Share and dare...all about your dreams

Today I am curious to hear about your dreams. What are your dreams??? Would love to have a forum where we can inspire and encourage each other to reach our dreams. It starts with DARING to dream! What would you do/be if anything was possible? Articulate your dream, make a plan and act on it!!! Would love to have LOTS of stories here and lots of cheer-leeders on the side!!!! You know I am always there on YOUR side!

From Dream Factory
Yvette

Yoga and Body Balance & the right amount of effort

Yoga and Body Balance reminds me of giving exactly the right amount of effort in a situation..not too much, not too little but just enough. For example, if doing a balance position in Body Balance: if you give too much you will fall, if you give too little you will fall...just need exactly the right amount. I try to take this to other areas in my life too: when and where do I give too much...when and where can i contribute and serve more ?

Life is much about balance, life will send us challanges and we will also flow, we just have to stay and experience it all...life...

Have a fab weekend
Yvette

Theory of Magnets part 2

Bore Beach , Saturday

...AND...sometimes life just throws us challanges that seems "unfair" ...the questions to ask yourself could be: What is it that this situation has to teach me? How can I have my eyes to the horizon and keep going even if my world is unstable right now? What "truths" do I want to listen to?

My motto in life has been (as long as I can remember) to think positively, in the long run it pays off!!! - and believe me, I have had days when that motto was challanged and people has challanged me ON the motto as well "how can you be so positive..."? When I am fully awake and at choice, I choose to stay positive... :-)

Lots of positive vibes to ya!

Yvette

Theory of Magnets...

Have you heard about the theory of magnets? You will attract the things you send out to the world... If you send out negativity and nothing is possible...you will attract that back to yourself.... If you send out positivity and everything is possible...you will attract that into your life as simple as that :-)

What are you sending out right now? What would you like to send out ? What would you like to recieve from the world? BE what you like to recieve...

Today I send out love and compassion,
Yvette

Guest Blogger : Amazing Anneli Kentsdotter-Nilsson

GUEST WRITER, Anneli Kentsdotter- Nilsson.

Anneli and I are developing a fun, zesty & instantly practical program : The Energy Booster. She is my amazing friend and colleague from the days when I worked at Träna in Umeå. http://www.traena.com/. Träna is run by Katarina Skanderby who is and always has been, an amazing mentor to bring out potential in people.

Anneli has written a mindful blog about PRESENCE – "one of the nicest words there is", as she puts it.

Presence can sometimes be hard to describe, what is it in a conversation, or a fitness-class or in a seminar/speech that makes it so good? The person in front of us just did and said exactly what many people before had said and done. And still , this one was magical.

The answer to that is presence. Be there in the moment, the only thing that exists. This person has just made me feel that she/he is talking right to ME. The eye meets the eye a bit longer, the smile meets mine in combination with some kind of information and maybe she/he even mentioned my name.

The art of using eye-contact , body language and voice is something I am working constantly on in my work as a fitness instructor. I want the people who come to my classes to feel special and seen and chosen. When I take it into my private-life I would say it is related with flirting and I do it daily with everyone. It is like a sense of attraction to another person, to be with this person and to show this person my attention. When I make someone happy by be with them in a way like this, it makes me happy too!
It is like a vitamin-injection and a drive that helps me keep being motivated.
The difference between flirting and being present is that flirting is fun for the moment whereas being present is showing my interest in listening with all my senses, that is genuine and authentic, real – and lasts. It is like creating magic from and with other.

Try it , when you are among people you don’t know, get eye-contact, smile, and it is most probable that the other person smiles back to ya!

Loved sharing my thoughts here with something that makes my heart beats a bit faster with enthusiasm

Anneli

Taking yourself too seriously???

I really had the urge to write something about having fun and not taking ourselves too seriously...I have a feeling that there is a point when many ADULTS (who.?..yes...there we are )start to take ourselves too seriously, we want to be trust-worthy, we get lots of responsibility and we have TASKS to do , both at work as well as at home...And we start to complain both here and there as to mark ourselves of what is right and wrong (blog about judgement coming soon).



Sometimes I wonder if it is because we got ourselves too far away from what used to be our passions and dreams..? What do you think about this subject? Read this as an observation. I don't say that the whole world is like this ...but it DOES EXISTS...When I am working in the field of sports and fitness I believe I hang around lots of passionate people who really DO live dreams, who challange themselves often and who doesn't take themselves too seriously...And when being around those people it really opens up the space :-)



Another reason, I believe, is that we want to be prooooofessional...My question is : can we be professional AND have fun, can we be professional AND not take oureselves too seriously, can we be professional AND be trustworthy, respectful and knowledgable...? The answer is of course YES! I belive those people who balance profesional and fun are the ones who get most out of life!!! Talk about boosting energy if you can work professionally and have fun at the same time!!! Sometimes we get stuck into deadline-stress-meet the goals- and forget about having fun on the way...what about having some fun WHILE working really hard :-)

Oh wow...i feel like a cheerleader today ...I want to cheer you all in having fun , especially at work...Remember , a 4-year old laughs approximately 400 times per day (!!!)...where did that laughter go ...?

