Deep in thought about what to write

When I lived in Miami, during the summer it rained non stop, warm tropical rain, but it was too much, sometimes it would be almost to the top of the tires of your car.  Miami is also extremely humid which is not too good for curly, poofy hair.  When I moved here, my hair was happy, except when it rained, I am so simple in my Yoga world, but when I am dressed up, ohhh I won't let a drop of water touch my perfect hair, LOL. 

Now after 13 years of living in Los Angeles, I really appreciate the rain, it is very rare, it is cool, it is refreshing, it really cleans our air, but there is one thing that becomes really out of control.  People's driving is so insane, in a tiny drizzle people drive like its a foggy downpour.  So this morning I had a Yoga class five minutes away, I gave myself 10 minutes, and because of traffic for a drizzle, it took me 15 minutes, OY!

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I feel so blessed to live in a community where we give thanks not only every day, but every Friday night and Saturday get together with family and friends with no outside world disturbances and enjoy each others company and enliven and enlighten each other.

I also appreciate our Kosher homes, with all of the scary stuff going on in the meat and fast food industries, I feel so blessed that each animal is checked thoroughly that it hasn't been sick for a year, before it is allowed to be ingested.  Processed food is so scary, Thank God for my amazing husband who could be a chef, and for everyone else in this community with their culinary talents and creativity.

I just got to work to help out at my children's school and they had a homemade lunch made by all the different teachers.  Baked salmon, Persian rice with dill, Fresh Salad with ranch or sesame dressing, and all kinds of cookies - YUM!

You are what you eat,
What you put inside shows on the outside,
Food could equal health or dis-ease,
Excess once in a while is moderation,
Coach Yulia

Splash!

My baby is still waking up around midnight and getting out of his bed, sometimes he comes directly to our bed, sometimes he starts crying.  He is a little bit under the weather, so poor guy is a bit more fussy than usual.  About 1:30am my oldest guy comes to my bedside and tells me he needs a drink of water.  He is usually the deepest sleeper, but I figured I also feel this weather is really drying, so maybe his throat is dry as well.  He sleeps on the top bunk, and if he ever wakes up, he wants to transfer to the couch, so I bring him his water, pillow, and blanket and go back to sleep.

I hear a SPLASH, it was not like going to the bathroom splashing, I was thinking maybe he spilled his water.  Then I decide to go see what happened, and he threw up all over the coffee table and floor, and a little bit on the couch - OY!  So I get the supplies to clean it, I do not turn on the light, I just want to get it over with and go back to bed.  Luckily he is able to go back to bed - YUCK.

Everyone seems fine in the morning, the day before the boys ate some cookies, and maybe they were sitting out for too long, or an old batch that was bought in the store, who knows.  I kept them home to watch them to see if it was a stomach virus, because I hear it is going around, but luckily they both were fine.

It is a bit chilly today by LA standards, so my baby is at home with my husband, I am helping out at my children's school.  I hear a few other children were under the weather, so I hope mine just ate something bad and that was all.  Thank God I feel OK, just a scratchy, raw throat that I always get at this time of year because it is so dry, especially when I am also exhausted from lack of sleep.

In saying all this,
These are good problems,
Everyone I meet keeps telling me to treasure these early years,
Eventually our children will be too busy for us,
I was laughing with another mom of toddlers that I will be happy to check it of my list,
Toddlerhood is intense,
As I say in Yoga its OK to be intense, but not tense,
Coach
Yulia

Thank You Jim Rohn

I was introduced to Jim Rohn's videos and audios through Herbalife.  He was a mentor to Mark Hughes who was the founder of Herbalife International, and now is one of the recommended Personal Development methods that Herbalife coaches do before they start their day to get in a positive and focused mindset.  Read more about, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rohn.

One of his audios talked about always growing and adding to your skill set, it makes you more valuable in the marketplace.  I have been blessed to keep on adding pieces to my puzzle, and my most recent endeavour, the rebounder, http://rebound-air.com/, has really added value to my personal training.  I take it along to use with my Yoga clients, and it is amazing for pregnant women, the elderly, and children, ask me about it, it is so much fun!

Herbalife has been such a vehicle of networking for me, I have discovered and learned how to run programs, and done many types of personal development and enjoyed it immensely.  I am happy that is is one of the pieces that make up Coach Yulia.

What inspires you?
When you are in a head space that you need to get out of, what do you do?
Feeling Blessed for my Positive View,
Had so much fun at Babyccino, the funnest mommy and me in town,
My baby has a blast too, but I feel recharged as a mommy,
What do you do to recharge?
Check out the video above,
There are always Winters, and then there is Spring,
Coach Yulia

Memorial-Health-New Life

A year ago today my Father in Law passed away, I was so blessed to know him for almost six years. He was the first person my husband introduced me to from his family a week after we met, and we instantly clicked.  He cooked for me and my first baby, really delicious food, he was born in Romania, spoke seven languages, fought for Israel before it was Israel, and had three of the most amazing kids, along with my husband, I am so happy to have a new brother and sister.



