Inspire

WILL-ISM: The goal is calling you, and if you don't go, it feels like effort. It's your not going that's what feels like the struggle. ”like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!

S H I N E” —Buddha

*You are what you give.

*If you want it, become it.

*Yoga is the art of connecting to and

celebrating your Divine Wow.

*If you don’t have any shadows

you're not in the light

It's those of us who

they broke that

have become

experts at mending.

"Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself." -Bhagavad Gita

Inspiration...

Through yoga, I started having these moments of clarity. Ok I know why I'm here. To be an entertainer.

This is what my purpose is (my dharma). This is what I've always known. From childhood I've always wanted to play make-believe, to entertain people, and help uplift people though music and performance. And it is just so clear to me when I do yoga, when I’m listening to my heart’s call.

Also this feeling of personal power, and not from an egotistical sense but when you just know your own worth and power-- I kept getting these strong, resonating messages to follow my dream. Then, I realized that you know what, you need to EXIST in this realization, and just take full advantage of what you've been given and make it happen Instead of waiting for it to happen to you. YOU have to make it happen.

An interview with Will on how his students inspired him to play bigger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZG6TuZfeOY

I aim to bring a voice and a certain power to people who've been marginalized and made to feel insecure, for kids who can't get out there and think that something's holding them back -- I'm out there doing it with whatever challenges are put in my way, I'm overcoming them.

But what if I don't feel Confident? Well, first remember that You are an expression of God/Positive Energy/Love/Nature so you're here to shine and be happy. Second, remember that your feelings aren't You; your lack of self-esteem is merely a byproduct of being marginalized by this culture...

...DON'T live by your insecurities. Forge ahead instead, be brave, and your feelings will eventually follow. Sure it's scary, but you'll be ok! Provide value in your own way and the Universe will support u. - Will Blunderfield

Over the past couple years, I've recognized my responsibility as a gay man in the public eye and that's something I'm really thankful for. Growing up I had no one to look up to except for maybe Will from Will&Grace (who was actually str8 lol). To recognize the opportunity to be somebody comfortable being themselves in the public eye and to be proud of who they are, I realize that this is my chance to do that for other people. So thank you yoga fam for supporting me. I appreciate it and I'm going to keep being that "weird fuckin' fag" and having a really good time doing it :)

"Instead of fearing your scars, wear them as medals and use them to peer through to the person you truly are." - Will Blunderfield

‎4 Tips for accessing your Divine Wow:
1. Remind yourself of your Purpose
2. Hold your shoulders back and smile (a physiological shift leads to a mental shift)
3. Close your eyes and visualize a time you were confident and feel the feelings of it.
4. Take Action.

No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

--- Abraham

*****The decision about how much you rock has to be something that you make, and then live it out loud through your actions. Period. Your truth is relative so why are you if you are making it something that diminishes you rather than lights you up? What the hell, like for who? Who is more important, who's opinion is more important than you deciding "Hey, what if I'm just awesome and I'm human and I'm working on it and I'm as valuable as everyone else and I'm going to walk through the world like the rockstar that I am." - Sadie Nardini

Remember if you're not falling down or 'failing' you're not living enough. The failures and conflicts don't even matter, but you living full out really does.

By Sophie Clausius

Poem by Sophie Clausius

I want to create yoga & chant music that will be the people’s choice of drug whenever they feel oppressed or depressed.

The happiest of entities on this plane are those who do precisely what they want to do. The miserable ones are the ones who try to make everyone else happy and do what they “should” do to appease for the sake of that which is termed notice, love, compassion, and kindness. Live for you. Do what you want to do. As long as you live for expectations of others, you will never be happy, and you will never lead, and you will never accomplish, nor will you be remembered. - Ramtha

******thesecretofexistence asked: What is your greatest fear, and how can you defeat it?
Answer:
I was once afraid of not becoming a successful artist during this life.
I only wanted to be a successful artist so people would love me.
I soon learnt that I am always loved.
Over time, I began creating not to impress and gain the approval of others, but from a place of love and expression.
The goal of success had been reached… as I was happy :-)
A painful death is the only notion that doesn’t sit well with me in this moment, however, I make an effort to focus only upon things that I do want - a life full of love and good times!!!
I have learnt that if I beam big fat juicy love from my heart into everything I do and say, as much as possible…. I don’t even stop to think about fear.

“The Greatest gift you can give the world is a healthy you.”

-- Joyce Meyer

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: Self-doubt & taking on other people's insecurities are forms of narcissism, because when you doubt yourself and forget to stand for yourself, you rob the world of your gifts, talents, and light. #LoveYourself

“How much do I love my yoga students?with everything in my being, it is because of them I live my dream and I will NEVER forget that.” -- Will Blunderfield

Evening wisdom from the Gita: "Action is preferable to inaction...a man's own calling with all its faults, ought not to be forsaken. Every undertaking is involved in its faults as the fire in its smoke." Nite world.

ABRAHAM INSPIRATION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGZifnJPZ4&feature=related

Law of Dharma

“Everyone has a purpose in life...a unique or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.”

-- Deepak Chopra

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: Stay true to your art, fight for art, remain fearless. Don't compromise your goals and your beliefs (even if it turns some people off), cause you will never know who will bend to what you're doing, because they like you the way you are.

“If you’re not where you’d like to be, accept where you are more, focus on the positives of where you are more, and start daring to call yourself what you know you are BEFORE it’s manifested.” -- Will Blunderfield

Playing small and taking things personally is a type of narcissism, because these behaviors rob the world of your gifts and talents. Playing small is like slapping life in the face. Play big for the world!

"Some people push your buttons because at the soul level, they want to help you cultivate the bravery, self-love, and tenacity to rise higher." -- Will Blunderfield

“What you resist persists, so welcome what you’re resisting as something positive, something that's helping you grow, and it stops persisting.” -- Will Blunderfield

"You're right when you say 'so this quivering is my indicator that I am not quite up to speed with who I am' and we say yes that's a good indicator of not being quite up to speed with who you are but if you weren't making an effort to get up to speed you wouldn't be quivering--we'd far rather see you quiver." -- Abraham

"If you had not become, and you were not in the process of making an effort to get up to speed with it there wouldn't be any quivering. The analogy that we offer is that if your car's going 100 miles an hour and you hit a tree it's a bigger problem than if your car's going 5 miles an hour. But we don't want you to slow your car down. Just bang into some trees until you get this figured out." -- Abraham

“It’s ok to act like a 10 even when you feel like a 7 (it’s ok to be who you really are even when the feelings of inadequacy from the socialization process are present).” -- Will Blunderfield

“Knowledge is money; kindness is power.” -- Will’s mani/pedicurist

"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."

