Monday, April 22, 2013

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.

posted from Bloggeroid

Saturday, January 26, 2013

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.

Monday, January 7, 2013

New Year, New You!

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

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Sliding Into Home part 1

The first 3 chapters mostly just give some background knowledge and content about the author, Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett, to lay foundation to the rest of the book.
Chapter 1- A Tale of Two Kendras is a flashback to her first night at the Playboy Mansion as a painted lady, cocktail server, Hugh Hefners 78th birthday, the night where he asked her to be his girlfriend and she said yes changing her whole life.
Chapter 2- No Room For Daddy goes back to when she was 3 years old. This chapter begins the speed of the book, highlighting her past, her childhood and adolences, all the events that led her to that life changing birthday party. To begin she goes in detail discussing the abandonment of her father and the strain it caused her family. Noteable events include her divorced maternal grandparents moving from New Jersey to San Diago to help her mother raise her and her brother. Also a moment of meditation occured when her father left them for good when she was about 5, and her mother took the kids out to bay where Kendra found herself surrounded by ladybugs and got so lost in their wonder that she forgot about her pain. It was also through her elementray years that she discovered her love of sports, specifically soccer and softball. It was also at age 7 that her rebellian began to surface when her babysitter informed her and her friend about sex and later the two girls were caught trying to imulate what they heard in Kendras closet.
Chapter 3- A Friend In Need, this chapter covers her last years of elementary school and her transition to middle school. This chapter mostly covers her struggle to fit in and feel accepted and her openess to befriend anyone. Such friends included elderly individuals in her community, a little boy with cancer (that sadly passed away when she was 8). And a little black girl, which taught her a valued lesson in life when Kendra discovered that there were no black Barbie dolls for her to give her friend during her birthday. She also learned to love others and how imprtant it is to not harm anyone physically or emotionally for she herself was often the victim of bully attacks. The end of the chapter she leaves elementary school and sets up the following chapter with her journey to middle school.

Thank you: forgive and forget

Someone recently made a very good point that I felt inspired to share with all of you:
We are taught to forgive and forget, most already know that the forgetting and letting go is hard, and that forgiving is a challenge, but more or less easy. What we do not often think about though is the most challenging act of all is thankfulness. To really accept all the 'bad' or 'negative' events in your life and in the world and to realize that it is good and necessary and to truely be greatful for all events, 'good' or 'bad'.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

New Month - November Summary

'Flicking on the Light' - I discuss the ilumination that is yoga.
'Do You Know?'- Do you know that you are a gift?
'Shavasana'- Rolf Gates insights on the end of moments and how to endure loss.
'Yoga Limbs Breakdown'- Discussing the physicial and metaphysical differences between the first 4 and the last 4 limbs.
'Join Stephanie's Yoga Book Club'- A little plug about my new blog.
'MirrorMirror'- A beautifully inspiring quote from an adorable children's film.
'Principle 15'- still plugging away at breaking down Jack Kornfield's psychology of yoga.
'Yoga is not Serious'- A link to one of my Youtube Vlog posts.
'Almost Thanksgiving'- A request to hear you share what you are thankful for.
'We Are What We Think'- A quote by Sathya Sai Baba, insights on the power we have to create our lives.
'Happy Thanksgiving'- I shared my Thanksgiving prayer.

Welp that November, stayed tuned for the end of the year, Dec 2012 =)

Namaste,
Stephanie