Alright loyal Lunchboxers. A week or so ago I let you in on a big secret – that I wasn’t feeling the love for running The Yoga Lunchbox anymore.
A record number of readers commented on this article… and there were some mighty interesting responses.
I had an offer from an astrology website to buy my content and shift it all to his website.
Hmmm…
I countered with an offer to sell him the rights to re-publish YLB content, but I would keep The Yoga Lunchbox intact and up live on the web.
That offer was turned down, because of the way Google penalizes duplicate content.
I also offers from a few members of the New Zealand yoga community to take over the website. At first, that idea got me really excited. I thought it would be great to see The Yoga Lunchbox continue on under someone else’s guidance.
However, as the week went on, and I resumed my regular meditation practice with some help from Peter Fernando’s Month of Mindfulness course, I realised that while I need a break from The Yoga Lunchbox… it’s still my baby.
What’s more, I also realised as in meditation that it felt like I’d want to start up the website again within five months time.
Wow!
One of the reasons that I’ve been wanting a break from The Yoga Lunchbox is it’s become such a huge part of my identity, and I need to find out who I am when I’m just Kara-Leah.
Six months ago, I started my own personal website so I could advertise my services as a yoga teacher, writing coach and WordPress consultant, plus write articles that weren’t about yoga.
Now this is the fourth website I’ve started. I’ve got really good at WordPress, at creating a vision for a website, and at making it happen super-duper fast and easy.
However Kara-Leah, the website, was anything but super-duper fast and easy.
Everything seemed to take a huge amount of time, and I felt hampered by a lack of clarity and focused energy.
Of course, this was when I was also beginning to feel hemmed in by doing The Yoga Lunchbox…
See what was going on?
I couldn’t birth a brand new project while still tending to the growth of an older project. It was like trying to be two people at once.
Since deciding that I’m going to take a break from The Yoga Lunchbox, archive the website, and come back to it in a few months time… I’ve once again found energy, focus and clarity around Kara-Leah, the new website.
So here’s what’s going to happen.
In one month’s time, The Yoga Lunchbox will cease publishing new content.
Comments will be turned off. The Contact form will also be removed.
Advertisers will be able to leave any current ads on the website, as a bonus for paying up now.
The front page content will be set on random, so every day, different articles will show up in the various categories – which gives you a chance to catch up one what you haven’t read.
All subscribers, fans and followers are encouraged to stick around – stay subscribed, stay a fan, stay a follower.
You won’t be getting any new content, or Facebook updates, or tweets… for awhile at least.
But when the website starts up again – and it most certainly will be! – you’ll be the first to know because you’ll see The Yoga Lunchbox show up in your RSS Feed, Inbox, Facebook page or Twitter stream.
I’m really excited about this plan.
It feels like it keeps The Yoga Lunchbox resource available to the yoga community, and gives everyone a chance to catch up on old content.
It gives me a chance to take a breath and establish myself in my new life as a business woman, and single parent to my son Samuel.
Plus the break will give me time to get clear on what The Yoga Lunchbox is all about, how it serves the community, what I’m willing to put into it, and where it can go.
Come Friday July 15th… The Yoga Lunchbox will be archived… for a few months at least.
So, enjoy this month of fabulous new content, comment to your heart’s delight, and let’s go out with a bang!
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sounds like a plan is revealing itself to you kara-leah, and look fwd to your future unveiling itself to you, and you to us 😉
best wishes,
adan
Thanks Adan… it does feel like – as always – just being with what is allows flow to happen.
I think it’s a fantastic plan!! Congrats on finding a way to a resolution! 😀
Sounds good to me. 🙂 I do have a teacher training coming up (a three-workshop series) — could that go on the events? Also, something like our monthly meditation group? Could that go? 😀 thanks!
Hey Jenifer,
Send an email with the PDFs and I’ll do up an invoice for you.
Cheers,
Kara-Leah
Great stuff KL. May karaleah.co.nz flourish & bloom!!
Big Gratitude
x
Thanks Peter!
I will always remain hungry for what’s in the “Lunchbox” … there still is a world-class site with world-class writing in this Lunchbox …
The final curtain never fall after only the first act …
After this (hopefully) brief intermission, the show goes on …
Hey Yogini5,
Thanks for the encouraging words… and yes, I do believe it will only be a brief intermission 🙂
Hey K L nice post you have to do what feels right and good for you. I was sorta in the same boat with yoga.org.nz . I got fired up to build it and was teaching 6-7 yoga classes a week . Now I have not taught a class for 6 years and left the site unattended for 6 years, before. I got back to it. Just done a complete rebuild. your site will grow by itself you watch ! Come back when your ready!!! 5
months is only an instant in time. Namaste. Al
Hey Al,
Yeah, a few months isn’t much really… and I think once I start teaching more it will make a big difference.
Blessings,
KL
K L…. I will keep looking for you to read and hear more….I absolutely Love your way… totally FREE, even to the point of more often not having your face focused in the centre of the video… your eyes wandering around, your neck exposed to your throat chakra being an example of Not trying for perfection but being present and allowing the allowing… hey theres agood bumper sticker’… all the best with the new doors you have opened for you and your son… You will be back and I look forward to that but embrace your own journey with nothing lost . Kia kaha , kia maea, kia manawanui, na tou hoa i te huarahi Yoga Na Terimoana (in W.A.)
Hey Terimoana,
Thank you! And yes – great bumbersticker – “Allow the Allowing”. Making the videos is challenging for sure, to allow the allowing, but also so rewarding when I hear from people like yourself.
Many blessings,
Kara-Leah