— Seth Godin

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: Give yourself the right to have weaknesses and to not perform perfectly 100% of the time. None of us do :)

“If you are "different", then your mission is: play big, feel beautiful and follow your dream so you can be a living example to kids out there to feel better about themselves.”

-- Will Blunderfield

"Tap into your inspiration, vision THEN take steps. Feel your mission then take action. Then like the “no” you don’t even hear it, you just keep going. These people might all hate us—did I forget my vision because someone else didn’t agree with it? Is it that up for grabs? No! You have a vision and you’re here for a reason and that’s why your doing this. Is my truth up for grabs? No. My truth is I’m going to do this! And thank you for your time if you don’t see it. I’ll ask the next person. They don’t have to be there for me, but I’m going to find a way, and you’re only going to find a way by taking steps., and by asking, and by not giving up. Someone might say no, someone might say I don’t think so—can you handle that?"

--Susan Washington

“Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they...Pass on what you have learned.”

-- Yoda

“Enjoy where you’re at on the way to where you’re going”

--Joyce Meyer

“Let your inner chaos fuel your passion”

-- Will Blunderfield

“Your Heart constantly radiates love out to the world, but every time you criticize yourself or take put-downs personally you pinch off that flow and people miss out. Therefore, ignore the BS not just for your sake, but for the world’s sake.”

-- Will Blunderfield

“To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions."

-- William James

“Perhaps the greatest gift you can give the world is to simply follow your dream. Teach from your heart and from your life.”

-- WIll Blunderfield

“We don’t do yoga to get love. We do yoga to connect to who we really are: LOVE so we can give more deeply to the world.”

-- Will Blunderfield

"Keep shining your light by loving yourself first... the rest of us deserve it!" -- Kita Forever

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

-- Mother Teresa

“People treat u in DIRECT ACCORDANCE to how u feel about yourself. Live from confidence, inner authority and LOVE.”

-- Will Blunderfield

"You're not doing yoga to better yourself. You're here to shine your Light. After experiencing the exhilaration of basking in, celebrating, and sharing that Light, you can't help but remember that You are Divine. You begin to realize all that unworthy stuff wasn't you. You are Magnificent!"

-- Will Blunderfield

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: "Who you are" is largely an amalgamation of parental control, social influence, and brainwashing from advertising. So if "who you are" doesn't serve your mission, act like someone else! "Be yourself" really means reject shame (ESPECIALLY if you're gay or a woman) & behave like the person you've always wanted to be.

“...Remember, whatever you're doing, whether going on a date, clubbin it up, reading a book, or taking a yoga class, to LOVE WHO YOU ARE. Remember that other people's attitudes toward you are no more than a projection of how YOU FEEL about YOU. LOVE YOU. FOCUS ON YOUR POSITIVES. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL and your attractiveness is based on the energy you offer, not what u look like. xxoo”

-- Will Blunderfield

“Flip every negative thought and situation so it serves your deepest purpose.”

--Will Blunderfield

"You become what you pretend to be"

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: If you have trouble with yourself, why not just say 'fuck it' and behave as the person you've always wanted to be? Your thoughts/feelings aren't you anyway: They're the byproduct of billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, movies, magazines & billboards all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself... Today, fantasize that you're somebody else. But do it because you care deeply about yourself--so deeply that you want to transcend your customary reactions and expand your identity. Do it because you dare to awaken to previously unknown possibilities of who you might be.

“People who try to bring you down are a mirror of your inner life. When you are negatively impacted by someone who criticizes you, it means you need to look inside and be kinder to yourself.”

--Will Blunderfield

Be a Froot Loop in a world full of Cheerios. - Casey Kasem

“Life mirrors every thought. If something negative comes in your way, forget about it and move forward. Positive thoughts are 100x more powerful than negative ones”

-- Will Blunderfield

WILL-ISM: Think back to the dreams you had when you were a kid. Chances are they were big dreams (before the socialization/schooling process put a damper on them). According to yoga, those BIG dreams are your true dharma (life purpose). Play & take risks at the level of those dreams, or chances are it'll feel like you're stuck. It's not until you give yourself permission to achieve your dreams, detach from how many times it takes, and ask for what you need, that the Universe rushes in to assist you. If you're tempted to play small, think of all the people who'll miss out on your gifts if you shrink. Playing small is like slapping life in the face. Don't rip off the world! We need your light #BiggerDreamsHaveMoreMagic #YourPassionIsYourPurpose

You don't have to live by how you feel. Let your feelings do whatever they're going to do and you live by choice and decision. I WILL BE CONFIDENT. I may not feel confident but I will be confident and I'm certain that when I take the next step then that inner being "umph" will meet up with me.

*************CORE INSPIRATION from Sadie Nardini: It's common to 'wait' for life to align more fully with you, to wait to be confident or happy, or for a better job/man/opportunity to come knocking. The secret of a passionate life is to live as if you already are what you seek. BE your future in the present (write a little of your novel each day at a coffee shop=the Writer, take yourself out to romantic dinners even if you're single =the Lover, start looking for that great job while in your boring one=the Life's Work!). Happiness starts right now, no matter what--no more waiting.***********************

Being a "rocker" and a "yoga teacher" is really one and the same: It's about empowering people to love themselves and let their life energy flow. But singing and stretching doesn't mean anything unless we're connecting, unless there's love!

-- Will Blunderfield

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"Being genuine is being 100% you – weird freckles, strange habits, amazing talents and all."

-- Matt Corker

“Truth Bomb: Comparison Kills.”

