Looking Ahead With Lauren: Who Do You Wish To Be?

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We all have role models or people that we wish we could be more like. There are always people that I wish I could be like or ongoing goals that I never quite keep. In my head, I wish I was a dedicated yogi, who ate very healthy and only indulged in treats occasionally, exercised [...]

Be Careful What You Wish For… You Might Create It!

Be careful what you wish for!

Do you ever get what you want and then question yourself, “What the hell was I thinking”? Well I have. I have found myself in that space more than once with the expansion of BV Yoga. Although I know it is exactly what I want and need to be doing, my head likes to tell [...]

On Becoming and Being

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In yoga, we often bandy about the statement, “Become a human BEING, not a human DOING.” We have an understanding of ourselves in accordance to what we do and a much more limited understanding of ourselves when we are being just as we are. We define ourselves by our careers, our spouses or significant others, [...]

The Healing Power of Flowers

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“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom.  They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.”  ~Jim Carrey Can flowers help you heal? Based on a recent study from Kansas State University, the answer seems to be YES!!! Researchers followed 90 patients recovering from surgery and found that [...]

Why We Overplan: Letting Go Of Overplanning in Real Life

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‘A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Lao Tzu There is something about my mind, and many people’s minds, that is overly optimistic. We think we can do so much each day, and so we overplan. We fill our plans with so much, confident we can do it all, [...]

Celebrate Your Strength! Whispers from Within: Your Body Is Talking But Are You Listening?

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 “Your body loves you unconditionally, but the real issue in this relationship is not whether your body loves you, but whether you love your body?” With the explosive popularity of social media, you likely have a LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter account and are hopelessly addicted to the omnipresent news feeds delivering up-to-the-minute updates on your friends. [...]

“The Daffodil Principle” What Can You Plant Today?

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All religious preferences aside, this is a wonderful, timeless story for everyone to enjoy and share! Inspiration from Ramdesh and Jai-Jagdeesh – Day 13 of the 40 day Global Sadhana from Spirit Voygae.com Once a woman was going to visit her daughter and granddaughters high in the mountains of California. They planned to visit a garden [...]

Celebrate Your Strength By Showing Up! Sensing Spring: A New Beginning

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Each year, warm breezes carrying sweet scents of spring invite us to experience life’s renewal. Nature gently nudges us — take a look around, the world is unfolding! If we pause to notice this transformation, then we may remember the nature of our existence: All is impermanent. Even the heavy frosts of winter’s dormancy melt [...]

April 1st! Celebrate Your Strength Everyday This Month!

Celebrate your strength and beauty!

April, from the latin word Aprillus means: ‘to open’ or ‘opening’. It is the spring month, blossoms opening, birds singing, mother natures children growing up around us – new growth everywhere.  April is the month of rebirth and hope for the future.  I often think of the words my first yoga teacher would say in [...]

Declutter Your Mental Clutter

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Those voices inside your head won’t be quiet. All you can hear is your boss telling you to have those reports done by Friday or your daughter reminding you that there’s soccer practice this Saturday or a parent’s voice telling you that they’re going to need you to help them drop off their car at [...]