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Renowned Life and Corporate Mentor, Kimberly Lou, is releasing her fourth book, "Becoming Who You're Meant to Be: Eliminate Destructive Patterns and Unlock the Ultimate You," an integrative self-help guide offering readers the tools to tap into their own ability to take control of their personal story and achieve the next level of success in their personal and professional careers.

In Becoming Who You're Meant to Be, Lou is addressing the three core elements required to achieve an optimized life: mental focus, emotional fitness and physical training.

"What gives some people the ability to take their lives to heightened levels of success, while others can barely make it through the day? How can we become the person we know deep down we were meant to be without burning out or breaking down? Many of you are already successful, but it seems like its impossible to reach your greatest potential because you feel you are already operating at your maximum capacity." Says Kimberly Lou.

"What if I were to tell you that there is a source so great and so powerful within you that all you need to do is tap into it? I am here to tell you there is a whole other level of success you never even knew existed. Imagine a great source that is enormously rewarding, yet all it takes to access this source is a change of your old ideas."

In Becoming Who You're Meant to Be, Lou teaches readers how to build a solid foundation for a new life using personal freedom as their foundation.

Kimberlys programs are geared towards men and women looking for more than just standard life-coaching, in order to excel at the maximum level of their ability without burning out. She expands the concept of fitness to address personal accountability, mindset, nutrition and physical exercise a fully cohesive approach to sustainable health and success.

Lou is not only giving readers the tools for success, she's showing them how to put those tools into practice in order to motivate them to write their own story and dictate the future of their personal and professional successes.

Becoming Who You're Meant to Be is now available on Amazon (Paperback or Hard Cover), Kindle and Audible.

KIMBERLY LOU is an integrative Life and Corporate Mentor who coaches top CEOs, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world-class athletes around the world. She helps clients accelerate and thrive through mental focus, emotional fitness and physical training. In addition to Kimberlys mentoring programs, she is an accomplished author, and a nationally recognized spokesperson for mental health and wellness. With over two decades of experience and extensive education, Advanced Fitness and Certified Wellness Specialist, Kimberly Lou creates attainable solutions using techniques that work at all fitness and wellness levels. Kimberly Lou has helped doctors create programs addressing mental illness, cognitive disabilities, and major addictions, in addition to, facilitating workshops and support groups for clients struggling with cognitive, mental, emotional, drug, and eating disorders.

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"I'm PC. That might give you pause, but I am," says the 73 year old Pope of trash.

Early into John Waters 90-minute Make Trouble show at the Sydney Opera House a delightful mix of stand-up comedy, career retrospective and life coaching he sets out the nights agenda: were working towards a new kind of ghastly.

John Waters knows ghastly: he hasnt made a career off generating pearl-clutching so much as snatching the whole necklace and letting them scatter on the ground.

Fifty years since their release, his biggest films Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos continue to make conservatives trip over their filthy irreverenceShowgirls-style. While he hasnt directed a film since 2004, his many books, live shows and festivals continue to inspire queerdoes across the globe, including his latest book, Mr. Know It All.

If you missed out on Make Trouble, here are six pieces of advice Waters had, from navigating PC culture with irreverence, accepting your flaws and amending one of his most famous quotes.

We were a little worried when Waters referenced how college audiences require trigger warnings early into the night, but despite the continual references to PC culture, he never teetered into Jerry Seinfeld or Dave Chappelle territory.

Yes, Waters referenced not being able to get away with sleeping with your colleagues and questioned how difficult it is to be a delinquent in 2019, but his millennial bashing always came from a place of warmth. The harsh reality of PC culture is that parts of it are ridiculous we often lose our points in semantics, or celebrate war criminals for being feminist icons and Waters reminds us its okay to laugh at it.

The difference was that Waters, impressively, always punched up. There was always an empathy to his jokes, whether about college campus politics, people with emotional support animals, or autosexuals claiming to be the final letter of the LGBTIQA+ acronym. It was unlike anything wed seen before in stand-up at this level: a nuanced position built up over decades as one of the queer communitys leaders, and a sign that a 73-year-old can listen to todays emerging voices and opinions.

When Waters said, Im PC. That might give you pause, but I am, he fought against the connotations and limitations of the term, where conservatives have turned caring about people into a dismissive punchline.