-- Stephanie Corker Irwin

“Don’t kill all your demons because you might get the wrong one”

-- Judy Collins

“Being a yogi rocker is busy but totally worth it, especially if there's a message you want to send, or you're doing something for people--There's a positive result out of it--that's what I'm trying to do. I feel like the permission slip for people who feel a little different to take the risk of owning who you really are inside and not running from the truth”

-- Will Blunderfield

You can't "make" anyone suffer because of your choices--you can only walk the path that's right for you & focus on your own work. If they CHOOSE a perspective that causes them stress, that's their path, & their responsibility-not yours. Be strong, stand your ground, accept others' disappointment with compassion, be supportive but not enabling..and then take the next step towards your best self ever! -Sadie Nardini

“The music I write and the yoga I teach is designed to connect me. Designed to heal me. That's what you get when you listen to my album or come to a class, somebody healing themselves. If you heal yourself, that energy is available to everybody :)”

-- Will Blunderfield

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.” -- Robert Anthony

"If you're gay, a woman, person of size, person of color, or a person of integrity: You grow when you don't FEEL like being kind to yourself but you do it anyway. "Put on" the new nature (confidence), put off the old nature (self-loathing). It starts off as an act, then your feelings catch up and you become a leader. Growth requires a commitment to function beyond the shame they programmed into us."

-- Will Blunderfield

"When you're doing what u love, u ARE love. Through Law of Love, in that moment, you draw more of the good into your life." -- Will Blunderfield

MUST READS:

The Bhagavad Gita

The Power - Rhonda Byrne

When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron

Ask and it is Given - Esther & Jerry Hicks

You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

The Four Agreements - don Miguel Rouiz

Way of the Superior Man - David Deida

Power vs. Force - David R. Hawkins

Bullies serve to wake you up to the truth of your magnificence. If we can't see this truth-- then we attract bullies to mirror our own opinion of ourself. When you empower all areas of your life and live your mission, you will not be swayed by outside voices. You can't avoid hostility-- when you are on mission, you will say and do things that others perceive will be challenging to them. The difference will be that you won't give a shit about support or challenge because you're too busy being on purpose. But when you're in that space you can't be a victim to bullying. This may be a difficult thing to swallow for those who "fight" (lol) for "peace and non-violence"... all unrealistic fantasies that have never been true in human history. I am so grateful for the kids who bullied me-- I'm stronger and smarter because of it. Wouldn't change a thing...The answer is to wake up and empower yourself. Read this article and watch the video at the end of a bullied kid who finally stepped up. INSPIRING AS HELL. - Nima N. Rahmany http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/over-protective-parents-creat-victims/story-e6freuy9-1226200038125

Stop minding other people's business and start taking care of your own.

Discipline: do what you should do when you don't feel like doing it.

Fulfilling your destiny is worth it.

“I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I only to have follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world". -Beyonce ♥

Don't be scared to make a decision because you're unsure of what will happen, instead be excited too... either way you're going to learn something from it.

I want you to be happy... to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you. -`Abdu'l-Bahá

Postures strengthen and develop will and body – physical and mental development are intertwined. -Bishnu Ghosh

"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal" - Picasso

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am gay: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect

Stop wishing and start doing.

Pick yourself up, shake it off, and move forward so that you can be the person your inner being wants you to be.

FEELING BAD ABOUT YOURSELF ONLY IMPEDES YOUR PROGRESS> SAPS YOUR ENERGY TO MOVE FORWARD. So stop feeling bad about yourself.

When does power come into our lives? When we finally say No critical voice, I am not living under condemnation. I'm not going to be constantly be taking an inventory of everything I'm not. The Universe knew what I was not when it called me to do this.

“Before you break you have to shed your armor, Take a trip and fall into the glitter... Tell a stranger that they're beautiful, so all you feel is ♥” -- Adam Lambert

ॐ नमः शिवाय = ♥ Yourself = Love your shame, hopes & fears, The whole package. That's where your power lies. I'm with yॐu.

You weren't put on this planet to be manipulated and controlled by advertising//insecure people etc. We have to follow the leadership of our hearts, not cave in to the demands of other people/institutions.

***Being a leader has zero to do with how you feel. It's about your behavior. It's about Choosing to love yourself no matter what they did to you. Be the lighthouse.

I love seeing so much overlap while exploring different spiritual traditions. Different religions, same core message: Whatever you do, Do it to spread and honor Divine Love/God/Positive Energy.

"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." (The Bible-1 Corinthians 10:31)
“Whatever you do, make it an offering to Me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering." (Bhagavad Gita-Ch. 9 V.26-27)

"It's alright for you to see injustice, and it's alright for you to desire it to be different. And it is alright for you to see it different and it is so alright for you to live it as if it is different. But every time you look back and see that they haven't come along, you defy your own dream, and that's what's hurting you. In other words, you have a magnificent vision as a result of what you've lived. In fact, you were born to live that contrast (discrimination) to give birth to that dream-- that's why it feels so big to you. So you birthed the dream and the larger part of you is already living it, and every time you look back at what is, you defy your own dream, tear yourself apart, and blame them. So LIVE it. BE it. And stop looking for evidence that doesn't support it. Every time you count those things and complain about all the injustices, you use that evidence to split yourself from your vibrational escrow." - Abraham

“‘No’ is getting you closer to the yes. If someone says no, I don’t have time, I’ve never heard of you, you aren’t what we’re looking for—you say thanks for your time --I’m going to get there and thank you for being part of my perseverance. Turn everything into the positive. Because it doesn’t mean anything anyway, it’s just whatever stuff’s running through their lens.

Isn’t it part of your message to not give up? So imagine if you didn’t walk your walk.. You’re telling people to not give up!!

No explaining, no complaining

If you let the setbacks and worries get to you, the world won’t get your music.

It would be shiny for others—it’s lots of shininess! The world needs shininess! Take risks, play to your truth, keep going, get back up. Would a no or a few refusals be able to rain on that parade?”- Susan Washington

“The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.” ~Unknown

“Taking put-downs personally SAPS YOUR ENERGY--the energy you should be using to serve the world. Insecure people may try to elbow you down to bolster their fragile self-esteem. Recognize this, release them, then focus on what you're here to do. You're not a babysitter.” -- Will Blunderfield

It’s foolish not to enjoy yourself while you’re growing.

WILL-ISM: Do yoga to bring yourself into this surreal space of it's enough, I'm enough, I'm OK. Your dream and all the action steps to manifest it are on the vibration of self-love (yoga, music, nature, doing your passion all brings you onto that vibration). So when you don't know what to do, take your attention off the problem and focus on feeling good. "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

Albert Einstein

Just being yourself and being proud of who you are as you follow this dream is the greatest gift you can give the world.

Coach yourself to really not take anything too personally. Everybody has their own opinion. It's like, "do you like blue or do you like green?" That's it. People judge, people have opinions, and you still are awesome. Listen to what part might be true and throw the rest away. Other people's opinions are not my business. What I choose is my business.

