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Building in Public — A Breakdown. There’s recently been a trend in…
By: Caelin Sutch
Tags: Build In Public, Product Development, Startup, Entrepreneurship

There’s recently been a trend in entrepreneurship to be more authentic and open when creating new products. This trend was coined “Building in Public”, and it’s a practice that’s been repeated by a variety of companies and products in the last couple years.

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash

Pieter Levels was one of the first entrepreneurs to Build in Public. His blog article about building Hoodmaps, found here, details the process. He actually livestreamed the process of building it, showing true commitment to the Build in Public trend.

As described by buildinpublic.xyz:

Build in Public is: - sharing stories (wins/lessons) - being authentic and vulnerable - rallying a community around your cause Build in Public isn’t: - a gimmick to go viral - a shortcut to fame - a ploy to get users

Lets talk about a couple key advantages that make Building in Public attractive for companies:

What Makes Building in Public Effective

The central tenement of building in public is story-telling. Marketing is really all about stories, and by building in public, the entire product process is turned into a story. This creates a community of interested users who are word of mouth advocates to build product momentum before the product is even launched!

This process also brings the users into the process, allowing them to give feedback as the product is being built. This decreases the time for each product feedback cycle and makes users feel a bigger part of the design and development.

It’s really a win-win process. It’s a win as the developer because you get to be closer with your customers, add real value, learn lessons, build public credibility, and have accountability. It’s a win for the community because you’re providing them value that’s rooted in their experiences, they become part-owners of the product and solution that you build.

People will see you not as a soulless corporation or website, but as a real person, persevering through struggles and basking in success just like everyone else. By genuinely relating with your audience and building a relationship based on trust, the product and community is made better.

Conclusion

Building in public is a great way to create, iterate, and launch products that provide more value to the community. Are you building something in public? Let me know in the comments, I’d love to check it out!

Keep in Touch

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Feel free to reach out and connect with me on Linkedin or Twitter.
Essentially ‘borrowing wisdom’ for that component of your business?
By: Angus Mcdonald
Tags: Agile, Product Development, Lean, Utility Vs Strategic, How We Work

…y for competitive differentiation in product quality, innovation speed, delivery speed, cost, etc., then it makes sense to simply copy your product development approach and compete via other means (e.g., business models, monopoly, regulatory capture, etc.).
Los desafíos del Product Manager en grandes compañías
By: Nacho Bassino
Tags: Product Development, Product Design, Podcast, Product Management, Español

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Resumo do Product Camp 2020 — parte 1
By: Caio Rocha
Tags: Growth, Product Camp, Product Development, Design, Product Management

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How Can We Use 3 Steps Approach for Product Repositioning?
By: Sule Kirisci Teramo
Tags: Habit Building, Habit Loop, Product Development, Product Positioning, Positioning

Very recently I have read “The Power of Habit” Book and I’ve definitely loved it. Anyone who wants to build a new habit or wants to change an old habit with a new one should read this book.

There are lots of life experiments showing you how you can change your old habit a new one or even how you can create and build a new habit in order to reach your potential in your personal life.

In the book, there are also some case studies about how some big corporate companies use (Cue-Routine-Reward) habit loop for achieving better results.

You can use this methodology in order to reposition your product and make significant differences but in this case you should not fall into any trap that your product and message are perfect for your target consumers; you need to be realistic and brave enough to address the problem, to analyze about what causes the problem.

Let’s analyze one case study from the Power of Habit Book:

P&G Febreze product:

In the Beginning, Product’s advertising had focused on eliminating bad smells because their target consumers were people who smokes or people who have pets in their home for that reason that product was supposed to be used for preventing odors but from the sales results they realized that something was wrong therefore they wanted to conduct psychological tests, after conducting some surveys, they realized that target consumers who have pets and smoke were used to the odors, they couldn’t distinguish the bad smells therefore they do not necessarily need using Febreze product/ The Power of Habit, pages 52, 53, 54 and 55

According to surveys, they realized that consumers had tended more to use the product as a final touch after cleaning their home or after tidying up their home so they decided to reposition Febreze as a reward, the company printed up new labels, more perfume was added into the recipe. The tagline had been “Gets bad smells out of fabrics”, it was rewritten as “Cleans life’s smells”. Within two months, sales doubled.

THE FEBREZE HABIT LOOP

After reading the book, I realized that somehow (Encourage-Action-Improve) approach has been a very similar to (Cue-Routine-Reward) habit loop.

