Meet Ken Perry , YogaFit's Wholesale Sales Representative
warehouse@yogafit.com

Ken has been with YogaFit since Dec 2009, he has recently been promoted to
Wholesale Sales Representative and would love to help you with your
Wholesale Orders. By helping you, Ken helps himself exepierience growth,
transformation and prosperity for his family. YogaFit is committed to
helping our corporate staff by providing opportunities for growth.

Ken  grew up in Compton CA as the only child of a working mother. As a
result, he grew up on the streets and learned to do street things.
He was into fast money. He succeeded in making it. By 19 he owned a
townhouse and expensive car, thanks to the street life.
Although his mother pleaded with him to stop doing what he was doing.. she
didn¹t want him to end up ³dead or in jail², he continued with what he knew.
Then he was arrested, convicted and served time in both state and federal
penitentiaries. After his release, he was in the wrong place sat the wrong
time. The five shots he took put him in the hospital for two and a half
months.. and he had to learn to walk again.
That¹s when Ken determined to change his life. He learned that money wasn¹t
everything. His mother was right.
He ultimately learned that ³fast money isn¹t good money because you didn¹t
work for itŠ it goes just as fast as it comes.²

Ken is now happily married, has four children, a good job, has taken
YogaFit's Trainings and helps bring  YogaFit into Correctional Centers to
help the incarcerated find true liberation.

How did he get to where he is today? Having worked in distribution and

ogaFit¹s job listing for a warehouse manager on the internet. He applied
and, despite cautions from YogaFit's board about hiring an ex-con,  founder,
Beth Shaw, followed her instincts and hired him. They are both glad she did.
" I love Ken's spirit - he is a wise and grounded soul who is passionate
about helping YogaFit grow" say Shaw. " Ken is loyal, stable, dependable and
has mine and the companies back at all times"
 
Ken wants to help those in prison change their way of thinking.

³yoga is letting go of competition without judgment toward ourselves or
others. It is totally and completely accepting who we are. Bringing yoga to
their world (prisoners) will help, in and out of jail²,

As Wholesale Sales Representative and would love to help you with your
Wholesale Orders. By helping you, Ken helps himself exepierience growth,
transformation and prosperity for his family. Yogafit is committed to
helping our corporate staff by providing opportunities for growth.

Contact Ken @
Office:  310-320-0110 ext 236
warehouse@yogafit.com
888-786-3111 ext 236 For WHOLESALE ORDERS only

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YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide Inc
www.yogafit.com

warehouses, he found Y

Dr Bill Larkin

Made the decision to stay in an UpSpiral
regardless of events outside of us.

 
We treat emotions only as if they were responses to some affect. Emotions seem always to have a “why” or a “cause,” if only we can locate what that is. There are many times that we don’t know the origin of why we feel like we feel. There are times when we are aware that “this or that” caused the emotions we feel. And very often we are sure that “someone” else caused us to feel like we feel. While we are the cause of our emotions, it is just as true that long existing emotional patterns are hard to control. Memories that are implicit, or prior to our actually remembering, cause deep-seated emotional reactions. However, the answer to managing emotions may be much easier than we expected. Instead of undoing negative emotions and their patterns, we are going to focus here only on building positive emotions.

We do not ignore negative emotions, but we just don’t choose to live there.

Here we want to reverse the cause and effect of positive emotions. We treat positive emotions as though they are the rewards or the outcomes of living in some sort of way. Something will make us grateful, an event will give us joy, a relationship will give us love, a goal will give us hope, and a pill will give us some peace. Positive emotions are treated as though they are the results of things on the outside, happening to us in a certain kind of way, and when the stars line up, or our problems get solved, or people line up in a certain way, then the result will be our joy or our gratitude.

Positive emotions are often results oriented, and we get to have them when something happens on the outside of us that creates that response in us. What underlies all of this is that you have to have a reason to feel positive emotions, and that reason is almost always on the outside of us.
 
How about this? Feel the feelings of love, peace, gratitude, joy, and hope by choice, for no reason, whenever you want to! There is no reason to rely on outside forces to give you these experiences. You may wait a long time before something comes along and makes you feel joy. Feel joy, just because you can, whenever you want to. You can feel all of these feelings instantly, for as long as you want, as intensely as you would like. It just takes some practice and the choice not to live your life directed by outside events.

