Do not miss out on your chance to shed pounds and get in shape!!!!

TrainerTroy’sBeach BootCamp Yoga
Mondays 9-10 a.m. Just added 6 p.m.

Starting June 29th
Lantern Park Bay 25135 Park Lantern Dana Point Ca. 92629
Intense cardio workout and Yoga Stretch. Leave having your butt kicked and feeling stretched out. Limited space available, must pre register, be in active shape and have done at least one prior Yoga Class. Four weeks only this year: June 29-July 20th.
TrainerTroy's Beach BootCamp Yoga will kick your butt and you will leave feeling stretched out. This special hour long workout is designed to challenge and stretch your limits. Over the four sessions we will work to put traditional yoga postures and athletic exercise together in a one of a kind way. These workouts will include body weight training, sports movements, cardio, medicine ball training and finish with a different stress reductions technique every week.

Must pre register in full before start date. Cost is $30- per session, with a purchase of four required. Discount for couples. Only five spaces available. Must commit for all four sessions, non refundable or transferable fee. Prior training purchases are not applicable. Must be in active fitness health and have taken at least one prior yoga class.
Register now, space is limited and will sell out!
TrainerTroy Cox
trainertroy@gmail.com
(818) 415-9554 www.trainertroy.com
(Please bring a bottle of water and a Yoga Mat)

Playing Games

Three weeks back from Yoga School in Florida with the Guru Amrit Desi and doing Yoga everyday, meditating and learning. Back in the 'real' world, trying to wake up at six a.m. and keep the schedule of the session is challenging. What I can easily incorporate is Sacred Silence, the practice of keeping silence from 10 p.m. until 10a.m. or any time that fits. I am waking, doing the meditation that we were taught, having breakfast all without sounds and then looking at messages ect. On days I do not teach Yoga I do a quick 15 min Asana practice, then meditate at night. I have been practicing a technique we learned called 'Edge to Edge' while teaching, driving or when feeling overwhelmed by the 'static' of everyday life. I have found that the most distracting energy is the 'games' we play. What drama am I buying into from others or myself that pull me away from where I truly want to be? How am I reacting to what others are saying and doing creating drama in my mind or theirs, rather than just being. In those moments when I can feel my attention shifting, is when I try to bring my self back to center. It is hard, people, myself included love the game.
Faced with the challenge of coming home and finding out 1/2 of my Yoga classes were gone due to budget cuts has put my budget in a peril and makes me nervous, but by applying all the Amrit methods I learned, I am able to stay calm.
Practicing teaching the sequence in my classes three times a week, applying an intention to each class and using the teaching cues I learned have been very useful. I do hear that my classes are not 'hard' enough, whatever that means. And the games begin.

Hugs from the Spirit

Our spiritual health is as important as all others parts of being human. It directly affects the rest of our existence, mind and body. A hug from a living 'Mother Teresa' feels....all encompassing, as if the arms of the world are wrapped around you. As she pulled me close, I held the name of a friend who needs healing in my mind, I felt Amaji, take that name, then push me away from her, look at me, then pull me back close and pull open my heart, as if saying, I helped your friend, but now let me help you. I felt a vacuming feeling as my heart was forced to open and release. All my cares were gone and I was being hugged by the divine mother. A always loving, never judging, understanding Mother of my soul. All the external disappeared and I was looking in on the heavens. Galaxies were revealed to my tender eyes and my body was free of the burden of carrying my spirit. I glimpsed the existence of the vastness of creation. Then Amaji pulled my friend I was getting a couple hug with in and she wrapped me up in her arms too and what was seconds, that seemed like years were over in a flash. I was deposited back in my physical and filled with a peace I have only felt as a rare possibility. I sat for two hours and watched her hug others in pure bliss. Spirit, the natural high.
I will have to tell you about the second hug in a later post....blessings. Mentally or in words, tell your divine mother, biological, or spiritual, thank you.

Sexual Spiritual

Sexual energies can be empowering or distracting. It is a fine line as a Westerner, where self control is not something taught, but shame and guilt are; between using this energy for or against the spiritual path. I believe that sex is a gift to be used as a physical body stress relief as well as for procreation and a divine union with another. Like any gift, it is the thought that counts. What is my intention before entering into a sexual state? Where is my head at? Am I honoring this gift, or taking it for granted? I know that a life of celibacy is not the life for me, but there are many principals to learn from such a life. Self control, thoughtfulness, a management of energy towards my spiritual goals, honoring my physical body, and reaching for a higher desire are all principals I take from the lesson of the celibate. Integrating these lessons into a modern, material world is a challenge and lesson of it's own. I guess for me, placing my mind in a proper place before sexual thoughts, desires or acts, seeing if it is in alignment with my path, then not assuming guilt after but honoring the process is where I am at when sex enters my spiritual realm. I hope this helps others. Tell me your views on the subject and I will put them in my next newsletter,,,,,,yes they can be anonymous or you can just include your first name.TrainerTroy

Wisdom Words

These are all taken out of context and are brief paraphrases, but wanted to share as much as I could with you. Thank you all for your personal emails and feedback.
Yogi Desi
When you complain, stressed, Angry, jealous, blame, you are disconnected from the source.
Once you become more connected to what is, you have pure reason that allows you to see what is as is.
When you are angry and in reaction you are reasoning and can not see things as they are.
When you don't practice what you know it is treacherous.
When you connect to the source your relationship to the world has changed, the world does not change.
If you are not attached to the external you will not be upset when it is not lost.
All the answers are inside.
Integration leads to source/ source leads to integration
If you breath in, you have to breath out
Animals can not change their diet
Animals can not commit suicide
We can go with or against Prana (life force)
With Prana, we have the address of God.
We are Adam and Eve, with the choice to make something good out of something bad.
The prodigal son is the ego.

Back to California

Well, I am on my way back to California from Yoga School. I have learned so much more about Yoga than I expected. The thing I loved the most was that we would learn about a Yoga Principal and then do an exercise, mental, physical, spiritual or emotional that would make the the idea experiential. That way, as teachers, we absorb the lesson, principal or idea into our experience and am able to better convey it to our students. I am eager to apply what I learned in my classes. I feel like I have grown so much as a teacher and Yoga student. It is funny, as I am writing this at the Orlando airport, there are people I do not know doing Yoga stretching, I guess more and more people are finding out how much it can benefit our minds and bodies. One of the people I stayed with who drove me to the airport hurt her back and told me that her Dr. recommended her to do Yoga for her back.
I will write down some of the more inspirational words I received in the last few days of talks with the master teacher.
Love and Light.
Troy

Yoga School

The program is deeper and more profound than I ever expected. I am learning more in these first four days that I have learned in all my Yoga trainings I have had over the last five years. There is something to say for learning from the direct source. Today we received an energy transference from Amrit that was....more intense and all encompassing of an experience than I can even begin to describe. I felt pain, Ecstasy, love and fear all simultaneously. There are not words big or illustrious enough to describe what happened. I just know I will never be the same and none of my classes with ever be the same. I only hope I can bring back a glimmer of this to everyone in my life.
More to come.
Troy
P.S.
is anyone reading this? I only know if someone leaves comments, and thus far, none.