Of course, he isnt perfect (a tangent about how Johnny Depp was always a gentleman during filming of Cry-Babywas unnecessary, to say the least) but Make Trouble, without directly saying it, demanded a more nuanced way of navigating the world, one where one comment doesnt invalidate all others.

Where many older queer men struggle with anything that doesnt centre themselves, Waters repeatedly noted that the trans community were the new target of conservatives and need the wider communitys support.

At one point, Waters went off about TERFS trans exclusionary radical feminists, who believe trans women are not real women and grew up privileged as they were assigned male. But, of course,he did this in a distinctly trashy way, imagining Big Freedia running into a gender-neutral bathroom to piss on a Republican voters child.

Im PC. That might give you pause, but I am.

Waters also was ready to acknowledge that many of his films havent aged well in regard to trans issues, specifically referencing Desperate Living, but stood by a scene in Pink Flamingos where actress Elizabeth Williams flashes a male pervert by revealing her breasts and penis.

According to Waters, the scene was important to Williams, a trans woman, as it meant she was making the joke before anyone else could. Waters repeatedly mentioned owning the joke as a powerful move forward.

In one part, Waters asks what a juvenile delinquent looks like now, saying its a far cry from smoking behind the bleachers. He lands on hackers shutting down the government and the likes of Greta Thunberg, who he calls the one person that angers conservatives as much as trans people.

In short, he jokes that its not enough to just be gay to be a rebel against society: its a good start, he says, but to actually stand on the fringes, you have to do more than smoke cigarettes and suck dick. In an era where LGBTIQ identity and anti-establishment aesthetics have been co-opted by capitalism, we need to do more to make a stand.

Throughout Make Trouble, Waters keeps coming back to scatology. More than half a decade later, Divine eating dog poo in Pink Flamingos remains a steaming hot talking point, even though it wasnt really that weird for his freakish friends.

He calls Flamingos a film of limits, and makes a big deal about of pushing whats deemed acceptable and whats not today, that war is less about what eating shit than how you present and showing up in hostile spaces. In Waters world, eating shit is the same as being unapologetically you.

Still, he says theres power in the Trojan Horse approach, noting how even racists like Hairspray, and that Divines presence in the mainstream remains a beacon of weirdness and gender-subversion even if that was never her intent. Divine wasnt trans. He didnt want to be a woman, he notes. He wanted to be a monster. The latters still important, too.

Waters has made a living off irreverence, and recommends failing upwards and how he owes his early career to drug-fuelled brainstorms. While he doesnt suggest we all do the same, its a reminder to not take our lives so seriously.

Talking about Polyesters infamous smell-o-vision, he says, All over the world people gave me money to smell a fart. We should be so lucky.

At the end of the night, audience members stood behind mics and yelled out questions from the crowd. We ended on an important one: a fact-check as to whether Waters ever said his oft-attributed quote, if you go home with someone and they dont own books, dont fuck them.

He did, for reference, but wanted to give an update: If you go home with someone and they have books in their bathroom, dont fuck them. Some things remaintoo gross.

John Waters latest book Mr. Know It All is out now. Photo by Prudence Upton. His Australian tour continues in Melbourne on Friday 18 October at Hamer Hall, and Saturday 19 October at MONA in Hobart.

Jared Richards is a staff writer at Junkee, and co-host of Sleepless In Sydney on FBi Radio. He is on Twitter.

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For business organizations, teaching leaders how to coach can be a game-changer. It is not just value added, it is value multiplied.

Human Resource Executives who have implemented company-wide coaching programs affirm the profound impact of leaders acquiring the ability to coach and harnessing it to optimize performance, enhance workplace relationships, and fast-track employee development, among other results.

Monde Nissin HR Director Luchi Vitales introduced Coaching to her Senior Managers several years ago, enabling them to provide agile leadership as the company grew. The intervention helped to create a safe and nurturing environment where employees can productively talk about personal and professional concerns, learning needs and development goals, with leaders who genuinely listened. Heartened by the initial results, she extended the program to practically all leadership levels and campaigned to sustain the coaching practice.

