Leverage Your Life with the Power of Yoga and Meditation with Sid McNairy

Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 4 p.m.

b'Jack and Gina interview Sid McNairy to explore how you can literally change your life with the power of meditation, mindfulness, and Yoga.\\n\\nSid is a warrior who lives life fully in peace. As a previous football coach at Northern Illinois University with a major in movement and sports science from Purdue University and a master\\u2019s degree in sports administration from Eastern Illinois University, Sid\\u2019s path to healing and inspiring others was destined.\\n\\nSid\\u2019s Yoga journey started with meditation at 8 years of age with coaches that taught him to meditate. Sid first began doing the physical practice of Yoga to find a way to heal both physically and emotionally. As Sid developed his own Yoga practice, he realized many health benefits, such as the disappearance of his asthma, which had plagued him for 30 years, as well as a full range of motion in his right ankle that was fused in 1995.\\n\\nSid credits his parents with inspiring him to move forward and touch so many lives. Growing up with two successful parents, and yogis in their own right, his mother and father\\u2019s lifestyle practices instilled a foundation from which Sid could freely grow and become a yogi master. \\u201cI can\\u2026 I will\\u2026 I must\\u2026\\u201d was the mantra used in the McNairy household.\\n\\nThis later became, and has remained, the basis of his studio\\u2019s mantra. In 2016, Sid became a best-selling author with his second book, Yoga and Life Empowerment. Empowerment and Beyond was published in 2013. In 2017 Sid published his latest book, The Warrior Within, a quest for peace.\\n\\nSeptember of 2017 Sid began his mission of spreading peace throughout the world through the #peaceacrossamerica tour. Follow Sid and the tour on Instagram @sidmcnairy'