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Dragon Pose (Lunge Variation)

November 30, 2021 by yinster Leave a Comment

This is a beautiful pose if you have tight hip or back! We get it all with this lunge variation!

If you have any questions regarding this pose, please contact us HERE!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: behavior, clarity, entrepreneur, lifestyle, meditation, mindset, self help, stress, wellness, Yoga

Day 4 – Understanding

July 28, 2020 by Romack Leave a Comment

Welcome to Day 4 – Understanding Yourself Better

So why on earth would we want to understand ourselves better?

When we seek to better understand out thoughts, emotions and actions, we realize how much is conditioned by our surroundings. It’s not actually who we are.  It’s conditioning.

Once we understand that we have to opportunity to let them go.  And that’s liberating!  That’s change!

Self mastery is what we seek so we can continually evolve to be the best we can be for ourselves and others.

I’ve found a unique way to understand ourselves better is to take a RISK!  Taking a risk means that the outcome is unknown. For many of us, that fear of the ‘what can happen’ stops us from moving forward.

In order to better understand ourselves and self reflect, let’s take some risk and see what happens.

It can be a big or small risk.  It’s what you are comfortably uncomfortable with.  If a risk doesn’t present to you today, at least you are thinking about it.  You are still aware of it.  That is understanding yourself better in order to create more focus!

Did you miss the other days?  It’s all good… Here are the links to those blogs!

https://www.modernyinster.com/day-1-focus

https://www.modernyinster.com/day-2-off-set-distractions/

https://www.modernyinster.com/day-3-clarity/

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Filed Under: 5 Days of Focus Tagged With: behavior, best self, clarity, lifestyle, love, meditation, mindset, self help, self mastery, self reflection, selfworth, stress, wellness, women, Yoga

Strength Centering Practice – Audible Practice w/ Erika

May 1, 2019 by yinster Leave a Comment

We live in FAST times.  When life comes at us fast and we ride on that wave, we tend to revert to what is easy.  And let me tell you, it’s easy to focus on our weaknesses isn’t it? We are what we focus on and if we continue to focus on what we feel we lack, life hands us ‘less than’.

When I write ‘Less than’ I mean, the mundane, the routine, the bland, sometimes hopeless, and the feeling of a hamster in a wheel.  Working hard only to go nowhere.

Let’s turn this around and turn to our strengths to create prosperity, love, clarity, drive and PASSION!  As we walk our path forward with our work intentions around our strengths, our productivity will increase but your stress will decrease. You will find that alignment.  

But first, please take 5 minutes to slow down and join me in this Strength Centering Breathing and Meditation Practice.

Click HERE for the quick audio for a Strength Centering Practice!

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Filed Under: Energy, lesson, Lifestyle, Personal Growth, podcast, stress, Yoga Tagged With: anxiety, behavior, breath, class, Continuing Education, lifestyle, pain, self help, session, stress, strong, Yoga, Yoga Alliance

FB – Live Featuring Ashley Diamond-Siegert

April 5, 2019 by yinster Leave a Comment

I had the fun privileged to do a FB Live interview on the Tour De Perspective with Ashley Diamond-Siegert.  She’s started a thriving photography business and is on the cutting edge of a revolutionary new photography business.  That’s all I can say for now, it’s top secret, but I will tell you it’s BRILLIANT!

Ashley is a go-getter.  She’s continually growing her photography business and her Business Coaching Course in strategic and impressive ways.  And she’s always down for some real talk and a good laugh.

Today we talked about Obstacles standing in our way to achieve our dreams.  You really need to watch the video to get the full scope and it’s just a lot of fun and a ton of gold nuggets.  Grab a pen and paper to take notes.  Also, Ashley graciously provided us with an INSANELY good writing prompt sheet so you can really start to peel back the layers.  (free download, no email address needed but if you want to subscribe to this blog, you will make the 2019 ‘cool people list’ lol)

I’m not going to tell you what to do because my Mamma says I’m bossy BUT if I were you, Here is what I would to get the impact from this blog…

  1.  Subscribe below.
  2. Download The freebie —–> HERE! 
  3. watch the interview (https://youtu.be/Kp6r0w4x8wc)
  4. Comment – Get a conversation going!  That’s what this is about!
  5. Visit Ashley’s website for more great life changing tips.  I promise she’s WAY MORE than a fantastic photographer.  www.ashleysiegert.com