The response might be that outside events can be very significant and that some are very negatively impacting. That’s true, some are, but all of them are not. And even for those that are, you will learn that managing your emotional responses and building up a reservoir of neuropositivity will make you much more capable of handling outside events.

The key to being able to do this really lies in where you spend the majority of your time, in an UpSpiral or a DownSpiral, or waffling back and forth in between the two.  The longer you remain in an UpSpiral and the more practiced you become, and develop the agility and mastery of positive emotional states, the more you realize that all of your life can be lived there by your choice. But it takes time and learning and practice.

The more you decide that outside events will not determine whether you are in an UpSpiral or a DownSpiral, the more you will be able to do so.

Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)    4:05    Gotye    Making Mirrors  
Limit to Your Love    4:37    James Blake    James Blake   
Do You Love Me Now    3:55    Nneka    Soul Is Heavy  
Better Days    3:50    Lisa Shaw    Free  
I Can't Make You Love Me    5:32    Bonnie Raitt   
Shining Star    4:08    Nneka    Soul Is Heavy  
Mind vs. Heart    4:15    Nneka    Concrete Jungle   
If There's Love    4:25    Citizen Cope   
Only You    3:16    Yaz    Upstairs At Eric's    Pop       
Kiss You All Over (Re-recorded Version)     
Free    5:26    Lisa Shaw    Free       
Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)    4:09    Alicia Keys   
It's Different for Girls    3:42    Joe Jackson  
Waiting in Vain    4:16    Bob Marley  
I'm Like a Bird    4:03    Nelly Furtado    Whoa, Nelly!   
 

How to be Happy in Life by Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

While some people manage to retain their happiness, most of us become more unhappy than happy by the time we enter high school. What happened? We were taught three "facts" that set the stage for a lifetime of unhappiness: "Life is scary," "Life is less scary if you accumulate stuff." and "You and everyone else must follow the rules." Those who accept those "facts" without question embark on a lifetime of what I call "The Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering."

The Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering has four stages: a. Fear, Neediness, and a sense of Obligation. b. Demands. c. Disappointment. and d. Anger, Resentment and Blame. The Cycle then loops back to Fear/Neediness/Obligation and continues throughout an unhappy person's life unless the Cycle is broken.

Break the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering and you regain your happiness. But how to break the cycle? The only way to break the cycle is to consciously reject one or more of the three false "facts" we were taught.

Here are four paths for breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering...

1. Confront Fear of the Unknown. Our greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. It could also be called fear of the future because the future is unknown. The way to begin to reduce fear of the unknown is to confront that fear. Acknowledge that you don't know what tomorrow may bring and that that causes fear. Once you have shown a light on fear of the unknown, you can address that fear with courage and, if you believe in a Higher Power, a faith and trust in ultimate goodness.

2. Question your Needs. It is human nature to want more "stuff" and to hoard for a "rainy day," but happiness doesn't come from houses, cars, electronic gadgets, or a bank account or retirement fund. Make a list of everything you don't have that you think you need. Make a list of everything that you do have that you think you couldn't live without. Now cross out everything on the first list and at least half the items on the second list. Not only do you not need those things, most of them create more unhappiness than happiness. Feeling needy is a big source of unhappiness that can be eliminated through conscious choice and a continued commitment to simplicity. Question your non-material needs as well. Joyful relationships are wonderful, but you don't need to be in relationship. If you are single, eliminate the thought that something is lacking, and just live each day joyfully.

3. Grant yourself Freedom. Most of us have spent a lifetime believing that we bear huge obligations. Our parents heaped obligations upon us, then our schools, our church, our community, our friends and family. Stop! There is almost nothing you actually need to do. You truly do have choices about what you do and what you don't do. Each time you begin a thought with "I need to..." or "I have to...," pause and ask yourself who is demanding that you do that thing and what the consequences would be if you did something else instead. Make the choices YOU want to make. Take actions from conscious choice and not from fear or unthinking habit.

4. Grant Freedom to others. This is the flip-side of #3. The sky never opened up with a great voice pronouncing how others should dress, speak, vote, worship, spend their leisure time, manage their money, or raise their kids. Your opinions of how others should behave are merely your opinions and having the expectation that others should conform to those opinions is a major cause of unhappiness. Live and let live - you will be much happier for it.

