Here Comes The Sun!

I am currently sending a huge spring welcome back to all of your lovely faces. Today is such a beautiful day, and I am happy to say that I can enjoy it because spring semester is finally over! This semester has been one of the hardest semesters of my college career. This year started out with a bang in the worst way possible, two major deaths in the family. I was also taking one of the most important classes in my major program, and I literally couldn’t deal. The stress consumed me and every day was like climbing Mount Everest.

So I know you are thinking “this is a super sad and depressing story when is the sun coming out” lol. Well, I thought the same thing and it took a lot longer than I expected. Yoga Teacher Training was something that I had already decided to do before all of the devastation happened. The way everything has played out I believe that God, the universe, the force put this teacher training into my life to change it forever. This training has helped me so much with the grieving process, the stress of school, and realizing that my life is in my hands, and I do have the power to change.

In this training, I quickly learned that becoming a yoga teacher and going through the ytt process is so much more than just learning to teach people yoga poses. Knowing that you never stop learning is something that keeps me so excited for the future. Being surrounded by such amazing and supportive people has been such a blessing! Now that spring is here and the sun is coming out I feel the same way about my life (or possibly due to the surge of sun sourced vitamin D I’ve been getting ). I have become super-connected to the seasons, the moon, and the natural energy around me. That is totally due to the increase of meditation, yoga, and mindfulness in my life. I am a firm believer that when you remove yourself from the artificial life cycle and put yourself back into the natural swing of being you are much more balanced and grounded in life.

Needless to say, ytt has been a blessing so far, and I can’t wait to see what is to come 🙂

Check Out The Video For Some Different Info About How YTT Has Been 🙂

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Just Call Me Yogi Maya: My Journey To Becoming A Yoga Teacher

Hey, guys, I hope everyone is doing great! So I have some great news! I have started my eight months long Hatha RYT (registered yoga teacher) Training! This program is something that I have wanted to do for a while, and I am making a goal come true. The program started at the end of February, so I have already completed two sessions, and I have six months left. I thought it would be a great idea to document the entire process to see how much I grow. The program is an alignment based hatha yoga training, we have learned so much already I can’t believe it. We started practice teaching on day one, so we didn’t waste any time getting the ball rolling. It is proacticive that we started practice teaching early on because we get more comfortable teaching and with each other. The people in my training are awesome and very sweet, and our instructor Naomi is amazing and extremely knowledgeable. I hope you guys follow me on my journey to becoming a yoga teacher; it should be an exciting ride.

I talk a little more about my feelings about the program and other things in the video. Let me know if any of you guys are yogis or are in teacher training, I would love to know.

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I’ve Found A New Happy Place

Hey, guys what’s shakin?! I hope that you all are doing well. Recently I traveled to Los Angeles with my boyfriend for spring break. This trip was my first time to California, and naturally I loved it! I don’t know how one could not like California it’s magical. Needless to say I bought quite a lot of things from a ton of cool places in L.A. My favorite places were Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Santa Monica, and Malibu and everywhere in between. This trip was so fun and relaxing, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. School this semester has been so stressful and aside from school my life has been pretty stressful as of late. Traveling to California reset me and I’m ready to finish this semester. In this video, I show you all of the cool things I purchased while in L.A., and I hope that you enjoy it. Let me know where is your favorite place to travel? Oh and by the way if you live on the east coast as I do can you believe that it is still snowing in the middle of March with the beginning of spring coming in 2 days!!!! BANANAS
Anywho I hope that you have had and enjoyable day and that you enjoy the video! ☺

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Subzero Madness + ZIY Lemon Cookie Body Scrub

Hey, guys, it’s Maya!
Lol, I don’t know whom else you would be expecting, but it’s me! ☺ So let’s get into it. Over the last few months, my skin has been going through it! Most of you know that I have parched skin and eczema sometimes. I have discovered that along with moisturizing your skin continually exfoliating is crucial for the rough, parched skin. The reason being when you have dry skin it is important keep your skin cells turning over. Now, what the heck does that mean? When you want to get your dry skin from scaly to smooth and from lifeless to youthful, you need to get rid of those old skin cells. This process is an essential component to revitalizing your skin. I love this brown sugar body scrub that I call lemon cookie body scrub because it smells like a lemon cookie! It is simple and fast, and anyone can make this. So I hope you enjoy this video and the scrub more importantly. Let me know how you like it! Talk to you later ☺
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