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“I’m glad you’re here”
It felt like a ghost-town when I walked into the gym this morning at 6am. I expected it to be light because of the holiday, but it was barren. And as I was making my way past the Chest machines, this...
View ArticleGotta love Horoscopes
What I love about daily Horoscopes is the way they all speak with an open-hearted positivity, whatever your Zodiac sign may be. And I mean all. Just read your Horoscope today, and check out your...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
Enjoy your Mother’s Day everyone, and especially remember to respect yourself and others when celebrating. And don’t forget your daily exercise with today’s 5 Minute Fat Burning Workout #74 – Chest...
View ArticleInvest in yourself
For the past 75 days, I’ve been posting videos and blogging about the benefits of a daily fitness program. These short and effective workouts are meant to put a fat burning spark in your day, as well...
View ArticleFriends and honesty, do they match?
I was speaking with a friend this morning about telling your best friend something that’s true, but may hurt their feelings. Or worse yet, may drive your best friend away, especially if they’re in a...
View ArticleDo it with consistency…like the self-flushing toilet
Exactly 219 years ago today, the toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals was patented. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could automatically set yourself to exercise at regular intervals? That would...
View ArticleOffset today’s fear with a new fitness routine
Superstition holds today, Friday the 13th, to be a day of bad luck. Nonsense, right? Well, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, “an estimated...
View ArticleDon’t let time waste you
William Shakespeare once said, “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” For anyone who’s ever read the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, this is some pretty straightforward prose. Or is it? Because...
View ArticleDon’t Make Assumptions
When was last time your friend called to say someone hasn’t called her back because she thinks “blah-blah-blah”? And the reason for “blah-blah-blah” is because what your friend thinks doesn’t really...
View ArticleSlow and steady wins the race
Everybody’s read Aesop’s fable, The Hare and the Tortoise, right? It’s about a hare who vainly boasts of his great running speed and challenges the slow tortoise to a race. However outpaced, in the...
View ArticleFitness + Family = Fun
Yesterday I taught a one-hour fat burning class at a domestic violence shelter in San Diego on behalf of my charity, The Boulevard Zen Foundation. I was excited to teach about ten children (ages 3 –...
View ArticleTry and try again
This morning I read the obituary for Dick Wimmer, a creative writing instructor and author who was turned down by publishers and agents 162 times over 25 years. His first novel, Irish Wine, was...
View ArticleWho can forget “the Nineties”?
Now who can forget the end of Modernity and the start of the current Postmodern Age? And what do you remember most? Is it the World Wide Web and the Internet Boom, MP3s and mobile phones, Amazon and...
View ArticleRemind yourself often
Samuel Johnson, the English poet, author and lexicographer who after nine years of work published the Dictionary of English Language (circa 1755) once said, “People need to be reminded more often than...
View ArticleMake it a Religion
I met a thirty-something year old gal in the gym this morning who’s there religiously, Monday-Friday, but never on the weekends. When I asked why, she said “because she likes to sleep a lot to get...
View ArticleMaximize Gains and Minimize Injury
This week I updated my YouTube Channel home page (click HERE to check it out) and changed my Profile section. For anyone my age or even 10 years younger, this New Age internet world with all it’s...
View ArticleEat Smart
Everybody understands the concept of eating smart, right? And what a great time to get mentally prepared for the long holiday weekend by consciously respecting your body with a smart approach to...
View ArticleBenefits of balancing
Balancing poses are great for the mind and body because they help you develop lightness, strength, agility, muscle tone, coordination, concentration, self-confidence and overall control of your body....
View ArticleLonger days for better bodies
In exactly three weeks (June 21st), the summer solstice will occur when the days are longest and the nights are shortest. I’m not sure about you, but I certainly prefer the daytime when it comes to...
View ArticleArsenal of Exercises
For the past 98 days, I’ve been coming up with different fat burning workouts that are uniquely challenging, simple and short. No special equipment or anything else required. Just yourself, a device...
View ArticleFail over and over again
Michael Jordan, one of basketball’s greatest players, once said, “I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot – and...
View Article100 Workouts in 100 Days
When you read this you might think, what’s so special about exercising 5 minutes a day, everyday, for 100 straight days? I mean, you walk around and climb stairs everyday at work and home, and even...
View ArticleVacation workout
Twelve days ago I posted my 100th video/blog for my 100 days of 5 minute, low-impact, yoga-based, fat burning workouts. Since then I visited my family in New Jersey, and spent some time with friends...
View ArticleMind games never work
I was working out next to this very large twenty-something year old guy in the gym the other day when he says to his friend, “I told myself I’m going to lose 15 pounds, so when I don’t make it and only...
View ArticleTake compliments to Heart
Oftentimes we receive compliments from friends or people we recently met, and just let them slide off us without really absorbing their energy. That is to say, really taking compliments to heart and...
View ArticleKeep it like Clarence Clemons
I just read an LA Times editorial by Randy Lewis expressing his appreciation for the late Clarence Clemons. Similar to Randy, I’ve also been a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fan for more than...
View ArticleAre you Free Squared?
The other night I had dinner with Stephani Drapeau, my dear friend and co-star of my film, Boulevard Zen. We were discussing the concept of “freeing your mind and your soul” from anything that...
View ArticleI believe in you Ladies!
This goes out to all the Ladies living at the domestic violence shelter in San Diego where I taught a 2-hour yoga & lifestyle class last night. Because after teaching a 75 minute yoga class...
