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Forget everything you think you know about so-called "fitness." Don't just join a gym. Join a MOVEMENT. Don't just workout. MOVE YOUR BOOTY®! Don't just survive. THRIVE. MOTIVATION is mental fuel. Eat up. moveyourbooty.org.
Southern girl turned New Yorker, Emily Newman (me!), is on a mission to build MYBnation one booty at a time by transforming sad lonely workouts into social, inspiring challenges! Get moving! Any way, any how.
“Wickedly pumped for my first ever yoga class tomorrow with Emily. I’m gonna downward buddha the fuck out of this weekend.”
My boyfriend, Mike.
After a discussion about whether or not NFL footballers do yoga, Mike signed up for his first yoga class ever tomorrow (thank you Justin Tuck!). How was your very first namaste experience?? Any experience for my (6’4” 240lb) boyfriend, Mike?
dailyMYB: how you know you’re addicted.
You didn’t want to do it in the first place. It’s not really your style. You’re not “a runner.” You don’t “do yoga.” You not really into the whole so-called “workout thing.” And that’s cool. But then you dipped your toe in the pool. And now you’re screwed. Because you went ahead and said “sure, I’ll try anything once.” And it sucked, it was hard, you were a sweaty mess. But then secretly, deep down, you kinda loved it. You loved that it sucked, that it was hard and made you a sweaty mess. And you wanted to do it again. And so you did. A lot. And now you just don’t feel right without it. When you don’t do it, you just don’t feel as good. You don’t feel like yourself. Your skin is itchy. You feel restless. Your sweat is waiting to boil over the top. Your sneakers are calling. And voila. It’s official. You’re addicted. But it’s cool. Because it’s not about becoming “a runner, a yogi, a gym rat…a whatever.” It’s about becoming YOU. A sweatier version of YOU. Get addicted.
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FIND YOUR SWEAT TIME.
Morning to bathe in sweat before sunrise. Lunchtime to clear your mind. Evening to catch sundown on the run. Whenever you find your time to get your sweat on, savor it. It’s your time. Some people wake up ready to go. Others need that post work evening workout class. Find what works for YOU. It may not be what works for everyone else you know. Go your own way. Carve out the time you need. Make it yours. Make it sweaty.
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We just intercepted this picture from Lululemon Athletica Park Royal via Facebook.
Awesome.
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Yoga is the number one most intimidating workout. This is a ridiculous fact because literally IF YOU CAN BREATHE, you can do yoga. I think when people think yoga they immediately assume it’s all headstands, chanting and dirty smelly hippies. FALSE! That’s a myth of the past… Here’s why:
1) There’s a YOGAstyle for you: Yoga has exploded in the past decade and there are TONS of classes of all shapes, sizes and levels. There’s everything from hip-hop yoga to hot yoga and everything in between. Find your YOGAstyle—and ignore the rest. If you want a spiritual experience, there’s something out there for you. But if that’s not your thing and you want a hardcore sweat-filled pop music filled workouts, there’s a yoga out there like that too. Try on different studios and teachers and find your right fit. There’s a yoga type out there for everyone.
2) You can literally curl up into a little ball and rest mid-class. CHILDS POSE is your “safe place.” No other workout provides a safety net like yoga. In cycling you can only stop cycling to catch your breath, in bootcamps you can try to run away and hide (good luck), and in running you can only walk (no other way to get home, right?). In yoga can you LITERALLY curl into a little ball and rest. And it’s acceptable. No one will yell at you to keep going. Because you’re STILL doing yoga. Not a bad deal.
3) Yoga is as hard or easy as you want it to be. Yoga can be so many things to its followers. It can be a hardcore sweat session that’s challenging and pushes you to your edge. OR it can be a recuperating workout that cradles you in its arms of recovery and warmth. Sigh. OR it can be just a mental dump and chance to just stop and focus on nothing but you, your mind and body (and ignore all the crazy drama that fills up the rest of our lives). Yoga is whatever YOU NEED it to be. Make it work for you. It’s there whenever you need it. In the wise words of Brad Pitt, “Take it, it’s yours!”
Turns out, yoga ain’t so scary after all…
video via animalist
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“Dis iz downwarrd dawg.”
- Hudson in DC. The first dog of Move Your Booty.
(via Facebook)
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MOTIVATION: feeling awesome after the endorphins wear off.
You know that awesome feeling you have post workout? Wanna know how to keep it sticking around. Click thru for yet another awesome MINDBODYGREEN article.
MOTIVATION: yoga for two.
These two put the HOT in hot yoga. Can’t get your boyfriend to yoga? This should help.
