intenSati with Triccia is BACK!

Everyday
In a very true way
I co-create my reality

As above
So is below
This is what I know

The above is the standard affirmation for the warm up in every intenSati class.  I love what these words stand for!  And I love how I feel when I say them out loud.  It is quite empowering!  Whether in an intenSati class or life in general, saying these words out loud is a perfect reminder that we are responsible for the quality of our experiences.  It is a reminder that we are the ones causing our lives to be.  intenSati is such a powerful practice because it is about bringing awareness to the synergy that is caused when you employ your mind, attitude, and actions to all line up and match your intentions. 

So it is with great excitement that I share this with you!  After taking a year off from teaching, I taught my first class to a room of willing participants at the Crate&Barrel Corporate Headquarters in Chicago this past Wednesday. It felt great to share the practice with more people who had never experienced it before, and even better to do something I hadn't done in a while with a supportive collective.

In the days leading up to it, many people who signed up to take the class did not know what to expect.  Naturally some were nervous, and some were excited. I was feeling a little bit of both! The night before the class, I barely slept as I was going over the series over and over in my head visualizing the class and imagining smooth transitions from move to move, timed perfectly with the music changes. I silently repeated to myself the words, "I AM endless source of energy, I AM joyous determination, I AM radiant light." I imagined myself teaching every move at 3 different levels of intensities. I imagined myself providing the right amount of challenge for those who wanted it, and taking care of those who needed more support and guidance. Either way I saw a heart pumping, exhilarating, fun class that inspired all to reach within and do more than they initially believed they could. I played these images in my head again and again until I drifted off to sleep.

The next day I awoke before my alarm went off at 5:25am and immediately brought back into my mind my intentions for that morning's class. The last time I taught at 6:30am was almost a year and a half ago, yet gone was the nervous feeling or worry of any sort. I felt great, I felt ready, I was good to go!  I AM UNSTOPPABLE!

The class was just what I had imagined! Everyone said the affirmations out loud, there was a fun spirit from beginning to end, and true appreciation was felt for the beauty of finding comfort within the discomfort. It was apparent that there was such a willingness by everyone in the room to play, have fun, and enjoy!  I am so glad that I didn't let the fact that I hadn't taught in over a year, stop me from teaching this class!  It felt like the right thing to do, and my heart was fully in it!  I tapped into my mind and used it as my source of POWER and sure enough, my actions naturally followed!  I will not post them here, but the emails I got after the class all reflect that it was a SUCCESS! 

Yes, that saying is so true that "life begins at the edge of your comfort zone!"  When was the last time you did something that seemed crazy?  When was the last time you did something that scared you sh*tless?  When was the last time you did something new?  When was the last time you met a CHALLENGE head on with FOCUS and DETERMINATION?  There is nothing better than turning fear into LOVE!  Every time you achieve this, you build muscle to be comfortable with being uncomfortable! Every time I am in unfamiliar territory, I  use one of my favorite intenSati affirmations, "What used to be hard, has now become easy!"  Remember these words as you face both expected and unexpected roadblocks!  Keep in mind that they are all temporary conditions that will change.  The best thing you can do is keep your head up so as not to miss any good that comes out of it!

I loved teaching that class! I loved all of those people! And I realized how much I miss teaching intenSati! So, with that said, I am back! Stay tuned for "intenSati with Triccia" classes coming your way!

Hike in the Wildnerness and Appreciate Life

As some of you may or may not know, I am most comfortable indoors and think of myself as an "indoor cat" perfectly happy inside, away from bugs, critters, and unpredictable weather.  So it was a big deal to me that this past Sunday I hiked Slide Mountain, the tallest peak in the Catskills.  I had been on a handful of hikes before, but none that were classified as "strenuous" as this was.  I must admit I was a bit nervous and didn't know what to expect except that it was about 7 miles total and should take about 5 hours.   I believe that anything worth doing, is worth doing well so I was determined to enjoy this.   I wanted to do it well. While in the car on the way there, I visualized myself moving with ease and comfort.  I silently repeated the words, "I AM safe, I AM well, I AM adventurous" over and over again.  This made me feel better and by the time we parked the car almost 2 hours later, I was ready, excited, and all set to go!  We set out crossing a couple of small streams, some rocky patches on a narrow well marked trail.  Within 10 minutes there it was, a wall of rocks, different sizes, heights, and I immediately thought, "oh yeah strenuous hike here we go." 
I kept my head down focusing on rock after rock, making sure I planted my feet firmly before taking the next step.  Every now and then, Sean, my boyfriend would ask if I was ok and I was.  In fact, I was having fun! I noticed after a while, that my thoughts on anything not having to do with this hike just stopped.  I was completely, and entirely focused on the rocks under my feet. "This one looks good, it's dry, not that one because it's wet, this one looks secure, that one is loose, this one is good, oops a little slippery there, this one is good, this one's good too, uh oh that won't work where do I go next?....ok go to the left, hold onto the tree for support, this rock is good, oh finally! a flat surface, good i can breathe now, here comes another wall of rocks..."  I almost didn't hear Sean behind me telling me to slow down and stop and appreciate the sweet smell of the outdoors.  Aahhhh...I took a deep breath and realized we had been on this trail for over an hour and my shirt was pretty soaked and I was dripping sweat.  We continued on for another hour.  I could hear Sean breathing heavily behind me. I was too. This was indeed a challenge.
Finally, the rocky terrain gave way to a smooth, cushiony, flat surface lined on either side by pinetrees. Have you ever smelled Christmas in June?  I have, right on that trail. It was surreal!

