You've got to work on your warrior, girl

CEOs run marathons. We do hot yoga.

There’s a reason why people run marathons, hike the Pacific Crest trail, or do 30 day hot yoga challenges: endurance training.

The life you want takes endurance. Not struggle; but perseverance. To keep showing up, getting out there and putting in the best of yourself, even on your worst days.

Physical endurance training teaches you about maintaining your momentum no matter what.

Hot yoga is endurance training, for living your life.

Because the same road-blocks keep showing up:

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Your Posture, Your Life

Which came first:

your posture or your life?

Posture isn't just how you sit, stand or walk; posture informs your attitude

Can straightening your spine straighten you out?

Can you develop self esteem by standing tall?

Are you more likely to you be confident if you're walking tall?

Instantly. Here's how it works.

Go ahead, try this at home...

• Wherever you are right now, sit or stand a little taller.
• Shoulders down, shoulderblades lightly back.
• Tailbone tucked slightly down and under
• chin slightly down and back so you feel the back of your neck lift.

Take a deep breath, in through your nose/out through your nose hearing a loud HA resonate in your throat.

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Backing up your Forward Bend

According to a very cool yoga site called Sequence Wiz which details the importance of sequencing which yoga poses should follow others, it's imperative that you not insist on keeping those legs straight in forward bends.

The key word here is relax.

Gradual pulling and stretching, following teacher's instructions,  easing into it,  is the key to  beautiful stretch like forward bend (Pada Hastasana).

And everything else in life.

No forcing, no straining, no struggling. Gentle asking, then allowing. Life imitates asana.

The forward bend is just one of the many ways to back yourself up in hot yoga, and done well, this forward bend can catapult you into a world of feeling good. Here's how.... 

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