Peace Love World! Work It Out, Win a Hoodie

YES YOU CAN! Remember our Daily Affirmations Challenge? Well, Spa Week’s Empowered Living Expert Patricia Moreno (who hosted the challenge) is quickly gaining celebrity fitness status. Her intenSati following continues to boom, her classes are expanding to hot new locations, and Peace Love World, “the clothes that give you life!” just created a special line of gear in Patricia Moreno’s name. We couldn’t be more excited for her!

This woman is a mover and a shaker – inside the classroom and out. To celebrate our expert’s continued success, and in honor of her Summer Kickoff workout on June 6th (details below – I’ll be there, come join us!) we’re giving away Patricia’s signature happy yellow zip-up hoodies by Peace Love World to three of our readers!

TO ENTER:

Comment below and tell us: What is making you happy right NOW?

Enter by the end of Memorial Day weekend and we’ll pick/announce the three winners right here on Tuesday. Have a happy!

5.29 update… THE WINNERS! It was not easy to choose; reading all your entries made us SO happy! But we had to pick, and the happy hoodies go to…

Heather S. - Today, after waiting about 6 years, I finally got the chance to personally thank someone who has created a foundation that has provided me with the ability and support to not only stay alive, but to really live and thrive! I am so, so, so grateful for this opportunity and feeling extremely happy that I was finally able to express verbally and emotionally my deepest and purest gratitude.

Terry M. –

I have lost 35 lbs and am at my goal. Didn’t do it sitting in front of a TV with a bag of chips!

Stephanie Cocoa M - The knowledge that tomorrow I’m going to be even better than I am today! :)

Winners, please contact Michelle (at) spaweekmedia (dot) com with your mailing address + phone number within two business days (by Thursday, 5/31 at 4pm EST) and we’ll send you your hoodies right away!

#SpaWeekSweet16 Party Wrap: Trending and SWEET!

WOWOWOW what a party that was!!! We are floating on spa cloud nine. Thank you so much to all our @SPAWEEK partiers – we are overwhelmed with joy over all our friends who celebrated our Sweet Sixteen this afternoon, bearing gift-wrapped tweets and virtual spa dance moves, cutting up the dance floor like you were sixteen again. The Sweet Sixteen invitation got you there… now it’s time for a recap!

The #SpaWeekSweet16 got jumping right away. Within 12 minutes we were the #2 trending topic in New York (we do not count the promoted one)… and within 19 minutes we were the #3 trending topic in the Unites States! Check it:

The party was so popular that we had a slew of party crashers (spammers) raid our sweet celebration, but they couldn’t break our beat. We even found out that @SPAWEEK became the #1 trend in the United States! Check out Trendsmap.com earlier today:

We started off the party with some sweet de-stressing – a bunch of you said journaling helps you stay relaxed – and not surprisingly, blogging helps too! It’s modern day journaling. A LOT of you prefer your relaxation in the form of massages. Things started to get sweaty as we chatted inspirational workouts like intenSati, and our love for steam rooms and saunas. For two hours we raged on about the sweet fountain of youth, favorite skin and body products, sweet feet, not-so-sweet feet, good vibrations, chakras, 16 ear candles, our deep, deep love for sweet, sweet massages, sweet scrubs, and we admitted our sweet tooth guilty pleasure… chocolate! But as it turns out, we don’t have to feel so guilty after all. You shared the beauty routines you can’t live without – thank you for waxing. You fully support Dina’s weekly blowout habit and you’re ready to try something new with your lashes!

Then, @SPAWEEK was sent to #TwitterJail when we reached tweet-capactiy and @MichelleJoni had to sweep in as ringleader, but it didn’t slow us down. You shared all the benefits you’ve reaped from the spa lifestyle – from helping migraines to avoiding surgery. You indulged in 16 sweet spa ingredients. You made new friends that will last a Twitter lifetime. And then, of course, after the party, everyone was zonked in need of a spa day and went to spaweek.com to book their week of Wellness Gone Wild#50dollartreatments for April 16-22. That is, if you hadn’t already.

None of this would have been possible without the help of our beautiful party co-hosts! @RedDoorSpas, @intenSati, @AgingBackwards, @BiteSzWellness, @WellnessTravel, @WhereIsMyGuru, @SpaTravelGal, @FashionOffice, @GirlsLunchOut, @MomMostTraveled, @CharChronicles, @MommyPosh, @BeehiveBlog and @RachelFerrucci… thank you for helping make our Sweet Sixteen a raging success!