My purpose for Confident Enough is to show you how you can reach your personal potential by creating simple 3 Steps system (Encourage-Action-Improve) but I do believe that this approach might also be used in any area of your life in order for creating a customer habit or personal habit for improving lives.

Here is how?

3 STEPS

As you see above, besides personal goals, 3 Steps Approach (Encourage-Action-Improve) might also be utilized for improving consumers lives by repositioning products.

The Key is here : Courage.

In order to solve any problem, to address the issue.

What do you think?

I would be glad to hear your opinion, too.

You can reach me out via this below link✍️

https://linktr.ee/confidentenough
Product Sprint 2: Ideation and Prototyping
By: Angela Chen
Tags: Product Development, UI Design, Product Design, Product Management, Computer Science

On Figma, we each worked on separate features that we felt were imperative for a minimal viable product (MVP), while still continuing to collaborate and communicate throughout the process. To maintain a standardized and cohesive look throughout the app, we consulted each other for opinions on colors, fonts, sizing, and placement of different components. Through demonstrating how one would make and respond to an event and our use of Google integration to make our app experience simple, we differentiated ourselves from our competitors while showing how easy and smooth it would be to use our app. The aspects of the app that we focused on for Demo Day were our login page, the dashboard (where a user can see all of their groups), how a specific group looks, and most importantly, the events.

Initially, coming up with a basic design in Figma was challenging — Angela and Ava only had experience designing mobile apps, so adjusting to the sizing shift and larger window area was difficult. For Allison and Mindy who had less design experience, there was a similar learning curve to making components and adding transitions between frames. We experimented with other features on Figma, like vector drawings, to design our logo. Since we had previously experience using Figma to prototype a mobile app during HackOurCampus, we had to make sure that we didn’t go overboard with transitions that couldn’t translate to web apps.

Initially, coming up with a basic design in Figma was challenging — Angela and Ava only had experience designing mobile apps, so adjusting to the sizing shift and larger window area was difficult. For Allison and Mindy who had less design experience, there was a similar learning curve to making components and adding transitions between frames.

Color Palette

We experimented with other features on Figma, like vector drawings, to design our logo. Since we had previously experience using Figma to prototype a mobile app during HackOurCampus, we had to make sure that we didn’t go overboard with transitions that couldn’t translate to web apps.

On Demo Day, we presented our work throughout the semester to fellow Cornell students, faculty members, and other guest mentors, and talking with the audience helped us gain insight on potential issues in user flow and design. For instance, one mentor mentioned that the layout of various functionalities sometimes felt unintuitive. Others suggested additional features, such as allowing users to prioritize groups, implementing events without groups, and allowing more customizability. Given such feedback, we intend to continue iterating over our design and developing our product through December and January.
Lessons I learned from my past startup and knowledge I gained from industry experts.
By: Devashish Sinha
Tags: Startup Lessons, Product Development, Entrepreneur, Startup, Venture Capital

I am Product Manager as a profession & writer by choice.
Create Clarity From Complexities | RTI Innovation Advisors
By: Rti Innovation Advisors
Tags: Innovation Management, Product Development, Foresight, Cpg, Consumer Products

The new year has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? I’m ready to wrap up 2020 and look ahead to the potential of 2021. Ideally, the new year will be the opposite of 2020, and improvements will replace the challenges we faced collectively. The transition into a new year also affords time to pause and reflect on what’s transpired and prepare for what’s ahead.

It’s also a good time to ask the following: Is your organization prepared for 2021 and the changes it will bring?

Are you ready to in new ways? How prepared are you to provide consumers with new products, services, experiences that will differentiate and delight? How are you signaling that you understand consumers’ needs and that you can make their lives better, easier, less stressful? stressful? D o you understand consumers’ states of mind and priorities, their views on 2021, their thoughts on navigating environments vastly different from those they knew in 2020?

We’re positioning our CPG clients to prepare for 2021, and we’re having conversations about what to anticipate and how to respond. we’re helping clients explore alternate future scenarios and use those scenarios to inform their strategic planning.

Historically, our foresight work has been longer-term — focused on the upcoming three to five years. We dive deep into trends, explore, and understand the impacts and implications of these trends. We help clients envision what they need to do to respond to trends — so that they are positioned to win in the present and well beyond.

Let’s talk about how we can leverage foresight -whether it’s our traditional methodology or sprint-to create a more compelling future for your organization and your consumers.

