About Me
 | 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! |
🌎Happy Earth Day! 🌍
On this #EarthDay, let's remember that we are all supported 🤲🏼by and connected 🤝through Mother Earth 🌏. We all inhabit this colorful 🌈 and dynamic 🌟planet together. Therefore, we must care for her and one another🙏🏼.
More mindfulness about how we move through the world and each other 🧠, more kindness toward the land, the animals, and fellow humans ✌🏼, and more love all around ❤️ .
If each of us takes small action steps it will add up to be profound and we will elevate the physical qualities of our globe and the consciousness of our beings. 🙌🏼
Let's get connected. Only 2 more days of classes before I sail off to explore more of this planet Greece-side!
Schedule -
Monday:
4pm C2 CorePower Yoga CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday:
5:30am C2 CorePower Yoga CM
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#yoga #yogi #yogilife #yogainstructor #earth #planetearth #motherearth #mindfulness #consciousness #health #wellness #johnnylapasta
Catch me jumping 🐒 & flying 🦅 around like a ninja 🤸♂️@crunchhuntingtonbeach! 💪🏼
Loved doing this shoot with the awesome teach at #CrunchFitness. #workoutwednesday
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#workout #workoutmotivation #exercise #fit #fitness #athlete #everdayathlete #crossfit #strength #sweat #circuittraining #health #wellness #lifestyle #johnnylapasta
Happy Monday Yogis! 🤸♂️
It's my last full week of classes before I jet ✈️ off to Greece 🇬🇷, marry an aristocrat 💰 with a beautiful house 🏡 on an island 🌴 over looking the Mediterranean 🌊, and never return! (Jk jk - but seriously...🙃)
This week we explore F.R.E.E.D.O.M. 💫So many of the bars we think we have around us are self-imposed 🙅🏻♂️. We allow our society to influence us and create stories for ourselves about what we can and cannot do in this life, and in so doing we unknowingly chain and limit ourselves 🤦🏻♂️.
And sure, we all have our limitations. I would argue, however, that many of the parameters you have placed around yourself are imagined - not true 💡.
This week we identify what restrictions we have placed on ourselves, we analyze and see if they are true and necessary, and when we find the ones that aren't, we break them and we liberate ourselves to go forward and live our best lives 💥!
Schedule:
Monday -
4pm C2 CorePower Yoga CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am C2 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 -
9:30am C3 CorePower Yoga HB
11am C2 CorePower Yoga HB
Sunday -
12 + 1:30pm C2 CorePower Yoga HB (subbing)
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#yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #yogalife #yogaeverydamnday #yogatheme #yogafit #health #wellness #lifestyle #mindful #mindfulness #freedom #free #liberation #liveyourbestlife #johnnylapasta
The 2 vocations I have chosen for this life are teaching yoga and writing. You all see a great deal of my yoga, but not nearly as much of my writing.
Here I have shared my lifestyle articles on my blog Johnny La Pasta and my published pieces in Elephant Journal, but I rarely ever share the creative writing I do: short & long fiction, poetry, songs.
In an effort to be more vulnerable and share my words with the world, I am choosing to put myself out there and share with you little bits and pieces of my creative writing from time to time. This is the first -
"I Miss Everything and Nothing"
I miss everyone and everything.
I miss the people I knew and no longer talk to.
I miss the people I know but no longer see.
I miss the places I've lived and the places I've traveled.
I miss the travelers I've met out on the open road.
I miss the summer nights of my teenage years.
I miss the holidays of my childhood.
I miss the young laughter more difficult to recall within me.
I miss my child spirit that has grown older it seems.
I rejoice and mourn for all of these.
At once I miss everything, everyone, and nothing.
I miss it all, but in this moment with what is in front of me, I'm still blessed and I am still whole.
This moment, these sights, these sounds, these people;
They are enough because they are now. •
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#writing #writer #passion #vocation #creativity #poetry #love #yoga #yogi #travel #travelgram #italy #amalficoast #johnnylapasta
Have you ever brought awareness to your inner dialogue? If you have, you may have discovered that it is almost like we have different characters living and speaking within our minds. Two of the most prominent characters I identify as 'The Inner Critic' and 'The Inner Best Friend'.
'The Inner Critic' says things like, "You are not enough," You are too weak," "You can't," "You never will". Unfortunately, 'The Inner Critic' is a loud b****; it shouts at us so intently that we cannot help but listen and often begin to believe it's words.
