Yesterday, I marked the end of my 31 day yoga and meditation challenge. For the entire month of May, I committed to a minimum of an hour of daily yoga practice and a few minutes of daily meditation. Like most great ideas born of small stuff, this one started from a casual question; I shared my 10 Day Yoga Challenge from last year, wondering who may want to join me for a second round and seriously expecting no one to respond in kind. I was most delightfully wrong.
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Mental Musings of a post Family Reunion and a new Decision
March 20th 2010 – The first day of spring and the Iranian new year more commonly known as Nowruz (spelled at least half a dozen different ways in its tangled translation to modern English). The dawn of a new day, new season, and new beginnings. In a traditional Persian style, one of my cousins married his new bride. What marks the occasion in particular is not only the happy couple and our celebration of their love and union, which we tended to in abundance, but a family reunion that had been long since overdue.
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A Yoga Breakthrough and 8 Ways to Build a Conscious Practice
It is only now, after nearly 8 years of on and off the mat yoga practice, growing, regressing, obsessing, trying, giving up, and returning again and again to yoga, that I am making a small breakthrough, one for which I dearly wish a permanent stay. The irony of the breakthrough itself is humbling. It is imperceptible in my outer form and vibrating with excitement in my inner core. [Read more…] about A Yoga Breakthrough and 8 Ways to Build a Conscious Practice
A Thought Process: The Ebbs and Flows of Self-discipline
The Experience:
It used to be I said I was going to do something and I would do it. It was as factual, as simple and as expected as the rising of the sun and the passage of time. There were no obstacles strong enough to keep me from reaching my goals. There was a determination, borderline obsession and mania of always achieving, always believing and never letting up.
I loved operating in that state of mind. It was exhausting but it had results. I called it my unfailing self-discipline. [Read more…] about A Thought Process: The Ebbs and Flows of Self-discipline
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