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Day 617 of my Thousand Day Practice. Ball dropped, Again!

February 22, 2018 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I was in the car, catching a ride to Day 3 of a three-day workshop with Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco. Nikki - giving me a ride - and I were talking about mountains and the energy they embody. I was sharing my recent experiences in Glenorchy, where I would sit outside at sunset and do my practice. My practice! My 1000 Day practice... The one I was up to Day 617 on... The one I... DIDN'T do yesterday. In that moment, I remembered. And shock hit. A wave of shock … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: commitment, home yoga practice, tantra

How I Dropped the Ball on Day 338 of My 1000 Day Practice

July 5, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Today is Day 138 of a 1000 Day practice I'm doing. It should be about Day 500. But earlier this year, on Day 338 something happened and I dropped the ball. I've been doing Forty Day practices for nearly a decade now. At first, it took great dedication, commitment and mindfulness to practice yoga every day for forty days in a row, especially when I was doing the same practice each day. I learned so much about myself, how my mind worked, and where I was sabotaging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Christopher Tompkins, commitment, Kashmir Shaivism, mind, patanjali, self practice, shiva rea, Vritti, Yoga Sutras

How My Ashtanga Practice Taught me to Practice Courage

September 22, 2014 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Eight limbs of yoga, as defined by Patanjali in Ashtanga Yoga (as opposed to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga as taught by Pattabhi Jois)

by guest author Pip Bennett After all that darkness of my last article, I decided I wanted to up my practice. I wanted to devote myself and commit to the Ashtanga practice as it demands: six days a week. To take on the challenge and see the benefits of a regular practice. Two weeks later, I hadn’t practiced yoga even once. It’s now been a couple of months since then. I did get myself back into the yoga room, but only for a couple of weeks. Turns out that although you can do yoga anywhere and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: ashtanga, commitment, confidence, courage, dark spaces, dissatisfaction, failure, home practice, iyengar, philosophy, running away

Be Radical: Jettison the More is Better Mindset

November 25, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Today, I sat down with a spreadsheet and whipped up a calendar for my month. I blocked out the hours when Samuel is in childcare and I wrote down all the weekly and monthly tasks I need to do to keep my business running. It was a sobering exercise. Even allowing for extra childcare hours by paying a family friend to hang out with Samuel two afternoons a week, I am trying to do more than I have hours available for. Even adding in evenings three times a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: commitment, more, over-commited, over-worked, time

I do: What it Really Means to Commit to Your Yoga Business

September 26, 2013 by Keeley Mitchell Leave a Comment

Commit to your yoga business

By guest author Keeley Mitchell, Zi Living Welcome back for another discussion from The Business Side of the Mat. In this article I wanted to delve a little deeper into the idea of committing to your business. When I speak of commitment, I am not referring to your commitment to your clients and students. I know that you are committed where that is concerned. I am referring to your commitment to running your business and growing it. It's about truly making the commitment that you will treat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, career, commitment

Why Letting Go is a Crucial Aspect of Loving Well

July 22, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

Pain is love

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's the summer of 2000 and I've just come back to Whistler, BC after nine weeks living on the side of a volcano in Maui. I'd been on a mad adventure with a man I'd meet waitressing that winter in Whistler - but that's another story. My life is packed full of stories from that time, many of them involving men. I was young, carefree and a permanent traveller. It was four years since I'd graduated my Journalism Course and bailed on New Zealand, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: anxiety, commitment, fear, Relationship, The Heart

One way that Forty Days of Yoga has revolutionised my life

February 27, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 13 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Today I did something that has the potential to revolutionise my life. I set an alarm and deliberately got up before my three year old son. I wanted to be up by 6:30am and I wanted the early morning peace and quiet to do my yoga practice. This is a huge break-through for me. Once upon a time, I effortlessly arose before 7am and spent a couple of hours on the computer writing, often getting my day's work down before 9am. I loved this - it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: asana, book, commitment, early morning practice, forty days of yoga, sun salutations

How to anchor your Forty Day practice with consistency amid fluidity

February 18, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant, author of Forty Days of Yoga In the 40,000 words of Forty Days of Yoga I give no specific instruction on asana or set sequences. That means that if you're looking for a home yoga practice book that will tell you what to do, this is not it. I know – you're looking for a magic bullet. That perfect home yoga practice that will turn you into a yogi. I know this because at workshops and in classes, via email and in comments, student after student after student asks me, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: anchor, balance, book, commitment, forty days of yoga, home yoga practice, mat resistance

From poison into potion: Why forty days of yoga is alchemy of the soul

February 10, 2013 by Melissa Billington Leave a Comment

by Melissa Billington We come into the new year with a desire to re-create ourselves, to arise out of last year and make a new start. While I personally consider Spring the new year and the place for emergence since 1582, with the advent of the Gregorian calendar, we observe the start of the new year as January 1. The Celtic calendar sets November 1(May 1 in the southern hemisphere) as the new year. They see going into the dark as the necessary first step to creation, like the child in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices Tagged With: agni, anger, chakras, commitment, discipline, fire, manipura, navel centre, power, tapas, third chakra

Keeping New Year’s Resolutions is not about willpower or discipline

January 3, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

Kara-Leah Grant

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I was up early on New Year’s Day. It’s one of my favourite ways to start the year. Early morning, the world seems fresh and alive and ripe for new opportunities and new ways of being. The possibility of new choices and new ways of being seems stronger. 'How will I live this day?' 'How will I live this life?' On January 1st, this sense of potential and possibility feels stronger. New Year’s is a time for resolutions, as we make up our minds we’re … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: commitment, Committing to Yoga, consciousness, discipline, fear, forty days of yoga, home yoga practice, new year's resolutions, unconscious, willpower

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