When we got to the lookout point we saw a stunning, breath taking view.  I knew instantly that every step was worth it!  In front of me was beauty as far as the eye can see.  Rolling hills of green in a rendezvous with wispy white clouds on a blue sky. This was so worth it!  So quiet, so peaceful, so calm.  We were in the wilderness.  Yes, the wilderness defined as "the most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet--those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.  Some nature writers believe wilderness areas are vital for the human spirit and creativity." I agree.  Where there is peace, there can be clarity.  Where there is clarity, inspiration.  Where there is inspiration, creativity is born.  My heart was open.  And I felt different. This was one of those life-changing moments.  For the next two hours while descending the mountain, I thought about how this trail represented my experiences with life. Some parts are smooth and easy, some parts are tricky and require some more thought.  Some are downright challenging and made me question if it was worth taking the next step or should I just turn back?  Some parts are just amazing and beautiful and remind you of a greater presence around you!  Yes all this on the same trail. And I'm so glad we kept going or else we would've missed out on the best parts!
What's more is that the same trail looked different on our way back.  While it was dry on our way up the mountain, it was wet on our way down.  The truth is, things are never the same the second time around, and should just be appreciated and not taken for granted at that very moment!  Wow!  Let me say that again!  Things are never the same the second time around, and should just be appreciated and not taken for granted at that very moment!  My senses were heightened, and my emotions were amplified!  I loved everything about that day.  All in all, it took a little over 4 hours.   And while my legs were shaking and felt fatigued, I was in a joyful state of mind!  I turned to Sean once we got in the car and told him how much I enjoyed the hike and that I couldn't wait to do it again.  "What's beyond strenuous," I asked him?  He smiled in a way that I love, and we headed back home.

Enter the Year of the Dragon!

"I have always valued living a healthy lifestyle.  I enjoy working out, and educating myself on the latest fitness and nutrition information.  However, staying on course to maintain my fitness goals has been an on-going challenge for me.  I want to stop worrying about what I eat or how I look.  I want to develop a more conscious awareness with regard to my health.  I intend to bring discipline and focus knowing that being healthy is more than just regular exercise.  It also involves eating complete foods, lowering stress through meditation, and bringing love into all of my relationships.  Joining this community is the perfect way to bring me closer to my vision of living a healthy, wealthy, and happy life!"

The above is what I wrote for the my profile page on my Team Beachbody Coach website.  Yes!  I just became a Team Beachbody Coach last week and I am very excited to kickstart 2012 with this new undertaking!  2012, the year of the Dragon.  In the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of the Dragon is considered the luckiest bringing with it optimism and hope for better times!  It is associated with high energy and prosperity and represents change and mobility.  For me this means 2012 is my year to bring in health, wealth, and happiness!  Yes!  Health, Wealth, Happiness are the reasons I just became a Team Beachbody Coach.  What does this mean?  Shakeology and Insanity!   Shakeology is this amazing drink packed with 70 natural ingredients that acts like a salad, but tastes like dessert.  Insanity is this 60 day Max Interval workout that is guaranteed to transform your body.  I'll talk about the Coach aspect in a later blog!

So you're wondering what about IntenSati?  Well, starting next month I am taking a 12 week teleseminar with Patricia Moreno and Hildie Dunn of the Handel Group.  The SatiLife Conscious Eating Course by Patricia Moreno is designed to help people awaken to the healing and harming power of food, and to empower individuals to make conscious choices that will lead to a healthier and happier relationship with real, good food.  I am done complaining and worrying about what to eat, what not to eat, etc.  I am committed to making lasting change. 

I am ready to do the work!  What does this mean?  For the first few months of 2012, it will mean:

Insanity for the next 60 days

Shakeology shake once a day everyday

Conscious Eating Call 1/wk for 12 wks and do the homework that comes with it

Pray and Meditate daily

And of course, practice gratitude and appreciation!  Thank you!