(via Video: The Balancing Act - Q by Equinox)
Meet Yoga’s hottest couple. LA-based Equinox instructor Briohny Smyth mesmerized viewers with her gravity-defying arm balances in “The Contortionist,” which sparked significant conversation in and around the yoga community. So naturally we brought her back — this time with her new husband, Dice Iida-Klein, also an Equinox yoga instructor and star in his own right (see him master the floating flow on a paddle board). When you watch the Acro Yoga session we captured, you’ll see their performance is more than an amazing physical feat. It’s a display of the strong emotional connection that has grown, and is continuing to grow between them. It’s the type of connection that, at times, made the crew on set feel like they should leave the room…We asked the pair what’s really happening during these intimate sessions. Here’s what they had to say:
She says:
When I first started learning, my biggest takeaway was that it’s really about the base — the person on the bottom — and if you’re a strong base, anybody can fly with you. The key is communication with the base- and trust. I could do all of these poses on my own, but I’ve never been very good at trusting people, which is something that most of us women gain over time — especially when it comes to men. It was a real challenge for both of us to go from singular practices, where we had full control, and release control to one another. It was a really big thing for me because I was a single mom, and I had built my own businesses, so it has always been about having two hands on the wheel. When you’re on top in Acro Yoga, it’s all about letting go and trusting one hundred percent, because if you fight back, it’s much harder for the base. So, Dice and I went through a lot of little tiffs of, “You’re doing it wrong — No you’re doing it wrong!” and every single time it always came down to me letting go. And for Dice, who has always had a tough time expressing himself, he had to work really hard to master his duty as a base, because he has to be extremely communicative and tell me what he needs and what he needs from me. So for both of us, it was just the balancing act-balancing not only our bodies, but also our personality issues.
He says:
I definitely think what Bri said is very true. I mean, it’s learning how to balance each other’s personalities. I would say Bri is a little more of a control freak than I am, but when it comes to being flown, she has to give up control, and I have to take over, and for me it’s very gratifying to be the foundation. It’s kind of like I’m the rock, and I think that’s how I feel with this family [Briohny and her daughter] away from Acro Yoga. I’m learning my place as being the man of the household, and I’m learning for me it’s not about directing anybody. It’s more or less the stronger I am, the stronger they’ll be. Just by standing tall, I think everything else just falls into place.
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MOTIVATION: a yoga for every body.
(via Find Your Yoga Style (Funny Infographic))
Are you new to yoga? Or maybe you’ve been practicing for a while but are looking for something new. You’ll want to check out this funny infographic from yogatrail.com on the different styles of yoga.
MOTIVATION: make an injury work for you.
So I fell down the steps. No I wasn’t pushed or drunk. It was Saturday morning in the suburbs and I totally slipped, flew down half a flight of stairs, reached desperately for a railing that wasn’t there, bruised my heel and hip, and pulled something somewhere in my shoulder that still hurts 2 weeks later. Something ain’t right.
My biggest fear is going to a doctor that says I can’t run, ride my bike or be active. But I can’t put it off forever. So I’ve got an appointment with “the shoulder guy” next Tuesday. In the meantime, I’m trying not to strain it, but I’m still using it.
And posts like this one from iamyoustudio help me get in the right mental mindset to heal and make it through without bumming out or going static. Awesome read.
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Name an injury, and I have either had it, or taught someone with it, with the emphasis on the former. Currently, in fact, I have 4 torn muscles, those that stabilize the right shoulder, preventing me from doing yoga, or pretty much anything, as I know it.The feeling is of being injured is not entirely new…. In the past dozen years I have had a broken pinky toe (don’t knock it til it happens to you!), a dislocated cervical disk, a mega broken foot (3 metatarsals), a stress fractured femur… and well the list grows longer the farther back into my youth and competitive athletic years you go. Yes, some in fact have been yoga related, from either me not listening to the teacher and doing something they instructed not to, and now as a teacher I know is totally wrong, or from receiving an improper assist. Other injuries can be attributed to life, plain and simple. What I have now, in fact, started on probably my best hour of summer frolicking ever as I dove into crystal clear water from a few meters up.The thing is, with every injury I have had, of whatever the type for whatever the reason, I have come out not only a better person, but a stronger one, and a much better yogi and yoga teacher. In fact, I do not even stress anymore when I am injured, because I know the bright side, that an injury can, in fact, be cool. How?1. LEARNING. Every injury opens the door for you to learn about your body. I always think of it as a real life biology or anatomy class, two passions of mine. I ask my doctor, physical therapist, andacupuncturists question after question, so that I can learn how the mechanics of this amazing body we have really works, and truly begin to feel its intricacies. From there I try and learn how everything is interconnected, and what causes what, largely by being aware of how things feel, and what ramifications I