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10 Poses to Release Perfectionism and Boost Inner Peace

10 Poses to Release Perfectionism and Boost Inner Peace

Learn to accept yourself as you are with this balancing yoga sequence.

Perfectionism is something I have struggled with throughout my life. Sure, perfectionism can help us reach our goals and accomplishments. However, when things don’t go the way we want them to, it can feed feelings of stress and failure.

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5 Lessons in Resiliency: How I Rebuilt My Life After the NFL

As a boy, I dreamed of playing in the NFL, and that dream became an obsession. I ate, drank, and slept football. I beat up my body with relentless overtraining and tortured my mind and spirit, believing that the only way to be happy was with a long, successful career in the NFL.

After I made a starting kicker at the University of Pittsburgh, I joined the NFL, signing with the Detroit Lions. But within six months, I was cut. The following year I landed a contract with the Indianapolis Colts. After three months, I was let go due to an injury. Next, I signed to the New York Jets. But after another injury, that team cut me too.

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5 Excuses that Keep You Away from Yoga & Why You Can Let Them Go.

For those who feel as I once did, that beginning a yoga practice is intimidating, too challenging, not challenging enough, or an otherwise uncomfortable undertaking, I want to share some of my experience and knowledge, in the hopes that it might make yoga more approachable. I believe that yoga can offer healing, fitness, and fun for everybody, and I want to help you get there. I’ll start with the first line of resistance to starting a new physical practice: excuses.

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