Life Advice

Little Stephanie made wisdom for the day:
Live like you are being filmed without your knowledge.

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Tara Stiles's Blog

Well you've seen me share my comments on her page, but today I found someone else's comment to be so inspiring that I myself didn't feel I needed to make one. I asked the user if I could quote her, haven't heard back, so I'll just share the link to the post, and want to highlight that you all check out the response made by Takako =)

Much love,
Stephanie

Oh yeah.. the link.. der =P

http://tarastiles.com/blog/do-you-have-enough-space/

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July's Book

For July I felt it an inspiring choice in this heat to read about 'The True Power of Water- Healing and Dicovering Ourselves' by Masaru Emoto.

Its a small book, only 5 chapters in length, so a breezy read with some powerful information inside along with some stunning photos.

The summary posts will go as follows:
Chapter 1- Sunday July 7th
Chapter 2- Sunday July 14th
Chapter 3- Sunday July 21st
Chapters 4 + 5- Sunday July 28th
Book Wrap Up- Wednesday July 31st

Reminder this is just when I am uploading the summaries of the chapters.. feel free by all means to read at your own pace. Any feedback, discussions, thoughts, questions or comments may be left here in 'comments' (you don't have to be a memeber of blogger to leave one), or on my Facebook, my Youtube or email me at stephaniesyoga@yahoo.com.

(With this book and Kendra's Sliding into Home as well as all future reads.. if you have comments outside of the timeline of when I make these posts.. still feel free to leave them.. there is never any time limit on reading, sharing, growth or community *^_^*)

Much Love Everyone, and a Happy Safe and Heathy plump summer July,

Stephanie

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Another Tara Stiles Response

My Favorite example of risk taking is the classic Bill Murray film ‘What About Bob’, because it really is all about ‘babysteps’. You don’t have to do huge grand acts to be taking a risk or impact your life or the life of someone around you. Maybe you never move out of your ‘small town’ and have never gone on a vacation before, does not mean you are not a risk taker. Everyone takes risks when they breakup with someone, or get married, apply for a job for the first time, say yes to experiencing sushi, etc. Anytime you do something, anything outside of your comfortzone, when you step forth into something either unknown or not fully known you are taking a risk, and there for growing and its a beautiful thing =) Another good film example for anyone who still doesn’t know maybe how to take that first baby step and enter into something new, ‘Yes Man’ with Jim Carey. Now that doesn’t mean you have to say ‘yes’ to something you feel is shady like following someone down a dark alley, however its a film to me that has inspired me to start saying yes to oppurtunities and invitations, examples have included: moving in with my bestfriend (who within a month became my lover, another month my boyfriend, another month my fiance, and finally a month after that my husband), or saying yes to a yogi inviting me to their studios 1st Anniversary Party which I said yes to going to even when I had a childhood friend visiting for just a day, I said hi to the studio owner for about an hour and kindly left to get back to my guest and ended up making good friends and found both a job and a home at that studio. Sometimes saying ‘yes’ means saying yes to yourself. A personal example of mine would be when I gained the courage to leave school. I felt it wasn’t the path I was supposed to be on, even though I upset everyone in the process, it was just something I had to do. I couldn’t keep going to lectures and gaining more debt from school loans just because my mom wanted me to have a corporate job. True it ended up taking me a few more years and baby step risks until my future of teaching yoga became clear to me, however that’s what its all about =) One thing that I learned at a very young age back when I was an atheist, former christian, is that the universe has a plan! More often than not its better that yours. If I didn’t learn how to go with the flow and let the river of life lead me where it wants me to go, then id probebly be where I was in highschool, with my highschool boyfriend, and having low self esteem and a shy little girls unawareness of the world or herself, I would probebly still not have a voice and I may have commited suicide by now because i used to be manic depressive. (Now true I could still have had a happy outcome, just pointing out that without oppurtunities for growth, the probability that growth will occure in the same time at the same rate is a lot less likely.) Not an example of a risk but a powerful (in my life) example of the universe having a better plan is september of 2011 my husband and I got married, the following week, the fbirst week of october we had a miscarriage, then Dec of 2012 we found out we were pregnant again, I’m 8 months alone and all is well. Some may see it as horrible that I lost the first one but I had faith then that things were playing out how they were supposed to, that the child I had was not really mine, they weren’t the one I was supposed to meet, and this one is =) plus looking back at the events inbetween the miscarriage and my sons upcoming due date, I see very clearly why the universe was protecting myself, my husband and that child that didn’t not happen, because we went through financle and emotional hardships that would have made keeping and caring for a newborn very unrealistic. So for anyone reading this: take baby steps, say yes to oppurtunities (unless your gut tells you its really not right), and relax and smile knowing the universe has a plan and that all is well and will be taken care of.
Much Love,
Stephanie

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A Year of Living Your Yoga-Daily Practices to Shape Your Life

This book is by Judith Hanson lasater, Ph.D., P.T.