And may your new year be healthy and successful.
LET’S COMPARE 3 COMPETING BRANDS - Noelle Hartt // Copywriter - Medium
By: Noelle Hartt
Tags: Product Development, Marketing, Cpg, Brand Strategy, Product Marketing

HOW TO WRITE COPY TO SELL | PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ROMANCE COPY | LET’S COMPARE 3 COMPETING BRANDS Noelle Hartt // Copywriter ·Dec 15, 2020

Product packaging copy (AKA romance copy) is your greatest asset for brick-and-mortar retail. Let’s take a look at three competing beauty products to see who has the best romance copy.

Check out my latest YouTube video, here: https://youtu.be/1uY0eGurzHg
How Was My First Technical Recruiting Looked Like
By: Ata Tekeli
Tags: Technical Recruiting, Research And Development, Product Development, Project Management, Software Development

Lots of mistakes and lessons learned in the process.

Because it was my first recruiting interview, I had to trust my friends and other people’s honesty to determine whether they’ll suit the department.

So, how it looked like, and what were the constraints?

1-Technical limitations

First, I had to make do with the technical limitations of other members. And these limitations were difficult to deal with. First, software development skills were needed but most of them didn’t have one or didn’t know the required programming languages. Thankfully, some people knew some sort of programming languages. Even more, some people knew JavaScript and solidity to make my life easier.

2-Managing people’s expectations and fears

Because research and development is a complex process where lots of components are involved, people can fear the fact that they might not be able to meet the expectations. Especially when it comes to knowledge in software development. Consequently, some people got intimidated and my superiors had to talk to me. And I eased down enough to consider them to accept with certain conditions being put by me. But these were highly demanded blockchain research and development departments to work for.

3-Convincing them that they were not just going to develop a software

Because R&D is generally referred to as software development, people can fear what they could do to contribute to an organization’s efforts. However, R&D include product development and project management with an emphasis on software development. So, not all the efforts would go into software development like most people tend to do.

4-Also to make them learn the skills necessary

Because we were going to work on hyperledger and ethereum, JavaScript-based programming will likely to be used with other technologies. And making other people convinced about learning them took some time. But they were convinced and some even started learning. Only one of them took some of the steps needed for them to learn. So, this was another easy step to deal with some of the issues.

5-I scared some people off

Even though it wasn’t intended to scare some people off, they were scared because of the high requirements. Especially when it comes to programming with their computers. Even though some knowledge required on JavaScript and solidity, it made some people scared off and backed down. Still, I managed to persuade a person to join and learn the skills necessary.

To sum up, I had to work on technical limitations and to handle expectations, and to tell them the requirements naturally imposed on them.

Have you ever conducted technical recruiting? How was your first experience in technical recruiting? If you did, share your experiences in the comments section below.
sometimes the hardest part
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

questions to think and act upon when developing reliable and safe medical devices and products
Why the products will never be eternal
Tags: Product Management, Engineering, Design, Product Development

All structures are based on available materials, processing technologies, as well as methods of synthesizing the function of the product. It all influences the shape and appearance. Processing technologies and achievements of the main function are changing, while materials, in many ways, remain static.

Recreation of the products in old forms using modern ways it’s pointless because this solution leads the products to a dummy replica.

Those products that were created decades and centuries ago were created in these ways due to the technological capabilities of that time. Modern product design should be based on the most promising technologies that should move into shaping. Reproduction of original products of the past in modern technologies turns them into a remake, losing their functional and historical meaning.

One of the problems of modern design is defining the most promising materials and technologies which is a push for experiments and the search for new forms.

In carrying out conceptual design projects, we are always set up for experiments. Our team is constantly studying and applying new approaches to material processing.
How not to drown in the cloud of solutions and not go into the endless design
Tags: Design, Product Development, Prototyping

Anthropometric forms are found where there is a need for a person to interact directly with the object (cars, machines, household appliances, etc.). And the depth of the elaboration of the form from a tactile point of view determines the degree of organicness of human interaction with the product.

The design of anthropometric forms with surfaces of the 3rd order and smoothness of class A cannot be performed even with a detailed technical assignment, without full-scale prototyping.

The goal of our team is to create products in which the user will enjoy use and interaction by forming a tactile and emotional connection between them.

Task: creating a single harmonious and holistic object by combining tactile sensations, emotions, and a visual image, where the design object becomes a continuation of the momentum of thought and movement.

In development, one prototype will say more than pages of text. Full-scale layouts are one of the most effective ways to create elements and products that directly interact with the human body.

