A Year Without Yoga

June: Wedding Planning
July: Wedding
August: Moving
September: Settling
October: Begin New Job
November: Sinus Infection
December: Stressful Holiday Season
January: Stress At Work
February: It's Cold!
March: Slump
April: Travel... Quit Bad Job
May: Start Better Job

A day turns into two, two days into a week, and week into a month, and a month into a year.

Time turns so quickly morning to night, Fall-Winter-Spring-Summer, and without intention or attention our practice escapes us. Suddenly we wake up on a Sunday morning with hamstrings of steel and shoulders somehow beginning directly below our ears. Where has my neck gone? What is this extra layer around my mid-section? Why can't I touch my toes? And worse yet why can't I see my toes?

What has happened? Where has the time gone?

This happens to the best of us: it's happened to me, to my best yogi friends, to that once-yoga goddess bikram powerhouse. But why?

Yes, life is busy, unpredictable, and of course moves by so quickly, but what are you doing to slow the humdrum and return to daily stillness? Are you setting an intention rather than allowing your attention to drift from distraction to distraction? Are you surrounding yourself with the right people, good influences? What are you putting in your body? What are you holding on to?