{"id":2989,"date":"2013-05-18T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:48:48","slug":"howdy-cps-lets-do-some-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2013\/05\/18\/howdy-cps-lets-do-some-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Howdy CPS! Let’s do some yoga!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of my favorite questions to ask myself is: “What would I pay to do?” I come alive when I share yoga with others, and when I talk about optimizing life and creativity with others! So I\u2019m following my bliss. Starting UW-Stevens Point as a BFA in musical theater, I quickly gained a lead role as a freshman, being Berger, in Hair: the musical. After receiving this huge ego boost, I then got hit with a flurry of reality checks in class, not getting cast the following semester. I was producing crappy work that I knew was life-less … not filled with ME. I realized I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0just wait around expecting my \u201cmuse\u201d to come when I was \u201cstruck by inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was dumbfounded as to what I could do to be filled up again as an artist, and quickly fell into anxiety and depression that can commonly accompany being an artist. I quickly realized that I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0find it through food or alcohol \u2026 all in fact, just distracted from my dharma, my work. I needed to inspire myself, rather than rely on outside sources for inspiration. After my sophomore year, I found Brian Johnson, and his work with Philosophersnotes and Entheos. His \u201cnotes\u201d gave me do-able steps to implement into my life, realizing I create my reality, and life circumstances!<\/p>\n

He gave me the guts to think: \u201cWait! You mean, my creativity and happiness are in my control? I can actively make myself a stronger and productive artist, while being\u00a0ecstatic about\u00a0my work and gut feelings? \u2026 and fall on my face \u2026 and get back up, confidently?\u201d The answer was a resounding, \u201cHell yes!\u201d Next question: “How could I systematically create the reality\u00a0I\u00a0wanted, by applying small things to my life, with hard work, discipline, and playfulness?”<\/p>\n

Mastery of anything comes from showing up to do the art\/work on the business\/the yoga regiment with \u201cBlissipline\u201d (Bliss\/Discipline), every morning, after waking. I immediately began letting these small changes happen, until they became habitual patterns of daily life! This included giving gratitude, meditation, running\/cycling, eating amazing food that nourishes my body \u2026 and\u00a0yoga \u2026 all before 10 a.m.!<\/p>\n

After 16 years of baseball and weight lifting wreaked havoc on my knees and joints, I couldn\u2019t even touch my shins at 21 years old. Yoga gave me back my body and kinesthetic awareness. I call it \u201cgetting in my body,\u201d because I really feel in my skin, tapped into every feeling inch of my body, rather than just using my body as a vehicle for my head. Yoga could be a catalyst for creativity and incubating new ideas, and knowing that once I embody my highest self, the work can just flood forth through my mind to pen, clay, or machinery and body. One of the first things I did after beginning my \u201cBlissiplines\u201d was end a three-year relationship that\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0life giving or supporting my growth, or hers. I began to realize that I had a choice in literally every facet of my life, including the way I interpreted any situation in life. I created a small group of friends\/loved ones, (including my highest self) that empowered me, and that I could do the same for.<\/p>\n

I then added a second major of health promotion\/wellness<\/a> with an emphasis in wellness coaching, and attended the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health<\/a> in Massachusetts for a month-long 200-hour YTT immersion, a life-altering experience. Now, after creating a Yoga and Meditation Club on my campus, I\u2019ll be heading to Vancouver, British Columbia, in May to begin an internship for My Yoga Online<\/a>! Jai five!<\/p>\n

Ready to Rock your Highest Self?
\nCreate.
\nGo.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nMatt<\/p>\n

Matt Cooke<\/a> is a senior\u00a0at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in health promotion\/wellness and musical theater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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