Creating anthropometric forms is a multi-iterative process that takes place with the involvement of industry experts, as well as the test drive of prototypes among a sample of averaged user respondents. At the same time, it is very important to keep experts in the time-budget-decision balance so that the decision is not expensive or with a late deadline.

Based on the opinion of experts, the form is adjusted. Ergonomic tables can be a guiding light for common solutions, but working with people — both creating a product for the end-user and interacting with the client/customer — is a history of personification, faxes and unpredictable, but effective solutions, which we will tell you about using the example of the control handle of one unusual, but very useful simulator.

Stages of work

We have developed a multi-iterative workflow:

I. Generation of operational requirements, selection of reference forms used in product creation, and formation of a representative sample

II. Create a full-scale layout. As a rule, we use plasticine
Internship Week 18
By: Theo Luciano
Tags: Life, Product Development, Praxis, Learning Out Loud, Software Development

Photo by Gábor Szűts on Unsplash

Hey there! Thanks for reading. In 18 weeks, I’ve come a long way from where I started at RoleModel Software, and I guess Ken thinks so too.

I got an offer to stay on full-time with the company. I’m excited to keep learning and getting stuff done and I’m looking forward to where God leads me in the days ahead.

In the midst of having a feeling of accomplishment and excitement, there are always unknowns. I wonder what they will look like, and I wonder how I will handle them. As a chronic overthinker, I battle daily with things that have not yet materialized.

I ask myself, “What is the point?” There is none. But, it sometimes doesn’t stop me.

But then I remember. I can trust my unknown future to a known God. Easier said than done. But, what a comfort to an anxious soul.
The Elements of Good Product Management
By: Grow Remarkably With Ishwar Jha
Tags: Product Development, Product Manager, Product Design, Product Management, Startup

What is product management?

The ability to craft a product, world-changing ideas, inventions, creations, messages, technologies, services, archetypes, frameworks, platforms, and communities to allow users to get what they want and connect with emotions is where product management people’s power lies.

People buy what the product does to and for them. They buy the yearning to feel more of what that “product” lets them feel. And that’s not just about the nuts and bolts of what you make, but how you create the experience of connection and consumption. So, to be a good fit for product management, you should ask yourself a question: “How can I create an experience that allows others to feel my soul through my work? And in doing so, feel their own? And, then will you?”

And to achieve these results, a good product management team needs to know what the customer wants, the market, the right product for the customer and the market, and the competition.

Every successful product management team has a good product manager who acts as the product’s CEO. A good product manager takes full responsibility and measures its success in terms of the success of the product:
trust but verify
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

questions to think and act upon when developing reliable and safe medical devices and products
Brand experience & Customer experience
By: Pawit Nopparuch
Tags: Customer Experience, Product Development, Brand Experience

Experience designer who passion in exploring new business model, new value proposition that will truly become the new innovation
design — risk — marketing
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

how can i make it better?

how can I make it safer?

how can i make it more sell-able?
simplest best product development question
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

questions to think and act upon when developing reliable and safe medical devices and products
From Idea to Reality: Product development through additive manufacturing.
By: Invent Ltd
Tags: 3D Printing, Product Development, Additive Manufacturing, Product Development Cycle, Product Design

Ever since Invent 3D was founded, our mission has been to improve the processes of our clients, allowing them to make changes without stopping their production run.

This dream comes true by applying our extremely efficient SOPs to the manufacturing process.

Let’s use as an example of our process, the process used to create some of the best trophies Malta has ever seen.

Designing bespoke pieces to represent your company or cause, and award the best is never an easy task.

The traditional way of dealing with trophy production is either choosing one from a preset catalogue of options and slapping on an engraved plaque (The cheaper option), or getting your hand dirty and your pockets empty by hiring a foundry and sculptor to design a limited run of your product (the expensive way). Neither of the above methods allow for changes during the design phase and the customer is usually unable to get a sample of the product in the latter case.

As a contrast to the other two methods, we can produce a bespoke design, working with the customer, who can visualize it on the fly.

Once the design is approved by the customer, we are able to create a draft print, which will give the customer a chance to gauge the final product for the first time.

Modifications can be done to the draft model upon customer request and implemented in a matter of hours for the client to revise and approve.

The final product can then enter production.

It is a very agile and lean process.

This level of creative flexibility and production agility is only achievable thanks to our fine-tuned processes, expert staff, and the technological advancements of 3D printing.

Do you have an idea you want to make a reality?

