I look better than ever. A student of mine even told me the other day that I have Madonna arms.

I never ever thought someone would say that to me! This picture of me taken just a few weeks ago shows off the definition in my legs and arms and the strength, power and flexibility that I posses.

Dhanurasana Variation.

What you can’t see in this picture is how much I love my body. 

This was not always the case.  For so many years, I didn’t feel like my body was slender enough, long-legged enough, flat-bellied enough, etc.

I tried different diets and exercised religiously, but never really felt satisfied, no matter what size and shape I was.

Now I see that what I truly wanted was to feel good in my own skin, to go to the beach without worrying about how I look, to make love without being conscious of any body parts… In other words, I wanted to deeply LOVE and ACCEPT myself.

It wasn’t until I was pregnant that I truly felt right in my skin. 

I found a whole new appreciation for my body’s ability to create  and grow life. The irony was that I was waaaay bigger than I’ve ever been (twins, TWINS, y’all!).

After I gave birth, there were definitely moments that I felt fat, jiggly and unattractive. But after 9+ months of practicing powerful self-love, I just couldn’t go back to disliking myself.

I took all the practices I developed during the pregnancy and consciously and purposely focused on feeling confident, radiant, healthy and hot as hell!

And I can honestly tell you that I am now in the best shape of my life (even did a one-hand handstand this week – a dream for 12 years!!!!) and it’s not because of anything I’m doing (or not doing).

I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. 

Some days tons of vegetables and green juices make it into my belly and other days I have ice cream for dinner.

I drink coffee with half-and-half almost daily (and laugh at all the times in the past when I convinced myself that I like my coffee black because I didn’t want the extra calories OR when I went on a raw food diet and shunned coffee completely).

I am more interested in noticing how certain foods make me feel. I love feeling light and powerful way too much to bog down my body temple with super heavy or processed food.

I do yoga, lift weights, take classes and walk only whenever I feel like and I take lots of rest days. I  have no workout plan.

I have no idea how much I weigh because I threw out my scale years ago. The only measurement that matters to me now is how good I feel.

So how is that with so little planning, self-control and action that I have achieved what I had been hammering for all these years? Alignment, baby!

I used the principles of the Law of Attraction to manifest the kind of body I love to be in.

If I were to boil down the main idea behind effortless fitness and feeling good in my skin it would be to TRUST MY BODY.

When I pay attention to how certain ways of eating, moving, sleeping, interacting, etc. feel, then I am able to follow my inner guidance to feel better, lighter, more empowered and more aligned physically, emotionally and psychologically.

The side-effect of this alignment is a healthy, radiant, lean, toned body and looking and feeling like a HOT tamale!

Check out my free Visioning 4-part blog post series to learn how to go from vision to reality in record time.

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With these magic genies in your pocket you can not only manifest feeling Ah-MAZING in your body, but feel like a rockstar in every area of your life.

And this feeling of awesome is the new skinny!

Now I’d love to hear from you:

Have you struggled with self-acceptance and feeling good in your skin? What has helped you in achieving a better physique and feeling sexier and more empowered in your health?

Can’t wait to read your comments!