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 | Ciao! I’m Johnny La Pasta! Welcome to my lifestyle blog where I write about yoga, food, travel, and much more. If I feel it, I write it. I hope you enjoy. Namaste! |
#WorkoutWednesday 💪🏼- Bench Straddle Squats
Shine bright like a diamond 💎 , land light like a ninja 🤺!"
Not only does this exercise get into your legs🦵and glutes 🍑 as any squat does, but it also helps to establish stability and control in your core and back 🤸♂️and promotes body control🏋🏻♂️.
How to:
1. Straddle a work out bench with a wide stance.
2. Squat down - bend your knees, sit your hips back and down, keep your chest lifted.
3. Jump up high.
4. Land your feet onto the bench, right foot slightly forward and left foot slightly back.
5. Big bend to your knees, hands to heart center.
6. Jump back out and down, land in the straddle squat.
7. Repeat and switch forward food.
Sets and reps:
5 sets of 10 or go for 45 seconds to 1 minute at a time for 2-3 rounds.
Get that ninja control! •
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#workout #work #exercise #fitness #fit #fitfam #crossfit #circuittraining #weights #lifting #crosstraining #mindfulmovement #health #wellness #lifestyle #johnnylapasta
It's Valentine's Day 😍week! While Valentine's Day has more or less become a commercial holiday to influence us to purchase cards📝, chocolates🍫, flowers🌹, and download dating apps📱, we in the yoga🤸♀️ community are using it as a reminder to put love❤️, compassion🤲🏼, and kindness ☮️out in the world and receive it back too!
Come join me this week as we open up our heart 💖spaces to radiate the love out💓 and also accept it back 💘for ourselves.
Schedule:
Monday -
4pm C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 - RA Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am - CorePower Yoga CM
Wednesday -
5:45 + 7:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
1 + 2:30pm C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
Thursday -
5:45am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
3:45pm Level 2 - RA Yoga CM
Saturday -
11am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
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#yoga #yogiyogilife #yogafit #yogaflow #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeveryday #valentines #valentinesday2019 #heartopen #openheart #love #light #meditate #radiate #health #wellness #fitness #johnnylapasta
One of my favorite health-based 🍏jobs I have been blessed 🙏🏼with the opportunity to perform in the past year is leading mindfulness 🙇🏻♂️and meditation🧘♂️ sessions at the offices of a big finance and trade company here in OC🍊.
Once a week, I lead 30 minute sessions for the employees in a big conference room👨🏫. We do chair yoga 🤸♀️to release tension from the body and counterbalance the effects of sitting at a desk all day👩🏾💻. We explore several mindfulness 🧠 activities to enhance concentration🧐, focus🤓, and perspective 🌎. And then we dive into various meditation 🧘♀️ techniques to calm🥰, collect 🤲🏼, and revitalize👌🏼.
It is so deeply rewarding to see how much better the employees feel after our sessions😍. And I encourage them to take what I have taught them and apply on their own to upgrade the quality of their working lives👍🏼.
More and more, traditional corporate businesses are seeing the negative effects of the fast-paced, high-stress work environments their employees operate in 🥺. The stress and anxiety that often flourishes in these environments leads to a number of health problems -physical✊🏼and mental🧠 - and ultimately results in lower quality of work in addition to human suffering 🙅🏻♂️.
I used to work in the corporate world for a long time as a marketing professional. I understand the particular brand of stress that exists within that world. I am so happy to be able to return to that world and use my knowledge of what corporate employees experience in tandem with the practices of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation to promote happier, healthier lives. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What we need to do now is evolve our working culture in America. We need to integrate wellness programs into the work place to support holistic health which ultimately lead to better quality work done by healthier, happier human beings. 💯
Has your company thought about starting a wellness program? If not, let's plant the seed! 🌱 Start exploring how you might spark⚡️this evolution in your company. So many could benefit! •
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#mindful #mindfulness #meditation #meditate #health #wellness #yoga #yogi #yogaeverydamnday #johnnylapasta
Check out this spotlight piece I did for my favorite gym @crunchhuntingtonbeach! In addition to my yoga practice, I use all the top notch equipment and turf at #crunchfitness to create my own strength training circuits and parkour exercises to reach my best level of fitness! Thanks Team Crunch for always being so rad! See you all in the sweat! #workoutwednesday •
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#workout #work #exercise #fit #fitness #fitfam #fitlifestyle #sweat #burn #strength #strong #cardio #circuittraining #weightlifting #lifting #parkour #yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #yogaeverydamnday #health #wellness #lifestyle #johnnylapasta
"Show up for your life. Be present with what it gifts you. Find stillness and peace in the comfortable and acceptance and growth in the uncomfortable. Take joy in the big and the small. Marvel and the grand and the simple. Show up for your life and it will show up for you."