Contact us!

info@invent3d.design
El rol del Product Manager, cómo empezar y cómo desarrollarse en la carrera
By: Nacho Bassino
Tags: Product Development, Podcast, Product Management, Español, Desarrollo Personal

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exponential combo
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

questions to think and act upon when developing reliable and safe medical devices and products
Keeping Life-Critical Decision Support Applications Shippable
Tags: Agile Transformation, Agile, Applications Development, Product Development

Written by Joel Norman

In an earlier life, I coded several different life-critical applications that aided decision support in complex domains. Domains where a mistake could result in people being injured or dying. As the code was written, new use cases were discovered. What if there is a 2,000-pound baby with kidney failure? Is that a typo or a real thing? What if the scientist in the lab did not follow the formula as described? What if, what if?

Naturally, the fear of harm slowed development due to an abundance of caution. The qualified clinicians and scientists could describe scenarios fantastically, and always prescribe a solution. We would record each scenario or use case in the following format:

As the product was developed and new use cases were discovered, the clinician would always have an answer. For example, even the 2,000 Pound Baby scenario resulted in a prescribed solution.

If all the inputs could be discovered, it could be codified into the correct set of outputs. As the product matured, a pattern started to appear — all edge cases followed the same algorithm. Any patient or scenario in which we did not have clarity on the solution would result in asking clarifying questions to the clinician or scientist. All edge cases followed this same pattern, then I realized — all cases followed this pattern, a default use case, “Ask a Qualified Clinician.”

Given ANY INPUT that doesn’t meet any other input criteria when WE DO ANYTHING then return “Ask a qualified clinician”

If the first use case or scenario had been, “Ask a Qualified Clinician” and carefully coded the other exact scenarios, we could have theoretically released daily since the “Ask a Qualified Clinician” scenario would protect us from the “What if, what if” scenarios.

This was our first step on our pathway to keeping our Life Critical Decision Support Application always shippable. A future post will talk about carefully coding the other exact scenarios. And like all good decision support systems, before you adopt this practice, “Ask a qualified clinician in your organization and domain.”
Product built-trap and mind the gap between business and user objective
By: Joko Sriyono
Tags: Product Development Traps, Ui Ux Design, Product, Product Development, New Product Development

Product built-trap and mind the gap between business and user objective

Once upon a time when I was doing product tech development, I thought that with all the product technical capabilities and features that we built, it will solved users problem and our product will enjoy the big success and generating revenue for company, unfortunately it was not! We were representing business and have bias in our decision-making process that we pretend that we representing our end-users. We were doing FGD and research but we came up with bias conclusion. So we thought this product must be built and solve users pain points. Once we had around 160 products to be delivered in a month, despite we were able to delivered them but only two achieved its revenue objective, the rest silently waste our development resource. This is the product built trap!

I use below old picture on TIER Swing vs TIRE Swing but I think its still relevant to illustrate product development process and how the gap arise from capturing user definition, “scope-creep” and project management aspects, quality and documentation, operations and support.

Gap in the product development process

When we tried the user journey, UI/UX sometimes we torture them by offering not needed features, text and buttons that should not appeared in right user journey or requirements. We forgot that user need only need to see what is relevant and needed at that particular user-journey. If we want utilize the feature in the application, one of the solution is to blend it into the journey. For example in the user registration, we use hint on user-name and address rather that put a label User Name, email or phone. This is how we combine features, user-experience or ergonomics.

What do you think about this customer journey, ergonomics, UI, space efficiency?

What about below approach?

We need to keep on experimenting and learn from others right? So we identified the mind gap between what company needs to enable user to Log in, Register and Activate.

It’s not easy and sometime we are not aware that we are in the middle of built trap situation and even though we aware, we are able to reject and manage the condition. While mind the gap between user and company objective need to be balanced, product owner need to drive it.
broaden
Tags: Risk Taking, Risk, Product Development, Decision Making

have you tried investigating something that might be way beyond your perceived capability?

how do you think this might help you and your thinking?
Next step in the journey and my first project
By: John Joubert
Tags: Self Funded, Product Development, Software Development, Entrepreneurship

Well, first off, my plan is to spend 2021 working on a project every 4–6 weeks, emulating the 12 startups in 12 months approach. Ideally I’d like to have completed 10–12 projects by the end of 2021. I think that’s quite an ambitious approach, but I also think it’s the right one, I’m all in.