I felt like sharing the June 14th and the June 17th entries:

14- 'Only the soft earth absorbs rain.
'The practice of yoga is not about becoming more flexible but rather about becoming softer so you can fully receive life. Make time for Savasana (Basic Relaxation Pose) today. Support your head, neck, and knees, and cover your eyes. Receive the moment through your senses: sensations, sounds, and thoughts. Soften to your life as you experience it in this moment. Stay at least fifteen minutes before rolling over and getting up.'

17- 'Only you can give yourself permission to be happy.
'We grow up when we realize that no one is going to tap us on the shoulder and say, "Now you have done enough so you can be happy." Take a deep breath and make the decision that you will connect with your own happiness for the next five minutes. At the end of this time, make the commitment for the next five minutes, and then the next. Know that your ability to be happy lies within you, only you, and is not dependent on your circumstances.'

So be soft and be happy =)

Namaste,
Stephanie

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My Comment to Tara Stiles

You know its funny, before I started my youtube channel: Stephanie’s Yoga; I didn’t know who Tara Stiles was, and as far as vlogs go getting to know Tara I am still playing catch up, but it seems our styles, and goals and intentions are on a very similar path. One little tweak or side note, I get the whole ‘Yoga Rebel’ label, its cute and cool and fresh and hip, and it does help in a way to describe Tara’s intentions, but my personal hiccup is the word ‘rebel’ because to me the whole point of a rebel is to go against someone or something, rather than just doing you for you.

That said, my ‘rebellion’ as it were, is better shared if I explain a little about my beginning. When I first got my Yoga Teaching Certification I was a bit of a deer in the headlights about what to wear, do, go, etc. I had it in my head for a while that to ‘be a yoga teahcer’ I had to ‘look like a yoga teacher’. So I was wearing minimal to no makeup, I wore plain unvibrant clothing to class, a lot of black, cream and oatmeal, I was nervous about showing my tattos, and at the time my hair was dark brown and I was afraid of being me and going with a colour change, which at the time my desire was to go blonde. As I got more comfortable I realized I was being silly because I wasn’t being myself, I was being what I thought people wanted, and to use Tara’s example it was very much like dating. When you date someone sure you want them to accept you, but they can’t do that if you aren’t you. So now I’m being spazzy colourful me, doing themed classes or goofying off in regular classes, getting people to laugh and smile because ‘who says’ that yoga has to be serious? I’ve learned and am now teaching and promoting that its ok to laugh, its ok to sing the song ‘Wild Thing’ when doing the pose wildthing, its ok to dress up like Little Bunny FuFu for an easter class, or to do a Mayan Senseral Perscption Meditation durning a Cinco De Mayo class. My intentions right now are to spread ease and smiles and laughter. To help people ebrace being themselves. And to get people outside of the yoga niche and communinty involved in yoga! *^_^*

Much Love, Stephanie

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Guitar Lesson

So often I hear people say they can not do yoga because they are not flexible.
To me that is like saying you can't take guitar lessons because you don't know how to play the guitar.

Control is an illusion

You have no control over what others do, only over how you react to it. Control is one of life's greatest illusions. You are not in charge of your children, or partner, or boss. How will you respond to their actions today? You choose: with clarity and empath, or with anger and disappointment?

From A Year of Living Your Yoga- daily Practices to Shape Your Life by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D, P.T.

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I'm Coming Out of the Closet

That's right, I'm pregnant! 10 weeks tomm, baby has a strong heartbeat of 170bpm, my husband and I are so excited and so proud. And throwing it out there, an apology to all of you, I haven't been feeling well, for now obvious reasons, which is why I haven't really been in blogging spirits. Also to those doing the 8 week New Year New You, I will cont posting vids next week. =)

Believe

If you don't believe, you won't receive. Something I just now am reading on a christmas ordiment about santa... struck me as powerful words for yoga as well: if you don't believe, you won't receive. Its just so true.. you get what you give..one of the 4 laws of karma. We have so much power, we can create or destroy our lives and our worlds... our entire being and exhistance rests in our hands.

New Year, New You!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h4h6Nme3E&feature=youtube_gdata_player