#yoga+challenge

[emotionalintellgent]

30-Day Yoga Challenge for Beginners

Try this fun and flexible yoga challenge which two people will love! Strengthen your bond while testing balance and trust!

[c3nobit3s]

The most *vanilla* pic out of all pics 😆 Not sure what was I thinking when I started the 30 day yoga *challenge* 🤯 Already struggling lol!

[cjs-51703]

3:17 AM thought: Jessie and James from Team Rocket attempting couple's yoga challenges. That's all.

[quillandcunty]

Day 42 of my daily yoga practice. Today I realised I have been healing myself. I really have genuinely been working on self development, self healing, self compassion and self expansion. I can't believe how good I feel in-spite of all the hurt that burrowed its way into me this year...but anyway...

I did another 10 min yin yoga. I sometimes feel bad if I do the 10 min yoga flows on back to back days. But I have to remember that showing up for myself for 10 minutes is better than nothing (plus I did do pole this morning). I followed up my yoga flow with a 10 min meditation on surrender. It's been a while since I did my last one and I needed it.

Feeling grateful and a little emotional

[nerdynuala]

Guess who came across some Yoga Challenge videos on YouTube? My mind, lack of sleep and my unhealthy obsession with shipping did the rest.

[chicagognosis]

Yoga for the Aquarian Era

Effective exercises for radical spiritual awakening.

[upmala]

it's okay if challenges don't work for you

for habit-formation, the consensus is that "doing x for y days" will set you up for a solid habit. unfortunately, it's one of those cases where science was taken by media and twisted into a product. that product being challenges.

anything from 30-day yoga challenges to Inktober to Mermay to Knightober (gosh the art community has these for every month and week of the year i think), the bottom line for all of them is that if you practice something for long enough, you'll either get good at it and keep doing it, or you'll have at least done it.

thing is, for a completionist, perfectionist mind, this just utterly misses the mark. i can't even start a challenge, because i know, down the line, there will be a day when i won't be able to or won't want to do it. and then it'll all come crashing down - do i skip the day and continue with the next, potentially missing out on something interesting? do it do that day's challenge the next day, extending the duration of the challenge beyond what it was supposed to be? ugh!

way easier just never to begin it at all.

fortunately, habit-formation can still be done in less agonising ways. two life-changing habits i've introduced in my life over the pandemic - meditation and daily morning yoga - started out as a non-committal exploration. i tried out this thing once, just to see if it would feel good. and then, if it did, i'd do it again the next day. i could quit any time i wanted to, skip any day i wanted to. stop completely. i didn't have to do it, no higher power ordering me to do it. it just felt good and that's why i kept doing it!

there are also less stringent forms of challenges that i can commit to, like doing the thing at least 14 days out of 30. that gives me virtual "day off" tickets i can use on any day i just don't feel like it.

(also it's fine if challenges are useful for you and you've managed to get over perfectionism and form habits that way. i'm just giving options and sharing my experience.)

[pbnapples]

🎃 Happy Spooky Week! 🎃

I’m slowly trying to reincorporate a daily yoga practice back into my routine and I thought, what is a better week to start than my favorite week of the year!

If anyone would like to join me, here’s the playlist I’m gonna follow. (Yes, it is Yoga with Adriene.) 🙈

Divide out the playlist with whatever order works best for you! 

Here’s my tentative plan:

Monday: Yoga for Healthy Blood Flow 🩸 Tuesday: Yoga for Zombies 🧟‍♀️ Wednesday: Pranayama Potion 🧹 Thursday: Crow Practice 🐦 Friday: Breath of Fire 🔥 - Wild Thing 🐗 - Corpse Pose 💀 Saturday: Yoga For When You Feel Dead Inside 💔 Sunday: Yoga For When You’re Feeling Scared 👻

See y’all on the mat. <3