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😊Aquarius♒️Season!
Aquarius teaches us to stand in our own unique power🔥. It teaches us that in authenticity there is freedom✨. It reminds us that when we our ourselves and accept others as themselves we find solutions that uplevel society and humanity🙏🏼.
So maybe over the next month, set the intention of embracing yourself with all of your talents and gifts and explore how you may contribute them to our larger world! 🌎
And Happy Birthday 🎈🎉🎁 to all my Aquarian friends! •
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#aquarius #aquariusseason #astrology #horoscope #astrologyseasons #power #authentic #light #love #joy #peace #growth #yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #yogilife #yogaeveryday #yogaeverydamnday #mindful #mindfulness #meditate #manifest #energy #vibration #johnnylapasta
All the rain 🌧 in California has me daydreaming ✨ of misty ☔️ strolls through the Scottish Highlands 🏴. #tbt
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#travel #travelblogger #travelphotography #travelgram #adventure #wanderlust #globetrotter #scotland #scottishhighlands #glencoe #uk #unitedkingdom #johnnylapasta
#WorkoutWednesday 💪🏼with Wall Ball Twist Slams ⚽️!
I love using the wall ball and a backboard or wall space because it is a fantastic way to raise your heart rate💙 and enhance coordination🤸♀️ and endurance🏃🏻♂️.
These Wall Ball Twist Slams are pretty simple. Here's how you do it:
1. Grab a wall ball and step several feet back from a backboard or empty wall space.
2. Assume a mid squat position and hold the wall ball in front of you with bent arms.
3. Squat deeper and reach the ball in the direction away from the wall.
4. Stand, swing your arms in the direction of the wall, and release the ball to travel up and make contact with the wall.
5. Catch the wall ball on its way back in a squat.
6. Repeat.
Sets and Reps:
2-4 sets, 5 reps per side OR do as much as you can for 30 seconds per side.
Do you have any favorite wall ball exercises? Let me know!
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#workout #work #exercise #fitness #fitnessmotivation #fitnesslife #fitnesstransformation #fitnessfreak #fitfam #sweat #health #healthylifestyle #welnness #training #weights #lift #circuittraining #cardio #mindfulness #motivation #johnnylapasta
As a vinyasa yoga instructor🧘♂️, one of my favorite parts of my job is sequencing my classes📝. In many ways, sequencing a yoga flow is like choreographing a dance 💃🏻; it's both artistic🎨 and scientific🧪 and can result in a beautiful expression of movement 🤸♀️.
I consider myself a fairly creative sequencer🤷🏻♂️and am always playing around with unique chains of postures and different transitions between them🏃🏻♂️. I have received very kind feedback🙏🏼on many of the moves I teach in my classes. And so now, I am sharing some of those moves with you🤗!
Tap the link in bio👆🏼to read "Fun Yoga Transitions". Within, I use words and video to teach you some of the transitions and chains of poses I teach in my classes including the videos you see here:
•Wide Legged Forward Fold to Boat Pose
•Giva Squat to Crescent Plane
•Low Lunge Twist to Arm Circle to Crescent Lunge
•Dancing Shiva to Revolved Half Moon
and more!!!
Practitioners - feel free to incorporate in your own practice🧘♀️! Teachers - feel free to share in your classes👩🏫!
(And as with all movements, if it does not feel right in your body, then don't do it! No need to force it - there are plenty of other movements you can do!👌🏼)
Let me know what some of your favorite yoga transitions are in the comments below!✌🏼
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#yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #dailyyoga #iloveyoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogaholic #yogalife #yogafit #myyoga #yogateacher #vinyasa #flow #breath #prana #pose #asana #mindfullness #mindfulmovement #mindful #justmove #justdance #corepower #cpy #cpyjoblove #ra #rayoga #goodvibesonly #johnnylapasta
All any of us can do is our very best✨. Our best, just like the weather⛈, fluctuates from day to day🌞, influenced by an abundant number of factors.
One day your best might at super heroic proportions 💪🏼while another day your best might be simply getting out of bed and completing one task✅.
Our best goes up and down, but as long as you are in fact giving your best, whatever that means for you in that moment, then you can and should feel fulfilled✌🏼.
We must meet ourselves where we are at in this moment and embrace ourselves there🙏🏼. Without comparing today's best to yesterday's, last year's, or someone else's, we must accept our best and find peace within it🧘♂️.