“Just do your duty to the best of your ability without becoming discouraged by the thought of the outcome which may be success or failure, gain or loss, victory or defeat.

You should also perform your duty with a view to guide people, and for the universal welfare of society.”

-- Bhagavad Gita

“Being fearless isn't being 100% unafraid, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.”

-- Taylor Swift

“Just keeping being YOU and find the sliver lining in everything. It's actually all there is - the love underneath. The details end up working out."

-- Susan Washington

"Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it." - anon

My Heart said you're either going to have to be confident in me, or else you're going to have a lifetime of misery. Every time you get insecure in one of these meetings you give the meetings to the inner gremlin.

“When we say 'i don't think i can,' the real problem is 'I don't think I am'. You are not your feelings. Some days you just don't feel it like you want to feel it.

I made the decision that I was going to go deeper and I was not going to live by how I felt. I'm not going to live by my feelings because they don't tell you the truth-- they are fickle. They're one way one day and another way the next day.

You cannot do what you feel like and have victory. The only way to have victory is by learning to do what's RIGHT when it feels wrong. Do what's right when you don't want to. Keep on keeping on when you feel like giving up.“ - Joyce Meyer

You don't have to feel confident to be confident. Say I AM CONFIDENT.

CONFIDENCE: LOOK PEOPLE IN THE EYE WHEN YOU TALK TO THEM, Stand up straight, act like you know who you are: a messenger of LOVE. Royalty acts like royalty, and you happen to be Royalty, whether you know it or not. Hold your head up, speak clearly. SMILE. It makes other ppl feel confident if you smile at them. You can do all that while you're shaking, sweating and having a dry mouth!

It's much better when you FEEL IT, but I'm going to do it whether I feel it or not. That's what elevates you above the inner gremlin. Make up your mind that even if you don't even have a single feeling in your favor, you're going to do it anyway. That’s how you serve the world.

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” - anon

The thought, “poor me” produces negative feelings, which produce bad actions. The thought, “I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to work toward my goal” produces just the opposite.

BE BRAVE AND TAKE THE LEAP!

As artists, we have so many ideas and yogic and artistic expressions that can be life-changing. And I think that once I realized that, from studying Boy George to Shiva Rea and listening to Walt Disney, I started understanding that art, music and yoga can change someone's life, and it's very powerful. Because it's happened to me. I've been transformed by certain albums and yoga classes. And just knowing that I have the power to do that keeps me inspired and it lets me know that I'm tapping into something that's magical.

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

- Michael Jordan

You only have one life to do whatever you want with. In 100 years nobody will remember the stupid mistakes you made, so make a fool of yourself while you still have the chance because if you spend all your life trying to be the coolest kid around you will never be happy with yourself.

Have the audacity to believe in yourself when no one else believes in you, and see the vision that only you've been given. If no one else can share it with you, then bring life to it so others can see it. We are impregnated with projects and they won't be given to the world unless we allow ourselves to go through those labour pains, those miserable moments, long nights to birth something bigger than you and I. - Lisa Nichols

Remember, no matter what your path is, it's all about positive energy and love. It's about making things, creating, connecting with people. And as long as you can find a way to do that and be happy, that's all you need. So forge ahead and try to find that. It's not about being famous, it's not about being right or wrong. It's about just carving your own path out and finding people along the ride that see eye-to-eye with you.

"Our passion is our purpose”.

– the Bhagavad-Gita

“Yoga means union: sun and moon, breath and dispassion, blocks and straps, Kirtan and Kanye West. ‘It’s all yoga,’ ‘It’s all good.’”

“What it seems to be is a meshing of everything - you'll do a class that has a little bit of yoga, a little bit of Cirque du Soleil, a little bit of aerobics. There isn't one thing that seems to be grabbing hold, but more of a mesh. It's where life is with the Web, with twittering, Facebook, and instant communication ... people want to do everything at one time and that's why we're getting this amalgamation of many things in one class.” – Chip Wilson, lululemon

Yoga Asanas

The asanas can be taught as health, fitness, or stress reduction alone, and all of that is Yoga. The asanas can be used as a prelude to meditation, study, or prayer, and that too is Yoga. The asanas can also be taught as a practice of feeling our aliveness, together. When we come to a class we share the same room, the same air, and the same postures.

Sometimes we feel a great affinity towards each other with all our fault lines and crookedness. And then there are the days when through some miracle of who knows what, the ego cracks, the hungry ghosts fly away, the body and all its disgrace dissolves, and what is left in this merging is a vast and fathomless calm, a mercy so complete we know we are alive.

-- Kate Potter

"Be yourself" = Develop the part of you that you wish you were but are afraid to be. Being authentic is about developing another side of you where you actually participate in your own fate, rather than just parroting the behavioral patterns of your parents/social group. -- Will Blunderfield

WHY YOGA?

I do yoga because it is empowering! Yoga provides a safe space to celebrate our individuality while at the same time reminding us of our oneness. It’s not just about stretching; it’s about having an experience of being present and open to sharing positive energy. Through the alchemy of our practice, we begin to come from a place of self-love, not criticism, which helps us move forward and relate to everyone with more compassion. Above all, yoga enables me to get out of my way, everyday, to cultivate the courage to live out loud and be happy being the brilliant, imperfect me that is perfect after all - just as I am.

I was abused physically and emotionally so I could fulfill the call of the Universe on my life and because of that you can be helped today thru the yoga+music I offer. Now there's somebody else that YOU need to help and if you don't move forward, love yourself and Play Big despite what happened you're not going to be able to help them. Pick yourself up and go for it! I DARE U to feel the power :)

