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Thriving Over 50: Maintaining Your Ability To Balance With Age
Thriving Over 50: Maintaining Your Ability To Balance With Age
Awakening Hope Retreat - Yoga, Hiking & Healing In Sedona - Yolanda's Journey In Her Own Words
Awakening Hope Retreat - Yoga, Hiking & Healing In Sedona - Yolanda's Journey In Her Own Words
7 Ways To Counteract Negativity In Your Life
7 Ways To Counteract Negativity In Your Life
9 Ways To Cultivate Positivity
9 Ways To Cultivate Positivity
5 Ways Yoga Healed Me
5 Ways Yoga Healed Me
5 Benefits of Yoga for Cancer Patients & Survivors
5 Benefits of Yoga for Cancer Patients & Survivors
What Is A Health And Wellness Coach?
What Is A Health And Wellness Coach?
5 Lessons From Teachers That Changed My Life & Inspired Me To Teach
5 Lessons From Teachers That Changed My Life & Inspired Me To Teach
How Yoga Helps Balance The Body's Stress Response
How Yoga Helps Balance The Body's Stress Response
Yoga At Home: How to Sequence Your Practice
Yoga At Home: How to Sequence Your Practice
Bye 2018 And Hello 2019 - Looking Back with Gratitude And Forward With Anticipation
Bye 2018 And Hello 2019 - Looking Back with Gratitude And Forward With Anticipation
How Grief Manifests in the Body
How Grief Manifests in the Body
Things My Cat Taught Me
Things My Cat Taught Me
Callings From The Soul, Part 2: What To Do When You’re Lost
Callings From The Soul, Part 2: What To Do When You’re Lost
7 Simple Steps To Calm Your Body And Mind
7 Simple Steps To Calm Your Body And Mind
Reconnect With Your Heart To Calm Your Body And Mind - New Video Up on Noteworthy by Aura Cacia
Reconnect With Your Heart To Calm Your Body And Mind - New Video Up on Noteworthy by Aura Cacia
Callings From The Soul; Part 1 : My Personal Experience
Callings From The Soul; Part 1 : My Personal Experience
10 Ways To Shake Age Obsession
10 Ways To Shake Age Obsession
5 Minute Heartfelt Breathing Practice For Stress Relief
5 Minute Heartfelt Breathing Practice For Stress Relief
10 Ways To Turn Off Your Stress Switch
10 Ways To Turn Off Your Stress Switch
How to Know When Your Stress Switch is “On”
How to Know When Your Stress Switch is “On”
A Gentle Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) Series
A Gentle Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) Series
4 Ways A Yoga Retreat Can Change Your Life
4 Ways A Yoga Retreat Can Change Your Life
Room To Breathe : Tapping Into The Power Of Your Breath
Room To Breathe : Tapping Into The Power Of Your Breath
5 Benefits Gained Through A Committed Yoga Practice
5 Benefits Gained Through A Committed Yoga Practice
Deepen Your Yoga Practice With These 4 Yoga Basics
Deepen Your Yoga Practice With These 4 Yoga Basics
8 Ways to Say Goodbye to Post Travel Fatigue
8 Ways to Say Goodbye to Post Travel Fatigue
Yoga For Travel: 13 Poses You Can Do Anywhere
Yoga For Travel: 13 Poses You Can Do Anywhere
Where Is Your Path? (And How Yoga Can Help You Find It)
Where Is Your Path? (And How Yoga Can Help You Find It)
Yoga For Beginners ~ 10 Great Yoga Poses For Anyone New To Yoga
Yoga For Beginners ~ 10 Great Yoga Poses For Anyone New To Yoga
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Just like a yoga practice isn’t about being perfect, your journey in life isn’t about being perfect. Thank goodness! Life is a roller coaster but in the end there is only this moment and how we decide to fill it. Take time to listen to your truest self and to follow that voice.  Then let go into the next moment and the next.  Embrace it all.  Forgive yourself when you fall, get back up and step forward again.  Life will knock us all down at some point.  What matters is that we get back up!
I was recently asked why I decided to teach yoga. I thought I would share my answer here. I am passionate about the practice of yoga, about the connection, the compassion, and about the awareness that yoga can and does bring me and others every day. My life has been changed for the better by yoga. Yoga can change lives. It can make you both emotionally and physically stronger, healthier, and more balanced. It can motivate those who practice to make better choices in their lives. Yoga can light the way towards awareness and compassion – both for one’s own self and for others. When we come from that place of compassion we help others to do the same. Yoga is not just an exercise program; it is a way of life. Yoga is more than what happens on the mat. It is also how we chose to live our life off the mat. In yoga it is called your Sadhana or "conscious spiritual practice" taking a view of oneself from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, cultivating a sense of being connected with all of life. To sum it up I teach because my life had been changed for the better because of yoga and because I want to share and facilitate that positive change in other’s lives. When only one person shifts toward wholeness, inner peace and compassion the whole world shifts. It’s a beautiful thing!

 

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