Winston Cortez Ward

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Cortez Training Distance Zero Yoga is a Hour Registered Yoga Teacher RYT with Yoga Alliance which acknowledges the completion of the Mindful Resilience Yoga Teacher Training with the Veterans Yoga Project VYP Registered Yoga School RYS and Registered with the VYP Teachers Alliance VYPTA   Mantras         “Omna Shva Bahksha”- “I am enlightened by my true self”                “We should not live life condemned by what happens to us but                           focused on what we make happen for us”     Preface                 As the owner of a Non-Profit Holistic Health & Fitness Company my motto is that we must have “Function Before Fitness” Yoga is that function The nature of yoga is remarkable because of the power it has to help people in its versatility Yoga can incorporate sound aroma and physical therapy Yoga aligns mind body and spirit through its universal style Yoga is holistic yoga is enlightenment but most of all yoga is yours                  Yoga is your exploration of the relationships you make between yourself and everything else Yoga can help to clarify your path in life "Divine timing describes our existence" Everything will happen the way it should and when it should even if we cant measure it in the infinite space and time The effort to reach this understanding of self and divine timing and the comfort this enlightenment has to offer to you is yoga    Background                   Born in Chicago raised in upstate NY with roots from Northern Louisiana Cortez had very humble beginnings Not from a place of security & nurturing but from a place of struggle & tribulation as a minority and underprivileged youth Joining the Military while still in high school Cortez utilized it as a means to be the first person in his family to attend college He put in % effort into practicing trades training vigorously remaining resilient after damaging his body and eventually accrued severe injuries in the line of duty Returning home to those same humble beginnings he found further hardship and financial burden making mistakes and serving incarceration As a minority with African Puerto Rican & Native American Heritage Cortezs life goal was always to be healthy maintain righteousness Equality & unity within himself and among people “Life Balance” In yoga we can find grounding not only through practice & intention but also through experiences These humble beginnings offered that grounding for him a start to his Life Balance However he realized that there is a lot more than grounding to achieve this Cortez continues to seek the rest of his Life Balance through Yoga & Functional Fitness & strives to help others find it using the same methods Offering to others that identify with these beginnings or perhaps have their own journey to yoga.