As someone who's been chased up the street, beaten up, and called faggot throughout his teens, there is nothing that is more disabling than falsely believing that you're a freak. Those kinds of people and experiences trained you how to think about yourself. I've observed that the people who harassed me most have almost all since come out (selfloathingprojection). When there's someone who hates themselves, they feel awful, and when they look at you, they feel awful. And then you say "there must be something wrong with me because they're looking at me, and they feel awful. I wish that I could behave in a way that when they look at me they feel wonderful." And you tried, you gave everything you had, but just couldn't behave in enough ways to make them feel wonderful and so then your assumption was "there MUST be something wrong with me," which is the biggest flawed premise in the whole universe. And your Heart never agreed with that and you know, isn't it interesting that that very feeling of lack of self-esteem, that empty, raw doughnut feeling of disappointment or guilt or even fear-- that feeling is your indicator that that thought is so screwy in comparison with source. So one day someone recognizes your greatness and you can't help but think they are lying...speaking to your feeling of not-enoughness or inappropriateness. And yet the facts of the Universe defy it over and over again and yet you cling to that feeling of not-enoughness. So whenever you feel that empty feeling that you call "not-enoughness" or unworthiness or low self-esteem stop and laugh from now on and say "huh, the reason it feels so empty is because it's so bogus. Negative emotion means this thought is bogus. What's this thought? "I'm not good." I'm not good? Ah bogus thought! it must be a bogus thought because if I were on the beam I'd feel full of source. So then you start practicing: "I'm inappropriate"(feel the knot of it). "I'm not as inappropriate as I have thought" (feel the relief of it). "I might be on the right track" (feel the relief of it). "I might be exactly on track" (feel the relief of it). "Kinda feels like the source within me likes me, cause whenever I get down on me I lose my connection with source: that must mean something. Means everything you see. Source loves you because Source knows who you are, and when you don't love you, you're off. You're not alone in this. There are a lot of people who've trained themselves, or been trained by others not to like themselves very much. And we've noticed that teaching you to like yourself is harder than teaching you to like almost anything else. So imagine here you are, shining your hose of appreciation out there. You find a cat, a dog, a donkey, a chicken, the government (no!). church (no). a beautiful girl, me (erhh!!). So what you wanna do is just feel around until you can love that and love that because connection with source is about you focusing on things that don't block the flow of love. You don't have to focus it on you. In other words, you don't need to be loved, you just wanna love, you see. So then, some day you'll sit here and you'll say, "I didn't really like my self that much but it didn't matter because there were so many other things I did like that I could focus on. And then one day I practiced liking that and that and that so much that suddenly I looked at myself and thought, hmm, not bad! They like you-- but they're in the vortex. Don't ask people who aren't in the vortex to love you they can't. That's what's been going on. Lookin for love in all the wrong places.

You are in the vortex aren't you. So tonight as you lie in your bed bask, appreciate the fabric, notice how the bed floats a little. Drift off to sleep, awaken in the morning. Reach for pleasant thoughts. Focus on something that feels good, Lie there for 5 minutes or so and milk it. then get up and have a little breakfast, brush you your teeth, then go do a focus wheel on something that's bothering you even in the slightest. Move right from your focus wheel into a list of positive aspects, rampage yourself into appreciation, and get your day started from inside the vortex. Then, if it spits you out no big deal. There's always tomorrow, yes? 30 days of this effort will change your vibrational point of attraction and every indication, everything that's happening in your life will shift in that short time with this short point of focus

-- inspired by The Teachings of Abraham

By shining light on others’ greatness, you reveal your own.

If you're ok with your shame, then the world is ok with your shame. How "they" feel about you is always just a reflection of how You feel about Yourself moment-by-moment. No exceptions.

*WEEKLY WILL-ISM: Do yoga to bring yourself into this surreal space of it's enough, I'm enough, I'm OK. Your dream and all the inspired action steps to manifest it are on the vibration of self-love (yoga, music, nature, doing your passion all brings you onto that vibration). So when you don't know what to do, take your attention off the problem and focus on feeling good. "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

Albert Einstein

Am I still insecure? Of course! I'm struggling with all sorts of things, but that's the nature of being an artist + yoga teacher, that when you stop struggling, that's when your art starts to suck. I guess u could say all the years of drive/ambition and the dream were like a mask for the feelings. So now my fears are exposed for all to see because the mask is off and that's why my classes are the way they are. #fuckbeingPC #embraceyourfears

BE A YOGA ROCKSTAR and MANIFEST YOUR DREAMS

1. LOVE YOURSELF (give yourself permission to love who you are and where you’re at, including the “flaws”, in the present moment) (come from enough, since like attracts like) MEDITATION: It’s ok. Whatever it is, it’s already here. Let me open to it. I am worthy. The One Self cannot be unworthy of itself! *If you don’t feel love for yourself, that’s OK! focus on things you do love (BE LOVING). Eg: nature, the ocean, fashion, animals, sunsets, good food, breathwork, etc.)

2. BE IT/VISUALIZE (live as the person you’ve always wanted to be NOW, even if you’re feeling scared to, as a devotional gift to the world). The unique combination of self-love and visualization of the end result allows the Universe to give you the necessary action steps.

3. ALLOW (allow the gap to close between your dream and the manifestation of it)

*GET CLEAR ABOUT THE "WHY" -- Do it all with an aim to bring more positive energy/love/inspiration/joy to the world, so yes you’re working, but it’s like you’re resting in the work (it’s only when you’re tired/stressed/being nasty to yourself that you forget this. That’s why “love yourself” is the most important step)

* “No” means you’re one step closer to the YES, anyone who’s manifested anything has been told no countless times. “No” means you’re on the right track.

If you let the worries and setbacks get to you, the world won’t get your music. Be brave. Bravery = action while you’re afraid.

“If I REALLY loved myself, what would I do?”

********Please yourself first and then you will attract someone who is pleased with you.

You are not responsible for other ppls emotions... take your hands off their wheel... #TDL

The Uni-verse is on your side, are you? #TDL

A mistake is an opportunity to learn and therefor not a mistake at all... #TDL

***************

#ImportantReminder --- Take advice from ppl who have what u want... Otherwise they are just guessing & probably guessing wrong. #TDL :o)

Insecurity is a form of narcissism, because you’re assuming it’s all about you, when really you’re here to serve through your passions. MEDITATION: Universe thank you for giving me strength to be a winner for all of them and not for myself. Remind me to empower not myself but to empower those around me. because that is my gift. My gift is not self-worship, my gift is the worship of others. Please help me to be strong and help me to know my own strength...

"Make me strong and surrendered (to my highest) so that I may serve". "Keep me in my highest" I'm asking God to help me stay strong, and also soft, so that I can be my best and be the person I'm meant to be. Because I am here to serve. I am here to contribute just like you. I need as much help from God and the Universe to be my best. And I need to stand for what's going to make me my best and DO IT. Sleep, hydration, etc.”

Keep choosing a truth that supports your life and you'll have more life to give!

"An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally."

— Seth Godin

"Self-confidence is knowing that we have the capacity to do something good

and firmly decide not to give up."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Self-confidence is not a feeling of superiority, but of independence."

Lama Yeshe

Focus on someone's guilt or focus on the love in their heart. Whichever you focus on, you'll be at the effect of.

