I've been really stressed out at work lately. It's starting to spill over into my personal life. Ugh! Life is such a cycle of eb's and flows. I strive to be the best I can but the little things get lost in the process. I don't practice yoga like I should, I don't meditate which are the key things that I MUST be doing but in the process of doing everything it's like I let the stress swell over me. It's a learning process. I did read this article lately that inspired me to once again embrace my emotions positive and negative.
How to Turn Negative Emotions Into Your Greatest Advantage.
I also started taking a class called Flower Essence where I've been learning about different flowers that help with emotional state. If anyone of you read my blog you know that I'm always expressing my challenge with them. The first essence in the series is
5 Flower Remedy---I've been using it and it has been helping.
Here is some more information to get you started, I look forward to sharing more. My second class is tonight.
5 Flower Formula
Peace, Love and Happiness,
~ Ruby
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
NFL Team the Seattle Seahawks Mandates Yoga
The staff of the Seattle
Seahawks have now made it mandatory for their players to participate
in Yoga practice after a successful optional program last season.
According to ESPN, yoga is just part of Coach Pete Carroll’s focus
on the players’ mental health and overall happiness.
“I wanted to find out if
we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about
each and every individual, what would happen?” he told ESPN.
Carroll’s philosophy is to
care for individual players, by offering yoga and meditation
sessions, and emphasizing positive thinking, language, and actions.
There’s even a whole staff designed to look after the players’
well being, including a life-skills consultant/addiction counselor.
This departs greatly from traditional football coaches who motivate
their players by being tough on them.
Their offensive tackle
Russell Okung also views meditation as an important part of training.
“Meditation is as
important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for
practice,” Okung said. “It’s about quieting your mind and
getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn’t
matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you
can’t do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power
over them and change them.”
In addition to improving
mental focus and stability, yoga also has the benefit of improving
flexibility and strengthening the neuromuscular system. The
flexibility aspect is one of the main reasons athletes participate in
yoga programs, to reduce injury to joints and connective tissue due
to improperly stretched muscles. Weight baring poses also help
strengthen the neuromuscular system by challenging how the body moves
and hold positions which then transfers to strength training and
other athletic activities.
This is why Yoganic Flow
offers their Yoga for Athletes at B-Fit Detroit:
http://www.bfitdetroit.com/
The original source article
can be found here:
http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/2013/09/nfl-team-mandates-yoga.html
Namaste
Will
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Happiness
There has been a lot of talk on how to be happy lately on different site and various blogs. Here is a good write up from the Huffington Post that I think sums things up. I can attest that when I am practicing these things, I am much happier!
Enjoy!
Peace, love and happiness,
Ruby
October Schedule
Fall Into a Yoga Class this Autumn
Each and every week in October
"In the entire circle of the year, there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening-- no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air." -Alexander Smith
Monday:
The Healthy Way of Life Company
Location: 1700 Haggerty Canton, MI 48187
Time: 6:00-7:00 am
Format: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Transform your body. Transform your life.
Location: 249 Cass Mt.Clemens, MI 48043
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Format: Vinyasa Yoga
Thursday:
Location: Fisher Building, Suite 216, 3011 W.Grand Blvd Detroit, MI 48202
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Format: Hatha Yoga
Friday:
The Healthy Way of Life Company
Location: 1700 Haggerty Canton, MI 48187
Time: 5:30-6:30 am
Format: Slow Burn Yoga
*You must be a member or have a guest pass to attend a class at Lifetime Fitness. For a free trial pass or for membership information please call (313)655-YOGA (9642) or email: KerrieTrahan@yoganicflow.com or contact the Lifetime Canton Club directly at: (734) 394-2800*
* B-fit Detroit, Pop-Up 313 Yoga and Lifetime Fitness are not Yoganic Flow affiliates*
A Detroit-based Yoga Initiative
Private Lessons & Hip-Hop Yoga Workshops
Location: Your office or your home, your choice
Time: Call (313)655-YOGA for availability
Format: Vinyasa, Yin, Meditation, and Ashtanga classes offered
Light & Love,
Kerrie
Party Girls have a Yogic Awakening
Now Reading: The Gurus' Guide to Serenity, A Me-Time Menu of Celebrity Stress Reducers by Laurel and Sharon House. On pages 64 and 65 I read a story that resonated so much with my own, I felt compelled to share it. While reading about Anna Getty's path I felt relieved that I wasn't alone in this kind of transition, from Party Girl to Prana Guide. I used to feel ashamed of my partying past, now I have learned to forgive myself, be present and accept the past as a piece of my path. I had to take that route to end up on the yogic journey I am now on, and I am thankful. Below you can read about a Hollywood Party Girls Yogic Awakening and view a few pictures of a Detroit Party Girls Pre-Yoga Past.
Anna Getty's Yogic Awakening
One might think that growing up a Getty, Anna Getty was virtually born with a silver spoon in her mouth, one that, like many elite offspring, she carried into her adult life. Yes, for a while she frequented the hottest Hollywood galas, and get-togethers, socialized with other elite offspring and caused a ruckus all over town. In her word, she was, "an insane mess, filled with fear."
