19 Ways To Love Yourself More In 2019
By Silvia Mordini What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more? Decide right now to stop relying on anyone else for your happiness. Instead, look in the mirror for the one person who can change your life. Love yourself first. And remember your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other […]
3 Confidence Boosters
By Silvia Mordini When I hear someone say they lack confidence I encourage them to tell me what this really means. Take a moment and think about it, how do you define confidence? Confidence is defined as: Having healthy self-esteem to live life knowing we have a right to be happy. This comes as a […]
How Movement is Good for the Mind
I’ve been moving my body in some way all my life. Started in the crib, learned to ski before I could walk, was taking swim lessons, tennis lessons, dance lessons from the earliest age you could possibly sign up. Loved being on swimteam, tennis, soccer team, pom-pons, dance squad and more. I’m not new to […]
Keeping Your Promises
Are you good at keeping promises? Keeping our promises is a demonstration of our ability to be faithful. Maintaining a healthy commitment to our diet, to our family, to our friends, to our job, takes effort. This daily discipline is known as sadhana, our dedicated practice to our core promises. This promise is from You […]
Radical Self Care: It’s OKAY to Put Yourself First
When is the most important moment? NOW Who is the most important person? THE ONE YOU’RE WITH, WHICH IS ALWAYS YOU. What is the most important thing to do? TO CARE Yoga is time where we get back in touch with caring about ourselves. Self-care is essential to a productive, peaceful life. Developing an attitude […]
How To Love Yourself
Will taking care of others ever lead you to taking better care of yourself? No. Of course not. You have to take care of yourself to receive from yourself. Otherwise its robbing Peter to pay Paul. Giving love to yourself is important. Why not make the commitment to loving yourself a priority starting today? You […]
Caring For Our Feelings
It is good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. ~Rumi This practice of poses and breath brings about an awareness of what we are feeling. For most of us, when we start yoga we haven’t made time to […]
The Language of Enthusiasm
Remember it is not how or when we accomplish something that matters most; it is the sense of enthusiasm during the process that demonstrates our quality of life. Enthusiasm promotes union because it is a shared language. As Paolo Coelho writes in The Alchemist, “There was a language in the world that everyone understood. It […]
How to Manifest Change in Your Life
“CHANGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR YOURSELF: EXPECT THE BEST, EXPECT YOUR FORTUNES TO CHANGE, EXPECT A MIRACLE. REACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THAT VISION.” Dr. Wayne Dyer To manifest change, you have to change something yourself. A key change is your perception of yourself, shifting from seeing yourself as someone who sticks to the old and comfortable all […]
5 Ways to be More Generous
As a result of practicing yoga, I have changed the way I think about generosity. I have learned to give without expectation and to always remain mindful of the quality of my generosity. Generosity in yoga is an interesting learning based partly on two of the five Yamas. 1. It means the opposite of taking […]