I am almost twenty days (22 to be exact!) from completing 100 Days of Yoga Project…and it seems to have just slipped from my fingers. It has been easy to stack up the days, show up and get to work.

Maybe because yoga practice was a part of my everyday life already.

The big idea with doing this 100 Day project was to:

Make my practice more intentional:

Not just show up on the mat and get a few stretches in. But to actually show up. To make breathing through my movement a focus. To focus on the movement and postures. To have a goal and plan, and work towards it.

To Deepen my understanding of yoga:

And not just postures, but the psychology, the meditative aspect, and the magic of the combination of movement, breath and mind control. I have been reading about yoga, and working on implementing the calm and non-attachment aspects. It’s a work in progress, and I have a long way to go. But a start is better than none, right?

To learn Ashtanga Yoga sequence:

I am slowly working through learning the sequence, and trying to make each pose better everyday with repetition, and finding the mind body connection. Trying to implement all the little cues that I have heard about the various poses, as well as focusing the eyes through the postures, and inhaling and exhaling in a certain pattern…all these nuances need to be learnt and thought about! I am taking them in small bites and seeing the magic unfold one little bit at a time. 

Also, I am using the last five-ten minutes of my practice to work on the Crow pose– the gateway pose to arm balances in yoga. I am proud to say, I dropped on my face today while attempting it (don’t worry, I had a cushion to soften the blow!)- proud because I dared to go far enough. Now I just have to figure out the balancing point between going too far and not going far enough 🙂

Oh how I love to have yoga in my life…it keeps me so very humble and makes me be a student for life (and face plants help with that too!). The path never ends, the learning never stops, and the practice that involves one to show up everyday keeps the constant momentum of learning and discipline play out in every aspect of life.

Twentyish more days to go in my project, but…

I don’t really plan to stop any time soon!!