Below I’ve outlined 5 ways to get remove the biggest obstacle which is YOU.  In the video you will find a lot more details and experiences. (After you watch the interview head to Pod Cast 2 titled, It’s Not Them, It’s You, for more clarity and depth on this topic)

  1. Take Responsibility – You are exactly where you are supposed to be
  2. Get Clarity on Your Dream (the writing prompt’s Ashley provided can be used as a tool for this!)
  3. Be the boss of our business and not your job – mindset shift for entrepreneurs
  4. Lose your security blanket – What are you holding on to that is keeping you secure and safe?
  5. Unpack your baggage and leave what doesn’t serve you.  – Scarier done than said

This is your time to RELEASE so you can RADIATE your dream and power out into the world.  Impact others on a greater scale and bodly serve your mission!

Filed Under: community, family, Leadership, lesson, Lifestyle, Personal Growth, Retreats, stress, Support/Education, Uncategorized, Yoga Tagged With: awareness, behavior, clarity, entrepreneur, fear, focus, health, lifestyle, love, meditation, mental health, mindset, photography school, selfworth, shift, spirituality, stress, wellness, women, Yoga

Flexibility – The Forward Fold

March 6, 2019 by yinster Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Body Work, community, Energy, family, Leadership, lesson, Lifestyle, Personal Growth, podcast, stress, Uncategorized, Weightloss, Yoga, yoga form Tagged With: beginner yoga, core exercise, flexibility, health, lifestyle, meditation, over 50 yoga, pain, pain management, relax, strengthen, stress, stretching, success, wellness, Yoga, yoga challenge, yoga lesson

After the #metoo. What’s the Next Step…

October 23, 2017 by yinster Leave a Comment

Imagine yourself sitting in a dark room, looking at a window covered by thick, black velvet draperies.   This room is completely void of the light of life or your future.  You have been sitting in this room for years blinded by the darkness of your heavy past and you don’t know what is on the other side. As you quietly and patiently sit in this room feeling a bit unsettled you wonder what might await on the other side of the gloomy drapery but you never dare to take a peek for fear of exposure to what is unknown.

The drapery aggressively blocks you from seeing the beautiful sunny day and feeling the heat of life.  I see your light and I see your potential but until you make the decision to pull back the drapery and expose yourself to the light, you will forever be hiding your authentic self from the beauty of the world and depriving the world YOUR inner light.

Fast forward five years.  You’ve pushed open the draperies and have allowed yourself to live in the light but just like all pasts, they dwell in our subconscious.  From time to time you find yourself sitting in the void, dark room but now you know what the light feels like.  The drapery may fall back from time to time but now that you have opened up your awareness and this allows you to see the opportunity and continue to fight to keep the light in.

I write this article with a very specific intention.  I intend to help every woman hiding behind the past to courageously step forward and expose the past to someone they trust to help eliminate self limiting beliefs and unhealthy behaviors.

Over the ten years in the Health and Wellness industry I’ve have hundreds of conversation about body image, fear and worthiness.   I’ve find that women’s mindset about their worth greatly prohibits their success.  Through my time in this industry I’ve met a very empowered and influential woman, Regina Rowley.

Regina Rowley is unlike any one else I’ve ever encountered.  She is a women’s safety advocate, fitness coach and group fitness instructor.  She speaks from the heart and her voice is heard all around the world.   I told Regina of a connection I’ve discovered over the years with many clients troubles with their food control and exercise.  Upon really digging deep emotionally with some of these women many times I found that their struggles began at a much younger age.   There was a real connection between sexual abuse and the ability of these women to view them selves as real people or worthy of weight loss and kindness to their body.

I know this is a topic from which many people shy away but the truth is, sexual abuse is real and can cause years of self-neglect and suffering.  I want to share with you Regina’s story as a survivor and an expert in women’s self defense.  This article is heavy.  It touches on topics some of you only hear about in the news but if Regina can tell her open her heart, show her venerability and shed some light on an abusive past, I know you can too.  I also know even if your past is not a traumatic one, you know someone whose past still haunts them and effects them with daily decisions.  Maybe, YOU can help them pull the black velvet drapery back and allow them to see the full potential of their future!

