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About: ARCreated

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Aminda is a wellness facilitator and founder of ARCreated Wellness, LLC. A yoga teacher, transpersonal hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master, she shares her own healing journey with others in hopes of inspiring and uplifting those she meets. Her yoga classes are gentle and workshop style to invoke a real sense of learning and designed to be truly accessible for all levels. Her biggest hope is to help others take their yoga practice off the mat and into everyday life where it is truly meant to be experienced. (and can be most useful) Refusing to settle into the middle path just yet she prefers to dally on both edges and can be seen swinging right and leaning left. A devoted animal lover and activist and a humanist she is prone to rants and believes strongly that life is to be savored and that “we are all in this together, shouldn’t we enjoy it that way? “ When she isn’t teaching yoga, hypnotizing people, adoring her husband or doting on her grandson she is out riding her motorcycle—promoting the image that yogis are rebels and are a force to be reckoned with! You can also find her on Facebook. To join her for free classes online follow her here.
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I Make a Difference. Do You?

by on May 31, 2012

So my kick to the head came in the form of this very inspirational, empowering, kick ass piece of poetry and what it gave me was hope, determination and a much better start to my day!!

10 Things I Learned while Meditating Naked.

by on May 30, 2012

Sometimes heat really is the best catalyst. I recently returned from a Vipassana retreat (10 days of silence with approximately 11 hours of daily meditation). To say it was intense is a bit of an understatement, so I will be doing a few different posts about my experience. This first one is just to break [...]

I Am More than the Shape of My Ass…Aren’t I?

by on Apr 12, 2012

You can fight it, or you can just accept that sex sells. Let me tell you a bit about me so you have a frame of reference. I’m not ugly. That’s about as good as I’ve ever been able to muster for myself on a lot of days. Sure, given the right lighting and circumstances [...]

The Truth about Yoga! ~ Heidi Chadwick

by on Mar 9, 2012

Secondly, and here is where I bowed in respect to his words, he wasn’t about to freak out about this tricky and sometimes uncomfortable finding. In fact, he remained an impartial witness to the emotion that had arisen, trusting as he softened to just be with and accept his experience.

No More Airbrushed Yoga! ~ Sarah Shapiro

by on Mar 1, 2012

While most pay homage to the great Masters (Krishamacharya, Iyengar, Bikram and Pattabi Jois), many have felt either financial pressure or some personal desire to imprint or ‘update’ what had come before. To be fair, a few of these early 20th Century Master Teachers did decide to brand themselves such as Bikram. This branding process has led to all sorts of Ego conflicts and suffering in the yoga community.

The Yoga Bubble Bursts the Heart Wide Open: Recovering the Sacred by Returning to the Roots of Your Practice. ~ Dr. Katy Poole

by on Feb 21, 2012

From this source, all sincere and authentic yogis should begin again. Recreate the yoga movement that has sunk to the bottom. Raise it up with the same practices yogis have engaged in for thousands of years by returning to the core teachings. Make it shine.

I am what I am…Where is my guru and social media video response!

by on Feb 17, 2012

Thanks to  Angela Arnett , Jennifer Cusano, Julian Walker  and Kate Bartolotta’s and their brief videos about the double edged sword called social media it was great to hear their view points and I just adored the “realness”of everyone’s videos…makes me feel closer to everyone. Once I got started I realized I had a lot more to say about the [...]

This just in – the dirty hippies were right all along…

by on Jan 10, 2012

And as if all that wasn’t enough, researchers found that pot smoking might actually improve lung function. “At levels of marijuana exposure commonly seen in Americans, occasional marijuana use was associated with increases in lung air flow rates and increases in lung capacity,” Kertesz said.

Sorry Vegan Friends – I am not strict Vegan anymore either.

by on Jan 9, 2012

I don’t really want to argue about it. It is what it is. Both sides have pretty compelling arguments for who is right – so like the god question I think it is an unanswerable question therefore maybe we need to focus not on getting people to agree with us but on how we can live together and cause the least suffering possible for all creatures.

Falling in Love is easy.

by on Jan 2, 2012

I mostly just felt lost, scared and confused with bright spots in my life. Like amazing children and finally meeting a great man to help me raise them… and that’s where things changed (personally I think it’s because fate is nosey and bossy, but that’s just one woman’s opinion).

I’m so far behind I think I’m first…

by on Nov 1, 2011

What does your world look like when you feel overwhelmed and unable to fulfill your commitments? Do you say yes too much? Are you eyes biger than your stomach, as the saying goes?

