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A Weekend with David Romanelli (Scottsdale…May 18-19)

I’m coming back to Phoenix to teach my brand new workshop experience: Yoga & You, a weekend filled with rockin’ tunes, exotic chocolate, fine wine, and flowing yoga.

Many years after it’s initiation, my Yoga & Chocolate experience has taken a whole new delicious spin. My co-creator, Katrina Markoff, founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, was recently named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 40 Entrepreneurs under 40.

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BEAUTIFUL MOMENT: One Happy Motherfu-ker

Beautiful Moment of the Day Whether they know it or not, people need happiness, positivity, and optimism like they need food, water, and sex. If you want to do something good for the world RIGHT NOW, spread some positive energy. Here are 3 ways to get happy fast -Watch this SNL short about Batman’s rude [...]

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BEAUTIFUL MOMENT: 10 Seconds to Happiness

    Beautiful Moment of the Day The Avett Brothers’ song “Head Full of Doubt/Heart Full of Promise” has a great line: When nothing is owed or deserved or expected And your life doesn’t change by the man that’s elected If you’re loved by someone, you’re never rejected Decide what to be and go be [...]

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My New Puppy

Life has never been better because for the first time in a long time, I have a puppy. He’s a 9 week old lab pup named Gibson (see pic during his first haircut which he needed b/c he got peed on by his 2 year old lab cousin Cooper). Formerly a germ freak, I don’t [...]

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What the World’s Most Mysterious Culture Can Teach us about Health and Happiness

What the World’s Most Mysterious Culture Can Teach us about Health and Happiness

This economy continues to grind and we’re starting to see the ripple effects. It started with job loss and financial hardship. Now there are painful breakups, stressed out kids, road rage, and old injuries rearing their ugly heads. Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t something about life seem terribly wrong? I stumbled upon some information [...]

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Let Me Service You

Being a frequent traveler, I’ve grown accustomed to the airlines’ industrious transition. They charge you for baggage, charge you for drinks, charge you for food, charge you for an exit row seat. Flying to Dallas a few months ago, I had a revelation. After paying the stewardess $13.00 for a bologna sandwich on Wonder Bread, [...]

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How Sadness and Struggle Can Lead To Greater Happiness

In 2007, I traveled to India for a yoga retreat. When I gazed down from the hilltop in the morning, I saw the coast of the Southern Indian state of Kerala dotted with canoe-like fishing boats. I practiced yoga listening to the hypnotic sounds of the flute played by an Indian musician on a bluff [...]

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Happiness: Three Tips from The World's Oldest Case Study

We’ve all heard countless studies, articles and TV interviews on happiness. But the other day I stumbled upon something that is just now being revealed to the media for the first time.* It’s a 72 year old study that began all the way back in 1937 when 268 Harvard University sophomores were asked to participate [...]

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3 Secrets from the World's Happiest People…Icelanders

3 Secrets from the World's Happiest People…Icelanders

Despite its terrible financial problems, Iceland was voted home to the world’s happiest people (according to the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index rankings). Iceland?! Where it’s freezing cold and the sun doesn’t make an appearance for months at a time!? “Wow,” I thought when reading this fact. But I soon discovered there are [...]

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