YOU can join the Yoga Challenge where ever you are!

 

    Whether you are currently taking yoga classes or it has been months or years, YOU are invited to participate in a 40-day yoga challenge. It’s FREE!

    Consistent practice, or sadhana, has been a part of yoga tradition for thousands of years.  It’s a commitment you make to yourself to practice something over a period of time, traditionally 40 days or more. An example of a sadhana is the practice some Catholics undertake to avoid meat or meat on Fridays during the season of Lent (it is 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday). However, the focus of this practice is tocultivate a healthy habit, rather than give up an unhealthy one.

 

What is a Yoga Challenge? It’s a commitment you make to practice something, preferably every day.  Examples:

  • A 15 minute yoga asana practice  (asana)
  • 10 minutes or one page written in a journal (self study or svadhyaya)
  • 10 minutes of silent meditation or centering prayer ( dhyana)
  • stop complaining (one of the niyamas is contentment, or santosa)
  • instead of eating candy,  have fruit (another niyama is cleanliness or sauca)
  • give something away to Goodwill or Gift and Thrift (one of the yamas is non-hoarding or aparigraha)

 

Hint: I strongly suggest that for this challenge you pick ONE thing that is simple enough you can do it every day. That will make it easier to win the arguments you will have with your Excuse Monster. However, you may commit to 5 days out of 7 if necessary.

Hint: Make your commitment  Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and give it a Time frame (daily for 40 days, or 5 days out of  7 for 40 days.) Don’t pick “tell the truth.”  Instead, you might make a commitment to write a journal entry each day about how “telling the truth”(satya) entered into your day (or not!)

 

Who can participate: Anyone who wants to deepen their yoga practice!

How: Everyone who wants to participate will email me or tell me what your commitment is. I will compile a list and post it on the “what’s new” page of my website. You can remain anonymous, if you’d like.

  • support:I will provide a calendar template and simple handout on structuring a home yoga practice.
  • phone support: New this year, there will be an opportunity to check in with conference calls at the beginning, half-way, and at the end of the challenge.

 

When: February 17- March 28, 2010.  Local students completing the 40-day challenge will be entered in a drawing to win a prize!

Diana Woodall, vrksasana@hotmail.com,   (540) 432-9642

 

 

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