Pushing myself to iterate quickly, figure out what works and what doesn’t, and discover if customers will actually pay for something, is critically important. Doubly so because I am self-funded. Repeating this process of interaction, discovery and learning over and over will hopefully allow me to use my “runway” most effectively over the year.

To use a sports metaphor, I’d much rather have 10 shots on goal and potentially land 1 or 2, than only take one shot, and if it doesn’t work out, the game is over. I’ve seen too many times how easy it is to only pursue one idea and spend months or years working on it, only to discover it doesn’t solve a real problem, or it does but no one will pay for it.

I have two primary goals for the next year:

Launch 12 startups (or micro-startups if you like)

Get to $10k monthly recurring revenue from the above products

While I think they are certainly achievable, I’m definitely not going to be naive in believing this will be easy, it is going to be challenging. I know how many people try to build companies or products, and that the failure rate is pretty high.

I’ve set these goals to push myself to make decisions that get me closer to achieving them and to create some positive pressure and motivation. I’d rather aim high and miss by a little than aim way too low and actually achieve the easier goals.

With all this in mind, for the rest of this year (2020), I think the best thing to do is to just start. I’m going to kick off with a project that is narrow in scope, fun to build and that helps consolidate some of the things that I’ve learnt over the past two months or so.

I’m not going to be worried about building something that will generate revenue just yet, I’m mainly interested in getting something shipped, and getting into a routine of building and iterating on ideas. I’d say this first project will be a bit of a practice run, just to get my feet wet, and I’ll then take on progressively more challenging ideas as I go.
Bhagavad Gita: Understanding One Shloka at a time. (Chp. 2, Verse 44) — HBR Patel
By: Hbr Patel
Tags: Yoga, Scripture, Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism, Spirituality

Bhagwan Shri Krishna speaks about the ones that have endless desires for materialistic pleasures and opulence. The mind of such individuals is always wandering and they are not able to concentrate on the path of the Bhagwan.

The material desire always keeps them on the edge and their actions are directed towards the attainment of those materials and pleasure. Their mind is attached to the sensual pleasures and their actions are always to fulfill their desires. They are attracted to the flowery words and endure to attain the materialistic pleasure and enjoy them. This effort of theirs is based on the false notion that they will one day their heart will be satisfied after enjoying these materialistic pleasures. They think that after enjoying all these their heart will be contented at one point in time.

But they don’t know that it is never going to happen. Our desires trick us into making us believe that they will be over once we fulfill them. A bike owner may want a car, a car owner might want a plane, a plane owner might want a yacht, the chain of desires continues.

To fulfill those desires, the individual is constantly enduring on the path of material pleasures and thus is unable to have a firm resolve to travel on the path to Samadhi. They are unable to surrender their actions for the devotion of the Bhagwan and thus they are unable to perceive and realize the Bhagwan.
5 Yoga Poses For Stress/Anxiety Relief
By: Maryam Hadi
Tags: Anxiety, Yoga, Yôga, Anxiety Relief, Calmness

EASY POSE

Easy pose in other words Sukhasana strengthens the back and stretches the knees and ankles. It also opens the hips, groin, and outer thigh muscles (abductors). Sitting upright with your spine aligned also reduces stress and anxiety. It calms the mind and is known to be therapeutic for stress. Easy pose is a very common pose for practicing meditation and breathing exercises.

BOUND ANGLE

In the crazy world, we live in right now, it’s good to have a few things that can help you relieve that stress and get back to feeling normal. We all know that yoga is great for that, but there’s no need to do a full hour-long class. You can get some awesome stress-busting benefits from practicing bound angle!

Come into the pose, spreading the knees wide, and letting gravity pull them down toward the floor. Close the eyes, and begin to center in. Follow the in and out of the breath for 5 to 10 minutes, then open your eyes, gently come out of the pose, and go on with your day. It’s that easy! you’ll find that you’re happier, feel more connected, and perhaps most importantly, less stressed-out.

CHILD POSE

This yoga pose is one of the best and easiest poses when it comes to yoga this pose helps with relaxing the body. Child pose calms the brain and helps relieve stress and fatigue. According to Harvard researchers, putting the body in a relaxed state through exercise can send calming signals to the mind. This approach can break the stress cycle and improve mental fitness.

Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. Beginners can also use Balasana to get a taste of a deep forward bend, where the torso rests on the thighs. Stay in the pose from 1 to 3 minutes.

FORWARD FOLD

This resting standing pose may help relax your mind while releasing tension in your body. Muscles worked: spinal muscles. forward fold calm the central nervous system, relieve stress, and menstrual cramps. As well as reduce fatigue, headaches, and insomnia it cools the body.