View ArticleDomestic Violence, Yoga & Hollywood Sneak Peek
We’ll soon begin a 30,000 journey across America visiting all 50 states – 100 Cities in 100 Days – to raise money for my charity, The Boulevard Zen Foundation. We teach yoga to women and children...
View Article100 Cities in 100 Days
Coming Soon!!! Rich Tola’s Fat Burn America Tour: 100 Cities in 100 Days Check out the full length Hollywood Sneak Peek. We’ll be doing this in every City!
View ArticleBenefits of Yoga
The Boulevard Zen Foundation teaches the benefits of yoga to women and children living in domestic violence shelters. That’s why we’re going on the FAT BURN AMERICA TOUR: 100 CITIES in 100 DAYS, to...
View ArticleGet Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable
The other day I met a bodybuilder who said he tried yoga and hated it because it made him “feel uncomfortable”. I responded with just one word, “exactly”. Simple put, yoga demands you to get...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Permeates
By the time you’re 10 years old your subconscious has formed and thereafter differentiates between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. For example, if you grew up with a mother or father who was a...
View ArticleGYST #26: Don’t Be A Hypocrite
Hypocrisy is a slow, painful cancer to the soul, so whatever you do, Don’t Be A Hypocrite. Here’s 6 reasons why with a little help from Academy Award winner, Ben Kingsley, and the cast of Sundance Film...
View ArticleGYST #27: Find Your Bliss (with Yoga)
Looking for a way to find great joy or happiness in your life (i.e, your Bliss)? What about Yoga, and more specifically, what exactly is this 6,000 year-old Hindu philosophy that prescribes a course of...
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Tola Talks with Fashionista Valeria Goncharova Barrett
https://richtola.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TolaTalks091114.mp3 Tola Talks with fashionista Valeria Goncharova Barrett. On Throwback Thursdays, Rich takes us back to the highlights of 2001 –...
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Tola Talks with Relationship Expert Jennifer Gaynor-Yaker
https://richtola.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TolaTalks092314.mp3 Tola Talks love & relationships with expert Jennifer Gaynor-Yaker. On Top 10 Tuesdays, Rich also recounts his former party...
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Tola Talks Movie Mondays & Keanu Reeves’ John Wick
https://richtola.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TolaTalks102714.mp3 Tola Talks about High School students & terror in Washington, disappearing Dads & stadium searches, NFL rookies & stupid...
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Tola Talks 7 Ways to Resolve to Evolve
Tola Talks about his 7 Ways to Resolve to Evolve: 1) Pluck from Your Past 2) Create Clear Intentions 3) Let Go of the Past 4) Ask Why Not? 5) Forgive Your Failures 6) Begin Again 7) Believe You Can...
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Conscious Living: 10 Years & Counting
This morning I read an article by psychotherapist Bonnie Katz about the emotional roller coaster ride Actors are subject to throughout their careers – especially those of us auditioning for that...
View ArticleTola Yoga for Beginners…and Yes, it’s Challenging
Check-out yesterday’s Tola Yoga class LIVE on Periscope. 45 minutes of Yoga that anyone can do! And a special thanks to our wonderful Yoga student showing you precise poses, Elif Pilicer. Have an...
View ArticleBest $5 deal in LA for the Best Yoga Workout in the World
No doubt, Tola Yoga is that. For less than what you spend at Starbucks, come treat yourself to the best. Peace – R
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Tola Talks with Dominatrix, Mistress Eva Lee
Tola Talks gets hot and steamy with the very lovely and very passionate dominatrix, Mistress Eva Lee. We’re talking everything from BDSM subcultures to the psychological power Dommes wield over their...
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Empower your Earth Day with Tola Yoga
Hey everyone, this Sunday is Earth Day 2018, a perfect day to cleanse and re-energize your body and your mind, and of course, enlighten your soul. But wait, isn’t that a fancier way of saying, “a great...
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New! How to Drink from the Fountain of Youth
Look! It’s a book, it’s a plane, it’s a journal. Wait, it’s definitely not a plane, but yes, it’s both a book and a journal. With dozens of extra pages for Notes and Journaling as well as for...
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5 Stars on Amazon…thanks Andrea Burrows!
Click to read it on Amazon.com “Inspirational and Doable!!!! Rich Tola’s chapter by chapter self help advice is an inspirational and motivational book that should be read by anyone who wants to be...
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Tola Yoga on Zoom – New Passcode
Hey everyone, we figured out Zoom and made it easier for you with a new Passcode: tolayoga. Same Meeting ID: 917 1004 1603 and start time 9a (PT). Go to Zoom.us this Saturday – and every Saturday...
View ArticleFountain of Youth Wins The Firebird Book Award
EIGHTY FOUR AUTHORS AWARDED THE FIREBIRD BOOK AWARD April 2021 – Speak Up Talk Radio announced the winners of 2021’s first quarter FIREBIRD BOOK AWARDS contest. Eighty four winners were announced in...
View ArticleTop 10 Phobias – Ep 13 – Tola Talks Texas
Today we’re having some fun with the Top 10 Phobias that have millions of Americans shaking in their boots. Because fear of anything including the number 13 is usually a bad thing that controls your...
View ArticleNever Live in Fear – Ep 20 – Tola Talks Texas
Today is all about doing whatever it takes to never live in fear. Because during the past two years of this COVID pandemic, the powers to be have done their best to control you by instilling fear in...
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