There are two types of people in the world, those who are giving Love and those who are asking for it. #BeLove

******Sometimes you have to love certain people from a distance while you are reinventing yourself.

Really just love yourself, embrace your unique qualities, and never ever feel down about who you are. Have a great weekend YogaFam!

TEACHINGS OF ESTHER HICKS (ABRAHAM)

. And so, as you look out with the intention of finding love,

now you're looking for people who are tuned in, tapped in turned on, which is not

that easy to find sometimes, especially at work and get them to love you and, or

you're looking for it in a boyfriend or in a lover or some place and now you're

powerless because you can't control what they are doing with their vibrational

relativity.

And so, you look for it and you don't find it and look for it and don't find it, look

for it and don't find it and then you tend to call that self-love. "I'm looking for

love and I'm not finding it and because I didn't find it then I trained myself not to

love me because I don't love me because that one does not love me and I don't love

me because that one doesn't love me and I don't love me because that one doesn't

love me." And we say, they're not loving you because they are not tuned in. They

don't have the capacity to love you, unless they are in alignment with who they are.

And so, don't look for the love through their eyes. Look for the connection through

your eyes.

And so, let it be love of this rug, and love of these flowers and love of this

environment and love of this wonderful air and love of this ship and love of what

I'm having for dinner and love of this hair clip and love of this ring and love of this

watch and love of these flexible fingers and love of whatever I can feel

appreciation of. And as you just begin to tune yourself, first to the things that are

easy to appreciate and then to the things that are obvious to appreciate and then

as you begin looking for things to appreciate, you begin to tune yourself into a

vibrational alignment with who you really are about things that are easier for you

to love. Because friend, we don't want it to be this way. It shouldn't be this way.

But for most of you, the hardest focal point on this planet for you to love is that

one you see reflected back in the mirror.

Go home today, or back to your cabin today and sit before a mirror and sit there

and look into the depths of your eyes and look with the intention of seeing your

inner being looking back at you and say, "I know you're in there and I have an

inkling of how you feel about me because Abraham has been talking about it and

I'm just going to look for you until I find you. I'm going to stay here until I find

that feeling of awareness of me and appreciation of me that I'm looking for." And

from where you are, we can feel that you can get there very quickly.

But, the most important thing that we're saying to you is, this self-love that you

think you're looking for is not love of self. It's Love that Is Self. And there's a

difference. There is a difference between loving me and being me who loves. And it

is being me who loves that is really you. And when you are me who loves it's easy to

love that one and that one and that one and that one and that one and that one and

that one and that one and that one and that one and that one and that one. And

then it becomes irrelevant what your object of love is if you're loving.

What difference does it make what is the reason, the focal point, for the love that

you are feeling? What possible difference does it make? It would be like eating a

really wonderful meal and while you are eating it being unhappy that you can't be

eating that one and that one and that one and that one. It doesn't matter. Does it

matter what you are eating that feels wonderful and does it matter what your

focal point of your love is as long as the love that you're feeling is the love that

really is you, you see. That was good. That was really, really good

Q: So I'm hearing you say .. One of the things I love to do is, I'm a writer. And I

go out in my world and I see an old couple in the park and I feel incredible love just

looking at them. Or a dog on the street. Or somebody's shoes. So I can flow love

that way. Are you saying, that when I'm flowing love like that randomly to anything

and everything, that that is who I am?

A: Yes. That is who you are. That is who you are. And the more you do it

deliberately and acknowledge, "That is who I am." then the more you demand of

yourself and demand is too strong a word, but the more you set our intention to

find that and the more you look for it everywhere you go. And the more you look

for it the more you find it and the more you find it the more you look for it. Until

soon you just become it. And then you become this stable being who is never off 5

your balance. Who, if someone looks at you and doesn't find appreciation as

they're looking you understand, it hasn't got anything to do with you. It never had

anything to do with you. Everything that has everything to do with you are in

control of, you see.

Q: Well, then I want to probe a little bit. Why it's ..? I already do that, looking

out, which I was defining as external, but you corrected me and I understand,

that's not external, it's all part of me. Why is it so hard for me and others to look

at our own human self and not feel that same ripple of appreciation?

A: Because you're looking for love focused at you rather than love to be focused

through you.

Q: But I want to focus it at myself. I know what you mean about third party. I've

been down that rabbit hole. But I'm talking about focusing it on myself.

A: But what we're saying to you. And we want you to love you like we love you. But

in the mean time, what difference does it make what the object of your attention

is when you're feeling love? And the thing that is apparent and we appreciate you

saying it and everyone is saying it to some extent also is that, in your awareness of

not loving self you can't find self-love. And so we're just trying to build a bridge

for you. In other words, any time somebody hurts your feelings, it is because

you're in a different vibration than who you really are. And so this quest for selflove, we think is down the rabbit hole. We wouldn't be looking for self-love. We

would be looking for the part of self that does love. In other words, rather than

saying to someone that we love, "I want you to love me." We would begin training

ourselves into a desire that says, "I love loving you. I love the feeling of loving you.

And how you feel about me is irrelevant. I love the feeling of loving you."

And then what begins to happen. It's like our friend who got so angry at us,

"Abraham I don't think you care if my lover ever comes to me." It is exactly right.

We just want you to form a vibration that makes you feel so wonderful that it

doesn't matter. But then he cannot not come! In other words, when you find that

vibration the universe has to match you up with somebody that feels exactly that

way, you see. But we don't want you to let what is happening in terms of

manifestation be the criteria for how you feel.

And that really is what we are wanting to bring this gathering round to discuss,

because so many people say, "OK, Abraham, I'll play your silly games. I'll do your 6

processes. I'll do whatever I can to bring myself to the place of offering the

vibration that will get me to the manifestation that I want." And we say, "Have you

heard nothing from us? It isn't getting you to the manifestation that we are

teaching you all of this. It is getting you to the place of feeling so good that the

manifestation doesn't matter." And then you worry and say, "Ohoh. So, I'm not

maybe going to get the manifestation?" And we say, "That is not what we're saying

at all!"

We are saying, the desire for the manifestation is what gives you the reason to

want to connect to the energy that is really you that is the true living of life. And

that self-love is evident then. You see. But ... and that's why we don't hit you over

the head with an I love me stick because that really is not what you are looking for.

You are looking for reasons to love. You're looking for reasons to love. And in this

environment there is so much abundance of that.

