I have been pretty busy over the last few months doing what I love working with amazing people doing and making cool things to make the world a better place (seriously, loving it; who wouldn’t?). If you have never heard of Yoga Rocks The Park I’ll introduce you via the words of my friend and founder, Erik.

“Yoga Rocks the Park is not just a weekly event, it’s a movement to bring a sense of peace and joy to communities throughout the country. We want to celebrate communities that are thriving in a unified sense of family and wellness, and are having fun doing it.” - Erik Vienneau, YRP’s Founder. What’s better than that?

I am not only working with this incredible company, but our team from Live Weal is also supporting the Yoga Rocks The Park in San Diego and San Francisco this year. We are incredibly excited to say the least.

So now for a little something cool for my friends. We have teamed up with Yoganonymous (btw- did you see that video on there with the mom and her kids doing yoga? watch now. You might cry) and prAna (Just visited their offices in SD. beyond amazing. I might actually work in an actual cubicle again if I worked there) to offer 5 people season passes to one of the 12 cities around the country where YRP is happening this summer. Plus, each winner receives 1 item of their choice from the prANa website. I love them. 

• Kansas City (Sundays May 5-June 30, 2013)
• Chicago (Select Sundays May 26-July 28,2013)
• Denver (Select Sundays May 26-Sept 22, 2013)
• Omaha (Sundays May 26-July 14, 2013)
• Cleveland (Select Sat & Sun’s from June 2-Sept 22, 2013)
• Boulder (Saturdays June 22-July 27, 2013)
• St. Louis (Sundays June 30 – August 18, 2013)
• Milwaukee (Sundays June 30-Sept 8, 2013)
• St. Paul (Saturdays July 6-Aug 31, 2013)
• Portland (Select Saturdays July 13-Sept 14, 2013)
• San Francisco (Saturdays from Aug 3-Sept 14, 2013)
• San Diego (Sundays from August 4-Sept 8, 2013)

You have until Friday to enter, but might as well just do it now and knock it off your to do list. Enter now and I look forward to seeing you this summer. I’ll keep you posted on the inside track to some other cool things coming soon! Learn more about Yoga Rocks the Park at www.yogarocksthepark.com.

Photo: Bill Fitzsimmons

I have been pretty cranky over the last few weeks. It happens. I am typically a super happy person, but when I am not, I’m not.

As someone who works in marketing, a percentage of my day is spent posting “positive” quotes and inspiration on social media. Last week even those positive sayings were becoming slightly annoying.

I have been working A LOT and to say that my “balance” has been off is an understatement.  Balance to me is alignment. It’s about well-being and I was lacking. Seriously, I own a company that promotes a holistic approach to life, business, wellness, happiness … I seriously needed to tighten up my program before I became a fraud.

I went to Sedona last weekend thinking that I would arrive and I would magically become instantly balanced (ever do that?).  However, once I arrived, I remembered I had a conference call that I committed to. Annoyed again. Not at anyone but myself.

I realized I was not taking care of myself in the way I should be. Determined for balance I ended up going on a hike with my friends and worked the conference call into the hike. I was quiet about it, but I am not going to lie, I was totally judged by a few passers-by. “Why the hell is that blonde girl on the phone?” Truthfully, I would think the same thing if I were them. “I am trying to be balanced people!!! Lay off please.” … see, I needed to relax.

The next day, I sat waiting for this miraculous sense of balance to flush over me, (i.e. “here I am, I’m outside in this beautiful place. I’m ready for balance!”) or an answer as to how I could stop being so cranky. Instead, I heard this voice screaming at me. Maybe it was intuition, spiritual guides, whatever it was, it was screaming … The time to have it all is now. “What the hell are you waiting for?!!!!! “ 

Seriously, what the hell AM I waiting for? What are any of us waiting for? It hit me that incorporating all of the things I love into my life NOW is the most important thing I can be doing. It’s not about shutting if off and then expecting it to turn on just because I was in a beautiful place. I should be working on fun, love, health, and well-being just as much as anything I am doing. These are all things I know … I seem to be taking them for granted lately.

After that moment, I sat in immense gratitude in my reacquaitance with this knowledge. In the realization that it’s not about learning how to work hard, I already know how to do that (we all know how to do that). Right now, is about learning how to have it all… and not having to ask myself “what the hell are you waiting for?” ever again. Because 99% of the time, the answer to that question is just an excuse anyway.

Here’s to right now. You in?

More on Beautiful Chorus.

“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts.” – Betty Eadie

Free Download courtesy of the Nantucket Yoga Festival (July 12-14, 2013) and Yogi Tunes.

About the Nantucket Yoga Festival: The island of Nantucket has a unique vibration that has consistently inspired conscious living, the independent spirit and creative collaboration. Join us on this very special island July 12-14, 2013 for the second annual Nantucket Yoga Festival. The festival brings together the very best world class yoga instructors, wellness experts and healthy living guides Featuring legendary yoga master; Dharma Mittra, Sadie Nardini, YogaSlackers and more than 20 inspiring instructors. With a one of a kind opening night, fantastic vendor market place, and a farm to table dinner. It is going to be one inspiring weekend. You do not want to miss this!

http://nantucketyogafestival.com/

Simon Park Freestyle Yoga in NYC presented by be present, inc. From inversions to skateboarders Simon Park flows in Washington Square Park right by NYU in Manhattan. Live Your Practice, Everywhere.

Music provided by the Desert Dwellers courtesy of Yogi Tunes.

Photo: Jenn Perell / Shared via www.liveweal.com

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Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. Love is not a relationship.

A relationship is possible but love is not confined to it, it is beyond it, it is more than that ~ man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing.

He starts overflowing, he starts sharing, he starts giving.

And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena… they are together, and yet tremendously alone; they are almost one.

But their oneness does not destroy their individuality.

- OSHO