 

 

I'm In-Love Now

Enjoying the snow (Feb 2011)

Remember when I wrote back on New Year's Eve that I went on my first date of 2010?  Well, turned out I didn't have to go out with anyone else!  He came exactly as I ordered:)  I now know the value of doing visualizations.  You imagine in great detail what you want in order to create the feeling of already having or experiencing your desires.  It is this feeling that is real.  It is the practice of creating, imagining, dreaming, believing that allowed me to begin to trust my intuition.  And because I trusted myself and had faith that it was all working out no matter what, I entered this new territory with courage, compassion and allowed for the kind of connection that occurs naturally. 

I did want to share with you the first valuable lesson this year brought me.  I learned that as soon as I decided I was ready for the love of my life to show up and I wasn't willing to settle for anything less, he showed up!  In actuality, we showed up for each other!  I say this because he has told me that he too was ready, that he too was waiting for me, and that he too was not willing to settle for less!  So the lesson is, DECIDE!  If you want something to change, BE IT!

What I want to convey here is that he didn't show up and then I believed it.  I believed first, and then he showed up!  I shifted myself first, then I was able to open up and be available so that when he came along, I was able to recognize him.  Last year was a year dedicated to shifting my beliefs and cultivating new truths.  With regard to love and relationships, the "old" me was always waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for the other person to figure out I wasn't that special and eventually he would tire of me, etc.  Hey, I had a track record to prove it!  History doesn't lie!  Ugh!  Yes isn't it all silly?  It wasn't until I put it on paper, said it out loud, shared it with others, that I was able to hear and feel the absurdity of my old belief patterns.  It became apparent that it was my own limited thinking that was keeping me stuck in an unwanted cycle. 

Turks and Caicos (May 2011)

The great news is that it's never too late to replace old thinking patterns with new ones!  So that's what I did.  I created a new belief system for myself and practiced new thoughts.  The "new" me believes I deserve to be happy, to be loved, and to be honored!  And when the old patterns of thought creep in (35 years in the making don't disappear overnight), I close my eyes, take a couple of deep breaths and remind myself that I deserve to be happy, to be loved, and to be honored.  When I first began taking intenSati classes 3 years ago, hearing these words made me giggle with embarrassment.   I couldn't say them.  I didn't believe them.  Today, these new thoughts are louder and more dominant.  And I think and say them out loud with conviction, with confidence, and with gumption! 

Last year I was determined to dream BIG!  I committed to leading from the HEART which meant telling the truth about and expressing how I FEEL!  I practiced the belief that I WILL FIND LOVE and CULTIVATE ABUNDANCE!  I chose to love myself and honor my worth!  As a result, I fell in love with me.  And that is where it all began.  

I used to hear people say that once you meet the perfect one for you, you just know it!  That it was something you just felt and knew to be true and real.  I never believed it.  Until now.

What are you willing to believe?  What do you stand to lose if you don't?

The Universe is smiling at me:)

Hard to believe it's already February 6th!  I realized today that I didn't post an entry at all in the month of January!  It's been a fantastic beginning to 2011 so far and there is still so much brewing!  I've been spending lots of time enjoying and taking it all in!  I am not quite ready to talk details at this point, but one thing is for sure, I am CELEBRATING!!!  Here's a little poem I wrote to express how I feel these days!  

Feelin' grateful
Feelin' full
Allowing all good
Eager for more

A smile I've been wearing
For quite some time now
Reasons keep coming
Healing is happening

Joy resides
In my heart
I trust myself,
All is well

I feel amazing and
So full of life
Each day I realize
My heart's desires

Now in the past, whenever things are going well it was not unusual for me to be overcome with fear, doubt, and worry.  As a result, I would then self-sabotage.  This time around, my heart is open for more love than I have ever had before.  How am I doing this?  Besides my intenSati practice,  I have also committed to my meditation practice.  This month I am using the Getting Into The Vortex: Guided Meditations CD and User Guide by Abraham Hicks.  I invite you to join me for the next 30 days to meditate on your General Well-Being, Financial Abundance, Physical Well-Being, and Relationships.

My teaching schedule is as follows:
Mondays 6:30am Equinox Columbus Circle (open guest list)
Tuesdays 6:30pm CAN DO Fitness Short Hills (email for guest pass)
Thursdays 5:30pm CAN DO Fitness Edgewater (email for guest pass)
Saturdays 10:30am Club H Jersey City (email for guest pass)
Join my Facebook group intenSati with Triccia for more details and for this month's affirmations!

In Joy Now,
Triccia

2010 was Ahhhmazing! AND I'm ready for 2011!

