03 :: One Last Challenge for 2018

When I first started practicing Bikram yoga it was not long until I was introduced to the 30-Day Challenge. I was unable to participate but I watched as other students went on, day after day, placing their stickers onto the Challenge sheet. When the thirty days were nearing completion, the instructors those who missed out to sign up to join students who were going continue on for a 60-Day Challenge. I still didn’t sign up.

This year has got me thinking a lot about my practice; what are my intentions with my yoga? It is an apparent and a nebulous thing. There are many… many ways in which yoga has impacted my life; distilled down I would say that through yoga, I am making a better, healthier me.

This December I set the intention to do 31 classes over 31 days. I set this challenge for myself because I wanted to reprogram how I think about how many classes I can practice and teach over 31 days. It feels like I’ve been letting myself excuse myself from practicing because I taught two classes earlier in the day. I’m too dehydrated. I’m low on energy; I was telling myself this before I checked in to see if I was either of those things. I am using this month to get this silliness out of my head.