So often in life, especially in this age, we find ourselves going through the motions. Our minds travel back and forth between meandering the past and imagining the future. We fall into a trap of not fully showing up for what our lives have for us in the here and now.
Yet when we make the conscious choice to show up fully for our lives in this moment we discover a wealth of experiences and opportunities for growth, expansion, pleasure, and peace. Every day there are both big and small happenings that have the potential to help fill our lives if only we are fully there to recognize it.
This week, we commit to showing up fully and being active discovers of all that our lives have for us right here and right now.
Schedule:
Monday -
4pm C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
6:45pm + 8pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
Wednesday -
5:45am + 7:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
1pm + 2:30pm C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
Thursday -
5:45am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
3:45pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga CM
Saturday -
11am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
Sunday (sub) -
12pm C1 - CorePower Yoga HB
1:30pm C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
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#yoga #yogi #yogaeverydamnday #yogilife #yogainstructor #dailyyoga #yogaflow #flow #vinyasa #breath #prana #pose #asana #meditate #mindfulness #mindful #health #wellness #lifestyle #johnnylapasta
#WorkoutWednesday 💪🏼 - Elevated Tricep Pushups with Crossbody Knee Tucks 🤪
Learned these from @aguydoingahandstand 🤸♀️
These get at your shoulders, triceps, back, and core! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
How to:
1. Set up kettle bells shoulder distance apart, body length away from a bench or other platform.
2. Grab kettle bell handles and step feet on bench/platform.
3. Bend elbows and lower down, elbows stay in.
4. Push-up.
5. Draw right knee to left elbow. Send and set back.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4.
7. Draw left knee to right elbow. Send and set back.
Sets and Reps:
3-5 sets of 5-10 reps or really however much you feel called to do.
As always, only do what feels right in your body and have fun working it! 🏋🏻♂️
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#workoutwednesdays #workout #exercise #fitness #fitnessmotivation #fitnesslife #fit #fitfam #strong #strength #sweat #circuittraining #strengthtraining #health #wellness #healthylife #lifestyle #healthcoach #yoga #yogi #johnnylapasta
"You are the sky, everything else is the clouds."
We are just like the sky 🌌 at once part of the earth 🌍 and the beyond💫. Like the sky, we are expansive and through our connection to the divine we are infinite✨. All of the other elements that move through us are simply clouds ☁️ ; they affect us, but only temporarily. Some clouds are darker and stormier ⛈ than others, some stay in place for longer periods of time than others🌨, but eventually the clouds disperse and the sky, expansive and infinite, is once again revealed☀️.
We all have clouds of challenges, obstacles, frustrations, and heartbreaks moving through us at different rates. These clouds will influence our earthly experience, true. Yet, those clouds will eventually move to reveal us still as beautiful and bright as ever. At the end of the day, all will pass and we will be.
This week we flow with trust that we will continue remain blue 💙, sunny 🌞 , and starry 🌟 no matter what is passing through in the moment. 🙏🏼
Schedule:
Monday -
4pm C2 - CPY CM
6:45pm/8pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am C2 - CPY CM
Wednesday -
5:45am + 7:30am C2 - CPY HB
1 + 2:30pm C2 - CPY CM
Thursday -
5:45am C2 - CPY HB
3:45pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga CM
Saturday -
11am C2 - CPY HB
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#yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #yogainspiration #yogaflow #yogaeverydamnday #yogilife #breath #prana #pose #asana #flow #vinyasa #meditation #mindfulness #mindful #health #healthylife #wellness #lifestyle #johnnylapasta
Cue the ABBA music 🎶 because your boy 👦🏻 Johnny La Pasta just booked his next adventure to Greece 🇬🇷 this Spring! *Takes ouzo shot*•
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#travel #traveler #adventure #adventurer #wanderlust #wanderluster #greece #life #live #noregrets #yolo #johnnylapasta
#tbt to looking out ornate Spanish 🇪🇸 windows and singing in my head, 🎶 “Don’t call my name, Alejandro.” 🎶 •
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#throwbackthursday #travel #traveler #travelgram #instatravel #adventure #wanderlust #globetrotter #globetrekker #spain #españa #granada #granadaspain #alhambra #memories #takemeback #johnnylapasta
