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Sliding through the rest of the week like a Lizard 🦎.... low and under the radar. #lizardlunge 2 more opportunities this week to practice with me. Both at @sacredchillwest. Friday 9:30 am for Flow and Be Still and Saturday 11 am for BEGIN. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #yogaeverydamnday #yoga #blackboysdoyoga #stretching #flexibility #mobility #suppleleopard #mwod #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove (at Sacred Chill West)

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do NOTHING." Today I taught a yoga class and the theme was "PARTICIPATE.....and participate fully". If we just layback and float the tide and current will draw us further and further away from the shore away from where we want to be. It's up to us to swim, purposefully and with commitment in order to continue to make forward progress. Whatever your PRACTICE , whatever your PROCESS.....PARTICIPATE, and do so FULLY! Shout out to this woman, her daughter and al the women that are marching in D.C., Atlanta and in cities around the world. It's an honor to participate fully in the practice of yoga next to you on the mat, week in and week out @leslieawm, it makes me proud to see you participate in the practice of yoga off your mat on this march. Y'all be safe out there. ✌🏾#peace❤️#love🙏🏾#namaste✊🏾and #powertothepeople #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboyslovewomenwhomarch #yoga #yogaeverdamnday #karmayoga #seva

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The HoMi team, representing the Home team. #RISEUP #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #FILA #atlanta #ATLhoe #falcons #dirtybirds #blackandred #lululemonHoMi #lululemon #joblove (at lululemon athletica Atlanta ITP)

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How does that rap song go again "Just put it in the bag." Bag roasted honey glazed balsamic chicken with roasted veggies (cherry tomatoes, red potatoes, green beans and Brussels sprouts). Set it...and forget it. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboyscook #nutrition #paleo #zone #macros #protein #carbs #fat #eatclean #traindirty. #whatsfordinner

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AWESOME sweater....AWKWARD smile😬! Never met an oversized Native American print sweater that I didn't like. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdress #sartorial #lululemon #lululemonHoMi #lululemonmen @lululemonmen (at lululemon athletica Atlanta ITP)

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When it s OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL. T-shirts and the Grand Opening @sacredchillwest yoga studio. #bowflex #blackboysteachyoga #XCessiveGenius #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #sacredsquad #sacredchillwest #SCW #community #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove (at Sacred Chill West)

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"This is a man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, NOTHING, not one little thing without a woman or a girl!" Came up on my shuffle today. Thought it was pretty appropriate from all the marching happening in the cities. I'm a black man....but don't get it twisted....I'm also a #feminist. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboyslivegirlswhomarch #jamesbrown #womensmarch #womensrights

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Thanks for the support Kristina @magichouryoga. Hope you enjoyed the class. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #Repost @magichouryoga with @repostapp ・・・ Just finished a rainy morning "Begin" yoga taught by @richard_rhucasey81 Saturdays at 11am @SacredChillWest This was a beginner class, but don't let that fool you; what an amazing space to find depth in remembering all the little things you've forgotten over the years of practicing and of course learning some new stuff too ! . . . #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogasession #blackgirlyoga #blackyogis #sacredchillwest #atlanta #atlantayoga #yogaatlanta #yogainatlanta #atl #atlantayogis #yogajourney #yogaeverywhere #yogini #fitatl #healthylifestyle #fitfam #yogalife #yogalifestyle #saturdaymorning #asana (at Sacred Chill West)

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Today has been a rollercoaster 🎢 of emotions. Woke up feeling some kind of way, noon shed a tear😢 while watching the inauguration , early evening was mad as £Uc€, then this song came on. One of my friend said "I'm praying for you! I know this is hard. You ok?" My response was "I'm good!". What I really wanted to say was what Kendrick says at the beginning of this track: "All my life I've had to fight, hard times like GAH, bad chips like GAH. I'm £uc€ed homie you £uc€ed up, but if God got us then WE GON BE ALRIGHT!" Keep your head up! It's going to be tough, but we gon be alright. ✌🏾🙏🏾✊🏾👊🏾 #bowflex #XCessiveGenius

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Someone asked me my thoughts on "Community"....this is was my response. COMMUNITY is.........is a group of people that ask me "what's wrong" when I don't look like everything is alright. Who encourage me to keep going when I'm doing well, and be honest with me when I can do better. Who come looking for me when I have gone missing and who smile and welcome me with open arms when I find my way back from being lost. People who hold a safe space for me to be able for me to be myself when the world and society says I am too different. A group of people that celebrate their differences, their diversity because they realize that the people that are most different from yourself are the people who have the potential to teach you the most. I would add to that my mama always told me...."if you're the smartest one in the room, you're in the wrong room" and "if everyone in your circle looks just like you, find you another circle". I am a smarter, more objective, more compassionate person because of the diversity of people and thought that I surround myself with. Coworkers, teachers, teammates, coaches and homies.....I am better because of them. Next time take a look at your circle. No shade, no judgment. Just notice, and evaluate for yourself.✊🏾✌🏾🙏🏾👊🏾 #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboyslivetheircommunity #community