We are appreciating your willingness to discuss this very personal thing and we

think that you've pinpointed something that is stuck in the craw of almost

everyone. In other words, most seminars hammer away at the feeling of worthiness

because unworthiness is at the heart of everything that goes wrong for everyone.

But these are just buzz-words that have only the potential of stirring you up and

making you uncomfortable and we are wanting you to make ...(? change of audio

section) So, in that light we would like to say to you that we find you loving of

yourself quite often and we find you absolutely lovable. We find you recognizing

that you're lovable. And we believe with everything that we are that if it were not

for your comparison of yourself to others and ... Oh here it is ... This is really what

is at the heart of all of this.

So, all of you stand where you do and you launch rockets of different things that

you want and you conclude that others are already living what you want and you're

not. And you gather that information by comparing the smiles on their faces and

the words that they speak and the things they write in their books and the movies

they show you. So, you use their success as a club that works against you as you

compare them getting what they want and pointing out to you that in some

instances you're not getting what you want.

Q: That's right.

A: And what we want you to understand is that you cannot accurately compare what

anybody is getting because you have no way off accurately accessing their points of 7

vibrational relativity. And what they appear to be showing you and what they are

actually living are two very different things. Don't you know people that have all

the money in the world and are still dissatisfied. Don't you know people that are

living in what you think is your dream house who are dissatisfied with it. Don't you

find it amazing that people that ought to be happy under the conditions that you

think you're reaching for aren't? And doesn't it sort of point out to you that you

just can't compare anything that anybody else is living with what you are living?

Q: Yeah

A: So, we don't want you to feel bad about in every moment not being able to

announce to the world that you've achieved absolute self-love. We just want it to

be your never ending quest. And we will say to you that you've hit upon something

that is so essential and so to the core of who you really are and who you were as

you came forth into this body, because that self-love is the driving motivating

factor. It is the inspiration. It is the thing. It is the ultimate calling. In other

words. Here Source is, over here and loving you with everything that it is and of

course it is the quest that you're most wanting to answer. And so therefore of

course it would be the thing that you would feel most uncomfortable about, about

not achieving moment after moment after moment.

But what Source wants to say to you is that the love that you hold for yourself in

any moment is enough. In fact, it is the perfect love under the conditions in which

you are living. It is enough. It is just right. Where you are on your path is just

exactly right. It is exactly where you should be on your path.

Can you imagine Jerry and Esther going across the desert. They are on their way

from Phoenix to San Diego and they are out there in the middle of the desert.

They are not where they want to be. They are in Yuma, for God's sake. There they

are in Yuma, no place to eat in Yuma! Can you imagine them getting so unhappy

about not having completed their destination that they get all disoriented and end

up going back to Phoenix? Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix,

Yuma ... and that's sort of what you 're doing. In your assessment of not enough

self-love it's the Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix, Yuma, Phoenix, Yuma ..

whereas you can acknowledge, "Where I am is just right. And given the

circumstances of my life ,I'm right on track. And I'm reaching for a fuller, more

encompassing sensation of love. And Source is over there patiently, never for a

moment impatient, always loving me. Do you know, here is a good thing to say to

yourself, "Even though for whatever reason I don't like myself very much right 8

now. I know that I have not caused Source to deviate in Source's appreciation of

me at all."

Q: Sighs

A: "I have not convinced Source not to like me." Sometimes when Esther

misbehaves she thinks, "Hmm. Jerry probably does not like me very much right

now." And she doesn't really know whether he does or not. And we would say it's

irrelevant how he feels. But even if she could misbehave enough to get Jerry to

begin to respond in a way that displays to Esther that he is displeased with the way

she behaves, Source will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

ever do that. Source maintains its absolute appreciation of you. And as you know

that maybe it will help you to give yourself a little bit more of a break. Maybe it

will help you to acknowledge, "I'm in the perfect place relative to everything, even

relative to self-love."

Q: I feel like you've just said to me that I had it all along and that I have it right

now and that feels like great relief. And I'm content with not being hit with the

stick. I feel ..

A: Well, we just hit you with it.

Q I do. I feel hit by it. Thank you. Thank you so much!

*****What makes me tick and what really inspires me is being on stage and teaching yoga--having that energy exchange with my students/audience is just what it's about for me and I've always had an affinity for it but at 24 years old I realized that this is what I'm MEANT to do.

When I was struggling with my identity, I didn't have anybody to look up to, except maybe Will & Grace.. To recognize the opportunity to be somebody who is comfortable being a "weird fuckin fag" in the public eye and to be proud of who they are, I realize that this is my chance to do that for other people. This tour is about promoting love, individuality, and bravery through yoga & music :)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

I'm such a product of my influences

You're an expression of love, you're listening to your heart, and you're sharing. Cause you are here to contribute. We all are. We waste our lives when we close. Your work can open people. You're affecting a lot of people when you give. When you're courageous you're showing other people that they can be courageous. when you're nice and kind and have a role-model that's doing good things and you're emulating him, that's good. You can't go wrong when you're listening to your heart.

Today, remember that when it comes to others, differences are human & aren't likely to change. It's the places of common ground that bind us! Look for the places of connection you have with your loved ones, and put your attention & energy there, rather than stressing over trying to make other people become just like you think they should be.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents that in times of prosperity would have lain dormant

*******WEEKLY WILL-ISM: if you think you're inadequate, you'll attract people and circumstances that reify that false belief. If you accept that you're exactly where the Universe needs you to be, the floodgates open and you become the love everyone's looking for:)

*****The more people there are who do yoga, the better the world will be for me and my kids to live in. If something helps us, makes us a better person, why wouldn't we want to share it? - Terry McBride on @Nutone Music

If you're doing yoga once a week and loving it, and feeling good about yourself and you encounter Ms. Super Yogini and she tells you how she practices for 3 hours a day, has been blessed by a rishi, and is extremely evolved, you just need to say "Hey, that's great. Maybe I'll get there some day, right now I'm enjoying my 1 class a week." KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Don't be threatened and made to feel insecure by people like that. Just follow YOUR heart & truth. All roads lead to Rome :)

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: The Universe purposely leaves insecurities in you so you can learn to thrive despite them and in doing so be a lighthouse for other insecure people.

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: Any time you "feel" criticism, it just means you need to make better friends with the enemy inside of you.

Stop minding other people's business and start taking care of your own.

Discipline: do what you should do when you don't feel like doing it.

