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Whenever I teach yoga, I love inviting people to l

Whenever I teach yoga, I love inviting people to listen to their bodies and play with variations of poses 🤸🏾‍♀️.

This is particularly fun in Tree pose and I’m always inspired by what transpires when I call out “Grow your tree and keep changing something for 5 counts”🌲.

The change can be visible or invisible! You might shift your:
-gaze
-foundation
-leg variation
-arm variation
-facial expression
-core engagement
-reach (go up or go back)
-thoughts about yourself
-thoughts about the pose

With all these options in mind, I invite YOU to take Tree pose at some point today and then grow your tree for 10 counts on each side.

Literally, just keep changing something about your tree as you count to 10 and see where you end up 👍🏾.

#MovementMonday #GrowYourTree #MovementMatters #AliveAndWell #TreePose #ChooseGrowth #StandTall #RootToRise #BeginAgain #ReachUpHigh #ShiftHappens #TouchTheSky #GoInward #ExpressOutward #ListenToYourBody #BuildFromTheBottomUp #TrustYourBody #BeFree #MoveWithBreath #Ujjayyi #LookUp #ReachUp #KeepGrowing

Today is a #FunFactsFriday and #MovementMonday mas

Today is a #FunFactsFriday and #MovementMonday mash-up ☀️

1 – Monday afternoon was the very first edition of Surfing in Spain in September (which will be my annual adventure for the rest of my life) 🤙🏾 🏄🏾‍♀️.

2 – The team @insta_republik is phenomenal and so fun 👏🏾! Notice their precious puppy in the picture?

3 – This was my first time in a wetsuit and I definitely need to have one custom-made before my next trip back to Spain 🤪.

4 - In my six days away, I read four fantastic books 📚:

-Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)

-Mindwise (Nicholas Epley)

-Start with Why (Simon Sinek)

-Finding Me (Viola Davis)

5 – I took in lots of sights but I took fewer than 10 pictures while I was away and posed for exactly one picture 🤪

#SurferGirl #OceanRepublik #SurfInSpain #YoAmoEspana #BeachLife #AdventuresAbroad #HangTen #LiveInTheMoment #RenfeRocks #MagicalMadrid #RenfeRolls #AimlessWanderer #BookLover #Verbivore #VibrantValencia #DoSomethingThatScaresYou #AliveAndWell #MakeMemories #Unforgettable #ILoveReading #BooksAreTheBest #TrySomethingNew #RideTheWaves #SoakUpTheSun #OceansAway #HangTen

What's in store for Week 4???

What's in store for Week 4???

Autumn is a beautiful reminder that there comes a

Autumn is a beautiful reminder that there comes a time to accept the challenge of letting go of any relationships and situations that are stagnant and no longer serving us 🍂🍁🍂.

This might apply at home, school, work, rest and/or play!

Who knows what will emerge in the new spaces we create when we give up our dead leaves???

#ChallengeByChoice #Rumi #LetItGo #ChooseYourChallenge #FallForward #LetGo #Grit #MoveOn #MakeSpace #DoneAndDone #MakeRoomForNew #WhatsNext #BeLikeATree #GotGRIT #TrustTheTrees #NewSeason #NewReason #grit #Rebirth #ObstaclesAreEverywhere #KnowYourGRIT #GrowYourGRIT #ShowYourGRIT #GRITizen #WhimsicalWednesday

GRIT Podcast Club - What will be in week 3 🤔?

GRIT Podcast Club - What will be in week 3 🤔?

It’s #MovementMonday and this post is dedicated

It’s #MovementMonday and this post is dedicated to anyone who spends a lot of time in meetings 😫.

You’re officially invited to play ‘Freedom 55’ if you have any meetings this week that last more than an hour. It’s a game I made up for a friend who works from home and has several online meetings that run for 3 hours or more 😬.

The only rule of the game is that at 55 minutes after every hour, you have to make time for movements that are significantly different than whatever you’ve been doing for the previous 55 minutes 👍🏾. If you’ve been sitting down since 8:00 a.m., stand up and start stretching when the clock says 8:55 a.m. then repeat for every hour of the meeting ⏰!

Here are five ideas if you don’t know where to start:

1 - Stand up if you’ve been sitting, reach your fingertips up to the ceiling and keep reaching until you’re on your tippiest of tip toes. Looking up is an option and so is falling from side to side 😂🤣😂.

2 - Sit down if you’ve been standing and lean forward until your chest is resting on your thighs then let your head hang heavy for a few breaths.

3 - Reach your arms above your head for a few breaths, grab your right wrist from the top and pull it over to the left side of the room. Remember to switch; grab your left wrist from the top and pull it over to the right side of the room.

4 - Give yourself a hug and twist your shoulders/torso from side to side.

