In training for my life!!!

I'm feeling like I'm in training! But for what??
The answer that came back, to my surprise was..... LIFE!
I'm feeling a strong motivation to not only continue my commitment to experiencing yoga in each day, each moment & each relationship but also to creatively stay on the path to living in a way that is for my absolute best. To eat better, be a positive role model for my son, dedicate myself each day to my yoga and meditation practice, get clear about my goals and what I truely want to bring into my future and then to dedicate myself to staying on that path to transformation, to stay In Training for each day and the day after.....

Why is it that we usually train for a specific event? Why not be in training all the time to be able to live feeling great, energized, positive, happy and free from stress and worry. Sounds great to me, the only thing that we have to be mindful of is our tendency to Self Sabotage!! To slide back into the physical and mental habits that keep us from living our full potential.

Thank you yoga!! It can be so amazingly supportive.... helping us create more prana (life energy) and helping us to break through those old patterns that hold us in our current circumstances.
What I know to be true is that our life moves in the direction of what we're thinking and how we're feeling. Yoga can most definately help us to feel a whole lot better. It allows me the space to get clear and connected. When we are able to draw in to that stillness we are far more open to find the answer inside of us that will fully support our next decision, be it coffee or fresh juice? Yoga or television? An early morning walk or a sleep in?
So, I'm on that daily path with a Master mentality and dedication. Make the choices that support me, live each day feeling happy, healthy and strong and be ready to amp up the discipline when those old habits and samskaras come calling.
Join me and begin to dedicate each day to you and to creating exactly what it is you want. You deserve it!

See you on the mat!!
Lauren x

The intention's been set, It's time to walk the walk!!

Yoga yoga yoga!!!!

This incredible practice that I've dedicated my life to can transform us in so many ways, from the physical to the deeply spiritual.

I'm beginning to truly understand more and more that yoga is in everything, in every moment, in every breath, in every decision, in every exchange. It's in the moments when we're with our lovers, our children, our friends and our family. It's in the moment that you walk down the street and offer a friendly smile to the person walking by. It's in the moment that you decide child's pose is better than another downward facing dog.


Yoga offers this innate potential to unite, to move back to center, to witness and appreciate beauty, to be open and honest and respectful. This is something that I've known intellectually for quite some time but only now am I beginning to understand this concept on a different level. Only now am i beginning to feel a deep desire, a yearning to to align my intention with my words, my thoughts with my actions. I want to live in harmony, balanced and truthful.

I've fallen deeply into patterns over the years, acting from a place of habit rather than a place of presence, finding this most prevalent of course in relationships with those that i love the most. This experience always leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth and worse still it's left me feeling like a fraud. How can i practice yoga in one moment and then leave it behind in the next simply because I'm no longer on my yoga mat....!?!

My challenge to myself this year and every year thereafter is to live up to my full potential, to exist in the present!!!! To stop relating to others from what's happened in the past and focus on what is true in each and every moment. My challenge is to take yoga from out of the studio, off the mat and into each and every day and into each relationship.

Of course one of the best ways to harness this kind of awareness is to keep up a daily practice, whether it's 5 minutes or 105 minutes. Breathe, allow energy to move through me not stagnate, to connect in to center rather than be moved from something outside of myself, to commit, to be disciplined! All to serve a wonderful intention!!!!

It's just struck me......Am i seeking enlightenment???? Is this my intention for 2011???

No, not enlightenment, even thought that would be a welcomed state..... No, I'm simply moving back to presence, back to my practice, back to myself.

Come join me at The LifePod, on the mat.... rocking our yoga, our relationships, and rocking our intentions for 2011!!!!

Namaste,

Lauren