...The third ingredient is to take action. The difference between a dream and a goal is how much action is propelling the idea forward. If I visualize becoming a yoga teacher without any action, then this is just a pipe dream. You would be better off to dream in your sleep and take action while you are awake.

Look around you and you will see most people do not make any significant changes or take positive action. If you want to teach yoga, this is to your advantage. Why do I say this? So many people passionately talk and dream without action. Even after you become a yoga teacher, you must still take action, but many people rest on their laurels. A few yoga teachers skip their continuing education, become stale, and eventually quit.

How can this happen? Because yoga teachers and everyone else should write down goals, make plans, and keep taking action. This is not that difficult, but sitting down and dreaming is easier. The...more

The Purpose of yoga- The Components of Good Character

...saying will be around as long as humans walk the earth. If you display impatience, almost everyone who is present will remember it. You could have been patient for ten years, but one eruption of impatience is what most people will remember.

However, the importance of patience is to think clearly during stressful times. To willingly wait, without showing anger, requires a trained or good-natured personality. Yet, patience can be a life saver in a critical situation. If you are performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), there is a specific sequence of events, which must take place, to save a persons life. The person o...more

The Purpose of yoga- Character

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The character building components you should be learning from your yoga teacher are the foundation of good health. If we cannot sleep well at night because of guilt, envy, or greed, this will have an adverse, and possibly a long-term, effect on our physical health.

It is obvious that our mental, physical, and emotional health will be improved by good character, but it can also be said that our physical health will be improved? How can this be? Feelings of fun, gratification, kindness, happiness, and forgiveness, are just plain healthy. The opposite feelings will cut our life spans short.

The building blocks of good ch...more

Hurricane Power Outages and yoga

...d and water. Nevertheless without any television, telephones or power there is not a lot you can do.

However, if you are into yoga you could simply sit there like a pretzel for weeks on the end and be perfectly happy; isn't that special? Perhaps if you are considering waiting out a huge hurricane rather th...more

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