My Yoga Experience

N'amaste, vinyasa, asana, savasana- these words slowly made their way into my vocabulary a year or so ago when I first started practicing yoga. I found yoga energizing and empowering, and there was something about it that refreshed me and gave me a retreat from the worries of the day. At first I practiced yoga pretty religiously, sometimes completing an hour a day. But of course, life got busy, as it always does, and I started practicing less and less yoga until it was no longer a part of my life. About a month ago, however, I remembered how great yoga made me feel and decided to give it another shot. As Ramana Maharshi said, "No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance." This got me thinking, maybe the first time around I didn't persevere enough to reach my goal of making yoga a long-term part of my life. Maybe if a gave it a little more effort this time, I would succeed. Here I am a month later, going strong. I found that making a schedule and setting goals helped out a lot. I also learned that even if you miss a day of yoga, this isn't a reason to give up, however much you feel like you won't be able to dedicate yourself much longer.

Through YouTube, I discovered a yoga community called DoYouYoga, and I feel this really helped kickstart my new and improved yoga career. A little over a week ago I started the 30 Day Yoga Challenge with Erin Motz, which I have been loving because Erin is wonderfully supportive and the "challenge" aspect of it keeps me coming back daily. Although some of the yoga routines are more workout-like, they are usually less than 15 minutes and Erin always seems to reward you with some type of restorative yoga in the following days. I plan on completing the 30 Day Yoga Challenge (I'm on day 12!), and exploring the DoYouYoga website for even more yoga afterwards. (Here's the link to the DoYouYoga website and YouTube channel):

http://www.doyouyoga.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/DoYouYoga

I hope this has been an inspiration to anyone struggling in the past with sticking with yoga or any other kind of activity- remember that even the most successful of people usually don't succeed the first time. And if you haven't yet tried out yoga, it's something I would recommend. Of course yoga won't appeal to everyone as much as it did to me, but it's definitely worth a try. 

Good luck on your yoga endeavors- have a great day!

xoxo, Lexi