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Integrate Mindfulness & Micro-Moments into Your Day:
In our busy world, taking small, mindful breaks can significantly reduce stress. You can practice breathing exercises while waiting for the next client/patient/customer or during your commute—exhaling slowly and fully to reset your energy.
Micro-moments of mindfulness—scanning your surroundings or practicing gentle stretches—can restore balance and boost resilience. Remember, even a few minutes can make a difference in how you feel and perform.
Choose one micro-practice today and notice the positive shift! #Mindfulness #blissnotburnout #drrobertagarceau #elemental_wellness
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MyYogaJoy Monday helps you release what’s no longer serving you to open space for new possibilities!🤗🙌🏻👍
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MyYogaJoy Monday helps you release what’s no longer serving you to open space for new possibilities!🤗🙌🏻👍
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Yoga Off the Mat: sometimes life can feel a bit uncertain, with twists and turns like this canyon. And yet there is the promise of light on the other side! Yoga teaches us the restraint (Yama) of Aparigraha, or unattachment to people, places, and things. This weekend we moved our “baby” out of our home and into his new apartment, closer to his new job, which will give him better work-life balance. 😌 While I am beyond proud of him and happy to see him launch, the mama bird in me is sad to see this chapter close. The canyon reminds me that there is light and joy in this new chapter 😊. What are you letting go of (relationships, job, clutter, limiting beliefs?) in order to make space for new possibilities? I’d love to hear your comments below. 🤔🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻🤗
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Yoga Off the Mat: Ever feel like you’ve got a weight hanging over you? Practicing Gratitude regularly strengthens your perspective “muscle” so you realize how strong, resilient, capable, and perfect you are already, just as you are! 😌 How to get started? Write down just 3 things for which you are grateful in this moment. 🙏🏻 Even better? Share your gratitude in the comments below! 🤗
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Yoga Off the Mat and morning shadow art: This morning as I sat in my kitchen journaling with the sunrise coming over the hill behind our home, I noticed these shadows on the wall—images of two calla lilies setting on the kitchen island and a bird sticker that’s on our picture window (to deter birds from flying into it). Moments later the sunlight shifted and the images were gone, a simple reminder that there is beauty all around us, if only we pause and notice. Life is just a series of moments, and being present helps us to savor each moment😌🙌🏻. Wishing tou a “moment-ous” weekend! 🤗
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MyYogaJoy Monday brings a healthy dose of Perspective with a little ask🙌🏻🤗
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Yoga Off the Mat: sometimes it takes the pure joy of my 14 year old puppy to remind me to give myself Grace—time and space to just be in the moment, experiencing life’s simple pleasures😌🙌🏻🤗What are you doing (or not doing!) lately that brings you joy?
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Yoga Off the Mat: after too many hours of traveling across the country, I stepped off the plane and immediately saw this sign🧘🏼♀️. While I didn’t practice at the airport, I’m grateful that yoga is available wherever we are—to stretch, breathe, pause, practice presence and mindfulness. 😌And every time we practice, we open ourselves to greater wellness, joy and Bliss. 🙌🏻 Where have you found yoga lately? 🤔
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Yoga Off the Mat: Sometimes you go to a country fall fair and your husband buys you a custom fairy headband that was fabricated with love by your beautiful niece💗. Yes, sometimes this happens, and you wear it with pride throughout the streets, and people smile and complete strangers start conversations with you😂. Some days Yoga Off the Mat is just that—being comfortable in your own skin, not worrying about what others think, and being delighted by the way that doing so brings joy and connection🙌🏻. How are you practicing joy and connection?🤗
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Yoga Off the Mat: last night I had the privilege of presenting and sharing “Beyond Burnout: Cultivating Resilience & Joy in Dentistry” to the California Dental Association virtually via webinar. Everything was set and ready to go, ironing out logistics beforehand, and when we went live, suddenly my slides would not advance😱. With hundreds of viewers and hundreds more who would watch the recording, for a moment I felt like a deer in headlights—frozen. 😳 But then the moderator suggested I stop and restart my share screen (while she continued a monologue), and we were up and running again in probably 30 seconds (which felt longer!). And it was a perfect segue to the topic! Stress happens, but it doesn’t have to throw you off balance or spiral into burnout. We can pause, collect ourselves, and reset with self-composure. 🙌🏻 What a great reminder to breathe, and not be afraid to ask for help. And the webinar? It went smoothly without another hitch👍😁🤗
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Yoga Off the Mat: “pulling back the curtain,” if you will. This is me rehearsing for the California Dental Association webinar I’ll be sharing later this week—in my pajamas, in my dining room, empty Amazon boxes for props, and my loyal labradoodle Nemo asking to be pet❤️. Didn’t know I was being filmed. #keeping it real👍
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Share The Joy
Creating joyful living through yoga.
The goal of My Yoga Joy is to share the benefits of yoga, bringing healing and personal growth to as wide an audience as possible.
Personal transformation can be experienced by anyone through regular practice! Improved physical health, fitness, emotional and spiritual growth and well-being are just a few of the many benefits to yoga.
Here are a few of the ways I'm sharing the joy of yoga
with the Greater Hartford community!
Currently spreading the joy of yoga at St. Mary's Home in West Hartford where adults with mental illness are enriched through their discovery of self.
Offering the joy of yoga with residents of the Windsor Independent Living Association where adults with intellectual disabilities can expand their possibilities through practicing yoga.
Now enrolling cancer patients and survivors in a free Yoga4Cancer class series at the Bone and Joint institute through Hartford Healthcare at Hartford Hospital.
Contact me to find out if you are eligible for any of the above programs.