Yoga Patents for YogaGlo ...WTF?

If you are a part of this modern yoga world you most likely have heard the news that YogaGlo has received some type of approval for a patent on yoga videos. What?!  If you haven't heard here you go :http://yogainternational.com/article/view/yogaglo-patent-issued

It is becoming more and more disheartening to be a part of the modern yoga world.  I in fact, have been working on several yoga videos for you tube to share with my clients that can not make it to class or live outside of NJ.  Nothing crazy I don't have them doing forearm stands or binds without me being present just prananyama, guided meditation and maybe a few warriors and a tree.  So...if this patent goes through I can't do that anymore?
The founder Derik Mills looks like a decent person and everyone needs to make a living but having the site wasn't enough?  I mean why is it that you go to yoga?  I started to get a away from my cell phone for 90 minutes.  I was in a high stress, high paced sales job and my cell was always ringing and I always answered...except those 90 minutes I was in class bc it was in my car.  Then I fell in love with the breathing and the movement and how I could actually slow down my thoughts and manifest great amazing things.  So, Derik, lay off the patent will you?  Yes, yoga has turned into a huge business but let's not make yoga teachers hire attorneys when they want to set up a You Tube page or send their clients videos on an asana they are working on or a guided meditation they really need.  Yoga teachers just don't make that type of money to keep an attorney on retainer. It just doesn't make too much sense...one yogi to another it just doesn't fit into the yoga philosophy.  If I want to send a video to a friend or to a client that needs some help relaxing don't take that opportunity to help someone heal away.  

Yoga and Weight Loss

Really? Are you thinking is she really going to go there? Well, I have to go there. Everyday I hear the same thing, you should offer hot yoga, or yoga fitness or put yoga for weight loss in your window. Here's the simple truth. If you do any physical activity for an hour and fifteen minutes three days a week or more you will get in shape. Plain and simple. Even a gentle yoga class can give you sexy legs and rock hard abs if you are holding the postures correctly. It's difficult to hear I am coming to sweat, I want to scream run here before class and then run home you will sweat or better yet why don't you really hold your muscles during each asana. The best is I don't need a restorative class or a gentle class. When did we become so hard on ourselves?

So it is true if you practice yoga (any type : gentle, vinyasa, hot, cold, power yoga, etc) at least three times a week for more than an hour you will tone up. It's part of the reason we practice the asana. No. Not have sexy legs but our bodies are in fact our temples. So we should take care of them. We do the physical bc all the mental baggage leave us with some toxic stuff in our joints, muscles and most importantly in our hearts.
Then comes the pranayama (breathing), sometimes I see people just doing it to do it. If you really throw yourself into pranayama it's a miracle drug! Pranayama actually helps to relax you, rids you of anxiety, keep you focused(think kids and ADHD!) but above all it brings in more oxygen which in turn flows through your body and makes everything feel better.

Yoga is about letting go, yes physically but the mental too. Will you lose physical weight, well... Yes. Most importantly you will begin to learn to let go of the mental baggage. Once that's removed you will see yourself and others in a different light. There's an old saying if you don't have a few minutes a day to meditate then sit down and meditate for an hour. Use your practice for meditation, stop thinking about how much you want to sweat. In the end it will all be perfect and everything will be exactly where it's supposed to be..

Being a Woman

So, the funny thing is I started this blog 2 1/2 years ago when my son Jack was born.  I was overwhelmed with being a new mom and a new business owner that I never began to write.  Now, Lily is here and my business has grown and so have my responsibilities but somehow I am going to find a way to write daily here.  Maybe it will become viral or maybe this will be my online journal...who knows.

Being a woman is tough..being a business owner (of a yoga center), a mom, a teacher and a wife is just insane at times.  I  remember a time where my home was always spotless, everything organized and neat.  The yogi in me says "let go that was the past...don't dwell."  The italian guilt running through me tells me a different story, like get down stairs and finish all that laundry even if you have to stay up all night. 

This week I practice non attachment (Aparigraha as the yogi's say) .  Something I find so hard as a yogini to do.  I'm attached to my children, my husband, my family but I am also attached to my ego.  Trying to do it all myself and not wanting to ask for help.  Today I asked for help with Jack bc I just couldn't do it.  Instead of resting I worked, folded laundry, cooked for the dogs. The cool thing is I get to start over this very second bc every moment is a new beginning.

What are you attached to in your life?