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Yoga for new projects

In my career as a writer, actor and yoga teacher, I’ve embarked on many new projects. Each time, there is a sense of excitement and terror. I see it as a surge of energy and inspiration. There’s nothing more exhilarating and terrifying than the blank page, full of possibilities. I believe this surge is necessary in order to create anything in life, just like plugging into a power source. We need a great deal of prana to embark on anything new such as a business, relationship, health plan, renovation … it all requires concentrated prana.

Prana is our life force. From the yogi’s perspective, it runs through invisible power lines called nadis throughout the energetic body. Similar to the meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine, these little pathways can’t be seen by the physical eye, but according to the yoga physiology they are very real and immensely powerful. Nadis have a tendency to get blocked, due to various mental, physical, emotional and spiritual stressors — life’s baggage if you will.

You arrive at a particular moment ready to embark on something new, but you find yourself stuck and

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