The positive changes most widely acknowledged by the participants, she says, lay in essentially two areas first, that they developed a more holistic, strategic perspective in managing their respective teams and targets, vis--vis the corporate business thrusts; and second, that they acquired a stronger capability to effectively handle the behavioural issues of their people. These critical learning points are precious gains for every coaching advocate.

Vitales is, herself, a Professional Coach with credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was the 2011-2012 President of the ICF Philippines Chapter, the group organizing the International Coaching Summit for November 8, at the Conrad Hotel, Manila.

Designing coaching programs to build leaders, teaching leaders how to coach their people to their highest potentials, and bringing about a corporate coaching culture are just a few of the enticing subject matters covered by the Summit.

Championing the Coaching Culture

For many HR heads, striving to achieve a company culture that thrives on coaching can sound like chasing the holy grail. The challenge begins with a shift from the telling, instructing, and loading up mode of developing people, to stirring their own passions, drawing out what they truly want, and getting them to act on realizing the possibilities they see for themselves.

How deeply the practice takes root in the workplace is often the result of two factors HR making a stand for it, and top management championing the cause.

Senior Vice President of JG Summits Corporate Resources Group, Nic Lim, strongly underscores the critical role of leaders as coaching sponsor, champion, or advocate. They are the first to be convinced that this program will be of value to their own development and the whole organization, he says. They need to go through the whole process, in order to fully experience and apply the learnings back to their teams.

Lim believes that if an organization is to develop the coaching competency which involves listening skills, delivering feedback, delegating work and encouraging initiative, and if the ultimate intent is for everyone to demonstrate this competency, then development should start from the top. For him, it is imperative that leaders walk their talk. He stresses that leaders also need to evolve and they cannot give what they do not have.

A ripple effect is created in the whole organization when leaders start demonstrating their new skill sets in influencing and coaching their talents, he states. Then, learning by osmosis can easily take place.

PHINMA Corporations Vice President for Human Resources, Lin Mukhi, agrees. She relates that the case for a corporate coaching program first emerged during a business planning session, when people performance was highlighted as a key driver of organizational success. It was decided to institutionalize coaching as a way of life among our leaders, she shared. It was an initiative to strengthen their leadership pipeline, but it also laid down the tracks for cultivating a culture uniquely their own. Coaching training was launched in March 2015.

Our Executive Committee, together with the Presidents of our strategic business units, took the lead and got together for a day of coaching training, she recounts. The Management Committee members from our different businesses followed suit, and today, we make coaching training part of the program for employees moving up from individual contributor to people leader.

The top executives of PHINMA took the program as a journey of learning and re-learning, for and with their people. Mukhi recalls their President Ramon del Rosario Jr., and their Chief Operating Officer Roberto M. Lavina, issuing a joint statement which provided a compelling framework for what they had set out to do. It said This is an opportunity to deepen our leadership perspective. It is our people that got us where we are today, it will be our people who will take us where we want to be.

Mukhi notes with pride that what started as an action point to address their talent management risks, particularly the need for succession planning, has now become a distinctive mark of the PHINMA brand.

Valuing the Takeaways

Leaders consistently coaching their own people sets off a value chain that permeates the entire organizational performance.

Their biggest gain, Mukhi muses, lies in the tone they have set for their culture and how they lead people. The PHINMA service philosophy of Making Lives Better is now also pursued for the growth of our employees, she declares. She further points out that the People Practices Survey they use for measuring the success of their people initiatives has yielded inspiring outcomes. Comparative results over the first two years showed we moved up in percentage points on four indicators: Building Capability, Managing Performance, Leading and Inspiring People and Empowering and Involving People, she summed up.

At JG Summit, Lim is looking at specific desired outcomes. I see our leaders being skilled in giving and receiving feedback, such that they are able to make the coaching conversations even more effective and accurately targeted, he says. I see our leaders shaping the learning and coaching culture, breaking perceived communication barriers and the traditional functional silos.

Coaching is no panacea, says Monde Nissins Vitales, but it is definitely an organizational handle by which Leaders can be grounded on a culture of authentic connection to people. Assessing the impact of coaching on her organization, she says, There is now a balance of quantitative and qualitative inputs in conversations founded on the coaching process and discipline.