My father in Law, my brother in law, my husband, and Rabbi Yemini who married us



In my life I have always needed balance, and luckily good genes started me off with good health, but it is something we have to actively maintain.  I feel so blessed to be the advocate of living a Healthy, Active Lifestyle in our community.  I firmly believe there is no one way, perfect way, or right way for every person, it is very individual, and I really believe that it all works, but we must find what works for us.  What works for me is Herbalife, and now I am changing up my program a bit.  The meal shakes have a soy isolate, which is the protein of soy, I feel energy, I feel good, and when I first got on the program after my daughter was born, I lost 10 pounds in one month.  For some reason I am not able to change the number on the scale.  I am so happy with my energy, how I feel, my strength, and my bodyfat.  I am doing many things to make my body healthy in general, I got my teeth done, yearly visits to the doctor or gynecologist, all of these are a must to make sure everything is working how it is supposed to.  So I have decided just to see if it makes a difference for me, to stop using the soy and use the Herbalife Allergen Free shake, which is made of sesame, pea, and rice protein, I will keep you posted.  I stopped eating dairy for a month and it made no difference, I love dairy so much, I am not eating it as much as I used to, but it is one of my pleasures in life, my kids love it too - YUM!

I was just visiting a good friend that has a new baby, she was telling me her birth story, and I wanted to share how amazing things could be if we just had patience, and watchful waiting.  This was her third, she had a C section with her first, and a Vbac with her second, and really wanted a Vbac with her third.  She was 10 days late, she really didn't want to be induced, Thank God her labor started on a Friday, went all through Saturday, and Sunday morning completely stalled.  Her Doula told her that when her brain and body is busy with her other kids, it cannot let go and focus on the labor.  So the whole Sunday she spent only with her Doula, walking, eventually driving in a car listening to music.  Then went home to take a shower and the water broke and her doula saw that it was time to go, at the hospital she found out she was 6 centimeters, wanted an epidural, but her Doula told her to order it but see what the body does.  She had a beautiful Vbac in an hour, from 6-10 in an hour.  It makes me so happy to hear that she had someone with her, coaching her, and letting her body birth.  Thank God for it all just in case, but I would like to think if we just stay home, breathe, shower, rest, eat, be comfortable, the body will be happy to progress.  Thank God all my babies were in the right direction!

Feeling Blessed,
Waiting for my baby to wake from his nap to meet a friend for a power walk,
Keep squeezing it in my friends, it is so gorgeous outside,
DO SOMETHING JUST FOR YOU!
Coach Yulia

Matisyahu x 3 and 1930's

My one and only Matisyahu is named after all the "M" and Hebrew letter "MEM" names in my family.  This Shabbat we had the singer Matisyahu in our synagogue, I really liked the name, and I figured since he made the name famous, people would recognize it when I told them my sons name.  Chanukah is around the corner and the father of the Macabees was named Matisyahu, his sons saved the Jewish people, and his name means Gift of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah

I had a client this morning that was telling me that in the 1930's it was difficult for Jewish people to find a job because Hitler was popular, and that you had to hide that you were a Jew in Los Angeles, I was shocked.  I guess leaving Anti-Semitism in Russia for the dreamland of America, it really shocked me how there was such discrimination back then and still is in our wonderful U. S. of A.

He sang me a song from the play "South Pacific"

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

It really had an effect of me how in countries and cultures today the children are taught to hate from a very young age.  Our children really are the future, they are the light, let it shine bright.

Thank God in our world today in America we celebrate our culture, faith, nationality, race, etc. openly.  We finished off our day at the Zimmer Museum with Chanukah music and playing all around in the plane, theatre, ship full of blue balls that you could jump into, my kids had a blast.  I am finishing off my day by teaching a wonderful Yoga class later tonight, it really keeps me sane and balanced from the everyday challenges.

How do you stay sane and balanced?
Coach Yulia

I do it once a week for my husband :)

I had a wonderful nap today, it is one of my pleasures, I used to nap all the time before marriage and children.  My husband indulges me on Saturday and takes the kids to synagogue and lets me sleep.  I usually join a bit later, and sometimes I just stay home and enjoy the quiet.

It is also the day that I love to dress nice, wear my heels, even though its about a 10 minute walk, we do not drive on our Day of Rest, about 5 blocks.  So as I was walking a woman in her workout clothes tells me that I am a trooper for walking in my heels.  I told her that I do it once a week for my husband, his favorite outfit is a business style pencil skirt with heels.  I indulge him once a week, and every other day I am in my Yoga pants and Birkenstocks :)

I am looking forward to a great week, enjoy the rest of your weekend, Shavua Tov.

Coach Yulia

How Japan made the heart grow fonder

Just got my eyebrows threaded

Squeezing this in before an early sundown, our candle lighting for our day of rest is 4:32pm, and  we turn the whole world off, I appreciate it so much.  I was writing about Japan in yesterday's blog, and wanted to mention a few more things about the timing.  I had met my husband on January 6, 2007, which is my father's birthday.  I had just taken a Yoga class, was in yoga clothes, hair all crazy, I figured if we click, I will dress up for him on the second date.  A nice lady from one of my classes told me about him, I had just turned 34 and they really wanted to "help me."  It was morning, and he invited me over to his place for tea, I thought nothing of it, it was daytime, I am a tough chick, and anyone that wants to serve me tea and anything yummy I am game.

We talked for three hours and made a second date.  I had also told him that in a couple of weeks I had already planned a trip to Japan with my girlfriends for a week.  We met, we clicked, and then I went away, we talked on AOL instant messenger, we missed each other, I feel it sealed the deal.  My roommate and good friend would always ask me how it was going, and I told her it was just going, nothing to talk about, no drama, it was flowing.  I told her in February that I would not be renewing our lease together, it was not official, but it was "IT."  We met in January, engaged in April, and married in August.

My husband has been busy the last couple of days, I have contributed to our home as much as I can and feel good to me a domestic goddess once in a while :)

Excited to have my brother in law in town and a few guests coming to dinner tonight,
Shabbat Shalom,
Coach Yulia