My name is Lynn Armstrong. In 1996, I was asked to create a blue sky presentation about the place I wanted to work. I wrote about a place where there is no "no", only how, where CEO means creative, entrepreneurial and optimistic, where vision is celebrated from where it resides, not just the corner office. I compared the climb up the corporate ladder to climbing a mountain - where a lack of oxygen leads to organs shutting down, brains going haywire. 

 

I closed the presentation with "Inspiraré . . . inhale, exhale. "

 

My observation was shown to be true as I climbed the corporate ladder over 25 years. In 2012, I published "How to be a Pink Flamingo in a Brown Duck Pond", a cautionary tale of the cost of trading our health for a paycheque, and the ultimate price that we pay with our quality of life. 

 

Inspiraré isn't a clever marketing name, in fact, most people won't be able to pronounce it. But it means something to me.  It is the word I tell myself the most as I remind myself to "just breathe". 

 

 Inspiraré is about living well.  Yoga movement is not a performance.  It is a practice of moving and being present, with breathe and intention. It is a moving meditation that prepares us when life happens off the mat.  Yoga is a practice of being, but never becoming. . .  It is a place to breathe, to meet our bodies where we are, and to heal.