The experience has been gratifying, says Lim. Facilitating the transformation of individuals and organizations is a compelling cause. Coaching helps build satisfying and lasting relations at work. It is a great platform for keeping your talents continuously motivated to come to work.

The coming International Coaching Summit hosted by ICF Philippines is a great opportunity for Human Resource Development Executives and other people champions to acquire new inputs, and look at more exciting ways to sustain employee growth and engagement. Visit the ICF Philippines website to check out registration procedures, Summit content and flow, and the top-notch line-up of speakers and facilitators from the global coaching frontiers.

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Fiona Campbell, the controller of BBC3, is responsible for programmes such as RuPauls Drag Race UK, Glow Up and Fleabag. The 49-year-old lives in east London with her artist husband and son, 7

Q. Im an ambitious woman and am being fast-tracked up the company. How do I admit Im feeling burnt out? Shani, 38

A. I was in a similar situation when I returned from maternity leave. The BBC was advertising for a new head of current affairs, and I was advised to apply. I hadnt slept for 10 months, so I was, like, I cant go there. But a female colleague said: Just fill out the form dont get caught up in agonising about it. The next thing I knew, I had an

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They inspire fear and fascination in equal measure. Corofin are Galway's kingpins and today they look to secure their seventh county title in a row. It is a remarkable run by a tremendous team. Near-rivals Tuam Stars are the sole side left standing in their way.

It is a Tuam team that only saved their senior status with a late win in the relegation play-off last year. Then they were managed by Galway legend Ja Fallon. Now it is his staunch ally, Tommy Carton.

He is hoping to manufacture a monumental shock and for the first time since 1994, bring theFrank Fox Cup upCloontooa Road.

That year they faced Corofin too and it took extraordinary endeavour in the form of a last-gasp point to win it. The star who kicked that score was a young teenager by the name of Tommy Carton.

"I was only 19 at the time," recalls Carton. "We had such a good team that year. The Fallons and the ODeas, a rake of senior players. I was only out of minor football and had been playing with Jarlaths in school.

"94 we won a final. 95 we got there again and we were bet. Sure when you are young, I thought we would be in the county final every year! It was something like nine years later before we even reached a semi-final against Killererin.

"I finished up and they got to a final in 2011, again in 2012. No joy. The years fly by. We know now you have to grab them when they are there."

Carton did not expect the call when it came. Two club representatives arrived with a request. Could he take the senior team?

Even during his playing career with Galway, coaching always appealed to him. The Connacht schools programme and underage sides were the starting point but the top job in the club was a different matter entirely.

In a town like Tuam with its fill of football devotees, senior manager is the epitome of notoriety. The sense of adventure and duty was overwhelming.

It wasnt even in my sights in December. I didnt even consider it. Ja Fallon would be my best friend really. We worked together, we played together. We won all our county u21s and senior together. He was the manager.

He was doing his job but it is like everything. Your heart is always with your club and when you are asked, I said Id give it a go. I never really thought about being the Tuam manager. I knew Id be involved somehow but it was always underage. Once they asked I had to think about it seriously, but I found the two lads I wanted with me and we decided to go bald-headed at it.

It was not only a return to Tuam but a return to Gaelic football. After a lifetime playing and then coaching, Carton took a break entirely a few years back.

"I was sick of it," he explains. The time away was occupied by a new pursuit. Triathlons. Ironmans. Many have noted this team's exceptional fitness this year and there is a reason for it.

"That experience gave me a better look at running techniques, ways of developing fitness. I even started doing running classes for the club."

It was at Triathlon Club Tri-Lakes where Carton connected with local man Leo Hynes. They ran their first half Ironman together in Galway and bonded over a shared love of activity, unsurprisingly with football at the heart of it.

Then in 2015, Leo became visually impaired. After initially giving up sport, his love was reignited when his wife introduced him to atandem bike. Soon Carton became his partner and Hynes rejoined Tri-Lakes Club.

"He was cycling around the estate with the wife and she broke her hand so I said I would bring him out. It took persuading to get him to enter that sort of craic but it worked out.

"I pointed him in the right direction and he is still doing it. Leo is some man.He played away before, football and that. I suppose sport is funny. After he went blind he got a kick out of a few other things in fairness to him. Thats life, you need to have something. We have football."

