. As we repeat these words over and over...

So...

It's funny I feel like I think and therefore speak in circles because I see this interconnectedness with this giant web of existence. So one thing leads me right back to another because they all make better sense together. As a whole. And I've been saying recently that I have all this energy in my head that swings me from thought to thought, (and that it needs to burst out of my body in an expression) but it's functioning at a high level (firing often). A high vibration. Whatever. Somewhat useless unless focused in and sharpened in order to fully complete a task (rise up to a new plateau). So then there's this thing I'm doing that focuses my mind and sharpens my body. That physical thing that allows my brain to be conscious. So how can that not be linked to my thinking? And if I'm strengthening my physical makeup, then I'm strengthening my mental wiring. Those physical things that make up the energy that is thought and perception. (That must change.) And now my thoughts are more clear. And that same thing that's making me stronger, is helping me stay in that freeze frame of a moment. With patience and grace. Whatever that experience is at that second; I'm aware. 

I've Learned

I've learned yelling at people doesn't make them listen. I've learned the only thing you can do is love them. And let them live their lives, for each must follow their own path. And fighting it will always cause more strife. I've learned people will only grow and learn from experience and you can help shape that experience by living your own life aligned with your own light. People see the glow. The only way to serve anyone, including yourself, is to love all those around you the best you can every day. For everyone is waging their own battles and bearing their own burdens. And your judgements mean nothing. Because it's your individual perception of circumstances your brain is trying to organize based on your own personal experiences. And there's no such thing or right or wrong, it's just left or right. So lighten up. And let life happen. And love the whole way.

The Passage of Wisdom

Sitting on my bed, my dad in my butterfly chair I got when I was ten. He's telling me about life, and how to be mindful of others. I was doing the same thing when I was sitting on the floor with my legs crossed looking up at her tell me her story. Opening up and absorbing all the wisdom she had to live and grow through. It's the same when I'm reading texts of men who died 300 years ago. They pass me the knowledge they'd pained and labored to learn. And that's why I listen to you flutter from topic to topic on that bus ride to New York because that thing you all have in common is; life lived in years and in tears and decisions. So please, keep feeding me. I'm growing with your nourishment.

Forearm Stand

How to get into your forearm stand :)

Joe Rogan - What Is Reality

Music:
Immediate Music - We Dissolve In Stars
Two Steps From Hell - Lost In Las Vegas
Audiomachine - Double Helix

Laughing Lotus NYC

I took a class yesterday at "Laughing Lotus" in New York City. To my delight, what they call "Lotus Flow Level 2" was AWESOME. A balanced mix of hip opening, strengthening and flowing postures felt amazing, and definitely challenged me. Got the unlimited pass ;)

Design Your World

Accepting all these phases in life with this realization that this is what they are. They come and they go and everything constantly changing is what makes this life so beautiful. She said in a class the other day, "you can relax, or you can remain anxious, weird, and awkward." Yeah, I know that feeling, I feel like that a lot. Stuck in my own head. But they were also talking about accepting what's coming your way as it shows up. Seeing those visions of towers (like Any Rand says), but staying present. Being aware of what's happening. Watching it. Because here is where you are, and each foot step you take in this moment is determining where you're going, so choose wisely. With an infinite number of universes linking together, you can navigate your path with a clear mind. It's taking those circumstances and designing a moment that suits you the most within your power. Can you do that? It's the only thing you can do. Predetermined existence? Only if you think it is. It's the only thing that matters for your unique consciousness. Because that makes you conductor, the divine. So design your world with your mind. 

Contagious Love

I was listening to a middle school girl tell me she woke up her slumber party to show them the pretty sunrise we talk about in the morning. She wanted them to see it too. I got the same feeling as when I carried a two year old boy on to a balcony overlooking Central Park and he exclaimed, "Look at how beautiful it is!" We talked about it all the time. And then there was this time I was staring at this rambunctious baby girl who was dragging me up and down and I stopped to stare at her beautiful face. It was that moment when I realized I loved loving her, even when she drove me crazy. And noticed she smiled every time I smiled at her first. Even though none of our other words were translated. I make sure I slow my breathing when babies are resting on my chest, so they're calmed by my slow heart beat. Because I think it is, this Love is contagious. 

We can be Buddhas

In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature. The first American to be ordained a Tibetan Monk by the Dalai Lama, Robert A.F. Thurman is a scholar, author and tireless proponent of peace.

A Drop

Bloom

I walked out of a hot yoga class I taught the other day and thought "I LOVE WHAT I DO, I CAN'T BELIEVE I GET PAID FOR THIS." I get to tell people how awesome and beautiful and strong they are everyday while I watch them grow healthier and calmer. It's so beautiful. I've been searching for that thing in my life that truly felt like an accomplishment of the human soul and I feel it. I don't make any money yet, and I pay for my gas and some coffee and there's not much else. But I see this whole tower to build. And these are just the foundations and THAT makes me SO EXCITED. And I finally want to begin construction. Because I've been sitting on my hands and biting my lips for years while rivers of ideas flow through my head and finally they make sense. They connect. I'm watching the patterns of my life and now I can decode them. Without fighting the current or swimming upstream, I work with what's coming my way. She blooms.

