Are you too old to be hot?

"I'm too old to do hot yoga."

I have heard this a lot. Good thing I didn't listen when I said it to myself at age forty-one. 

Yes, I had been doing yoga since I was fourteen; but I knew hot yoga was a different animal. My other hatha yoga wasn't going to save me.

Now your Loud Obnoxious Voice is reasoning with you: "Hot yoga is dangerous at your age; start slower, and ease into hot yoga later."

Dangerous ideas...don't you just love those? As for later, you're old; you have no time to waste.

Now for the good news: if you're between 40 and 60, you're in the perfect place in life to perfect all the positions of hot yoga. Here's why:

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Ask? Is it really that easy to get what I want?

What keeps you from soaring?

Could it be that you never really ask to fly?

Most of us ask for very little; we "keep both feet on the ground." 

"I just want enough to pay the bills." Splat.

Most of us never notice that in fact, we get exactly what we ask. Not because we're punished; because we asked for it.

"I don't ask for much....I'm not asking for the world...I need very little...I can't afford that....I don't need money.... rich people are  greedy...."

As if being meager is rewarding. 

Toby Calandra created a series of meditations around a simple and powerful premise called "Ask and Receive."

Yup, that's all there is to it. How does that work? Beautifully! Listen to the Ask and Receive meditation below and get ready to take off...

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Cut out the Middleman, Cut out the Stress

Is the Middleman screwing up your journey?

It's not your fault. From a tender age, we're taught to mistrust our own sense of direction.

"Don't depend on what you feel," we're told. Feelings change; they're not rational, after all.  Instead, "think straight!" and seek advice from someone Bigger, Older, Wiser. Teachers, parents, bosses, even peers are more trusted with your life than you. "For godsakes, never make important decisions based on emotions!"

But don't you change all the time, too? Wouldn't that make your emotions the best gauge for what's best, right now, in the present moment?

Can you learn to trust your feelings?

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Yes, I said Hot Yoga in the Summer

Get ready for your friends to widen their eyes in horror.

"You do hot yoga in the summertime? Are you crazy?"

Yea...crazy like a fox.

If this is your first summer of hot yoga, get ready: summer is hot yoga season. Because once you get the heat, the humidity, the humility of hot yoga inside you, August is a breeze again...just like when you were a kid. 

Why is hot yoga such hot fun in the summertime? Let me count just five of my favorite reasons:

Top 5 Things I love about Summertime Hot Yoga...

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Schooled in Hot Yoga

I was Valedictorian of PS 42 Elementary School in Queens, NY (not telling what year).

I skipped 8th Grade in the 2 Year SP - Specialized Program of accelerated learning.

I graduated in the Top 10 percentile of my high school class of over 1250 graduating students. Yes, 1250 seniors; the Far Rockaway High School student body was so huge that freshmen and sophomores went in the morning, juniors and seniors in the afternoons.

And somehow I missed out on the most important education of my life.

What I really learned in school was how to live up the expectations of others. I was never asked to consider what was important to me; what I wanted for myself. Were you?

Were you schooled to be a people pleaser? 

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