My 30 Day Challenge officially ended Thursday night and I couldn’t be more happy!

 

 

Well, that’s not entirely true. Trust me, I’m just as surprised as you are. As much as I enjoyed the high of conquering this unexpected challenge of a challenge, its got me super worried. If I stop doing yoga everyday what’s going to happen? All the work I’ve done, will it just disappear if I miss a day? What have I done!?! I think I’m even more an addict now than I was before (if that’s even possible). What do I do?!

Thankfully there is Rachel Kess — be like the Samurai — was the advice I received.

Samurais apparently spend their childhood to early adulthood training, basically from the time they are 8 to about 21 they train. Then they stop and it’s not until at least another 10 years before they begin to train again. Rachel you are so inspiring and random for knowing this. Either way, I discovered the reason for a major break is that the mind needs time to train as well. Physically you can only do so much until you begin to plateau. But, growing a deeper understanding of yoga is a mind/body connection, much like samurai training, I guess. So it’s totally okay to take a body break. You may not fell the exact same after your break, but you’re body will pick up where you left off rather quickly. Thank goodness for that!

I figured I’d want to die before taking another yoga class after day 30. I am still surprised I actually survived and still like yoga. So my plan now is to take a break from yoga for the weekend, then back at it on Monday. We’ll see how that goes.

Day 1

What: 60 min Silent Class
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 2

What: 90 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

AND

What:60 min Yin Yang
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 3

No class – doubled up on Day 2

Day 4

What: 90 min Vinyasa
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 5 (the day this whole this fiasico started)

What: 90 min Yin
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 6

What: 60 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 7

What: 75 min Vinyasa Flow
Where: 889 at the Thompson

Day 8

What: 60 min Spygna Flow
Where: Spygna Toronto South

Day 9

What: 75 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

AND

What: 60 min Yin
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 10

No class – Doubled up on Day 10

Day 11

What: 90 min Kriya
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 12

I was bad and missed class. But, to my defense I was learning to save lives and no studio nearby had a class past 7pm.

Day 13

What: 75 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 14

What: 75 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 15

What: 60 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 16

Where: 75 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Halifax

Day 17

What: 60 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Halifax

Day 18

What: 90 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Halifax

Day 19

What: 60 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Halifax

Day 20

I was bad, again, and missed class. But, this time to my defense I spent the morning Mommy/Middle Daughter bonding.

Day 21

What: 75 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 22

What: 60 min Silent Class
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 23

What: 75 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 24

What: 90 min Reiki Restorative
Where: Kula

Day 25

What: 75 min Joga
Where: energyXchange

And

What: 20 min yoga podcast
Where: In my kitchen

Day 26

What: 90 min Hatha Level I/II
Where: Yoga Sanctuary College Street

Day 27

What: 60 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 28

What: 60 min Moksha Flow
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 29

What: 60 min Silent Class
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

Day 30

What: 90 min Moksha
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

AND

What: 60 min Yin Yang
Where: Moksha Yoga Downtown

 

30 days of yoga – Check! And I’m celebrating by doing nothing.