I'm Partial To Pilates But If This Yoga Pose Will Increase My Range Of Motion I'll Take It! I Want To

I'm partial to Pilates but if this yoga pose will increase my range of motion I'll take it! 😀 I want to be able to do front/back splits again. --> What are you trying to regain physically?

Journey to Splits🙏 Utthan Pristhasana or Lizard Pose

Let go. Breathe in your future and breathe out your past. Let go everything that isn’t meant for you and you will feel lighter. Live and love💋

Giving Up Indifference for Lent

by Jim Wallis

Here is what Pope Francis said to the world in his Lenten message:

"Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience."

Instead of giving up chocolate or alcohol for Lent, the pope seems to want us to give up our indifference to others. He continued: 

"We end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own."

Living to your fullest potential? Why not as a Beachbody coach, encouraging others in a healthy life? www.beachbodycoach.com/TeamMona #fitlife #payitforward #motivation

MamaLibra the blog turned 2 today! (But the real-life MamaLibra turned much, much older than that this month). ;-)  Peace and gracious style to you this lovely, golden month. :-)

Stephen Hawking's Beautiful Message For Anyone With Depression -

Stephen Hawking has one of the greatest minds of our time, and has a wonderful message to share for anyone with depression or other disabilities...

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” -- Stephen Hawking

As someone in the fitness industry, I absolutely LOVE the ideas presented by The Exercist on their Photoshop page. I work hard to get clients and class members to celebrate themselves, and I appreciate being called out by The Exercist to self-evaluate.

So #fitspo motivates you, you say. It’s inspirational. It encourages people to exercise and eat well by recognizing their effort and giving us some goals to work towards.

But if #fitspo is intended as a way of praising healthy lifestyles and hard work, why are so many #fitspo images photoshopped? Why are we repeatedly presented with bodies and goals that are literally impossible for people to attain? 

Notice the specific ways in which these images are manipulated - The woman’s ass is typically made bigger and rounder, her waist is thinner and her rolls/cellulite are smoother. This isn’t just a matter of adjusting women’s bodies in order to make them represent “healthy” ideals better - It’s a way of making them more sexually attractive to straight men. If we actually respected their bodies, their health and their autonomy, #fitspo wouldn’t rely so heavily on edited images. 

All images on the left were found in tumblr’s #fitspo tag while all images on the right are the originals. Before reblogging or sharing fitspo, please consciously ask yourself: Is my motivation and inspiration being derived from how much I respect this person, or by how much I’m attracted to them? Are you more interested in the body or the person? And most importantly: Did this person consent to having their photo spread online in this manner? If you don’t know and if you aren’t willing to look up this information, then it would be best not to reblog.