5 - Interlace your fingers behind you then look up as you pull your knuckles toward the floor to open your chest/heart. You can use any kind of prop like a towel or the back of your shirt if your hands don’t meet behind you.

If your movements raise any eyebrows in the meeting, explain the game and invite your colleagues to join you 🤪.

Which one of these feels best in your body? For me, it’s a tie between 3 and 5!

#MovementMonday #GetUp #ItsNotTooLate #WiggleWhatYouMust #StiffNoMore #ItsOnlyFiveMinutes #FiveMinutesForFitness #BodyBreak #ParticipAction #GetWithTheAction #MovementMatters #ShakeWhatYouGot #DanceItOut #ReachUpLookUp #Breathe #Freedom55 #ChangePerspective #BeDifferent

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️ 1 - Yesterday morning

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️

1 - Yesterday morning, I facilitated the first-ever, in-person session of "Let's Use Our GRIT to Get a Grip" after hosting over 20 workshops online since 2020 🥳

2 - It was a team-building event with the incredible staff at MADD Canada and it was the first time in more than 2 years that the team has met in-person 👍🏾.

3 - Most people think MADD Canada has hundreds of employees but there are only 21 people on the team plus an engaged army of volunteers across the country doing everything in their power to eliminate impaired driving 🙏🏾.

4 - As seen in the photos of their trading cards, they've got too much GRIT to quit! Two joined via Zoom so they didn't get to make GRIT-to-go cards 🤪.

Do you see your own GRIT reflected in any of these approaches to navigating obstacles???

#NotOneMore #grit #maddcanada #ConsequencesMatter #BetterTogether #GRIT #TogetherAgain #GritForTeams #TeamBuilding #GrittyTeams #Grit #KnowYourGRIT #GrowYourGRIT #ShowYourGRIT #GRITizens

This is take number 5 for Week 2 of the podcast cl

This is take number 5 for Week 2 of the podcast club 🤪

Two nights ago, I had a friend in her late-40s sti

Two nights ago, I had a friend in her late-40s stick it to her ego when she found the courage to get into her first independent Tripod Headstand after 56 yoga classes AND hold the pose for 10 breaths 🥳.

When we started classes in May 2021, she swore that she’d NEVER, EVER be able to get into any kind of Headstand and told me that I’m crazy for thinking it was possible. I hear this ALL the time from yoga students and consulting/coaching clients 🤪.

The best part is that we spend less than 5 minutes in each class playing with inversions which means she’s only spent around 4.5 hours of her entire life working on this pose. She was terrified and she did it anyway; it’s only impossible until it’s done!

It’s my absolute privilege to support people who are ready to acknowledge their fears and be inspired to move beyond them 🙏🏾.

Is today the day you get clear about your fears and move forward anyway?

Let’s chat about ways you can Flow Your GRIT!

#CourageIsFound #NelsonMandela #Inspired #GRIT #WhimsicalWednesday #grit #TripodHeadstand #KeepGoing #Grit #InvestInYourself #YesYouCan #SlowAndSteady #ChangePerspective #ShiftPerspective #GotGRIT #TrustTheProcess #ShiftHappens #ForwardIsForward #AlwaysMoving #ImpossibleIsntForever #Believe #Possibility #OneBreathAtATime #KnowYourGRIT #GrowYourGRIT #ShowYourGRIT #FlowYourGRIT #GRITizen #FaithOverFear #ChooseFaith

Let's have some fun in Week 1 👍🏾

Let's have some fun in Week 1 👍🏾

I’m a firm believer that our input completely af

I’m a firm believer that our input completely affects our output to the point that what we choose to breathe in and breathe out truly matters 😮‍💨.

Every time I teach a yoga class, I invite students to “inhale faith in your abilities; exhale fear of your abilities” because that’s exactly what I do in the face of challenges on or off my mat!

As a coaching/consulting client, I’ll invite you to choose faith that your GRIT is already enough instead of fear that your GRIT isn’t enough to navigate any obstacles on your path 🗺.

When things are hard, I often stop and ask myself 🤔:

“What would faith do?”

‘What would fear do?

“What will I do?”

As you move through the rest of today, where can you tip the scales just a little bit in favour of faith in yourself?