am feeling or suffering from due to an seemingly isolated problem. An injury is the best lesson anatomy lesson you can have.2. MODIFY. Unless the doctor says, “Absolutely no you need bed rest,” there is a way to modify many activities you do. Yoga, for instance, is something that can be modified for almost every injury, and actually encourages healing. I used yoga as my physical therapy for my broken foot years ago, and since have learned to modify my generally athletic Ashtanga inspired Vinyasa practice for every injury I, and any client, have had. With my broken foot, I modified all poses that involved pressure on the top or side of the foot., gaining strength in areas I had been ignoring. Depending on what you have, try staying in plank pose, eliminating twists, micro bending the knee, using a Warrior I foot stance across the board… there is a way. Outside of yoga, try swimming without kicking or running with your arms static. Use your injury as impetus to a (temporary) new way.3. EXPERIMENT. You never know until you try. Age old rule, that holds for injuries as well. When you are modifying, try out new things. You may realize that you were under using one muscle, and now have an opportunity to strengthen it. Or maybe you learn to befriend a whole new pose. When I had to take out my headstands for my neck, forearm stands became my bread and butter (gluten-free organic of course). If it is not yoga, then experiment with an activity that perhaps is long-lost, or totally new. Maybe try swimming, rollerblading instead of running, hiking hills instead of spinning. Your body needs a mental-physical connection to be healthy, and there are many ways to do it. So use your injury as an opportunity to try out new things.4. BE CREATIVE. Along the lines of the above, your injury is actually a petri dish for creativity. With my hurt shoulder I could either complain and do nothing, or think out of the box on how to practice, and teach. I have in fact come up with some killer fabulous sequences in the past six weeks, and I can feel more to come. If you take your mindset out of what you cannot do and let it roam in what you may not ever let yourself think you can do, you may surprise yourself. Use your injury as jet fuel for creativity, on the mat and off.5. PRACTICE PATIENCE. This is definitely the hardest for me. When my team of healers and helpers just now told me two months minimum no vinyasa yoga, or when I was in a cast for six months with my broken foot, there was naturally an initial moment of panic. But then I remembered all of the above, and that injuries are actually one of life’s ultimate tests of patience. If you are not patient, they will never heal. If they never heal, you will never be able to do what you love in the same way. If you are patient, the body will heal itself as it knows how to do best, but you have to stay out of its way, calmly. Try and see your injury as a cosmic lesson, and you may realized that once it is healed and healthy, your mind is not only healthy, but stronger, too.
MOTIVATION: the gospel of sweat.
Do you pray through your pores? Is wherever you sweat your new sanctuary where you’re most in touch with your inner self? Interesting article about the new gospel of sweat. Read below…
(via blog| the gospel of sweat - blog| lululemon athletica)
It was six months into living in New York City during a Daft Punk themed spin class that my sweat turned spiritual. The instructor was an angel by the name of Clare Veronica Walsh, and it was at that moment that I tapped into a strength that I had never experienced. As athletes, yogis, and dancers we all have a moment when we realize that our practice is our connection to something bigger than ourselves. This greater idea of community also provides a connection to something that lives within us, and a new responsibility to honour it.
In today’s culture, more and more people are building metaphorical sanctuaries on their spin bikes, temples on their mats, and churches within the walls of their dance studio. Times that were once reserved for religious service attendance, are now reserved with equal dedication for yoga and fitness classes. This kind of spiritual practice is highly individual in that the power is not in the search for answers, but in the recognition that we already have them. Whether through chaturangas or sprints, grande jetes or push-ups, we are peeling something very physical and mental away to tap into the core of our spiritual being. We pray through our pores, period.
Read more here: blog| the gospel of sweat - blog| lululemon athletica
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MOTIVATION: unleash the fitness.
Fitness isn’t just found in a gym. You gotta go out and get it. FIND YOURS.
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MOTIVATION: fight for your time.
We work hard all day to keep up with work and sprint around all night to keep up with our social calendar. Other than the maybe 6 hours we get for sleep, our time is rarely our own. Even when we do plan in ME plans, they’re the first ones to get cancelled. Sure, your social calendar is full of fun. But in order to keep up such a pace, our bodies and minds need down time. And quick power naps do not count.
Whether it’s time in yoga, out jogging, hitting up the bball court, time at home relaxing, or however you turn everything off and just chill, make that time a priority. It shouldn’t come last on your list. It’s important and necessary. Saying no can be tough, but own it and defend your time. Don’t shove off your plan to get your workout in just because someone invites you out for a drink. Make a plan for another time and stick to your wellness commitments. Make yourself a priority. It’s not selfish. It’s not uncool. In fact, it’s very very cool. Your body, your mind, and everyone around you will benefit from it. Do your own thing. Make it a priority.
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