Forward fold helps with so many things like, stretches the hips, hamstrings, and calves. Strengthens the thighs and knees. Keeps your spine strong and flexible. Relieves tension in the spine, neck, and back. Activates the abdominal muscles.

SAVASANA

Savasana (Corpse Pose) is much more than a moment’s rest at the end of a yoga class. The essential pose is crucial for calming the mind and body, here are additional benefits: Calms the central nervous system, aiding the digestive and immune systems. Calms the mind and reduces stress.

Stay in Savasana for five minutes for every 30 minutes of your practice. To exit the pose, first begin to deepen your breath. Bringing gentle movement and awareness back to your body, wiggling your fingers and toes. Roll to your right side and rest there for a moment.
Logan Paul & Team Maverick Interview Sadhguru
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A Yogi, I AM
By: Ml Bosin, Ma, Yoga Therapist
Tags: One World, Yoga, International Yoga Day, Ayurveda Treatments, Ayurveda

Pregnant with my baby at 28–29 years old, I sought Yoga for preparation. Being a person who must be prepared, I watched everything I could watch on Pregnancy and Post Partum. Still, I was shocking when she was born. It was a blessing, but shocking none-the-less as I was extremely immature for a 29 year old.

Still chasing sensory pleasure, I chased around like a mad women most of my pregnancy and into her childhood. It must have been very frightening for her. She and I have both recovered from our perspective childhoods now. She is such a blessing and so are my grandchildren.

A career included finishing my Master’s Degree, working as a volunteer for six years, going through a licensing process, and finally receiving my license in a job I knew was going to support me until I died. I retired from that work at as 62 years old with a small pension I had paid into and eventually social security which I had also paid into.

I wanted to learn more about Yoga and Ayurveda. I founded a non-profit, went to work as a Clinical Supervisor in the non-profit, a provided training and counseling for low fee clients in my community. This was never supposed to be a completely free service, but in the end some of my employees treated it as such. I also attempted to enter the very closed Yoga Professional community in my area. I invited several known yoga professionals to give workshops at my location. I offered a few Yoga classes. In the end this turned out to be a losing battle.

So, two years ago, in 2018, I closed my non-profit until I could regroup and decided what to do next. The non-profit still exists, it just does not have a presence or a location. It is dark now until further notice.

Founded in 2012, my non-profit was on the state and federal registry. I published advertisement at great expense on multiple occasions, I visited many organization to do free classes hoping to gain some following. I joined the Yoga Alliance and became a yoga instructor in Teacher Training 200 hour and 300 hour, Pregnancy Yoga and Yoga for Children. I am still certified in these areas and now provide training for all four of these teach training classes.

Earning 5000 hours in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Yoga Therapy I have a great deal to offer anyone who wishes to learn more about Yoga and Ayurveda.

Above are two of my Yoga Alliance Profiles that may interest you.
Living in the esoteric world
By: Kyomi O'Connor
Tags: Breathing, Life, Yoga, Meditation, Spirituality

I do yoga almost every day. It is part of my spiritual practice as an ordinary and a Buddhist. It is also a way of my meditation practice in stillness and in motions.

While we are in a yoga pose, abiding at the moment, we begin to feel the air coming through our nostrils and happily filling into our chest. When was the last time I expanded my chest to this far? At the moment, all the cells in our body are in vigor. We become present, aware, content in gratitude.

Shifted my eyes on a tree outside the window. Looking over through it, I see the wind in the swaying of the tree branch, inviting me, and quivering of leaves, feeling like small chats. Though shielded by the window, you still feel the wind as if it touches your hair and cheeks. …I am so happy.

Now as we deepen our breath, our upper torso toward the legs becomes closer. At every breath, the upper body and legs unite closer together, eventually embracing each other.

As we twist our body, every exhalation makes us see the world further and further back of our body. Did I see the world in this way before? At each twist, it offers us a surprise.

Life presents us with something precious but moves forward at every moment. With or without knowing it, our possible experience would flow away.

When we are aware, life is full of precious moments and its gifts, something new and unknown to us in our life.

