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We had a good friend pass away recently. And dealing with that reality gave us insights into how to live our fullest life. The reality of life is that one day, we will all transition. Our unwillingness to deal with this reality keeps us from living life to the fullest. We misperceive the permanent for the impermanent and the impermanent for the permanent. What we mean by this is that we live our lives as if everything will remain as it is. When we go out of the house, we assume we will...

During this event, we delved deep into financial stuff, which was awesome, but what really struck us was one bit of information that we found to be super relevant to us as Yogis. It was referred to as the Abyss Concept. What holds many people back from achieving their dreams is the Abyss. We love the comfortable and the known; the Abyss is on the other side of this. We have to get out of our comfort zones and get into the unknown to grow. Taking a journey into the unknown is difficult and...

In this episode of The Awakened Life Podcast, Chris and John discuss the 3 questions that help you get to the core of who you are, what you want in life, and how you can serve. One of the greatest Yoga teachers, Patanjali, said that whenever we are solely identified with our ego, we bind ourselves to the things that do not have a permanent reality. These things may be our jobs, relationships, bodies, or material possessions, which then lead us to a sea of distress, unhappiness, and illness....

What is the difference between religion and spirituality? Is yoga a religion? If you have often searched for answers to these questions, then look no further. In this episode, we talk about all these concepts, what they mean, and how they relate to your life. Religion is the belief and worship of a higher power. Spirituality is the focus on the spirit or the soul above materialism and the physical world. You can have a spiritual experience inside a religion. Spirituality is an individual...

Did you know that 85% of full-time employees in the world are unsatisfied with their job? As astonishing as it sounds, this is the reality. This translates to about one billion people. These people don’t love the jobs they go to each morning. The majority of us think we have to work on a job we hate to make money so that then we can do what we love. Why not go straight into what you love doing? You may be tempted to answer that it is the job and financial security you are looking for, but...

The bigger picture behind yoga is enlightenment. This seems a distant idea to many people but is it something that we should all be striving for. The ancient masters renounced the world to achieve enlightenment. They had to leave behind the worldly possessions and their families. They were in search of the meaning of life and their sense of self. For us, we do not have to renounce the world and leave our families, but we need to go after that experience of enlightenment. It is time for the...

Having goals in life is very important. The people who do amazing things in life have clear goals put down in writing. They have a vision and know where they are going. The goals help them get there. It sounds simple but writing down your goals helps us move in the direction of achieving them because they are top of your mind on a daily basis. The goals become an affirmation. In this episode, I share with you the three key elements of achieving your goals. However, you need to clarify your...

In this episode, Chris explains the meaning of waking up. More than physically being awake, we need to be conscious of our abilities to achieve our dreams and ditch the negative bias we are trained to believe. Chris breaks it down into four steps: unconscious unskillfulness, conscious unskillfulness, conscious skillfulness, unconscious skillfulness. He teaches us how to break negative patterns and be aware that there is another way. Once we are conscious of the opportunity, we can track,...

In this episode, Chris recaps the past four days of the five-day immersion course. He teaches us how we can achieve our dream life, our awakened life, by training, being consistent, and accountable in our lives. Chris begins with a brief summary of each lesson. He talks about our understanding of being versus becoming and how they support each other. What movement actually is and how if we can first understand our bodies, we can enhance our movement. How meditation is designed to stop our...

This episode is part four of our five-part immersion series. This week, we complete the Awakened Life Formula with a lesson on manifestation and how we can visualize our dreams into our reality. John teaches this week and focuses on components of manifestation. We mentioned before that the awakened life is all about healing and opening up the mind, body and heart Manifestation is all about the heart and mind. It helps us fill our hearts with purpose and gives us the drive we need to take...

In the episode, we are discussing meditation and how to achieve bliss for longer amounts of time without interruption from our mind. This is part three of our five-part immersion series to teach you the awakened life formula. Chris leads our discussion this week. The focus is on mediation and how you can choose to take a step forward towards total enlightenment without ever having to achieve it. The small progress you do make helps clear your mind so you can change and adapt the way...

In this episode, John continues the five day immersion course. He pulls us away from the belief that we must accomplish advanced poses to achieve healing. Ultimately, it’s that thought process and motion that causes more harm than healing. John focuses on movement in this week’s lesson as one of the three pillars to address body, mind and heart. He explains that the more fluid you are, the more alive you are and your youth is restored. He shares an example of an eight-hour surfing trip he...

This is the first episode of the rebranded Yoga Entrepreneur Secrets Podcast, now The Awakened Life Podcast. The new podcast will uncover the untold secrets of yoga and help you live your practice on and off the mat. This episode is part one of the five part immersion series Chris and John shared on Facebook. This week, they explain why modern day yoga is a lie and how we can start depending on ourselves rather than our mat for stress relief. Chris and John share their story about how they...

In this episode, we say goodbye to Yoga Entrepreneur Secrets and hello to our new podcast The Awakened Life Podcast. This is an exciting opportunity to grow in our teachings and guide you in your healing journey on and off the mat. Just like many other businesses, coronavirus crumbled our in-studio business. Almost overnight we lost 50% of our revenue. In a time filled with uncertainty and crippling anxiety, practicing yoga is more important than ever. We decided to continue our teaching...

With the disruption caused by COVID-19 and closure of many businesses including yoga studios, we explore how online courses and social media can help us go through the disruption while still impacting the lives of your members and keeping them engaged. Initially, you may not feel a great connection while teaching yoga virtually as you’d do with a room full of students, but remember it’s not about you. It’s about what value you can give to your students during this difficult time. As a yoga...

In this episode, we talk about how to differentiate yourself as a yoga teacher from the multitude of other teachers. Right now, there are so many yoga teachers and studios. To stand out from this crowd, and position yourself as a yoga teacher that people need and whose services are sought out for, you need to do these three things. The first thing is that you must be clear on the type of person you want to serve, understand their specific problems, and find a solution for them. Choose your...

In this episode, we are in Costa Rica out on a retreat. While out here in beautiful Costa Rica, we planned to surf. We relate the effort and planning needed to go out there to catch a wave with the effort needed to succeed in business. We wanted to have a good experience surfing and thus made a big effort and sacrifice to get there early in the morning and in rugged terrain, likewise for an entrepreneur, whether you achieve your goals depends on how hard you are willing to work. Are you...

In this episode, we explore the reasons why Yoga was developed. There seems to be a never-ending debate about whether Yoga is just about the body. Chris takes us through how yoga transforms our reality and how we approach our lives. Yoga is a practical concept we get to experience in our lives. It is not a philosophy or theory we read about. It literally transforms our lives. We further discuss how Yoga shapes our thoughts which then shapes our intentions and our intentions create the...

In this episode, Chris will talk about the importance of understanding where potential customers are on their customer awareness journey. Him and John learned that the hard way when they put out Facebook ads for a teacher training and a retreat, both separate events, that they were organizing and needed to fill up. They hired a hugely successful Facebook ads agency to handle the ads for them, but the results for both events were surprisingly different. And that was all because of customer...

In this episode, Chris will talk about the importance of the “Why” in business and how it keeps an entrepreneur moving forward. He will demonstrate the power of the why by sharing the story of how John introduced him to martial arts, and how martial arts eventually led them into yoga. Before Chris got into martial arts, John would try to convince him to join him for training (John was practicing martial arts for two years before Chris joined), but Chris wasn’t into it until one day when he...