🎵🎶🎵 Under the Banner – JOYSPRING from Epidemic Sound

#KnowYourGRIT #GrowYourGRIT #ShowYourGRIT #FlowYourGRIT #InhaleFaith #grit #ExhaleFear #Grit #BreatheIn #GRITizen #BreatheOut #OneBreathAtATime #BreatheItIn #BreatheItOut #GotGRIT #LetItGo #Inhale #Exhale #ReleaseForPeace #BryanAnthonys #FaithOverFear #BreathMatters #Intention #ShowUp #BeBrave #OneStepAtATime #ForwardIsFoward #MovementMonday #LifeCoachGTA

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️ 1 - Precious Puppy Pa

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️

1 - Precious Puppy Paisley is perfect 😍

2 - When Latté (a.k.a Little Nut Brown) was alive, Paisley treated her like a big sister in spite of the 60-pound difference 🥰

🐰 credit @flanisan
📸 @catherineflanigan_photo

#PuppyLove #LittleNutBrown #PlayMate #FunnyBunny #TooCute #PerfectPets #SoHappyTogether #PlayDate #BetterTogether #FurryFriends #AlwaysSisters #MakeMyDay #LoveIs

Let's grow our GRIT together 👍🏾

Let's grow our GRIT together 👍🏾

This quote reminds us that time is a finite resour

This quote reminds us that time is a finite resource and it’s literally the currency that we spend every minute of every single day!

When I describe my unique approach to doing hard things, my T in GRIT is for Time ⏰.

Once I notice that I’ve been stuck in a funk or a certain mindset for a while, I get curious about what else I can be doing with my time and my energy 🤔. Then I encourage myself to feel, heal and deal with what’s real (i.e., what’s happening outside of my head)!

Next month, I’m launching the Grow My GRIT Podcast Club and you’re invited 🎉! Do you have one hour a week to take stock of the limiting beliefs that define your days and get clear on how to navigate them from your GRIT?

Free registration starts tomorrow via Eventbrite! One club will meet on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and the other will meet on Thursdays at noon in October. Check back for the links 👉🏾

#Gratitude #grit #Imagination #Grit #Resilience #ChooseNow #Resilient #PresenceIsAPresent #BeginAgain #TimeIsPrecious #TimeIsCurrency #SaveTime #ThePresentIsAPresent #SpendYourTimeWisely #TimeKeepsOnSlippingIntoTheFuture #KnowYourGRIT #GrowYourGRIT #ShowYourGRIT #GRITizen #Theophrastus #WhimsicalWednesday #NextTimeIsNow #BeHereNow #IAmHere #HereIAm #MostValuableResource #MostValue

Wanna be a GRITizen?

Wanna be a GRITizen?

Don’t go through life. Grow through life. Eric B

Don’t go through life. Grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Insight Timer recently shared this reminder that we have endless opportunities to choose growth each day.

It’s the perfect quote for a #MovementMonday because we get to choose how we show up and how we move through our lives.

When it comes to navigating the obstacles on your path, going through them may seem really hard and growing through them may seem impossible sometimes!

If you’ve been reading my posts regulary, let this be the week you reach out and discover that you already have what you need to grow through obstacles by growing your GRIT 👍🏾. Yes, you do!

Some seeds go through life buried underneath rocks while others find a way to grow through those same conditions and bloom once they get to the surface. Will you choose growth today?

📸 @ellieburgin2.0

#MovementMonday #EricButterworth #GrowthMindset #GrowThroughLife #MoveWithIntention #InsightTimer #ChooseGrowth #IntentionalMovement #GetUnstuck #AlwaysLearning #ChooseYourChallenge #MoveWithPurpose #AlwaysGrowing #OneStepAtATime #NewPath #OneDayAtATime #NewAdventure #PressOnAndOn #BeginAgain #ItsUpToYou #ShowUp #PressOn #DontStayStuck #RiseUp #WakeUp #ShiftHappens #LessonsLearned #SchoolOfLife

#FunFactsFriday is here again ☀️ 1 - I absolu

#FunFactsFriday is here again ☀️

1 - I absolutely love stuffies which I’ve shared before in my post about Hexapus 😍!

2 - I love sitting on the floor (even though I can’t sit with my legs crossed because of meniscal tears in both of my knees) 🧘🏾‍♀️!

3 - I visited a friend last weekend and I was deeeeeelighted when her boys and their toys ambushed me 🤩!

4 - This picture only shows half of the stuffies in the boys’ full collection 😮. Can you see all ten stuffies?

5 - My little hippo, Hooplah, is very excited about joining the party so I'm going to bring him next time I head over for a visit 🦛.

Do you love stuffies? Share their names!

#TallestSixYearOld #CelebrateStuffies #SquishyHugs #PlayTime #GetCozy #BetterTogether #CuddlyZoo #ZanyZoo #LivingRoomSafari #FunOnTheFloor #ComePlayWithMe #MakeTimeForPlay #ILoveHugs #LoveLanguageHugLanguage #Hugs #StoryTime #LionsAndTigersAndBearsOhMy #LowMaintenancePets #StuffedToysMatter #UltimateStuffieCollection #PuddleOfLove #PileOn #PerfectPileOn #Ambushed #FunFactsFriday #CuddlePuddle #HugsAreTheBest

Let's talk about GRIT!!!

Let's talk about GRIT!!!

