Kickstart 2010: After 30 days, what next?

If you started with me on 15 January then you are coming to the end of your 30 days. If you started later, it doesn’t make any difference because the point, now that I can be totally honest with you, is not to practice yoga every day for 30 days. The point is to make space every day to practice yoga.

Kickstart 2010: Are we having fun yet?

If you started your 30 days of yoga sadhana on January 15th then you’ve been practicing for 10 days now. You are one third of the way through your sadhana.
Are you having fun yet?
Maybe that seems like a strange question. Maybe you expect yoga to be serious?
It is. At least, it is profound. My experience [...]

Kickstart 2010: No pain, no gain?

No pain, no gain?
We’ve been trained to think this way – to believe that we have to suffer in order to achieve anything of real merit.
We’ve been taught to believe that things that come easily are not worth as much as those things that we struggle for.
We’ve been educated to believe that being busy is [...]

Kickstart 2010: Setting a sankalpa (intention)

Today is the first new moon of 2010 and I am celebrating – as I’ve already explained – by giving myself a little bit more of what I need. I’m beginning a new 30 day cycle of sadhana or committed yoga practice.
Some of you are coming along with me for the journey. Thank you so [...]

Kickstart 2010 with a commitment to your yoga practice

by guest author Marianne Elliot
Okay – as promised – here is everything you need to know to join me in starting 2010 with yoga.
I’ll be starting my 30 day sadhana (Kara-Leah wrote more about sadhana, what they are and why we do them here) on 15 January because it is the first new moon [...]

Part 4: Completion of the loving-kindness sadhana, Day 30 to Day 40

This was the easiest sadhana (daily spiritual practice) I’ve done. Simply sitting cross-legged and repeating four lines (in English no less!) over and over.
May I be filled with loving-kindness
May I be well
My I be peaceful and at ease
May I be happy
I finished yesterday, with a twenty minute meditation. Yet this morning, getting stuck into work, [...]

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