Sometime a challenging situation can bear fruits we never even imagined. I am house hunting. In an impass, a clearing, a space I am searching for the perfect temporary or maybe long term situation while I figure out what's next for Beth Shaw.  The last incarnation  of Beth Shaw was living in Beverly Hills and needed a change. The current Beth Shaw is living on a lawn chair part time and on the road. The " Fung Shui expert " said everything that created the need for change was due to bad Funky Fung up on the hill.

"Robber Baron Energy" and all kinds of no good...

Feng shui (/ˌfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ/ ( listen) fung-shway,[1] formerly /ˈfʌŋ ˌʃuːi/ fung-shoo-ee;[2] Chinese: 風水, pronounced [fɤ́ŋ ʂwèi]) (or Fung shui) is a Chinese system of geomancy believed to use the laws of both Heaven (Chinese astronomy) and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive qi.[3] The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu (simplified Chinese: 堪舆; traditional Chinese: 堪輿; pinyin: kānyú; literally: Tao of heaven and earth)
The term feng shui literally translates as "wind-water" in English. This is a cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty:
Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water.
Historically, feng shui was widely used to orient buildings—often spiritually significant structures such as tombs, but also dwellings and other structures—in an auspicious manner. Depending on the particular style of feng shui being used, an auspicious site could be determined by reference to local features such as bodies of water, stars, or a compass. Feng shui was suppressed in China during the cultural revolution in the 1960s, but since then has increased in popularity.
Modern reactions to feng shui are mixed. The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience states that some principles of feng shui are "quite rational", while noting that "folk remedies and superstitions... [have been] incorporated into feng shui's eclectic mix."

My own experience of Fung Shui has been mixed - I've had houses and businesses Fung Shui ' d to salvage relationships, improve businesses and create harmony in homes. Mixed results.

The one perfect FUNG SHUI  house was  seven blocks from the Beach in my desired neighborhood - its  the " one that got away " although that beautiful diamond in the rough 1952 Mid Century would have been a second job to restore. And it may still come to fruition if the escrow falls out within the next 28 days....... miracles happen and some things are worth waiting for. Or so I tell myself.

So after a less than stellar last living situation in the Hills Of Beverly I decided to try something new.. getting the house Fung Shuiad BEFORE a rent, lease or purchase. And so its been - a journey.. and like so much of my life - my journey whether I want it to or not. Becomes public.  My Home Search will be featured on HGTV's Selling LA 's next season.

So I've been on a search for close to 90 days now, actually more like 180 if I count the days BEFORE my house closed escrow. I wish I can say its been fruitful but it has not. In this style of Fung Shui placement of doors, stoves, fireplaces and bathrooms all have their play in the right house for health, relationships, and money.  And nothing seems to play well together.

Today I reached the end of my proverbial fung shui rope ... and as  Fung Shui expert and my realtor ( who has been more than patient )  shared the  "successes" they have together manifested - they came up with a list that included the lease with the mold issue and a roof that needed repair, the house purchase where I would have had to move the stove and change the front door to the other side of the house and the ocean view unit where I just would not have been able to use the stove at all.... Success indeed !

During this process I have become closer to my Hungarian roots - a gypsy.  Or a "homeless" person which is also ironic as I am in the real estate business part time. My friends joke that I am a well dressed homeless person driving a high line hybrid SUV but never the less I am " technically homeless " . and have stake in a few rental properties at the same time

One of my lawn chairs has ended up in my office so in between trips and nights with my "S.O." I am living with my work. Not by necessity as much convenient.  The trouble is its not that convenient anymore and I am at a crossroads....

Do I abandon the search for the perfect Fung Shui residence ?   do I cut my losses  ? ( several thousand dollars and a lot of time ) at this point or just wait it out and hope yes HOPE as in ...  I LIVE IN THE LAND OF ...  that the right property will come along ?

I am often times guilty of hanging in too long waiting for the change that never comes and sometimes guilty of cutting too soon and walking away.

Where does the balance lie ?

During this process I have had to rely on my yoga practice  of non attachment - my " stuffs" in storage for the first time in my life...  I don't always have the right outfit or shoes, and my fitness regime has suffered a bit.   In the greater scheme of things my issues are small - I've got my health, my work, my passion, great friends and great potential for future growth. I just don't have a place called home- so home has become where my heart is and where my body happens to  be at the time.

Perhaps I will give up the practice of Fung Shui and perhaps I won't. I do know one thing and that is that my spiritual practice I will not be giving up anytime soon. Through this process I can honestly say I have had to live it.

And at the end of the day that's truly what it's all about. Less attatchements and more authenticity.

Namaste