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"Yogaworks Instructor Katie Malachuk is an admissions coach when she's not teaching downward facing dog. Talk about two seemingly VERY different fields--and yet... Not! Her new book, You're Accepted: Lose the Stress. Discover Yourself. Get... Yogaworks Instructor Katie Malachuk is an admissions coach when she's not teaching downward facing dog. Talk about two seemingly VERY different fields--and yet... Not! Her new book, You're Accepted: Lose the Stress. Discover Yourself. Get into the college that's right for you aims to help teens turn the application process from a frenzied stressed out situation to something calmer and more meaningful. Some of her tips include:\n\n\"Make the journey the destination. Yoga students everywhere know how thrilling it is the first time you successfully kick up into handstand. However, getting your feet above your head is not going to change your life. The real prize is the lessons you learned on your way up - perseverance, patience, playfulness, and poise. The same thing goes when applying to college. Instead of focusing on the outcome, get curious about what you can learn from process itself - what's important to you, what you love to do, what you hope to accomplish in life. If you use this experience for self-discovery, you can walk away with not only a school acceptance but also a far more precious gift: self-acceptance.\"\n\n\"Be yourself. The biggest mistake applicants make is trying to be what they think schools want. Yoga philosophy tells us that we don't need to accumulate a bunch of stuff to be the best version of ourselves. So drop the notion of adding stuff you don't care about to your resume just for marketing. Instead find the extra-curriculars and courses that help you follow your bliss - the things you love to do that reveal your true self. Because being perfect on paper is nowhere near as fun or interesting as being perfectly you.\"\n\n\"Do your own practice. It's tempting during yoga practice to look around the room, envying people with beautiful poses, fit bodies, fancier clothes. It's easy to fall into this pattern when applying to college too, wishing you had the grades or scores or resume of those around you. But nothing messes you up more in life than wanting to be someone other than fabulous you. Try to do your own practice - stay focused on your life rather than coveting someone else's. Maybe you can even slip into your bigger person suit and move from competition into compassion. If you give out affirmation and support to your friends and classmates, it will come right back to you. And you'll all feel better for it.\"\n\n\"Breath. Ok, it's the understatement of all understatements to say that breathing is important. But during stressful times like this, breathing can help your mind as well as your body. As you move through yoga poses that are uncomfortable and difficult, you try to stay focused on your breath. Slowing down and deepening your breath can chill you out. When you're in the thick of stress around SATs, essays, parents' requests, schoolwork, see if you can pause and take three long, slow, smooth breaths. It's like a mini-vacation, and your body and mind will thank you for it. Try it right now!\"\n\nI should mention, btw, that Katie graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and has an MBA from Stanford. So clearly she knows what she's talking about! Check out her book at barnesandnoble.com!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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