#GloriousMess #ElizabethGilbert #PerfectlyImperfec

#GloriousMess #ElizabethGilbert #PerfectlyImperfect #ExpressYourself #ShowUp #EmbraceYourself #ShareYourself #Glorious #WhimsicalWednesday #ShineOn #WhyBeNormal #NormalIsOverrated #StayWeirdBeKind #GetOutOfYourOwnWay #StayWeird #AssessTheMess #BeKind #ChooseYou

🎶🎵🎶 Life is For Dreaming - Headlund (Epidemic Sound)

#ChooseYou #ForgetNormal #ShowUp #NormalSchnormal

#ChooseYou #ForgetNormal #ShowUp #NormalSchnormal #BeYou #PerfectlyImperfect #BeAmazing #ShowUp #OwnYourAwesomeness #WhimsicalWednesday #MayaAngelou #WhyBeNormal #NormalIsOverrated #StayWeirdBeKind #GetOutOfYourOwnWay #YesYouCan #ShineOn #BeWeird #StayKind

They're baaaaaaack 🤸🏾‍♀️

They're baaaaaaack 🤸🏾‍♀️

The theme for today’s #MovementMonday is FUNKY T

The theme for today’s #MovementMonday is FUNKY TRANSITIONS because sometimes it really doesn’t matter how we get to where we’re going!

I did an informal Inversions workshop after a class last week with someone who said he can’t do Forearm Stand because he’s not flexible enough to do Dolphin pose and kick-up from there 🐬.

Whenever it’s time to do hard things, I invite people to consider the strengths and resources they bring to challenging situations. Sure enough, this yogi can totally do Forearm Stand if he gets there from Classical Headstand which had never occurred to him 🤯.

The first time he did it he was shocked! The second time he said was cheating because he didn’t get there from Dolphin pose and that’s how he’s supposed to get there 🤦🏾‍♀️.

I immediately challenged his statement because each of us has a unique approach to navigating obstacles and funky transitions are something to celebrate!

Then I laughed at him because he was wrong, I was right and he’s been lying to himself for years without even realizing it 🤪.

Where have you been lying to yourself for years about your ability to do hard things? Consider a funky transition 👍🏾

#TallestSixYearOld #grit #DoWhatYouCan #Grit #StartWhereYouAre #GRIT #MovementMonday #GRITizen #KnowYourGRIT #GoGetIt #GrowYourGRIT #ClassicalHeadstand #ShowYourGRIT #ForearmStand #FlowYourGRIT #YouAreReadyNow #SurpriseYourself #TakeAChance #BetOnYourself #YesYouCan #ChangePerspective #BlowYourOwnMind #WhoDoesThat #IDidIt #GetOutOfYourOwnWay #ObstaclesAreEverywhere #KeepLooking #WhyBeNormal #BeYou #ChooseYourPath #TrustYourPath

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️ 1 - This was me on Ma

It's #FunFactsFriday ☀️

1 - This was me on May 26th, 1995, at a pre-Prom party! Yes, I had extensions in high school and I opted to do my own hair/make-up for the festivities 😂🤣😂. Our theme was Endless Nights so I added a frame to modernize this picture of a picture 💫🌟✨

2 - Apparently, this was taken 27 years ago 🤯!!!

3 - I went to a school with oodles of extra-curricular activities and I was awarded a Gold Key at graduation 🥳. These were given to students who earned their Academic Letter, Athletic Letter and Citizenship Letter.

4 - When we graduated, I believe the Class of '95 had the most Gold Key winners in Lorne Park's history as well as the most sets of twins! I wonder if we still hold those records 🤔.

5 - A few weeks ago, I got together with four friends from high school (two I've seen in the last year and two I haven't seen since graduating). We laughed for almost three hours straight and no one ever pulled out a phone to take a picture of our gathering 🤪. I love that so much!

#StillSmiling #LornePark #EndlessNights #MakeNewFriendsButKeepTheOld #GloryDaysAreGlorious #OldFriendsRock #GoodOldDays #MemoryLane #LaughOutLoud #SoHappy #BetterTogether #LifeIsGood #WhereDidTheTimeGo

What's your T word in GRIT??? Mine is time ⏰⏳🕰

#NewEyes #Discovery #RealVoyage #NewLanscape #BonV

#NewEyes #Discovery #RealVoyage #NewLanscape #BonVoyage #MarcelProust #ChangeOfSelf #ChangeOfScenery #ShiftPerspective #LookAgain #ACBenson #ForwardIsForward #ChallengeByChoice #WhatsNew #ShiftHappens #NewLook #LookBack #grit #BeginAgain #ChangeYourChatter #LookAhead #YouCanChange #OneDayAtATime #ChangeByChoice #SelfDiscovery #SelfExploration #GRIT #GRITizen #Grit #WhimsicalWednesday

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