Robin Patino |

Do you think you will break?

I spent two and a half years on the journey of a lifetime. One year was spent in the lush jungles of Costa Rica, on a fast track to healing my body, mind, and spirit in the paradise of Nosara, where I trained to become a yoga teacher. Four months in Spain nourished my...

Feel

“Your body is a walking repository of every experience you have ever had in life. Many experiences occur so rapidly or under conditions of such stress that they are stored in the body’s memory in undigested chunks.” —Don Stapleton — The physical form is the outermost...

Flow

“Our feminine consciousness exerts its power through attraction rather than activity, like a magnet will attract the iron shavings.” — Marianne Williamson — The energy or prana body represents our life force, the underlying vitality that animates our physical body....

Believe

“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear and I can’t help but ask myself how much I let the fear take the wheel and steer.” —Drive (Incubus) — The personality body is the control system that directs our thoughts and emotions, built over the course...

Observe

“Walk on, and leave it behind.” —U2— The wisdom body represents our ability to see life for the lessons it provides us, rather than seeing ourselves as the victim of circumstance. This skill of discrimination – witness consciousness, not taking personally what...

Connect

“If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.” —Yogi Bhajan — The innermost layer, the bliss body, lies closest to our experience of the divine. Having balanced our physical, energetic and personality layers and developed our ability to witness life for the...

Do You Think You Will Break?

by Robin Patino

(available NOW on Amazon.com)

“What, do you think you will break?” asked Francisco, my sexy Spanish yoga teacher.

I had complained about the tightness in my legs as he guided me into an intense yoga stretch during a workshop on the island of Menorca. “Breathe through and it will loosen,” he instructed. “Do not give up at the first sign of discomfort.”

Very interesting. The question resonated with where I was in my life at the time. I had been acting like many things could break me.

A series of ongoing challenges on the relationship and career fronts had been draining me, and I was tired of allowing myself to be a victim of circumstance. Where were my boundaries? I was a powerful woman, and it was time to start acting like one. I made the decision to change my life.

How well do you hold your

boundaries?

To create a happy and healthy now, it is necessary for us to know and hold our boundaries. Failure to do so will send us into reactive mode. This happens because we are not caring for ourselves in a way that optimizes our ability to create what we want in our lives.

When we become a victim to external events, it impacts all areas of our lives and limits our ability to Feel, Flow, Believe, Observe and Connect. It influences how we think and how we act – and creates our current now. It begins to define us in the world.

When out of balance in any of these areas, we begin to doubt ourselves. We lose clarity, and ultimately our power.

Creativity. Freedom. Growth.

Connectivity.

A mentor pays it forward. Those who have mentors, usually become one.

I met most of my mentors by connecting with people who had similar values, and chose them for the example they provided in different areas of life. For the last three years, my mentors have been in the art of happiness. They showed me how to find it using the science of yoga and through setting boundaries.

The values I share with my mentors are creativity, growth, freedom and connectivity.

Now more than ever, women need to learn from each other and pay it forward as sisters rather than as competitors. We need to care for ourselves so that we can better shape the world. My mentoring services will help you discover how to do that in the way that best suites you, and then help you build the practices to support you long term.

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I spent two and a half years on the journey of a lifetime. One year was spent in...

“Your body is a walking repository of every experience you have ever had in life. Many...

“Our feminine consciousness exerts its power through attraction rather than activity,...

“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear and I can’t help but ask...

“Walk on, and leave it behind.” —U2— The wisdom body represents our ability to...

Do you think you will break?

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Do You Think You Will Break?

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How well do you hold your

boundaries?

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