And of course… thank you to our prize sponsors. Six winners who helped make our Virtual Sweet Sixteen memorable have scored themselves a $50 @SpaWeekGiftCard, a dozen delicious @GTownCupcakes delivered to your door, a party makeup package from @Topshop and an extra strength anti-aging facial peel from @dgskincare!

CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNERS:

@breaduh for her DIY spa advice! And because she, too went to Twitter jail @breaduh_too

@LifebyCynthia because she REALLY needs the spa (and promises to get a few #50dollartreatments in San Diego this @SPAWEEK! Right???)

@CourtneyLeiva for taking a stand for beauty snobs, and also sharing her #beautycommandments.

@LuckyMel8 because she loves getting the GUNK out of her ears (16 ear candles), and for high-fiving for Dina’s high maintenance weekly blowout habit!

@jztlikehvn because she massages her baby to sleep! (So does @LuckyMel8 above, actually. Baby massage is for winners.)

@momUNblogger because the second she left the party she booked a Spa Week massage! According to one of her other tweets the best part of the massage is “when you are so blissed out you are almost asleep but not quite.” It’s the best!

Winners, please email us at daily(at)spaweekmedia.com within 3 business days and include your mailing address, phone number and Twitter handle. We can’t wait to send you your sweet prizes!

Now everyone, I’m sure you need a break after partying so hard, so make sure you go book your Spa Week treatments ASAP!

YES YOU DID! Patricia Moreno’s Daily Affirmations Challenge: Completed

Sunday marked the last day of Empowered Living Expert Patricia Moreno’s YES I CAN! Daily Affirmations Challenge. Patricia, founder of The intenSati Method, challenged us to do one of the most important things we can do: be nice to ourselves. She urged us to get up every day and say positive affirmations out loud. It was that simple, so why is this so challenging?

Patricia’s challenge helped me take my already-positive outlook on life to the next level. It’s easy to point out all the things that are not perfect in your life, but complaining won’t make you thinner, more confident or change the situation you are in. More than ever lately, thanks to Patricia’s Challenge (and my friend Michelle who introduced me to Patricia and the intenSati phenomenon), I’ve come to the realization that I can accept myself as “perfect” just as I am. I’ve always made goals but I had never made a goal to just be me.

Everything can completely change in a day so if you don’t appreciate who you are and what you have today, you may miss out on letting the one person who most needs to hear that you love them – yourself. After getting up each day and telling myself the things I may have not usually said out loud, but they were the things I needed to hear, I started to feel more empowered. They became truths sewn into my being. Now day by day,  I see all the possibilities of positivity and all of the possibilities of being me. I am in control. And to think I could heal my mind with my own mind all along! What I give is what I get. And  the more I give myself, the more I love myself.

On the last day of the Challenge, Patricia hosted a record-breaking intenSati class aboard the USS Intrepid; over 150 of her intenSati Warriors dressed in bright, happy colors and shouted affirmations from the landmark vessel, echoing across the Hudson River. Imagine the collective empowerment felt with everyone – as ONE – getting a full body workout in tandem with affirmations such as:

YES I CAN!
Yes I am ready!
I will act now
I challenge myself to reach for something better
All negative thoughts STOP right now!
I set my self free with positivity!
I am a magnet for success I now lay my fears to rest
I am activating excellence
I am divine light
I have what it takes, I am perfect in every way

While the challenge is over, this is one challenge that we hope you continue to pursue. Thank you to all those who shared and expressed your favorite of Patricia’s affirmations and we were truly inspired by the participants who shared their own affirmations and motivators.

Rob C: Focus creates perfection.

Lisa D: Focusing on the positives! My mother and I keeping each other accountable and are making sure we don’t get negative!

Desiree T: Making progress is my number 1 priority! I have the courage and confidence to pursue my dreams!

Suzette M: It’s all working out, I suspend my doubt. I am never giving up, I am in it to win it. I have the courage and the confidence to pursue my dreams.

Lori C: I have the courage and confidence to pursue my dreams!! – you bet cha!

Sam W: staying focused. allowing my new promotion. spreading the word thru new classes and with new faces. enjoying our peace at home. the good I desire…

Renae B: Right now its all working out, I suspend my doubt!

Elaine M: I am full of energy and love!!!

Maria F: think as if and i become…

Mara H: I am a magnet for success I now lay my fears to rest

Janine M: I appreciate this day, I am grateful in every way!