The dominance of Sunday's opponent should not be mistaken as a sign of an uncompetitive championship. It took a late equaliser to force a replay for the All-Ireland champions in last year's county final and no other side came closer.

As far as Carton is concerned, Corofin are the cream of a capablecrop.

"The hardest thing for Corofin is to get out of the county and they would agree. Sometimes they go into Connacht and breeze through it. Last year they breezed through everyone after Galway. Plentygames this year they found it hard. Look at the results, they were pushed tight."

That is not to say there is any question about the size of the challenge. Three All-Ireland titles in five years tells its own story. They are the club game's galacticos. The innovators.

"The boogeyman," Carton declares with a nervous laugh.

"Look they are brilliant, they are absolutely brilliant. They can blitz a team in five minutes. Tuam are under no pressure and that is great. If we lose by ten or twenty points, it is expected.

"That is the general consensus, the bookmakers are giving us no chance. No one is. Perfect.

"At the end of the day, it is a game of football. There is no majesty about it. 15 against 15, you can dress it up as much as you want but this is a game of football for us. Anything can happen."

You need to have something. At the helm of his club on county final day with a chance to clinch aconsequential crown. Does it get much better?

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Yoga and an ice bath in the Hamptons, the email from Danielle McCallum read. I enjoy two of those three things and kept reading.

Ms. McCallum has developed her own practice, called Five, which is a combination of yoga, breath work, meditation and cold exposure. (The center of Five is you, her website reads.) She trained at Sky Ting, my favorite yoga studio, and has been meditating for 15 years. She said she is one of the first women in the United States to be certified in the Wim Hof Method.

Wim Hof is a man, an extreme athlete from the Netherlands who is known as the Iceman for breaking records and generally doing a lot of flashy daredevil-type stunts, most of them involving exposure to cold. He has run a marathon above the Arctic wearing nothing but shorts, can hold his breath for six minutes and has taken a 112-minute ice bath.

None of this remotely speaks to me, my interests or my aspirations. I am the kind of person who is known among my friends for taking long daily naps, and my chief hobbies include drinking cocktails at sunset, reading somewhere comfortable and gossiping. I am an unaccomplished watercolorist. Which is all a way of saying that I like comfort.

The Wim Hof Method is built on three pillars, which are breathing, cold therapy and commitment, the programs website reads. Combined, these three pillars form a powerful method that is capable of changing your life.

Adherents insist it can relieve symptoms of autoimmune diseases, arthritis and asthma, among other afflictions, and Mr. Hof has said that just by focusing the mind, we can control just about any malady, including cancer. Science does not support that claim.

Just to be perfectly clear: I do not share those beliefs. But I find myself searching for new, and healthy, ways to soothe myself from the hourly barrage of bad news that is living in 2019.

I already meditate and go to yoga, so why not build on the familiar and get a little weird? The worst that could happen is that I would have a bad morning in the Hamptons, where Ms. McCallum, 37, taught for the summer.

There were eight of us gathered for a Saturday morning class in Water Mill, evenly divided between men and women. One man had gone to a Wim Hof retreat. We began with a little breathing to get us centered.

Then Ms. McCallum took us through a yoga class that relied on the flow of asanas, including water salutations, a variation on sun salutations that involves crossing the legs. That really got the blood moving.

The yoga portion lasted about 45 minutes, and then we settled onto our backs for the signature Wim Hof breathing exercises. Ms. McCallum told us to inhale in three parts, from our stomach, then chest, then lungs, then exhale slowly but not completely.

For the first round we repeated that 30 times breathing in and out of the nose, at the end holding on to the exhalation as long as we could. Then we did another round in the nose and out the mouth and, finally, in and out of the mouth.

I think that took about half an hour, but by then I had completely lost track of time. In fact I had completely lost track of myself and was having a sort of psychedelic experience minus the drugs. (Its no wonder that Mr. Hof likes to play The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd during his seminars.) I have no idea if there was music playing or even what I was thinking about.

At the end I came whooshing back to reality in one big gasp. I felt as if I were waking up while watching a play. Did anyone notice? Did I snore? Was I even asleep? Did I do anything weird?

