After October

My October Yoga Challenge went well.  I didn't do yoga every day that I wanted to.  I didn't make it out to as many classes as I might have liked.  But all in all I consider it a success.  It was a learning process!

Now it is November, and time to take the things I learned in October and integrate them into my daily life.  I need to remember to set goals, but to have some flexibility when my life is pulling me in another direction.  The important thing is to keep my focus so I can come back to them.  With my baby it really is important to remember to take each day at a time.  There's no telling from one day to the next whether he will be teething, crabby and only napping for 25 minutes, or whether he will be my happy, playful little dude, napping for 2 hours and leaving his mama with plenty of time to finish her work on her job and still have time to work on her body, health and mind.

In October I spent a lot of time thinking about how to live more like a yogi.  I meditated on how to better treat the world and the people around me, and how to live my life with gratitude.  I just started reading Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and plan to read Green Yoga by Georg Feuerstein and Brenda Feuerstein next.  I've also started following some blogs about how to green my life, and I'll write more about that soon.

At the beginning of the month I promised myself a reward if I completed the challenge--a new yoga mat.  So although it didn't go exactly as planned, I consider my October Yoga Challenge a success.  In fact, I think it actually was even better than I could have expected, just in different ways.  So I'm looking for a new mat.  Yeah!!