They are Fit...They are happy. What are they doing?
Featuring Elka Hauck
This “Baiana” was born in Bahia, Brazil and moved to San Diego in 1999. Since 2008, she owns the Namaste Yoga Center in Ocean Beach, CA. She has been practicing yoga since 2001 and says: “I found and developed the awareness that mind, body and spirit are one. We can never be dishonest with ourselves about what is happening in our lives because our bodies pay the price. Now days more people are suffering from anxiety, depression, stress due to not having enough time for themselves outside work and school. Today more people are coming to Yoga because their Doctors recommend it as part of their healing and therapy. It is amazingly beautiful to see the world changing and progressing, people are becoming more open minded to the new possibility of holistic healing which has been practicing for thousands of years”. Elka also does pilates, surfs at least three times a week and once a week she do CP training with Rodrigo da Mata to improve strength and cardio capacity with proper use of weights. She really likes the diversity within her training. Elka complements saying “Of course, great nutrition is a big part of a health life style. I try to eat only organic and when it comes to eating meat, we spend the extra money to eat grass fed, free range and organic meat”. Being happy for me is to be in peace and harmony with myself. Happiness is not only a physiological state which is temporary, happiness is a spiritual state which lasts much longer no matter what situation you are living. Do not try too hard to make something happen… simply allow it to happen. This is living the Tao, living with the flow of life”. For the Elka non-attachment is the key for happiness. She advice us: “Letting go of what holds you back. We become slaves of our emotions and lots of time we are not even aware of it because it has become part of our life. Let it GO and be present”. Namaste and Axé Elka!
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