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30 Days of Yoga… Take Up the Challenge?

With New Years resolutions already falling by the wayside, yoga studios all over are capitalizing on the lack of resolve by offering another chance for instituting change.

To get your sorry butt off the sofa stir the embers of motivation, perhaps a little challenge might be in order.  The 30 Day Yoga Challenge might be what you- and I, Buddha knows!- need to be finding our way to the mat more regularly.

Beginning February 1st, we shall all commit to practicing every day. Every day.  If you miss a day, it’s to be made up on the following.

Remember, it’s a Challenge.

Perhaps you find it easier participating with a class, such as that at Vancouver’s Yogapod, as many studios are offering such programs.  The beauty of this is, of course, you can always do it on your own.

Choose your venue.  Choose your style… and for heaven’s sake, feel free to choose the time of day and the length of practice that works best for your schedule.  Keep in mind that this has less to do with the 30 days you’ve committed than to instituting real change in your life and health.

As I consider my own commitment, I know that here in the sticks I don’t have the benefit of a studio that can provide me with such a program. I’m on my own.  With no one but my lone reader many readers to keep me honest.

30 days?  Dare I say… I’m in?!

Wham Bam, Thank You… 10 Minutes to Glory!

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This summer has been a BUSY one, unfortunately at the expense of regular posts here at my beloved MommyOm.  But in my BUSY-ness, I’ve come across a life saver.

Regular practice was in grave danger earlier this summer of falling entirely off my radar, with all of the demands overwhelming between work, kids, husband… and well, just plain life.

I’ve written before of how my life is really just a series of ebbs and flows and this summer has truly reflected that.  And while I’ve been having a ball in the other areas of my life, practice, and fitness in general, really weren’t making it on the radar.

The absence wasn’t going unnoticed, however, and I decided, if I was going to keep things together and moving forward most effectively, at the very least, yoga (as the most enjoyable of my physical pursuits) had to given some priority.

But I knew, going from a month or so of doing nothing to all of a sudden committing an hour of my day to a practice around work, home, WAH husband and school at home kids I needed to start gently and set a goal I knew I could meet.

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