Fulfilling your destiny is worth it.

Stop wishing and start doing.

Pick yourself up, shake it off, and move forward so that you can be the person your inner being wants you to be.

Be yourself = Play dress-up like you've never played it before (behave as the person you’ve always wanted to be but thought you couldn’t be because of how you allowed them to make you feel)!

‎"If you don't have haters, it means you're doing it wrong." ~ Hagan Blount

The love that you withhold is the pain that you will carry.

***You've been sent to stand out, so don't try to fit in.

Your power ends where your fear begins.

Everyone is a teacher. They are neither friend nor foe. So never be offended. Being offended is a weakness of the ego.

We all want love, but if you try to "get" love you just hold it away from you (lack attracts lack). If you make it a practice to EMBODY love, then, since like attracts like, it flows to you.

It is not a matter of becoming but of Being. Sri Maharshi

You are the Self. You are already and eternally That. Sri Ramana Maharshi

******The word ‘yoga’, translated as union, is a simple act of being friendly with the atmosphere, the environment, the structure of creation. If we think of it deeply, we will find it is a simple matter to be just normal, friendly, harmonious, and be in a state of ‘at-one-ment’ with that to which we really belong, and from which we can never be separated.

*****The idea that the entire universe will carry your vision into fruition is only true when your intentions are set on helping others. If your vision is cloudy, selfish, or muddled, you’ll feel a struggle, a sense of pushing, forcing, and fighting. You might get far, but you also might get yourself sick along the way, and it won’t ever feel quite right, nor satisfying.

****If you want something, you have to have the courage to go and grab it.

If I wanted to be a singer and make that happen, I had to MAKE it happen. It wasn't just going to happen to me. And I thnk that was the first time that I started realizing that. That I had control over my world.

Courage is a sense of confidence.

Courage is a sense of fearlessness that no matter the outcome, one has sufficient coping skills to deal with a situation.

Courage is not stupidity and blindly charging into harm's way.

Courage is the ability to deal with negativity, including negative responses from others.

Courage is the ability to deal with rejection, abandonment and dislike of others.

Epiphany/new goal in life right now: is to just take as many risks as I can and just see where it lands.

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: You can't please everybody. That is one of the major things I've learned this year.

***Every now and then I feel pressure to be a certain "type" of yogi from certain angles and I think at the heart of it as long as I'm being myself and having that integrity, it's all I can do. It's the best I can do. For me, teaching yoga is not about being a puppet, it's about being yourself.

Meditation is an attention of the mind on that which you really want. The psychology of the mind is such that you will certainly get whatever you want deeply, from the recesses of your being. There is nothing in this world which you cannot achieve. Even so-called impossible things can be attained. The impossibility is due only to external factors intruding into the practice. Actually, there is nothing impossible. The only condition is, you must really want it. Anything that is wanted by you wholly, wholeheartedly, from your very soul, will be at your service. The heavens will descend, if only you want the heavens to descend. But if you have a doubt in the mind that this is an impracticable thing, then you are to blame.

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: You can't be afraid of your potential. You can't just expect things to come to you. You have to create your own opportunities.

***One disturbed by negative thoughts, think of opposite or positive thoughts. This is pratipaksha bhavana. Yoga Sutra 2.33

“When you understand, Will, that what most people really, really want is simply to feel good about themselves, and when you realize that with just a few well-chosen words you can help virtually anyone on the planet instantly achieve this, you begin to realize just how simple life is, how powerful you are, and that love is the key.
Fly little bird,

The Universe”

****If you want something, you have to have the courage to go and grab it.

Courage is a sense of confidence.

Courage is a sense of fearlessness that no matter the outcome, one has sufficient coping skills to deal with a situation.

Courage is not stupidity and blindly charging into harm's way.

Courage is the ability to deal with negativity, including negative responses from others.

Courage is the ability to deal with rejection, abandonment and dislike of others.

Epiphany/new goal in life right now: is to just take as many risks as I can and just see where it lands.

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: You can't please everybody. That is one of the major things I've learned this year.

WEEKLY WILL-ISM: You can't be afraid of your potential. You can't just expect things to come to you. You have to create your own opportunities.

Sure, you might step out "too soon" or not do it exactly the "right way," but the Universe favors the bold. You will learn and then can apply that learning to your next step!

***One disturbed by negative thoughts, think of opposite or positive thoughts. This is pratipaksha bhavana. Yoga Sutra 2.33

It is human weakness to get angry & scold, but it is divine strength to hold the reins of your temper & speech. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

Henry Ford, "If I asked people what they wanted, they'd tell me they wanted a faster horse". Glance at market research, but do what you love

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire but to be. Tagore

It is not a matter of becoming but of Being. Sri Maharshi

You are the Self. You are already and eternally That. Sri Ramana Maharshi

‎"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

"You can't be what you can't see." To see women/gays/people of color in leadership.. to see us in reality and on screen and on television is HUGE. It's important as a marginalized person that you live out your dreams so that the kids out there have hope.

- inspired by the fantastic movie "Miss Representation"

You've trained yourself to face reality. You've trained yourself to tell the truth. You've trained yourself to tell it like it is. So in the beginning, these fantasies feel a little inappropriate, because it's like you're fooling yourself. Sometimes people will say, "Well, isn't this just denial?" And we say, "We hope so!" We hope that you are denying the absence that you do not want. And we hope that you are embracing the presence of what you do. But somehow the idea of denial has become a dirty word to you; like it is virtuous to face the reality of the horror of your own lives. And we would be ignoring anything that did not please us. We would get our eyes on what feels good.

--- Abraham

When I think about it, I have really strong doubts that I would be signed onto a major record label if it wasn’t for you guys. I mean, I’m different. I’m openly gay and I dress differently. I was trying to go about doing a different type of sound (pop/rock meets yoga chant) and I have strong feelings that if I had submitted something in front of a label, they probably would’ve been like, “Eh, I don’t know about this.” The unexpected side-effect of teaching yoga was that it got me out there and it built me a yoga fan base. It also showed that I could sing live, which is something that a lot of performers don’t do. It’s something that’s coming back – thank God – live performance. That really helped me; it put me on the map. If it hadn’t been for you all, I don’t think it would’ve happened. So thank you Yoga Fam!!

“If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness." - Sarah McLachlan

Part of staying in the Light is doing what Light's you up, another part is taking yourself Lightly! #Shine #TDL

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