A year ago I set the intention to have my best year yet! Looking back on it I am grateful that I indeed fulfilled those intentions.  2010 was a year dedicated to cultivating SELF-LOVE and HONORING MY WORTH.  Making this decision involved taking different actions in many areas of my life.  Here are  some of the highlights:

Me in 2010

I became more aware of my body and how STRONG I am especially when I take care to eat the right foods, get enough sleep and remember to laugh out loud a lot!  This year was a healthy one!  It was great to witness the changes in my physical body and how it affected how I looked and how I felt. 

Also, this year I deepened my spiritual awareness by adapting a meditation practice.  I highly recommend Wayne Dyer's Ah Meditation for manifesting what you want to create in your life.  There are many guided meditations easily available.  If you want to know more about it, a simple google search will lead you to endless options.  This is an area I want to continue cultivating in the next year.  Sitting in silence, quieting my thoughts, and allowing my power from within to guide me is one of the greatest gifts I can give myself daily.     

Me in 2006

Major for this year!!!  I sought out to be an intenSati leader, and went for it with my whole heart and soul using the principles of the practice to prove to me that it doesn't matter where you've been in the past.  It doesn't matter that I didn't have a background in fitness or that just 4 years ago I weighted in at 30 lbs more than today (see pic to the right)!  All that matters is what and how I choose to think and feel right now, so I can take the actions necessary to create the future I want to see.  A year ago, I never imagined I'd be leading 3-4 intenSati classes a week and teaching at Equinox--the home of intenSati. This practice taught me to fall in love with myself, and to believe in who I am.  This is WHY I wanted so much to share this with so many people.  My journey was fueled with joy, gratitude, and appreciation for all of the individuals who attended my classes, as well as family and friends near and far who offered encouraging words of support.  And I cannot thank Patricia Moreno and the Sati Life community enough!  From Warriors to Leaders, your joy, successes, and your determination to move past temporary failures inspired me and OPENED MY HEART!  Thank you all for believing in me and reminding me that as long as I believe it, it shall be.  I'm happy to report that starting next week I have added 2 more classes (1 in EQUINOX NYC, and 1 in CAN DO in NJ) to my weekly teaching schedule.  Join my FB group intenSati with Triccia for more details.

Before I discuss my 2011 intentions, let me share also that 2010 was a year of DECIDING NOT TO SETTLE FOR LESS!  I had put my 'dream relationship' on hold, seriously questioning if I was meant to have that special LOVE in my life.  For many years, I believed that it just wasn't in the cards for me and so I gave up and settled for much, much less.  I began this year with a FIERCE DETERMINATION not to continue these limiting beliefs, by saying goodbye to the man who had held a piece of my heart for far too long!  And while it was very difficult and painful, with each passing day I felt more free, more certain, that by saying NO to what I didn't want, I was saying YES to ME!  I WILL have my Dream relationship.  And this I KNOW for sure!

This process of putting myself back on track regarding love and relationships took the entire year!  Well, almost the entire year! Last night, Dec 30th,  I went on a date--my first one in 2010 and it was a great one, and that's all I'm saying for now:)

YES!  I'm declaring 2011 to be the year I discover the beauty of being in LOVE with the perfect one for me!  And I TRUST that things will unfold as they should!  I will fuel my DREAM with the magical vibes of the season and will FOCUS on the outcome I desire, NO MATTER WHAT!

Thank you for reading my blogs these past 12 months:)  Onto the next...

Have a Happy New Year and may 2011 be a year full of SUCCESS, JOY and LOVE!!!

With Appreciation,
Triccia

What I Celebrate, Appreciates!

Happy Holidays! I love this time of year! One of my favorite SATI affirmations is "what you celebrate, appreciates!" So celebrate LOVE, JOY, SUCCESS, and HEALTH! Yes health! So just because it's December doesn't mean you have to let it all go and gain 5-7lbs, which is what the average person gains.
I invite you to join the December Holiday Sati Challenge! Check out www.socialworkout.com/holidaysati for details.

If you're in NYC and you're not an EQUINOX member but would like to take intenSati with me on any of the following dates, msg me and I'll put you on the list:
EQUINOX Columbus Circle Monday Dec 6th 6:30pm
EQUINOX 76th St/Amsterdam Friday Dec 17th 6:30pm
EQUINOX 17th St/10th Ave Wednesday Dec 29th 6:30am

Also every Wednesday 7pm in Astoria at ARROW Field for Shape Up NYC. This class is FREE!

And if you're in NJ, I now teach at CAN DO Fitness in Edgewater on Thursdays 5:30pm. Same deal, msg me for guest passes!

Our affirmations for this month:

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE
(Upper Body)
I am the master of my fate
I lift myself up to a higher state
With the power of my mind
...I seek and I shall find
I'm in control of my full potential
I will thrive
Not just survive
I am focused
I am grateful
I feel great

(Lower Body)
I surrender
To my destiny
I know all I want is on it's way
I am blessed
With the keys to my success
Happiness is the way