This Man, Told He Would Never Walk Again, Proved Everybody Wrong! (Incredible Yoga Transformation)

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Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again.

He stumbled upon an article about Yoga and decided to give it a try.

He couldn’t do traditional, higher impact exercise, so he started with gentle yoga poses. Even though doctors told him walking would never happen, Arthur was persistent.

He fell many times, but kept going. Arthur was getting stronger rapidly, and he was losing weight at an incredible rate!

He gained tremendous balance and flexibility, which gave him hope that maybe someday, he’d be able to walk again.

His story is proof that we cannot place limits on what we are capable of doing, because we often do not know our own potential. This video speaks for itself.

In less than a year, Arthur completely transformed his life. If only he had known what he was capable of, 15 years earlier.

Do not waste any time thinking you are stuck – you can take control over your life, and change it faster than you ever thought possible!

Hopefully, this story will inspire you to follow your dreams – whatever they may be.

Anything is Possible!

Bali Bliss Yoga Retreat – Discovering blissful Ubud with LLLY

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Bali Bliss Yoga Retreat 2017

Ever wondered what it’s like to come along to one of our luxury yoga retreats? Listen to some of our members who share their experience at our recent Bali Bliss yoga retreat in Ubud.

Visiting Bali

Lapped the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, Bali is but one of 17,500 islands in the Indonesian archipelago, yet even among its colourful neighbours, it stands alone in its lushness and incomparable beauty. Considered Bali’s cultural hub, the hilltop town of Ubud has long served as a home to yoga enthusiasts and artisans. It’s known for ancient temples, serene palaces and adventurous wild jungles. The island’s mysticism and its spiritual and eclectic culture are sure to get you hooked when you travel to Bali.

Bali Bliss Yoga Retreat

Surrounded by rice paddies in the village of Pengosekan, the award-winning resort is located only a short walking distance to Ubud – the cultural capital of Bali. The famous Monkey Forest is a ten-minute walk and Ubud market is fifteen minutes away. Each garden villa comes with a private pool to make your stay truly blissful.

The retreat experience provides a wonderful balance of customised retreat activities, including two yoga sessions per day, a fully equipped fitness centre and you will have lots of me-time!

The Lonely Planet about Bali

“The mere mention of Bali evokes thoughts of a paradise. It’s more than a place; it’s a mood, an aspiration, a tropical state of mind. Ubud is the heart of Bali, a place where the spirit and culture of the island are most accessible. It shares the island’s most beautiful rice fields and ancient monuments with east and west Bali.” ~ Lonely Planet

Despite what some people think about Bali, it’s a beautiful island and absolutely safe to visit. If this is your first time travelling to South East Asia and you would like to do a little more research on travelling to Bali, we recommend you visit the Ubud Travel Forum on TripAdvisor.com.

For upcoming workshops & retreats, visit: https://bundyyoga.com.au/yoga-retreats/

Eat, Pray, Love & my dream of going to Bali

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Since watching this beautiful movie, I have been wanting to follow Julia Roberts’ foot steps and visit Bali. In March I’m finally making this dream reality with our upcoming yoga retreat.

Come and join me at the Love Live Live Yoga Retreat 2017 in Ubud, Bali, where for a total of 8 days and 7 nights we will be staying at one of Ubud’s most serene 5-star luxury resorts, located just minutes away from the famous monkey forest and down town Ubud. And with two yoga sessions each day, you are sure to escape your daily routine and find inner peace and balance.

If you would like to find out more about our upcoming retreat, click here: https://bundyyoga.com.au/product/ubud/

What was your favourite part of the movie? Let me know in the comments below :)

 

If you haven’t seen the movie, be sure to check it out! Here is the plot…

Eat Pray Love

Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) is a modern woman on a quest to marvel at and travel the world while rediscovering and reconnecting with her true inner self in Eat Pray Love. At a crossroads after a divorce, Gilbert takes a year-long sabbatical from her job and steps uncharacteristically out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life. In her wondrous and exotic travels, she experiences the simple pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of love in Bali. Based on an inspiring true story, Eat Pray Love proves that there really is more than one way to let yourself go and see the world.

Community Beach Yoga Session at Moore Park Beach – Video by Pluggas

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Video Credit: Pluggas.com

 

Sabby & Fisch from Pluggas came along to capture this beautiful community yoga session at Moore Park Beach, Austalia. Yoga enthusiasts and people who have never done yoga before from Bundaberg, Bargara, Childers and surroundings all got together for the love of yoga.

Keen to try a yoga class at our Bundaberg Yoga Studio? Click below to claim your free $25 yoga gift card to use at any of our yoga classes, workshops and retreats!