We meditated a bit to gather ourselves, and then we headed to the bathrooms to change into swimsuits. Ms. McCallum was waiting for us on the grass outside, where there was an old-fashioned metal tub filled with cold water and many pounds of ice. Our three-minute ice baths awaited.

Her instructions were to get into the ice bath as quickly as possible and try not to hyperventilate. The first volunteer had a pained look on his face as he climbed into the bath and sat down. He complained about not feeling his feet but breathed slowly as an amused friend took video.

When it was my turn, I was nervous. Skipping the ice bath entirely or getting out early were both options, but I wanted to try it. And, besides, it was really hot out. I stepped in and sat down quickly and was met with a cold so jarring, so painful, that my whole body stung. My ankles throbbed.

Its bad, I said, and Ms. McCallum assured me that the first minute was the worst.

I started to acclimate to the cold after a minute, and Ms. McCallum leaned in and told me to breathe with her. When I got out, my white skin was red, and I did slow stretches of my knees and arms and some more deep breathing to warm myself.

I felt joyous and tired, as if my body, mind and spirit had all been given a workout. I walked across the street and bought lobster breakfast tacos as a kind of celebration. I had made it to three minutes of ice bathing and even opted to stay an extra 30 seconds. I did it purely for the sake of challenging myself, and I was eager to do it again.

The Idea Yoga, mediation, breath work and an ice plunge in a class inspired by the Dutch extreme sportsman Wim Hof. The Five website notes that pregnant women or people with heart conditions shouldnt try it.

Reality Between the yoga flow, meditation, trippy breath work and the ice bath, your body, mind and spirit get a full workout. It manages to be both a relaxing and challenging two hours.

The Vibe In the summer, classes are held in a studio in a converted house in Water Mill, N.Y., on Saturday mornings, so youre dunking in ice while families are ordering pancakes across the street. The studio is next door to a kind of wellness strip mall with a SoulCycle, meaning youre among fellow fitness freaks.

A New Class Danielle McCallum, the instructor, has been scouting a New York City location that can accommodate ice baths, and she has now found one. Her classes are held every other Sunday at the Brooklyn Athletic Club in Williamsburg. The cost is $40.

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KANSAS CITY, MO (CBS Local) An alternative twist to the usually deep breathing meditation and soothing poses of traditional yoga is becoming all the rage in Kansas City. Instructor Amanda Kauffman said she started practicing yoga seven years ago. Two years ago, she came across a new technique she said is more her style.

A lot of people stay away from yoga because they think, Oh well, you know, Im not good enough for that, or what are people going to think about my poses,' she told WDAF. And in here, you can just be yourself.

Kauffman now teaches rage yoga.

The technique is different. Instead of calming your mind, youre bringing everything out, she said. Instead of just trying to push it out quietly, youre going to push it out, and its going to be loud!

With loud, explicit music as the soundtrack for Mondays first class, participants were encouraged to yell, scream, cuss and make obscene gestures.

Just letting all the negative energy out tonight. Thats the goal, Kauffman said.

The rage yoga trend began in Canada but is slowly spreading to cities across the U.S.

Ive never done rage yoga before, said attendee Hillary Luppino. I had recently seen something online about it, and then I saw that it was available here, so I just jumped on the opportunity.

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Sleep trumps everything in my life. Like I have to sleep. I will never be that person who wakes up at 5 a.m. to make sure they get their workout in before they head to the airport. I would love in theory to be that person, but it just will never, ever be me. And you know, if I can't get my workout in, I just try to find something else in my wellness routine that I can do for myself, whether it's eating lots of greens that day or taking certain vitamins or supplements or somethingsomething else I can do for myself if I can't get in physical activity.

And you know, I'm really kind to myself. For someone who has been in the fitness world for as long as I have been, I'm really treating it as a celebration and not a punishment and not something that I have to do to attain an aesthetic. Even if it means I sit and meditate for the day or I'm doing a couple of sun salutations, it's really easy to fall into this definition of "you have to do this amount of work for this amount of time for it to even count." Thats not the case. I think if people can flip their perspective on that and see five minutes as more than zero minutes and know that it still counts as moving your body. Of course, it depends on whether you want physical results or not, but if you're just doing it for well-being, then five minutes is still great.