This week, I invite you to come give your best on your yoga mat 🤸♀️. Maybe it will be the best practice you have had in long time or maybe it will be the roughest; it does not really matter. The focus now is to commit to giving your best and finding peace with where it is here and now🌟.
Schedule -
Monday:
4pm C2 - CorePower Yoga Costa Mesa
6:45pm + 8pm - Level 2 - Ra Yoga Costa Mesa
Tuesday:
5:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga Costa Mesa
Wednesday:
5:45am + 7:30am C2 - CorePower Yoga Huntington Beach
1 + 2:30pm - CorePower Yoga Costa Mesa
Thursday:
5:45am C2 - Corepower Yoga Huntington Beach
3:45pm Level 2 - Ra Yoga Costa Mesa
Saturday:
11am C2 - CorePower Yoga Huntington Beach
Sunday:
9:30am C3 - CorePower Yoga Huntington Beach
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#yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #dailyyoga #iloveyoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogaholic #yogalife #yogafit #myyoga #yogateacher #vinyasa #flow #breath #prana #pose #asana #corepower #cpy #cpyjoblove #ra #rayoga #goodvibesonly #johnnylapasta
Walking meditation in the wetlands.🚶Wonderful to enjoy the sun🌞and the calm👌🏼before the rain ⛈comes for the next week and all Southern Californians behave as though it’s apocalypse now☄️. •
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#walk #hike #stroll #nature #wetlands #bolsachicawetlands #huntingtonbeach #hb #sun #rain #freshair #meditation #walkingmeditation #calm #zen #health }#wellness #lifestyle #breathe #yoga #yogi #johnnylapasta
💫Current Affirmation:💫
I am in tune with the frequencies of success and abundance.✨
I am in tune with the frequencies of adventure and romance.✨
I am in tune with the frequencies of love and joy.✨
📷: @hilarynewnes
Vancouver, Canada - October 2017
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#affirmation #mantra #positive #meditate #manifest
#yoga #yogi #yogainstructor #dailyyoga #iloveyoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogaholic #yogalife #yogafit #myyoga #yogateacher #vinyasa #flow #breath #prana #pose #travel #adventure #wanderlust #tbt #throwbackthursday #goodvibesonly #grateful #johnnylapasta
#WorkoutWednesday 💪🏼 with this Burpee-Push up-Squat-Bicep Curl-Press (unless there is an official name I am unaware of!)🤷🏻♂️
This exercise hits multiple areas including thighs, glutes, core, biceps, and shoulders while also challenging body control and endurance.👌🏼It is a sure way to strengthen muscles, raise your heart rate, and spark the sweat!😥
How to:
1. Grab two moderately heavy dumbbells - enough to challenge you without being max weight.
2. Place the weights shoulder distance apart with the handles parallel to one another.
3. Bend down and grab onto the handles.
4. Jump feet back to plank with a bend to elbows.
5. Lower to bottom of a narrow push up.
6. Push up and rise to top of push up.
7. Hop your feet up toward the weights in a wide stance.
8. Sit your hips back into a squat.
9. Curl the weights to shoulders.
10. Straighten legs, squeeze glutes, and press the weights directly to the ceiling.
11. Lower the weights to shoulders.
12. Fold forward with a flat back and bring your weights back to the mat in the first starting position.
13. Repeat!
Sets and Reps:
I usually do anywhere from 3-5 sets with 5-8 reps in a set. Or you can go for 1 minute at a time and do as many reps as you can during the minute.
Cautions:
Focus on form rather than speed - avoid swinging your weights and throwing yourself around. Test out the exercise first few times with lighter weights so you can get the movement down, and then gradually increase your weights. Continue to breathe while you do this exercise!
And as always, if this does not feel good in your body, then don't do it! There are plenty of other exercises that you can do!
However, if this does feel good, enjoy the burn!🔥
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#work #workout #exercise #fitness ##fitfam #weights #lift #cardio #circuit #crossfit #sweat #health #wellness #everydayathlete #johnnylapasta
We all have our intentions and goals for 2019⭐️. Now, we just have to trust 🙏🏼that we are capable of achieving them no matter the challenges and obstacles that arise. We just have to believe in ourselves and move from a place of faith in our own power🔥. Let's get connected to that power this week on the mat 🤸♀️. Schedule👇🏼
Monday:
4pm C2 CorePower Yoga CM
6:45pm Intro to Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
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 Intro to Level 2 Ra Yoga CM
Saturday:
11am C2 CorePower Yoga HB •
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