A smile opens up all sorts of conversations...exciting...

What s it like at your work? ...in your life?

What I learnt on the journey is : be the change you want to see...

;-)


Love
Yvette

Obama gets Nobels Peace Prize - YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!

Wow, I am so happy...Obama got the Nobel's Peace Prize ! What a man. He brings courage, faith, hope, for change, for new times. He shows us all that anything is possible !!! How he step into leadership in this world is amazing and I hope we all can be inspired by him. So much has been said about him, so I spare the all the obvious words...
What I am thinking of just now is that : how can we ALL, each and every one of us , step into our own leadership, self-leadership, to serve this planet well? Wow...that was big....Moreover...how can we all create strong relationships and unity instead of fights & fears...? How can we connect with each other ? Say hello to the neighbour, tell the ones we love and care that we love and care TODAY, give people a smile in the street -just because...no reason why....
I believe our world today is craving for CONNECTION, a little bit less stress and a little bit more mindfullness...We need to be able to take us to a mindfull place in order to create connection and in order to step into great leadership... I believe...what do you believe ??? Give me your opinions ...about Obama, about leadership about connection....Love to hear from ya!!!

Have a sparkling weekend, hope for lots of connections to all of you
Love
Y

Be kind to yourself

Picture : Daniela at www.babitonga.co.uk

Have you heard about Gremlin? Gremlin is the little voice in the head saying "you must, you should, you are too old, you are too young, you ought to do the dishes before you can enjoy yourself..." etc, etc. and etc . I think we all have this little voice AND, fortunately there are ways to turn the volume down. We can use some really cool and powerful tools that makes the volume less high and we can also, when needed, just through this little Gremlin out.

Most important to start with : be aware when its there.

Then decide what you want to do with it.

Conversation with Gremlin can go something like this:

" Wow, I would love to be able to do more sports during the week"
Gremlin: "but you have no time"
"I can create time, by being more efficient
Gremlin "but its no use, you are really too old"
"yes, maybe you are right, maybe I don't have time and I am probably too old too..."

BE AWARE!!! Here its time to take a step back and observe who is the one taking charge: your Gremlin who wants to put you in a safe, "comfy" corner or your wishes of starting sports ???

Here : the only choice is to say to yourself: I don't have time for Gremlin party, I 'm off running ...and throw the Gremlin far away. Sounds very easy in writing - but can give us challanges in real life...Training our mind is just like training a muscle in the body...you get good at what you practise...if you train and feed your Gremlin you will get good at throwing Gremlin parties and will probably be stuck in the sofa, and if you train to throw it away or turn the volume down...you will find it easier to listen to your heart and your core !!! How cool is that!!!!

This is just a tiny tiny example how to work with Gremlin.

What I would like to ask you is: what would be POSSIBLE if you could let go of Gremlin and follow the voice of your heart and your core ? Your dreams, passions, goals...??? Can you feel the open space ???? Go there and explore....and be kind to yourself...

I am leaving you in this big, open space to create some time for dream catching and kindness :-)

Love
Yvette

Saturday Energy Booster

I love autumn....acctually I love all seasons...here, where I am in Norway, autumn is REALLY here and last Saturday we went walking up to Dalesnuten with our children. Felt such fullfillment. Wonderful to be out in nature with my family. So walking and hiking are TRUE energy boosters for me in a nice, calm and yet, sometimes very exciting way. What are you up to in autumn? What do you do to keep the flow and energy going when days are getting darker?

As I see it an energy booster can both be super active such a Body Combat class (http://www.lesmills.com/) or super tranquil as a yoga class...or if you wish black-slope skiing / aromaterapy... I need both to have my energy flowing...For those of you who live in Bergen: I used to go to Den Ene (http://www.den-ene.no/ )to have Mauri massage with a fantastic woman called Trude. The Mauri massage is from...(no surprise here ) New Zeeland and is VERY thourough for one hour , then very sublte and gentle in a healing way for half an hour...Both strong and soft. Like the contrasts very much.

Lots of colourful autumn wishes to you and I will be more present now at my blog since we kind of landed in our new life now :-)

Yvette