30 Day Yoga Challenge

What do you get when you combine two friends who are terrified of the winter weight gain? A 30 day yoga/vegetarian challenge! It is really quite simple:

1. Have a friend who has intermediate-hard level knowledge in yoga.
2. Do serious yoga everyday for 30 days.
3. Eat lots of grains, fruits, and veggies... but no meat. No alcohol. No smokes. For 30 days.

4 October 2014

Ashley's POV : Day 1 - Detox/ non- smoking /30 day yoga challenge

October 29, 2014

I’m just going to start off with :

Ughhhhhhhhhh! This was the longest day ever!

Let me just be clear, that even though I have my certification to teach yoga doesn’t mean I fit the profile of what a typical yoga teacher would be. I mean, sure I’m a vegetarian, but… lol… I like my wine and ceasar’s, and I smoke like a chimney. Oh the vices that keep me SANE! So if your thinking those who can’t do teach……..you are absolutely right!

This day was all about not knowing what to do with myself. The hardest part was to be successful or at least functional in my work environment. Mornings have always been difficult for me.

 However, detoxing and being smoke free made it cognitively difficult on top of all this. It was hard to even have the attention span to follow people’s sentences, let alone attach the appropriate reaction to what was being said to me.  By the end of the day, I had gotten my reaction delay to about a minute before I finally figured out that I could just copy everyone else’s reaction and see where it got me. I mean, someone could have probably told me that I smelled like horse manure and I would have laughed something fierce.

Sigh!  It was just one of those days.   

At the end of it, when I knew I had to do yoga, I just wanted to lie down and cry.  I wanted to go to sleep and wake up 30 days later, when this was all over with. I wanted to shut the world out.

 The beginning of the class was rocky but by the end, my monkey mind began to settle slowly, and all the anxieties that my body had fought for during the day had either retired from relaxation or just pure old exhaustion.


……………..29 days to go! Someone please just punch me in the face !

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