Scientist Proves DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

We came across this article today and thought that it would be a great read for our viewers. It’s awesome information showing the true nature of our reality and how science is changing everyday, opening up to the possibilities of this reality.

“Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf

THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.

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The Alignment

It's so funny sometimes you lose all your perspective until you have one of those moments. Like when you're staring into someone's eyes whose sick. Or when you're watching a person cry from real pain, or you yourself, are crying from real pain. Or especially when you're holding a baby. And you realize even your breathing matters because they're copying your energy. And then he falls asleep on you. And you sense this bigger thing. You can sense all the breathing around you. And understand you are just one heartbeat in a sea of the endless vibrations. And how beautiful they all are. (Singing their own tune.)  Therefore, the alignment of your own vibration and aiding in the grace and synchrony of vibrations around you will bring harmony. And harmony brings upon a dance; of free-flowing life. Can you feel it?

Distracted.

Australian model caught distracted during a photo shoot when the first plane hit tower.

Anywhere Happy.

If you can't be happy anywhere, you can't be happy any where. Any, which where. Because I've followed the sunshine and missed the moon. And slept under empty skies, warmer than ever before even in the absence of a star. And I've seen the cycles of day and night and learned that each will follow the last. And I haven't stopped yearning for the days in the bright sunshine, but I'm learning to be patient. Because I wouldn't know the warmth of the sun, if I hadn't felt the chill of the moon. And I can't escape my own mind, by changing geographical pinpoints and trading in highways for beaches. I felt the sun flickering through the trees as I drove yesterday, and it was like I remembered how to look. Because if you can see with the right eyes, the beauty never dies. Even if it's harder to see.

Unhappy Am I

“Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Thoughts on Trees

Thoughts on Trees.

Tree of Life.

You can't make a tree grow straight.

You can just show it the sun.

And hope they see the light. 

Because your experience depends on your lens.

Like children under feet;

You worry what they see.

But you can't paint their picture. 

Organisms will grow at their own speed:

Due to their own mentality.

In what direction no one can see.

But if you fill up and balance out:

You shall grow straighter towards the sun.

Be Healthy.

This is a compilation of tips I've learned over the last few years about health, fitness and wellbeing:

DRINK WATER: As soon as you wake up drinking a huge glass of water will even out your appetite and flush your system after a night of body detox. Drink water continuously throughout the day.

OATMEAL: Breakfast. So important. Sets the tone for the rest of the day.Adding a little bit of peanut butter for protein and fat and a banana makes oatmeal hearty and allows it to hold you over until lunch time. I always eat when I wake up. Some rather move their body before they fuel it.

FRUITS/VEGGIES: EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. I always monitor my fruit intake because they contain a lot natural sugars and can be high in calories but I go VEGGIE CRAZY. I'm a vegetarian, but regardless, basing your meals around a mostly veg content, will up your vitamins and keep you full by sheer size, content of your food while remaining low in calories.

SNACKS: Stick to whole foods like carrots, nuts, or sweet potatoes as stabilizing snacks. Look for high nutrients and simple foods. Eating small meals every few hours will boost your metabolism.

WHOLE FOODS: Eat real food. Whole broccoli, carrots, bananas, apples, sweet potatoes. Things that come from the Earth. Things that will keep you full and nourish your body.

MOVE: Do something physical everyday. Move as much as possible. From opting to walk up stairs and around the block, to hitting the gym, or even some YOGA.

LOVE YOURSELF: You're just trying to be an even better version of the already beautiful YOU.

Plant Your Seeds

Plant your seeds. Because whatever you plant will grow. So be mindful of what you sew. In your thoughts, your relationships, your actions, your words, your intentions. Be mindful. You're the only one powerful enough to change your life. For better of for worse. So start with what your interpreting and the story of it you're telling yourself in your head. And stop it in it's tracks if it doesn't serve you, if it's not good for you, if it's not making you more powerful and more graceful. And then manifest this in your words and your actions. And do good, even if it sucks. And stop creating your own enemies. Create friends. And honesty (like he says 'be impeccable with your word'). Watch yourself grow, and watch yourself change. And be mindful of that transformation. Because are you becoming what you want to be? Or are you stuck? Or are you drowning? And what can you do to save yourself, in each moment of your life that passes. Being awake. Make your choices.

What Would YOU Do With A Second Chance In Life?

By: The Huffington Post

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." -- Steve Jobs

In 2004, I was working on Wall Street, researching stocks for hedge funds, living a stressful life in New York City. It was a way of life I had always known, but on Dec. 26, 2004, my life changed forever. That day, the tsunami struck Asia, killing hundreds of thousands of people. I learned that the resort I was scheduled to visit just three days later, Charlie's Beach Resort in Koh Phi Phi, had been completely wiped out, with no survivors. It made me deeply question the way I was living. I wondered, "What would I do with a second chance in life?"

A month later, I went to a yoga retreat in Costa Rica called Pura Vida. I was interested in learning more about yoga. After I took a private yoga class, one of the teachers suggested that I look into the Nosara Yoga Institute for teacher training.

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