My personal experiment was to practice gratitude and complain less. My intention was to use gratitude as a focus for my meditation practice and to make a list of things I am grateful for in my journal. For the first week, I was journaling and meditating and everything was fine. Thankfully, my experiment took an […]
Her whole message totally aligned with my personal experiment because a big message she sends is the importance, no…the absolute necessity that gratitude be a part of one’s life. In the chapter entitled: Gratitude: The Gateway Drug to Awesomeness, Jen explains that we not only have to be grateful for what we have that is […]
Halfway into my experiment, I was not only journaling but also creating vivid visualizations of the person I aspire to be in my life (career, relationship, family, spiritual…all aspects) and meditating on this. I also created a daily (more like hourly) ritual where I would spontaneously thank this Universe for what I have today and […]
Honestly, it might sound ridiculous but repeating these types of messages over and over and over again start to create a shift. Even in these short couple of weeks, I feel more grounded, focused, content and joyful. Things that used to bother me just don’t have a place in my life anymore. I don’t give […]
Sounds like a good mantra. And for this Axis yoga teacher training student it was much more; it was a life plan. The Learn and Live elements were well on their way, and Heal was found on the yogic path. This student used the Axis YTT personal experiment to try and use yoga to heal […]
When I set out to make a life change I honestly didn’t know what to expect. By life change I’m referring to resigning from my job at a local school district and launching LEARN HEAL LIVE (LLL). My goals for LLL were to create a space that would allow me to utilize my passions and […]
HEAL, this is where you may be most interested, seeing that this paper is a requirement of my yoga teacher training and my future goals. With all that I have shared above you can imagine that my life has been a bit busy. Needless to say the experiment initially started with my desire to focus […]
This next journey happened on its own accord. Since I’ve been blabbing my gums about yoga this, yoga that, virtually everywhere I go. I have received a gift. The gift is that my girlfriend has generously offered to be my student. The week of October 13 was the start of a twice a week practice. […]
As time progresses I continued to use what I was learning in class. My sequencing thus far focuses on repetition and recently longer holds. I would like to build my own sequencing by writing down and building out classes. This however still makes me a little nervous as I still have a bit to learn […]
Sometimes we can only delve deeper into the unknown by setting aside the known for a little while. This Axis Yoga Teacher Training student’s desire to deepen their sadhana practice required a relinquishment of their more familiar asana practice. They faced a challenge familiar to many who try to begin a meditation practice; wondering if […]