Karissa B: “I choose to know the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is.” Wow! It’s amazing how quickly affirmations start working their magic.

Geri D: “Every day, in a very true way, I co-create my reality.” I put this affirmation on my bathroom mirror to remind me how I can change daily. I lost 106 pounds but then had a serious injury and have just undergone knee replacement. This affirmation helps me every day get back on track and work towards my goals.

And now to award the winner of the YES I CAN! Challenge with a $50 Spa & Wellness Gift Cards

Cassandra M: I breathe in Positivity and I breathe out Negativity! Every step is a victory and every fall is a lesson. I appreciate this day, I am grateful in every way!

Thank you for all sharing your words of self-love and don’t forget to keep telling them to yourself!

 

 

Winners, please contact daily(at)spaweekmedia(dot)com within 3 business days to redeem your prize.

Live Inspired! 10 People & Blogs You Should Be Following NOW

Life challenges you, tests you, and changes you. Time will make you a better version of yourself, but only if you let it. If someone asked you to choose between being happy and being sad, you wouldn’t have to think twice. So with our current Challenge in mind (see #4), it’s time to take on a positive outlook on your life and see all the possibilities.

Need some help getting a little more pep in your step? For words of advice, or just words of love, here are our favorite inspirational bloggers, websites and personalities that stimulate and invigorate. Ignite your life with just a few clicks a day! Pair with the wellness lifestyle for optimal living.

1. The Whirling Blog

Gene-Manuel Whirling, artist and editor of The Whirling Blog, decided one day to stop daydreaming and start living. He found that one of the best parts of living was sharing experiences with others. In Gene’s world, Mondays are a fresh start, Fridays are a day for fun and sharing, and every day is a reminder to love yourself (you can subscribe to his Daily <3 Reminders for the full Whirling experience). When you share in Gene’s beautiful world, you leave a little bit and take a whole lot with you. Yesterday we asked Gene-Manuel if he had a message specifically for Spa Week Daily readers, and he did!

“You deserve the very best that life has to offer. Whether that involves a luxurious spa treatment, the perfect vacation spot, or just downtime with a loved one, it’s alright to take care of yourself! When you are JOY-FULL, you radiate that joy out into the Universe and everyone benefits. Love who you are.”

T H I N K  ☮  W H I R L  ☮  P E A C E

2. The Daily Love

Mastin Kipp created The Daily Love after a quest to find his true purpose. On his journey to find true happiness and inner peace, Mastin discovered an “inspirational buffet of knowledge” and started sharing. After a little twitter bird named Kim Kardashian suggested to her over 2 million followers that they should follow @TheDailyLove, they went from 1,000 followers to 10,000 overnight and now have over 300,000 followers. The Daily Love blends wisdom with style and delivers messages for a fast paced lifestyle, for insight and mentoring on the go. #TDL

“We at The Daily Love refer to the Universe as The Uni-verse. Why is this? We like to point out the obvious beauty in this simple word. Uni = one. Verse = song. Together, in all our own unique ways, we are all participating in One Song. We believe that underlying and orchestrating this One Song is a creative and benevolent Presence that has our best interest in mind.”

3. oneness. in the city.

A writer and consciousness cheerleader, Margaret Nichols is a recognized leader and trainer in the Oneness Movement. The goal of “Oneness” is to “help set humanity free.” She has trained with monks in India and Fiji and now teaches in New York, as well as mentoring other trainers nationally.  Margaret believes in vibing with the infinite expanse of our own grace and feels that wonderment should be more a common household than Wonderbread. She is teaching a higher state of consciousness in high heels, and we like that. Ohm!

“I want you to be enlightened. Like Buddha. Like, NOW. I’m here to help.”

4. Sati Life – Patricia Moreno

Patricia Moreno is a pioneer of physical and spiritual transformation, and a leader in the global fitness and wellness industries. She is also Spa Week’s Empowered Living Expert and we featured her wildly inspiring 16 Rules to Living Empowered. Have you joined her Daily Affirmations Challenge and said YES I CAN? Patricia is founder of the unique motivational workout intenSati, and we can’t get enough of her positivity and can-do attitude! Patricia’s enthusiasm, energy, and belief that EVERYONE can live a life they love in a body they love are infectious.

“Patricia inspires people all over the world to live a life they love in a body they love… NOW!”

