Losing Your Home Without Losing Your Relationship

If you check on RealtyTrac.com, you can see how many houses are in pre-foreclosure in your neighborhood. I checked my own neighborhood recently, and was shocked to see that just in the area with my zip code, there are 1,120 houses in pre-foreclosure. It’s scary.

I understand the trauma that you experience when you lose your house. You have identified with being a homeowner, and when you lose your house, you feel like you lose part of yourself. You are suffering from a shocking loss that few seem to understand. Read more

Carla Tara’s Super Highway to Passion

WEDNESDAYS THIS FALL! Oct 7th, 21st, Nov 4th, 18th, Dec 2nd 2009 from 7-9pm in Midtown Manhattan

In this 2-hour bi-weekly workshop, created exclusively for women, SelfGrowth.com’s Featured Expert Carla Tara creates safe and supportive space in which you can learn:

· The Ocean Breath – an awesome breathing technique you can use anytime to help you relax, move through fears and be in your power. The Ocean Breath frees you from emotional hooks, so you can be fully authentic.

· Communication skills to build greater trust & intimacy in your relationships, whether with your husband / partner / boss / friends.

· How to slow your man down in the bedroom: how to touch from the heart.

· Love-making tips that synchronize with breath to allow for deeper connection, so sex can be more enjoyable & fulfilling

· How to enjoy your body. Most women have something they dislike about their bodies; this workshop will give you tools to transform any negative beliefs, guiding you to a place of acceptance and love.

· Yoga tips that go beyond your regular yoga class. I will teach you asana variations using spiral motions that naturally build muscular strength and flexibility, as well as pelvic motions that will drastically increase your confidence in bed!

· Every-day tools for reducing stress, insomnia, anxiety and depression

This class is for you if you want to:

· Move through fears and claim your power in the workplace and in relationships
· Gain easy access to your passion and excitement for life
· Learn to love every aspect of who you are, within a supportive environment
· Thoroughly enjoy your yoga while increasing your sexual appetite & stamina
· Give yourself a gift: breathe, transform, get fit, and feel fabulous inside…while having fun

Wear comfortable clothing you can move in.

Each class is $25 online / $30 on the door. Register here.

5 Simple Steps to Joy

This morning as I woke up, I felt grateful that I am alive and have a chance to express myself.

So, today I want to share with you 5 easy things I do that contribute to my joy, and can work for you too:

1. Start the day with at least one thought of what we are grateful for.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day and pay attention to our breathing. Notice when it starts slowing down and become deeper when we pay attention to it. Then inspiration has a space to come in
3. Smile as often as we can, even for no reason other then to increase our happy hormones. Smile is the ultimate anti-depressant. And it is contagious.
4. Taking a walk paying attention to how our bodies feel. What muscles are involved in the walking? Is the body loose or rigid? The moment your notice rigidity, it usually melts and you can enjoy the walking more.
5. Call a friend who might need support. That nourishes the relationship and ourselves.

What contributes to your joy?