Really? Hot yoga can change your life in 15 days?

I just love happy endings - especially those involving hot yoga and new beginnings.

This is Parul before starting hot yoga (left), then 15 days into her 30 Day Challenge (right). Gorgeous either way, but take particular note of the shape of her face, the light in her eyes...Day 1 of Parul's 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge was Day One of her new life in every way, shape and form.

Chest pains, headaches, high cholesterol, thyroid medication - Parul was famliar with all of this.  But one day, she awoke to seriousness of it: her life could be cut short by a heart attack any time now, and she was only 33.

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My Top 10 Hot Yoga AHAs

There are moments in your life when the light goes on.

It's like flipping a switch in a dark room; instantly, everything transforms. Once you've seen the light, you can never be totally in the dark again. And once your light clicks on, there's no way to go back; you can only go forward. 

AHA is the perfect word to describe these experiences...

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The yoga of Herb and Dorothy

Have you ever seen a movie so good you had to see it again - the next night?

So it was with Herb and Dorothy: 50x50, which I watched again Sunday night at the little ACME Theatre in Lambertville.

And I found myself in tears, again.

Herb and Dorothy Vogel could not have seemed more ordinary: she was a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library and he was a postal worker. They worked at their day jobs for 30+ years.

Outside they were ordinary people but inside, they had an amazing secret...

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Notes from the Finish Line of a 30 Day Challenge

"I was not feeling well; my body ached and I had a headache. 

Day 26 was not my finest.

I was really tired. My stomach was in knots. I was irritable and short tempered. I wanted a freakin’ night off. Not my normal MO. I strongly considered bagging hot yoga: really, I was doing this 30 day challenge for myself, right? It was only  a strong sense of obligation (decided on early in the afternoon)  that got me to the hot yoga studio...."

Not exactly what you might expect to hear about a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge.

But it's not all sunshine and roses. Ellen Downey speaks the truth about her hot yoga challenge, and as you know, "the truth shall set you free...but first, it will piss you off."(Gloria Steinem, founder of the Feminist Movement)

So what exactly is Ellen talking about on Day 26 of her 30 days?

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Losing Balance, Finding Alignment

When someone says, "balance," do you get images of juggling work, home, family, marriage, children, fitness, health...

I call it The Shopping List approach to life.

You get all wistful thinking about getting it all done, checking things off the To Do List and waiting for that feeling of accomplishment.

But did you ever notice that, on those rare occasions when you do "git 'er done," more things just show up? What kind of reward is that?

Flash: you will NEVER get it all done. And that's a good thing.

If you want a Great Life, forget balance. Go for alignment. Do you know the difference?

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