I'm not the first person to think of it this way, but at the end of a big meal, when it's so easy to be like, "Oh my god, I'm so full, I'm so full," I'm trying to think of it as I'm legitimately full with amazing food and full of amazing experiences and I'm living a full life. I try to take anything that would normally have some sort of negative connotation and flip it so that I don't fall into that negative habitual ticker tape of punishment or this is wrong and this is right. That's all been very helpful for me as well.

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Yoga may be a 5,000 year old practice, but it has seemingly never been more popular.

According to a report from the Global Wellness Institute titled The Global Economy of Physical Activity, the participation in mindful movement is growing around the world, and yoga is the leader of the pack. In our frenetically paced, stressful, sleepless, and chronic-pain-plagued world, the demand for slower, mindful movementwhich includes yoga, Pilates, tai chi, qigong, stretch, barre, Gyrotonic, etc.is skyrocketing, writes the report. There are 165 million people around the world who participate in the practice, making it a whopping $16.9 billion market.

And the world, it seems, is onto something. Youd be hard-pressed to find any trainer who wouldnt recommend integrating at least some yoga into your routine, whether youre a runner, a Pilates lover, or into Crossfit. Its got a laundry list of proven physical and mental benefits (increases strength, betters flexibility, reduces anxietyseriously, the list goes on), plus can help you start your days feeling more focused or finish them off with an added level of zen.

But even so, there are a whole lot of people out there still feel like yoga just isnt their thing, or that they prefer other styles of working out to flowing on the mat. And to that, I say, maybe you just havent tried the right kind yet. So here are the best types of yoga for every type of fitness enthusiast, which might just turn you into a yogi yet.

If youre one of those people who thinks yoga wont give you a good enough workout, you probably havent tried a power-style class. Power yoga is a more vigorous, fitness-based take on traditional vinyasa, and will work your core and upper body while opening up your shoulders, hips, and spine. Its going to give you an amazing workout that gives you strength and sweat, says Kajuan Douglas, yoga guru and founder of Merge New York.

Cant get enough of those dance cardio classes that have you moving to a particular beat? Try vinyasa yoga. While these classes can either be silent or set to music, they have you move with your breath, which can feel a lot like dancing. Vinyasa is focused on rhythmic movements, explains Douglas. You move mindfully like a yogi but graceful like a dancer. You can find regular, heated, and power-style vinyasa classes, among many other options, so its all about finding which one works best for you.

For some people, a good workout goes hand-in-hand with a good sweat (though, for what its worth, the two arent mutually exclusive). If thats your M.O., make your way to a hot or heated classwhich takes place in studios with temperatures between 85 and 105 degrees. Heated yoga class definitely makes you sweat as it cooks the body from the outside in, and your yoga movements cook you from the inside out, says Douglas, adding that these types of classes can feel especially purifying. The heat can also help deepen your practiceand will definitely have you dripping within the first few flows. You can find a number of different types of yoga that happen in heated studios, though some of the more popular ones are power, vinyasa, and Bikram (a 90-minute class that includes 26 poses).

Youll be hard-pressed to find a yoga class thatdoesnt make your mind and body feel extra connected, but this link is the main focus of hatha-style practices. Hatha yoga joins the right and left side of the brain together for a deep mental, physical, and emotional connection, says Douglas. Its like a meditation and workout all in one, and involves linking your movements with asanas and pranayama breathing. This can be applied to any practice, as long as your breath and poses are working as one, but is also taught as a class type of its own.

Yoga is known for its zen-like qualities, which means youll get some level of relaxation no matter which version of the practice you try (thats the whole point of savasana, after all). But if youre looking for something that is totally chilled-out and doesnt have a strength-training element, youll want to settle into restorative yoga. Restorative is a gentle practice that enhances the parasympathetic nervous system, or rest and digest response, says Douglas. This modality involves holding supportive poses for five minutes or more. Its great for anyone looking to recover from their more intense workouts, or who wants to reap the relaxing benefits of a yoga practice without having to work through any power poses.

If none of these feel like your thing, you may wanna try naked yoga on for size. Or, if all else fails, theres always horse yoga.

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