5. Erin Stutland Magical Manifesters

Erin Stutland lives in NYC and is a dancer turned actress turned motivator. Erin’s mission is to educate and empower people in a fun, entertaining, tell-it-like-it-is way. Erin is an inspirational mover and a shaker. She’s a life coach who works one-on-one to help people personally and professionally, and also offers her services through her hands-on and very affordable digital courses. She wants to move you mentally, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and physically – can you shake that?

“Instead of thinking about what might be nice someday (in your career, your body, your finances, your relationships), I am passionate about helping you do it,  have it,  and live it, moment to moment. It’s possible. It really is.”

6. Woulda Coulda Shoulda

We’ve all made excuses and said the “shoulda, coulda, woulda,” but Miriam Kamin, a freelance writer in Atlanta, decided to take control of her choices and her life. She accepts that she may not be living the life she had expected to, but she is embracing the life she is living (and wouldn’t have it any other way). Mariam is a little bit of all of us with struggles in love, work and just figuring out who you are and loving  it.

“I’m living a life I never planned for but now cannot imagine being any other way. And yes—after all these years—I’m still writing my way through it, laughing at myself as much as possible, trying to make sure that I end up with only the right regrets.”

7. DailyGood

DailyGood was born when one college student started sharing inspiration with his friends by sending them an enriching quote every day. Today, DailyGood leverages the internet to promote positive and uplifting news around the world to more than 100,000 subscribers through its daily and weekly newsletters. Readers receive some form of inspiration including news stories, inspiring quotes, or a suggested positive action. The entire project is fully run by dedicated volunteers who contribute hundreds of hours. With all the spam in the world, we could all use a little good in our inboxes.

“The world is full of everyday heroes and true stories of transformation. They have helped sustain life down the ages in a multitude of ways, small, simple and profound. DailyGood aims to shine a light on these stories and in doing so to change the nature of our conversations. If it can spread a few smiles along the way it’s purpose is served.”

8. Zen Habits

Leo Babauta is the creator and writer of Zen Habits. Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of life. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. Zen Habits features articles on simplicity, health & fitness, frugality, family life, happiness, goals, and living in the moment. Any father of six kids should have some wisdom to share with the rest of us. Some of his most popular posts are titled “breathe.” be still.” andthe barefoot philosophy.” We feel better already.

“Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.”

9. Where Is My Guru

Where is My Guru is a weekly online radio show and social media hub dedicated to advancing the melioration of individuals, communities and the environment. Each Friday Jessica Durivage, the founder, and partner-in-crime Diane Ferraro hosts a wide variety of guests walking their talk and sharing their vision. Their listener-ship is comprised of mindful individuals who are committed to making positive social change.

“We believe that through the power of our voices and intentions, we may enact the change we wish to see in the world. Our online social radio show brings a unique experience to the realm of online social media, providing a platform for people to speak their truth, share their wisdom, and LOL in real-time.”

10. Positively Positive

Positively Positive is all about optimism and inspiration. It is about seeing the possibility within each person—and within each day gifted us. Their goal is simple: to bring uplifting voices and messages to our community every day. Their growing supply of blog posts, videos, and handpicked quotations are designed to remind us that there is good in every situation, and possibility in every person. Their contributors and guests hail from every conceivable walk of life, from Olympic Gold Medalists, to kids fighting for their lives, to everyday people wanting to make a difference in the world.

“We’re here every day to help keep your Positivity Tank topped off. And maybe you’ll find something here that brightens your day a little. Or maybe, just maybe, you’ll find something that changes your life.”

 

16 Rules To Living Empowered – By Patricia Moreno

“You are a powerful force for positive change.” Patricia Moreno, Spa Week’s Empowered Living Expert and founder of the unique motivational workout intenSati, is a bottomless barrel of inspiration. Well, a very tall, physically fit, energetic and smiley barrel.

Patricia has already given you a long list of things you should say EVERY DAY in order to feel and live empowered in her YES I CAN! Daily Affirmations Challenge, starting with: Yes I am. Yes I will. Yes I am ready. Making progress is my number 1 priority. I choose to focus on the good I desire. I am done complaining. I am ready to live a life of love. I am willing to succeed I have all I need. All I need is within me now. Have you joined the challenge?

Just like every single word in Patricia Moreno’s challenge – and intenSati classes – inspire me, EVERY SINGLE word on this list she created for Spa Week Daily is exactly what I needed to hear in this stage of my life. I hope you feel the same. Now go and live empowered… starting by saying YES! to life exactly as it is.