But Anna had always been a seeker and a traveler, a trait passed down from her mom, and she quickly discovered yoga. Anna's practice began much like many others; in fact, much like my own. She drove by the famed Golden Bridge Kundalini Yoga Center in Los Angeles, owned by celebrity yoga guru Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, picked up a schedule, and promised herself that one day she would make it in there. Well, days turned into weeks, weeks to months, and still she hadn't mustered the courage to enter this unknown territory of Zen-like Angelenos toting yoga mats. Finally, she took a class, and the flood of emotions that were released manifested themselves as tears. Anna knew her life was about to change. For a while, she tried to uphold her party girl lifestyle, showing up to class after only a few hours of sleep and still brandishing glitter around from her eyes the night before. The nightly partying and drinking had left her body in a state of shock, but the yoga was helping rid the toxins and change her behavior patterns as her body was awakening and regenerating. She felt as though it was time to make a choice: continue on this new path or go back to the Hollywood scene. She chose yoga.
Soon, Anna was traveling with Gurmukh. Her life was changing before her eyes. She found that she was becoming more forgiving, patient, and flexible in both her body and her life. The next step was to take the teacher training class in order to share her new love of yoga by teaching others. Now she and her husband have a meditation room in their home, a room for spiritual and emotional growth, for healing and expression, or for simply sitting still.
Below are a few of My Pre-Yoga Pictures....before deciding as Anna did to "make a choice" continue on this new path (of yoga) or back to the Detroit Party Scene...
Though I was in Detroit, I felt like my friends & I were partying in Hollywood. For our 21st Birthday we rented the hottest club in the city, at the time, Club Icon. Celebrities, including, Busta Rhymes came to celebrate with us. The clubbed was packed to capacity and ended up running out of champagne. I remember drinking Moet & Chandon, dancing on the couches and posing for pictures all night.
Beyond this night, I spent many more doing the exact same thing. I partied with celebrities in the most popular venues in Miami, Atlanta, Las Vegas and New York. Over time, as my yoga practice developed the the 6-inch heels, shots of Patron' and late nights began to hurt the following day. As I became more in touch and in tune with body, I began to make decisions that made my body feel better instead of worse. Eventually, I too, choose yoga.
Anna Getty's Yogic Awakening
One might think that growing up a Getty, Anna Getty was virtually born with a silver spoon in her mouth, one that, like many elite offspring, she carried into her adult life. Yes, for a while she frequented the hottest Hollywood galas, and get-togethers, socialized with other elite offspring and caused a ruckus all over town. In her word, she was, "an insane mess, filled with fear."
But Anna had always been a seeker and a traveler, a trait passed down from her mom, and she quickly discovered yoga. Anna's practice began much like many others; in fact, much like my own. She drove by the famed Golden Bridge Kundalini Yoga Center in Los Angeles, owned by celebrity yoga guru Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, picked up a schedule, and promised herself that one day she would make it in there. Well, days turned into weeks, weeks to months, and still she hadn't mustered the courage to enter this unknown territory of Zen-like Angelenos toting yoga mats. Finally, she took a class, and the flood of emotions that were released manifested themselves as tears. Anna knew her life was about to change. For a while, she tried to uphold her party girl lifestyle, showing up to class after only a few hours of sleep and still brandishing glitter around from her eyes the night before. The nightly partying and drinking had left her body in a state of shock, but the yoga was helping rid the toxins and change her behavior patterns as her body was awakening and regenerating. She felt as though it was time to make a choice: continue on this new path or go back to the Hollywood scene. She chose yoga.
Soon, Anna was traveling with Gurmukh. Her life was changing before her eyes. She found that she was becoming more forgiving, patient, and flexible in both her body and her life. The next step was to take the teacher training class in order to share her new love of yoga by teaching others. Now she and her husband have a meditation room in their home, a room for spiritual and emotional growth, for healing and expression, or for simply sitting still.
Below are a few of My Pre-Yoga Pictures....before deciding as Anna did to "make a choice" continue on this new path (of yoga) or back to the Detroit Party Scene...
Though I was in Detroit, I felt like my friends & I were partying in Hollywood. For our 21st Birthday we rented the hottest club in the city, at the time, Club Icon. Celebrities, including, Busta Rhymes came to celebrate with us. The clubbed was packed to capacity and ended up running out of champagne. I remember drinking Moet & Chandon, dancing on the couches and posing for pictures all night.
Beyond this night, I spent many more doing the exact same thing. I partied with celebrities in the most popular venues in Miami, Atlanta, Las Vegas and New York. Over time, as my yoga practice developed the the 6-inch heels, shots of Patron' and late nights began to hurt the following day. As I became more in touch and in tune with body, I began to make decisions that made my body feel better instead of worse. Eventually, I too, choose yoga.
-Love & Light,
Kerrie
Resources:
www.kundaliniyogaeast.com
www.stepupwomensnetwork.org
www.poweryoga.com
www.goldenbridgeyoga.com
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