 

The Dream Of Life – Alan Watts (Speech)

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If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it; I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to

So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have.

 And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be”. And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”.

Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further out gambles to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.

 That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.

 
Credits:
Music: Goldmund – Threnody
Speech extract from “Out of your mind” by Alan Watts, courtesy of alanwatts.org

 

Sun Salutation with Cat & Cow

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A few rounds of sun salutations with Cat & Cow movement is to improves posture and balance, strengthens and stretches spine and neck, stretches hips, abdomen and back, increase coordination, massage and stimulates organs in the belly, creates emotional balance, relieves stress and clams the mind.
I created this sequence and love to use it for the warm up at the beginning of the class.

Happy practicing! ?

Namaste,
Carmen

Video: Benefits of Hip & Core Strengthening practice.

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There are so many benefits that come from improving hip and core strength than just look good from outside, including improved posture, better balance, reduced back pain, release tension and easier breathing.

I created this practice which challenges as many muscles as possible in integrated, coordinated movements. Core moves should engage your entire body, from head to toe. Repeat the same sequence 3-5 times on each side, hold each pose longer and move it mindfully.

If you are new to Yoga and have never done much with your core and hip, don’t be surprised if you wake up the day after a workout with aches in your lower belly, as well as your lower and upper back. Those are your core muscles waving hello and thanking you for spending some time strengthening them.

You might be interested to know that Hip and Core Strengthening practice will helps to improve your inversions. ;-)

Happy practicing!

Namaste,

Carmen

Video: How practicing arm balance changed my life

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The first time I walked into a yoga class with a couple of friends in Malaysia, I had no idea what I was getting myself into and simply followed the group. I used to be very active back to school, but after I started working as a fashion designer with long hours everyday in front of the computer or the sewing machine, I didn’t do much to look after my body for over 5 years. I couldn’t even touch my toes during forward fold and had never done a proper handstand before.

So I went to my first yoga class thinking I was there for some relaxation and stretching. It turned out I was sweating in ways I never knew possible from just yoga postures. The first arm balance pose the teacher showed us was Bakasana. It looked so easy but I failed over and over again. How could she balance just on her palms, and with her knees on her triceps? Next, when she got us to do handstand. I thought that won’t be hard since I had done many cartwheels before. So, surely I could do a simple handstand! But what do handstands have to do with yoga? So I tried and kept kicking my legs up against the wall repeatedly. I couldn’t believe it when I realised that I wasn’t even able to stay in place for more than two seconds. I was exhausted. Physically and mentally. How could the lady next to me do it all so peacefully and with her eyes closed for over a minute? My arms were shaking while I was trying to catch my breath again. My face was red as a tomato.

After an hour-long yoga session the teacher called for Savasana. I asked myself what the hell that meant? So I just did what everyone else did, lay down and rested on my mat.

Unexpectedly, I felt relaxed. I felt like I didn’t just do a workout with my body, but my mind as well. I walked out of the room with a brand new body, all the clutter in my mind had disappeared! After just one class I felt like I had pressed the reset button and felt totally peaceful and calm.

Focusing on arm balance in my yoga practice has changed my perspective of life. It is so important in life to find balance, to let go, refocus, to increase your confidence and to start seeing all the possibilities that are waiting for you. But the most important thing is to have fun in life. Fun makes us happy and keeps us young. And when you’re having fun, those good vibes and positive energy will spill over into the lives of the people around us, which in turn will increase happiness and well-being for all of us. Don’t take life to seriously. Have fun and yoga on!

“Live your life and risk it all. Take some chances, take the fall. Take your time, no need to hurry. Have some fun and never worry. Stay young!”

 

Namaste,

Carmen

People sharing their experience with Love Life Live Yoga

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A short while ago we asked a few of the amazing people, whom I had the joy of practicing yoga with, about their experience and how yoga has benefited them. There is nothing more rewarding than being able to help people become the best versions of themselves and witness the benefits that come with a regular yoga practice.

The way I like to describe yoga is this:

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”

Yoga is a deeply personal journey. It doesn’t matter where others are at in their practice. What matters is that you make time to reconnect with yourself. Do what you can in each given moment. Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel. Surely, yoga can be challenging, especially when first getting started. Just remember that if it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you. When was the last time you challenged yourself?

What you are looking for is not out there, it is within you. If you are thinking of giving yoga a try, but don’t know where to start, make sure to check out our 30-day Intro Offer for a full 30 days of UNLIMITED yoga classes. Enough time to find out if yoga is right for you, to make some new friends, and you might already see some progress. If you try it and don’t enjoy it, at least you tried. But chances are, it might very well change your life.

See you on the mat!

Namaste,

Carmen