But if you listen more closely, you will hear the soft comforting, affirming words of the 'Inner Best Friend'. 'The Inner Best Friend' says things like, "You've got this," "Yes, you can," "You are enough," "You will." When we listen to the messages of 'The Inner Best Friend', we are uplifted and the vibration of our being grows in positivity which gives us power to move forward and live our best lives.
We must learn to tell 'The Inner Critic' to "Shut the F*** Up!" and turn up the volume of the 'Inner Best Friend'. We must learn to receive the affirmations from the friend within as well as friends from without and use that energy to continue to go forward in lightness.
This week, we focus on strengthening the body on the outside, and changing the inner dialogue on the inside.
Schedule -
Monday:
4pm C2 CorePower Yoga CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday:
5:30am C2 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:
(Classes subbed out! I will be at a training. Be back next week!)
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#yogaeverydamday #yoga #yogainstructor #yogainspiration #yogi #yogaflow #breath #prana #pose #asana #flow #vinyasa #huntingtonbeach #costamesa #johnnylapasta
I am excited to announce that I am adding a new permanent class to my teaching schedule 💫:
C3 - Advanced Power Vinyasa Yoga - 9:30am Saturdays @ CorePower Yoga Huntington Beach 🤸♂️
I have had the honor of substitute teaching this class for years and now have the honor of guiding it regularly! Come join me for 75 minutes of flow and bliss! 🙏🏼
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#yoga #yogi #yogatime #yogaeverydamday #dailyyoga #yogilife #yogafit #corepoweryoga #corepower #cpy #cpyjoblove #huntingtonbeach #hb #health #wellness #fitness #mindful #johnnylapasta
"Going with the flow 🌊 means that we are aware of an energy 💫 that is larger than our small selves and we are open to working with it rather than against it 🤝.”
We can set our goals, make our plans, and take the steps necessary to complete and achieve them ✅. There is great value in determination and stamina 💪🏼.
However, as we continue moving forward toward our goals, life will undoubtedly present us with challenges, circumstances, and opportunities that were not part of our original vision. 👁
It is in these moments that we must soften and allow ourselves to travel with the flow that has come our way. 🏄 We must embrace what is in front of and around us and move with it. 🤲🏼When we go with the flow, we embrace the moment, we trust the process, we open to new knowledge, and often end up finding ourselves guided to a new space we were ultimately meant to land. 🙏🏼
This week, we flow all around. Embrace it, trust it, go with it, and see what happens.✌🏼
Schedule:
Monday -
4pm C2 CPY CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am C2 CPY CM
Wednesday -
5:45 + 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 -
9:30am C3 CPY HB
11am C2 CPY HB
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#yoga #yogi #yogaflow #dailyyoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogafit #health #wellness #mindfulness #wisdom #conscious #consciousness #johnnylapasta
Bloom 🌷 & Dance 🤸♂️.
All the good vibes ✌🏼 for Spring 🌱 & Aries ♈️ season.
#tbt Netherlands 🇳🇱 April 2018
📷: @fabrixsanfi •
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#throwbackthursday #travel #adventure #wanderlust #amsterdam #netherlands #tulips #tulipseason #spring #aries #ariesseason #yoga #yogi #dancerspose #johnnylapasta
"We can’t live in 'what was' - it cannot be changed. We can't live in 'what if' - we cannot predict tomorrow. Live in 'what is' - in 'what is' there is magic. Focus on that and create more with it."
More and more I am discovering 💡 that choosing presence 🧘♂️in and acceptance ✌🏼of the here and now is where the magic 💫of life exists. If we can be fully available for the 'what is' then we can fully learn 🧠, grow 🌱, and make the right 👉🏼choices to proceed into the possibilities ✨.
Once we accept all that is present🙏🏼 - all the emotions😶, all the fun 🎉 , all the hardship ⛈, all the lessons⚡️ - then we can fully receive it, evolve from it, and proceed forward to where we are meant to go 🌟.
This week is all about tuning into the present, embracing it, and working with it.
Schedule -
Monday -
4pm C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
6:45 + 8pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga CM
Tuesday -
5:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga CM
Wednesday -
5:45 + 7:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga HB
*Afternoon classes subbed*
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 #yogi #yogainstructor #yogateacher #yogainspiration #yogafit #wuote #wisdom #presence #breath #mindfulness #mindful #acceptance #learn #growth #johnnylapasta