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#Repost @sacredchillwest with @repostapp ・・・ Our theme for the month is EHIPASSIKO and today's reflection ob that theme is from @richard_rhucasey81 "The MIND is where theory comfortably resides; the BODY(on the mat) and in LIFE (off the mat) is where KNOWLEDGE is applied, becomes real and turns into WISDOM.The difference between knowledge and wisdom is EXPERIENCE and UNDERSTANDING. I have always worked hard to legitimize myself through the acquisition of knowledge. Let me read one more book, take one more class, sign up for one more workshop, complete one more certification. The acquisition of knowledge is a noble thing, but like the good book says " Get WISDOM, but in all your getting, get UNDERSTANDING." (Proverbs 4:7). "Knowledge is only a RUMOR until it lives in the muscle."(New Guinea Proverb) So we have to take it out of the safe and protected space of the mind and put it into ACTION on the mat in the bones and muscles of our BODIES and off the mat in circumstances and experiences of our LIVES. So yoga encourages us- EHIPASSIKO: Come and see- Practice and experience for yourself." #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #blackboyateachyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #sacredchillwest #SCW #stretch #flexibility #mobility #joblove (at Sacred Chill West)

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In physics, Newton's 3rd Law says "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." In Alignment based #yoga we call it "Balanced Action". My mother always told me, "Too much of anything, even a good thing, can become a bad thing". Science, yoga and my mama....the three major resources and references in my life. I'm a Libra ♎️so my whole life's endeavor has been about finding balance. There are always two forces or energies at play...the yin/yang ☯️, inhale/exhale, masculine/feminine 🚻, discipline/freedom, strength/flexibility. In yoga it's about ENGAEMENT/EXPANSION, EFFORT/EASE, MUSCULAR/ORGANIC ENERGY. Balanced Action creates and optimal amount of both STABILITY and FREEDOM of movement in the body so energy can flow freely. Off the mat, Balanced actions in our life helps us to move and express ourselves freely and safely as we flow through life. Thank you to the 4 ladies that joined me this morning at my 9:30 am SLOW Flow class at @sacredthreadyoga O4W. One lady left the class saying "Wow, that felt like a workshop. You should really think about doing a workshop!" I receive that planted seed sistren. 3 more opportunities to practice with me this week. Monday 7:30p #strechandsmash @totalfitnessrev @sacredchillwest Friday 9:30a Flow and Be Still Saturday 11 am BEGIN #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #sacredthreadyoga #STY #sacredchillwest #SCW #flexibilty #mobility #stretching #eatclean #traindirty #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

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"The Art of the Omelette" #omelettes always been my thing. Ever since I saw the movie #LoveJones and the scene where Darius makes Nina a cheese omelet with his shirt off, in her kitchen the mornig after they spent their first night together. The look on her face, I was like "Yeah, got to learn how to make a bomb a$$ omelet". Ever since then, been perfecting the art of the omelette. No "Nina", no morning after, but this omelette still bomb though. Especially on a snow day. Late start to the morning, but you know what they say "Better LATTE than never!" #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboyscook #nutrition #eatclean #traindirty #protein #carbs #fat #macros #flexibledieting #paleo-ish

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@_carlybrown and I join together to make the #AlignmentJunkies. We have turned the 9:30 am time slot on Mondays and Wednesdays at Sacred Thread Yoga O4W into your weekly meetings where we talk Alignment and Actions. Join us for the next 11 weeks where our classes will be dedicated to breaking down and teaching specific Alignment Principles and/or Key Actions that will help unpack and deepen your understanding of a multitude of poses. Each week will be dedicated to a different principle/action and we will travel week by week from feet through the body all the way to the skull. At the end of the 11 weeks you will have an understanding and an infrastructure on how to align yourself in any yoga pose to help find the fullest expansion and expression of that pose. Join me Mondays at 9:30 am and Carly on Wednesdays at 9:30 am at Sacred Thread O4W. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysteachyoga #blackboysdoyoga #yogayogaeverydamnday #STY #sacredthreadyoga #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

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Word of the Day: BEGIN People always ask me, "How do you stay so disciple in your yoga practice and fitness routine? How do you CONTINUE to stay so CONSISTENT?" My answer: the key to CONTINUING is to BEGIN...AGAIN, and AGAIN and AGAIN. Each day I step on the mat or into a gym I feel like I am just BEGINing AGAIN. And thats because I approach it with a BEGINNERS MIND and a STUDENTS HEART. That way there is always something new to learn, it hopefully never gets boring, and you're excited to BEGIN AGAIN, the next day. So don't worry about CONTINUING, just keep BEGINING. Thanks for the #WOD @baconeda. That #yogahour 202 class at @toughloveyoga a great way to BEGIN AGAIN. OAN: Just because you don't see me (in the video), doesn't mean I'm not practicing. So #pleasePRACTICE #namaste🙏🏾 #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #badassandbendy #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #eatclean #traindirty #thesweatlifeATL #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi (at Tough Love Yoga, Atlanta)