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Spira
- Jan 5, 2016
- 5 min
Resolution Revolution
Desiree Wood This blog has been written by Desiree Wood
Des is a Nurse Practitioner in Critical Care at the VA, Anatomy specialist for Spira Power Yoga Teacher Training, An Avid Yoga Practitioner at Spira Power Yoga and just an all around really good person…. —————– Resolution Revolution; A mindful new year for all After a busy holiday season and hectic work schedule, I rang in 2016 sound asleep by 10 pm, only to be briefly awoken at midnight by the distant sounds of firewor
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Spira
- Dec 28, 2015
- 3 min
Wishing you a year full of breath and joy of new perspectives in 2016!
So I will not talk of resolutions, I believe that topic has been chewed down to pure bone on mass media. I will rather talk of breath and perspectives. My yoga practice gives me a chance to breathe and take a break from my busy life. This hour for yoga has quite a paradoxical effect. I am not sure if it relates to quantum physics and time space continuum with alternate realities, but it happens every time. If you are a yoga practitioner then you are familiar with a feeling: Y
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Spira
- Dec 29, 2014
- 9 min
Why ‘Setting Goals’ fails for most of us and why we keep doing it.
You want a New Year’s Resolution that will work guaranteed? Stop setting goals at New Year’s. To this of course you may say, OK Dora, do you seriously wish not to improve my life or to reach my goals? I say: heck no! That is not what I mean. I simply mean that goal setting is the wrong approach. To understand my reasoning you must recognize two innate condition that drive any goal setting activity. The first is desire. You desire your goal. Seems obvious, but it is when thing
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