It’s esoteric, generously laid out for us to experience. For this, we don’t need wealth, fame, or special titles to experience it.
TwigTalk — The healing power of Sound
Tags: Living, Parenting, Yoga, Meditation, India

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life — B.K.S. Iyengar

Music has the power to connect humans, to transcend humans down the memory lane or reach the Zenith’s height. But have we ever wondered that how a melody or a familiar tune can alter our mood, our energy and most important our perspective? Let’s take a look at the science of SOUND MEDICINE which took it roots it ancient India

The ancient Vedic wisdom was at some point organized into four main branches: Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. These four Vedas also each had an ‘Upaveda’ or sub-branch, elaborately covering one of its main subjects. One of the Upavedas — Gandharva Veda, is the Vedic science dealing with the power of music and sound on different animals, the environment and even our body and mind.

Gandharva Veda and Gandharva Music help uncover the power of music by bringing in tones and mantras which activate the intended mood. Their impact depends on the mantras recited, the state of mind of the practitioner and the spiritual conscious level of the listener. These chants produce vibrations inside the body, which create resonance with the external atmosphere. The power of the chants can help you deal with medical issues — from relaxing your mind to cure physical and psychological abilities.

Modern day science has conducted experiments to test the effectiveness of the chants on the medical condition of patients and found extravagant results. You can find proof of the same all over the internet (Eg — http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2009/Mar_Apr/v1.3).

Breaking it down for our daily life, how can we use the power of this ancient science -

Meditate for 10 min a day, pick a time and try to focus on the chants. You can start by 2 min and extend to as long as your time permits. You can pick any chant which gives you positive energy. It can be “Aum” or “Gayatri Mantra” or anything you find inspirational. Focus on your posture and try saying it aloud so that the sound can actually touch the right chords. You can also listen to the chants on Youtube, but try singing along.

If you want to take the practice to another level, try exploring different chants and see which one suits you more. It’s all about experiential learning here and you will be surprised to see what this simple practice can do to you.

Twig Gyaan —

If you feel this is all irrelevant, try plugging in your headphones and listen to your favourite track.. If it can take you in a different zone, I am sure you will be able to get a glimpse of what sound meditation practice can do for you.
Sadhguru
Tags: Life, Yoga, Life Lessons, Meditation, Quotes

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Detox Yourself With This Yogic Superfood — Part 3
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Yoga Retreats in Costa Rica Can Change Your Life! Why Not Join a Yoga Holiday?
Tags: Health, Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga, Wellness, Fitness

Yoga Retreats in Costa Rica have become increasingly popular as a holiday. This is not surprising as yoga retreats are relaxing, are often held in the world’s most lovely places and are a great way to completely break away from normal life.

What exactly are yoga retreats?

Yoga holidays come in all shapes and sizes. In most situations the yoga retreat offers daily yoga lessons or yoga meditation sessions. Some only provide accommodation and one yoga lesson per day, while others offer complete yoga holiday packages, which can include:

•Yoga in the morning

•Breakfast

•Organized activities like walks or ceremonial gatherings

•Yoga meditation or yoga practice in the afternoon

•Vegetarian evening meals



Why go on a yoga retreat?

There are many reasons why you could consider joining one of the Yoga Retreats in Costa Rica. Here are just some of them:

•A yoga retreat really benefits you to break away from your usual routine. It helps to put your mind at rest and live more for the moment.

•Yoga retreats are held in the most stunning places in the Costa Rica. So not only will your enjoy blissful yoga, you also get to enjoy the stunning scenery.

•Joining a yoga retreat makes it easy to travel by yourself. As most retreats are organised for groups you can easily travel on your own; you will meet lots of interesting people in your retreat.

•Amatierra yoga retreats are very affordable. Although there are yoga holidays in all price ranges, I have found it easy to find very affordable yoga retreats that still have all the comforts of a luxury holiday.

•Amatierra yoga retreat gives you can opportunity to work on your body and flexibility. Nothing to feel guilty about on this holiday as you will exercise, make your body more toned and flexible and usually you will eat very healthy vegetarian meals.

•Amatierra yoga retreat can change your life! Although a bold statement this is actually true. Yoga holidays give you a chance to rediscover yourself. Some even incorporate silent days and you can come to all sorts of insights about yourself on a day like that. You may come totally refreshed with a determined plan to change your life around.

So what are you waiting for?

With so many yoga holidays to choose from in almost every country there really is no reason why you should not join a yoga retreat. Start by looking at amatierra.com for a complete list of Yoga Retreats in Costa Rica. Jill Ruttenberg is a professional nutritionist, certified practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and professional clinical herbalist registered with the American Herbalist Guild. She is also an experienced massage therapist, energy healer and Hatha yoga instructor.

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