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Teacher Feature: ELIZABETH

4/22/2018

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What's your name?
  • Elizabeth Fox
What brought you to yoga? What keeps you coming back to yoga?
  • I originally came to yoga for the exercise. I stayed with yoga once I discovered the connection between my body, mind and creative source. Over the course of my yogic journey, I've come to realize that we can change our individual lives and transcend boundaries by simply changing our breath.
  • I've vowed to share the gift of yoga with anyone who wishes to reconnect with their personal source of power and make a positive change in their life.
What pose(s) are you currently working with (favourite, challenged by etc.)?
  • I love working with flowing poses, such as Sun Salutations, that allow for a full range of motion and encourage the Breath to act as the guiding source. Once the Breath takes over, the mental chatter dissolves and our bodily movements transform into an oceanic ebb and flow of breathing and pure energy.
  • The greatest challenges, for myself and others, involve inversions - where we are literally turning our world upside down and viewing our life and surroundings from a different perspective. This is both physically and emotionally demanding as inversions require us to assume greater control as well as a sense of surrender. With some patience, perseverance and humility, we can allow magic to enter into our lives.
​Why Liberty Life Yoga?
  • Liberty Life Yoga and I simultaneously found one other. I was seeking a supportive team of strong and positive Yogis that I could teach, learn and laugh with. The LLY team and the participants who attend our classes are all of these things and so much more. Your vibe attracts your tribe! ​
Words of Wisdom for someone thinking of trying (Liberty Life) Yoga?
  • Even the simple act of showing up to your mat is yoga. Arriving with an open mind, releasing expectations and making a sincere connection with yourself and your fellow yogis can be transformative! Experiment, play, be curious, vulnerable and uncompromisingly kind to yourself. Everything else after that is just a bonus.

Elizabeth teaches in our condo locations. Check out the condo schedule to book a class with her!
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Teacher Feature: KENDRA

4/9/2018

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What's your name?
  • Kendra Hutton
What brought you to yoga? What keeps you coming back to yoga?
  • For me yoga began as a way to exercise. After my first yoga class I was drenched in sweat and a warm feeling of bliss. That feeling kept me coming back to my mat.
  • What keeps me motivated now is exploring how empowering a yoga practice can be for helping people find balance in their lives. It's amazing what a little body awareness, breath work and meditation can do for your well being
What pose(s) are you currently working with (favourite, challenged by etc.)?
  • Handstands and forearm stands, always! I love the challenge of inversions, and the strength and balance it takes to get there.
​Why Liberty Life Yoga?
  • Community, of course! Liberty Life Yoga is a warm and welcoming place that is great for all levels. ​
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Words of Wisdom for someone thinking of trying (Liberty Life) Yoga?
  • It may take a bit of bravery to get you to class, but once you're there, you'll realize that LLY is a friendly and non-judgmental place. We are all still learning, none of us have arrived at a 'final destination'. That is why yoga is called a practice.

Kendra teaches Fire Flow at our Core1Health location. Check out the condo schedule to book a class with her! 
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Why the Essential Oil "Trend" Isn't Going Away

4/8/2018

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It seems like everyone's got their paws on essential oils these days, right? Plus, all the stores have jumped on the bandwagon...we're seeing oils and diffusers everywhere we go now! Your friends on Facebook can't stop talking about doTERRA and you're wondering when this madness will end.

Well...first of all, essential oils are nothing new. They have been in existence since 3000 BCE with the Egyptians who used plant extracts for a myriad of purposes.
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It is not breaking news that plants have healing properties and a wide variety of benefits. It is just that in the past ten or so years that the purest and most effective form of essential oils have become easily accessible to us. If you have a skin irritation, you're more likely to buy an over the counter medication or get a prescription cream than to run out to your nearest lavender field and try healing yourself with the plant. It has (until recently) become easier to pop a pain reliever or muscle relaxant that you keep in your cabinet than to go outside seeking plants and herbs to aid your pain.

But, before the introduction of modern medication (which I am not against, for the record) that was how our ancestors did it! That's how they rolled. In fact, I am of Mohawk (Aboriginal tribe from southern Ontario) descent and I recently found out that my great grandmother was what they'd call a "healer" and people would come to her when they were ill. She'd go get roots and plants from outside and make them tea to heal them. I was pretty mind blown and excited when I found that out, because in a way that's what I do now! Only, I have the convenience of simply educating people about the powerful and easy-to-use doTERRA essential oils.  It is so exciting to give people hope, remedies, and the empowerment to care for themselves and their families naturally.

To read more about why I choose doTERRA specifically, click here. The way they source and test their oils for efficacy and purity is hands down why they have such a high customer retention rate! That rate is 68% if you're wondering, compared to a direct sales industry average rate of 10%.

Of course essential oils have been around much longer than ten years, but with the introduction of doTERRA, the largest and most rapidly growing essential oil company (a growth curvature that has been compared to that of Apple products), people are realizing"wow, these really work, and they are not just for hippies".

When you think about it, why wouldn't they work? Essential oils are highly concentrated extracts of plants (volatile aromatic compounds) that are 50-70x more powerful than herbs. Do you think its an accident that Lavender happens to have soothing properties? That Ginger happens to be great for soothing our digestive systems, while plants like Tea Tree or Frankincense are great for coughs and colds, our immune system, and our skin? We have been given so much to heal ourselves with, perfect as nature has prepared them for us. What I love is that doTERRA doesn't mess with that, and they put in the work to source the globe for us and bring the awesome healing power right to our homes!

Myself, among many others are slowly replacing our medicine cabinets, toxic beauty products, and chemically charged household cleaners with these amazing, little brown bottles full of basically liquid gold. Or should I say liquid Frankincense and Myrrh? ;)
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I am beyond grateful to have essential oils in my life, and am so glad my sister insisted and persisted I try them, when I myself was a major skeptic. Read here about some members of my little oil community and why they are loving their oils!

In a society where we are used to being tricked by labels that claim their product is "natural" when it's really less than 15% pure, and "natural products" that are so weak or mild (and again, not pure) they don't even work...people are joyous once they discover doTERRA and how different it is. These work, and they work fast. doTERRA is so confident you'll love it too, so they have an amazing customer satisfaction guarantee. So, you have nothing to lose. Get started today with wholesale membership (to save the most money) or kit to build your collection!

​By the way...if you have even the slightest entrepreneurial bone in your body, you probably got intrigued as I mentioned some of the amazing growth and popularity doTERRA has seen. It's not too late to get in on this action. There are still a ton of people who haven't been introduced to this better way of life yet! And, lucky for you, there is always room on my team for eager, dedicated and passionate souls who want to embark on this crazy, rewarding, and exciting journey with us. I can't wait to empower you!

To learn more about that opportunity click here and please contact me to see if sharing oils as you earn an income is a good fit for you! It never hurts to ask.
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Source: https://www.doterra.com/US/en/about-fact-sheet

Written By: Emily Brant
Originally posted on Essentially Emm's blog
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