Category: Mastery
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Practicing Aparigraha by Mixing up your Yoga Rouine
Yoga has a ton of advantages and if you don’t believe it, then read this source. One of the yogi principals I’ve had the most chances to practice the past 2 years I’ve been traveling is practicing Aparigraha or Non-Attachment. Day to day routines are awesome and something I desperately miss, but when you are stripped…
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Yoga Helps Detox the Body
Toxins get a bad rep. We all know that in order to be healthy we should do things to Detox the body. Detoxes come in all shapes and forms with some being as extreme as week long juice cleanses to things as simple as making sure to drink 8 glasses of water a day. By…
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Take Your Yoga Practice Deeper: What I’m Working on This Year to Deepen My Own Practice
This year I’ve been reading the book Mediations From the Mat. It is a 365 day journey to help you understand Patañjali’s yoga sutras. I’m kind of cheating in that I started the book in Nov and only on day 50, but as the new year catches up with my reading I’m slowly syncing my…
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Fitness Accountability: The Secret to Achieving your Fitness Goals This Year.
Yesterday was officially the first real day of the New Year. Sure we’ve technically already had 5 other days, but given that our holidays fell in the middle of the week this year most of us were probably still on Holiday until Jan 6th. So here’s a question for you. Did you work out?…
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The Secret to Fitness is to Establish a Routine
As the New Year approaches, I thought as a personal trainer/yoga instructor it would be important to take some time to send a message to everyone looking to make health and fitness part of their New Year’s Resolution. So often at the beginning of a New Year, we look back on the past year and…
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Yoga For Athletes: 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Yoga to Enhance your Athletic Preformance
One of my favorite viral images was this one to the right that started getting passed around about a year ago. “I can’t do yoga because I’m not flexible enough.”-The Many Athletes out there not doing yoga. Athletes can do amazing physical feats but it’s so funny how often they shy away from the things…
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Health and Fitness While Traveling
One of the hardest things about personally training is countering my clients excuses. Now, it must be said some people just don’t have the intention to EVER get healthy and fit. They find eating a pizza they saw on the way to the check out with their lean steak and veggies, after canceling their session…
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Fitness Lessons You Can Learn from a Traveling Bikram Yoga Instructor/Personal Trainer
I’ve officially been in the road now for over a week now. So far my quest to maintain a healthy fit lifestyle is working out pretty well. I’ve gone on some awesome runs. I’ve run around the Marina with views of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. I’ve run along rolling hills of vineyards…
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The Psychology of Personality: How Knowing Yourself Better Can Keep Your Fitness Goals On Track
I recently attended The World Domination Summit (WDS) in Portland, Oregon. The conference was 3 days jam-packed, full of lectures and workshops all led by entrepreneurs, writers, and artists. One of the of the many great speakers I heard was Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project. In her lecture, Gretchen pointed out that in…
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Getting Back On Track: What You Can Expect From Mastering Health and Fitness in the Upcoming Year
Hi Fitness Friends! I apologize for my hiatus from posting. It has been a crazy couple months. My then fiancee Tom Morkes and I packed up all our belongings at the end of June and road tripped back to Washington State where we just got married 2 weeks ago on August 3rd. I’ve spent the past…