Congratulations on completing the first week of your 21 Day meditation challenge! If you have missed a day, do not worry. Just simply continue today and be thankful for the time you set aside today to develop your connection to vitality, health and well being. Today we pay attention to the sense of touch- in [...]
Day 6 of our 21 Day Meditation challenge is here! Water element exploration: for today pay attention to any tastes you notice. Eat in a mindful manner, without changing your normal routine. Can you come from the place that even old familar tastes are new and exciting? Can you rid yourself of idle distractions while [...]
Welcome to your #21 Day meditation, day 5! We are glad you are here! Today we explore an insight meditation- looking within for the answers we seek. Start planted, rooted, grounded. Settle in physically and take care of yourself- just for the few moments. Allow yourself to find a tall posture with the spine, relax [...]
#21 Day Meditation Challenge Today during our 21 day meditation challenge we focus on a presence meditation- and becoming aware of the “observer”. Find a comfortable place to sit straight and tall. Focus your energy low, below your belly and breathe with a four part breath..breathe in, hold; exhale, hold. Enjoy this process. [...]
Sometimes Ninja wear red. Check out this article on our teacher, Stephen K. Hayes, featuring his dojo in Dayton, Ohio. Newbury Park Martial Arts Center is proud and honored to be part of the To-Shin Do tradition. Enjoy the read! http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/bellbrook-man-and-trained-ninja-owns-martial-arts-/nWJM9/
The Legacy Continues with Stephen K. Hayes To-Shin Do at Newbury Park Martial Arts Center…enjoy this quick video and check out npmac.com/events. Join us for Stephen and Rumiko Hayes– April and November 2013 at Newbury Park Martial Arts Center
Dr Jen, contributor on the CBS Early Show recommends Yoga Elements @ Newbury Park Martial Arts Center with Karen Hartstein! “The benefits of yoga cannot be underestimated. Participation in Yoga helps improve mood, reduce stress and increase awareness about oneself. I often suggest that my clients, who tend to be very emotionally dysregulated, take yoga [...]
Why aren’t more women training in the martial arts? SR Staley (www.srstaley.com) convened a roundtable discussion with six highly experienced female martial artists in October 2012 to discuss the role of women in martial arts as part of a broader discussion on violence, self-defense, and martial arts. Brief bios of the participants are included at [...]
Our Martial Art training teaches us to believe in ourselves (the first part of our student creed) in order to gather our success; our potential, our gifts, our ability to create and our ability to be so confident that we can even ask for help when needed. This belief system is a vital part of [...]
#Alwaystrainingteam. A friend told me today about a situation that she wasn’t quite happy about. Upon deeper discussion, she realized she had simply not gathered enough information and simply needed to change her perception. That was a good training moment for me – has that ever happened to you where your perception controlled your outcome [...]
You Can Be a Hero This Memorial Day