It’s important that we preface this article with a quick peep into Regina’s past.  Along her journey she did have a turning point but before this time Regina comes from a post of sexual abuse and an unhealthy Family.

Regina: “Health  was not a priority in my family even though I had a sibling who was a brittle diabetic and passed away during childhood due to that.  They monitored her diet but the rest of the family was never adjusted.  For me, as a parent, that would have been a turning point to bring health into my family but for my family it was not.

As I got older, I had some very serious health issues and had to make the choice to make the change or I would not be in the physical health I am in today.  Why I made those changes, I don’t know.  I don’t know what inside of me is different from the rest of my family.”

When I asked Regina to allow me to interview her she told me from the very beginning, “Erika, At this time, I’m really struggling to keep my health a priority.  I’ve had some recent contact with people from my traumatic past that have thrown me into an emotions curve ball.  I have not responded to it the way I thought I would.  It’s had a very negative impact on me to the point where I sought counseling.  This interview will be very Raw.”

For many years Regina wore this burden on her heart and didn’t not seek help and even in times when she felt it was under control, it has still managed to unexpectedly sneak back into her life. I asked Regina, “Can a haunting traumatic past like this ever go away? “

Regina: “We can learn to overcome and thrive.  We are emotional beings and there is always the possibilities life may throw a curve ball and we readdress the feelings at that particular time.  With that said, professional counseling can help you reduce the impact of these curve balls.”

The constant variable in life is that there is no constant variable and the only thing absolutely certain in our life is that there will be change.  Here is the definition of change.

The key word here is ‘different’.  Experiencing different is scary and fear paralyzes us from making choices but if you never make a choice on anything, you will always do nothing.  On the other hand, sometimes change is made as the result of fear.

For example, I sought Regina’s programs and personal self defense lesson as a reaction to a scary experience but I continue to workout every day as a proactive measure to my fear of the consequences of leading an unhealthy life.

I asked Regina, “What do you think keeps women from coming forward to face their fears in order to become better versions of themselves mentally and physically?

Regina stopped and paused for a moment.  Then she carefully and thoughtfully spoke these words.  “ You know, society in general says, ‘If a woman looks like this, then this woman is beautiful.’ So a woman that has been assaulted in the past my subconsciously feel that if they do not look like what society beautiful then maybe nobody will want to assault them.

It’s a way of protecting themselves.  If there is so much pain from their previous experiences sometimes they can not make that trade off to be healthy.  They guard themselves from the fear of a recurring past.  If this is the only way they know to guard themselves then this is where they will stay.  This is their defense line.”

Regina and I both see fears of others but in different situations.  Regina sees women with fear that feel they are not worth protecting and I see women with fear that feel they are not worthy of a better and healthier life.  I asked Regina, “It all boils down to how a woman values her worth.  Why might some women fear they are not worth protecting or losing weight?

Regina: “When a woman is assaulted, someone else has said, ‘Your thoughts, your opinions and your preferences are not important.’  They have taken away your voice because their desires are more important than yours.  When someone takes your voice and your liberties from you and there is no one there to advocate for you, it’s very difficult to find the confidence to advocate for yourself.

We all need help because we don’t have the skill or ability to handle everything life dishes out.  It doesn’t matter how many months, years or even decades have passed, anything can trigger it again.  There is no shame in reaching out for help.”

It’s time we all stepped forward and become proactive with our fears.  I want every woman to pull back their dark draperies and see the light for what it can be.  In that light, there will be fear once we accept the fear, embrace the fear and prepare for the fear we can collectively encourage other women to reach out for help and do the same.  Regina said her intentions of this article is to give courage to women who identify with her experiences to seek help so they too can be comfortable being their authentic self.

There is only one YOU in this universe and none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow.  Embrace your fear and welcome the pain and tears of your emotions because only then can you live authentically.  I plead with you, do not deprive the world of your authentic self.  You are amazing and worth a happy and healthy life.

Join Regina in the I am Priceless Movement. #Metoo may have started as a hastag, but here’s an way to take it too the next step…

Click HERE for more info

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Uncategorized Tagged With: lifestyle, metoo, self love, selfworth

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