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Chariti Gent, MA, CPCC, PCC / August 20, 2014

Yoga is for Everyone: Why Body-Positive Yoga Matters

I am honored to present for you another guest post this week, written by my good friend Cheryl Breuer. Cheryl is a certified Curvy Yoga teacher and the owner of Verbena Yoga & Wellness LLC. When I started teaching yoga classes for bigger-bodied people, I got some pushback from the yoga community. “Yoga is for everyone!” they said. “People of all shapes and sizes are welcome in my classes.” I also got some pushback from yogis themselves. “I am a big person and I resent that you think …

Chariti Gent, MA, CPCC, PCC / August 13, 2014

DiSC’ing the Fertile Fields

Earlier this summer I took a trip home to Central Illinois, where I grew up. While there, I stayed at my grandparent's old farmstead, which we lovingly called Snicarte (sny-car-tee). My grandparents, now deceased, raised 5 kids and many cows, pigs, and chickens on this 300+ acre parcel, and I spent many memorable week-ends, holidays, and summertimes there as a kid. That visit got me thinking about life as a farmer...and pondering the cyclical life of farmers. In the spring, farmers get out in …

Chariti Gent, MA, CPCC, PCC / August 6, 2014

We Came, We Played, We Painted…and we’ll do it again!

Last Friday, Sara Alvarado and I hosted Soul Play for a Day: A Spiritual + Creative Retreat for Women. What a rousing success! Thirteen women gathered for a day of SOUL PLAY. We were lead in our opening ceremony by Shaman Julie Hogan of the Spiritual Sanctuary, we discussed the meaning and roots of spirituality for each of us, we meditated, we ate a mindful + silent lunch, we walked in nature, we danced together, and we learned to intuitively paint. Above all, every single participant left …

Chariti Gent, MA, CPCC, PCC / July 30, 2014

Sara Speaks: Embracing Creativity

This week, I have a treat for all of you. Please welcome the words of a guest post written by my good friend and fellow Soul Play organizer, Sara Alvarado. It was mainly the spiritual part that attracted me to this new coaching program my coach told me about last year. I knew there was a creative piece to it but I pretended that wouldn’t be a big part of it and I didn’t want it to influence me not to do it. My coach is an artist. And I had it in my mind that I was a business woman with a …

Chariti Gent, MA, CPCC, PCC / July 23, 2014

Why Blackouts are Good for You

Recently, I spent 5 days on my grandparent's old farmstead in west central IL. My aunt owns the property now, and she's done amazing things to renovate the house so that all of us can still gather there as extended family. It's really quite magical. This is one of the first places on the earth I ever stepped foot, and 40 years later it's still one of the places I love to frequent for so many reasons. We had a fantastically simple and amazingly fun time. What did we do that made it so toe-tingly …