5 Positive Life Lessons Learned from Volunteering

How To Live In Service and Volunteer

There are so many lessons learned from volunteering. But when was the last time you engaged in the act of community service? Today’s world is filled with many incredible ways that we can offer our time to volunteer projects or activities. It can be highly beneficial for our mind, body, and spirit to offer more…

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Confessions of a Yoga Teacher – Why are we here?

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What are your foundational beliefs about life? Why are we here? I believe that each human soul has a unique purpose or dharma, with special gifts and talents to offer the world; and that we are born to discover this purpose, and then serve the greater good through our individual expression of the divinity within.…

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How to Live a Fearless Life

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There are so many explanations for what yoga is, what constitutes a yoga practice and what we should really focus on in our practice. People always ask,“What should my yoga practice be?” For many, “practice” consists of doing as many sun salutations and yoga push-ups as possible. For some, it is sitting in stillness every…

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12 Proven Ways To Fill Your Yoga Retreat

12 proven ways to fill your yoga retreat

I have lead two yoga retreats at Blue Osa Yoga Retreat + Spa in Costa Rica and am now on my third one. For every year that I’ve organized a retreat at Blue Osa, I told management to expect 24 attendees. Each year, the number of people traveling with me for my yoga retreat in…

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Confessions Of A Yoga Teacher – How I Overcome My Fear

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This is a confession series with four yoga retreat leaders.  They share their thoughts on fear, courage, adventure, what scares them the most, and how they deal with fear. The following is written Martin Scott, who came to Blue Osa to and led the Clear Your Mind & Unwind retreat! Fear stops us from realizing…

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Step Into Your Fear

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A few years ago before the winter solstice, as the days grew darker and shorter, I began to notice how my attention shifted to the “dark” areas of my life. I came to realize that the practice of yoga can ultimately have the potential to set us yogis apart from others by virtue of the…

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5 Steps to Cultivate Courage and Confidence.

5 things you can do to Cultivate Courage

Marianne Williamson said, ‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.’ We each have so much potential, yet all too often, there is a gap between what we’re capable of and what we’re doing. Life is too long to be miserable and too short…

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