It’s the start of November, Men’s Health Awareness Month, and this month I want to focus on health practices that I typically don’t talk about. You’ve seen me in yoga videos and tutorials, but once per week for the month of November I’m going to be talking about something else - your emotional and mental well-being, and what better way to do that than by sharing through my own personal experience, and introducing you to simple practices that you can easily incorporate into your existing routine for dramatic changes in your own emotional and mental well-being.

More and more, research is teaching us that it is our stress, more than anything else, that is contributing to our poor overall health. Things like cancer and heart disease are happening disproportionately to people who have poor emotional health, stemming from poor emotional practices like repressing certain emotions, not mindfully dealing with the day to day difficulties of modern life, and other manifestations of anxiety and depression.

I want to help reverse this trend by teaching men simple strategies to not just managing, but also improving, their overall mental and emotional well-being. I’ll be covering essential topics that you probably didn’t learn about in school, aren’t covered in mainstream popular culture, and at least for me, aren’t things I talked about with my peers or family - and I can only assume that for many of you, this is also the case.

These are mental and emotional well-being topics and practices that I had to learn about on my own, mainly through books, and then through trial and error, figure out how to implement into my own regular routine. I’m not pretending to be an expert, but I am much more familiar than most people with these topics, and I know how to explain them in a way that’s down to earth and practical.

I can also tell you that after a few years of doing this, I’ve uncovered a lot about myself that I don’t know - self-limiting beliefs that held me back from being happy, triggers from past experiences that made me get unreasonably angry, and patterns from past relationships that made my present relationships more difficult - and as a result of being able to process these things, I’ve been able to move forward with a better understanding of myself, have more energy, and be happier.

I want to talk about some of these things with you, so that we can learn how to take better care of ourselves mentally and emotionally - not just physically - for the future and beyond.

Every week, I’ll release one short lesson, including a specific topic on emotional and mental well-being, details on the practice itself, and an easy action plan for you to start doing it yourself.
We’ll cover topics to help you manage your stress, get to the source of your day to day stress, and help make you healthier and happier - because that’s what we all want, right?

Please donate to Movember! Our goal is to reach $10,000.

Man Flow Yoga will match 50% of donations up to $5000. We will also donate 5% of sales from the entire month of November to the Movember organization.