Call it abundance, success, prosperity, cold hard cash…can you have that and be spiritual?

by on Sep 12, 2011

I believe that it is almost incumbent on the yoga/mindful community to practice business in a mindful cooperative way because we should be the leaders in doing things differently…and I’m not alone in these beliefs…..face it; part of the reason for getting into was to actually enjoy what we do…but why do we have to sacrifice monetary compensation? Why can’t we have both????

What if you are exactly where you need to be?

by on Aug 2, 2011

I think we should learn to accept that sometimes we will have to work hard, sometimes it is time to rest and wait, sometimes we have to let go…sometimes its not what we do, but when we do it

My dogma ran over my karma

by on Jul 9, 2011

I believe we are meant to become the best human possible. Not stop being human, but come to a place where we are living our fullest potential. And to do this we must know all aspects of humanity; to experience being the captor and the prisoner, the victor and the loser; ruler and serf; we must know success and failure; joy and pain.

You get what you give

by on Jun 27, 2011

Is there a place in your heart that is locked? Are their areas of your life that you have blocked the flow of love or joy or happiness or abundance?? How can you bring more flow into your life? Where can you give OR receive more?

A little daily dose of affirmation

by on Jun 23, 2011

‎”I let go of the Past” Today I release the past. I am safe at all times. I breathe deeply & fully bring peace to every cell in my body. I love my life & myself. I see through the eyes of love. Goodness is flowing in every area of my life. My life is [...]

Is there anything uglier than yoga angst?

by on Jun 23, 2011

Read if you have ever felt disillusioned by life, yoga, a friend or anything even a little bit. Read if you aren’t perfect and it makes you feel better to know that neither is anyone else.

Life is yoga, yoga is life….get off the mat and into the living

by on Apr 11, 2011

What if our religion was each other If our practice was our life If prayer, our words What if the temple was the Earth If forests were our church …If holy water- the rivers, lakes, and ocean What if meditation was our relationships If the teacher was life If wisdom was self-knowledge If love was [...]

One Teacher gives it to you straight…what do you think of her list?

by on Apr 9, 2011

You are not the forest, you do not speak for this tree…I do love lists, I’m a list kind of gal. And I do so love opinions and insights, I have many of those as well. I don’t however like being lumped into a list — I see it a lot with yoga teachers (probably [...]

Are we the product of one big marketing campaign?

by on Apr 8, 2011

  WATCH THIS:   Consuming Kids and then consider the following…. What do you buy? Why do you buy? Do you have children, what do you “feed” them. This thought provoking and somewhat frightening documentary is real FOOD for thought.  As a child raised in the era of GI Joe, Transformers and Care Bears (shiver) I know [...]

What if the Hokey pokey IS what it’s all about?

by on Apr 7, 2011

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.  ~Jack Handey What if the ego is who you really are? What if the Buddha/Christ/Muhammad was just some guy that was seeking—no different from you or me? What if they were wrong? What if what you believe is more correct than what others espouse? [...]

What the world always needs is love

by on Mar 24, 2011

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin   The last line of the manifesto pretty much says it all. Stay Present Practice Patience Cultivate Gratitude [...]

Free your mind…

by on Mar 12, 2011

  An open mind is a mind of curiosity, wonder, learning, infinite possibilities and a beautiful desire for understanding. –unknown  Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw  —- What I prefer to focus on from Mr. Shaw’s quote is the opposite…those who can change their minds can change everything…  [...]

Oh lord…with you it’s easy to be humble

by on Mar 1, 2011

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.” Vanna Bonta quotes True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.” Ralph W. [...]

Take it easy on you

by on Feb 23, 2011

 Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. Julia Cameron   Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.Saint Francis de Sales Just continuing down my list: Stay Present Practice Patience Cultivate Gratitude Maintain Flexibility Be Kind & Gentle Remain [...]

Do you really have to be cruel to be kind?

by on Feb 12, 2011

The only religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer ARC’s [...]

A Change Will do you good —- Flexibility Rocks!

by on Feb 12, 2011

Without flexibility we do not grow, expand, learn, change, or even truly love. We do not discover, realize or create.
During class I invite students to explore and practice this idea of flexibility by trying to approach their practice in new ways…

here I am I’m the man on the scene

by on Jan 30, 2011

First and foremost  in my Life Manifesto:  Stay Present We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand … and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. –Marie Beynon Ray Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity. –Deepak Chopra Where is your mind [...]

I sing the body Electric…why I love THIS life.

by on Jan 29, 2011

I sing the body electric I celebrate the me yet to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun A renaissance? An awakening? A great big A-ha? Whatever, all I know is that recently music has inspired me like it used to, not new music necessarily, just that feeling [...]


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