Baron Baptiste’s 40 Day Revolution is
pretty well known in yoga circles, and rightly so – it’s a beautiful program of
yoga (5 x studio practices, plus 1 x home self-practice), meditation (twice
daily), healthy and mindful eating (with a 3 day juice cleanse) and insightful
journaling questions to help you dive deeper and live large. And when you do it
with your fellows at a yoga studio, which is how I’ve always done mine, the
community aspect of it is the highlight.
One of the studios I teach at kicks off
another revolution this coming Monday, so I’ll be leading many students through
it, and I’m really excited. I am about to embark upon my own ‘shiny’-version of
it too. Why so with my 'own' version? Because with a full time job, teaching yoga and study on the side, I
need to be realistic!
I was a little hesitant to join in on the
activities at my studio, because I’m doing it a little differently to Baron’s
suggestions.
❤ But then I thought, it’s better to join in and invite change, than
sit in my excuses.
❤ It’s better to
live a little, than look back in a couple of months time with envy.
❤ It’s better
to pave your own way, than to stay stuck!
So friends – this is where you come in. I’m going to be sharing my thoughts
here on this blog throughout the upcoming 40 days, and I’d love you to join in
too! You up for it? It’ll run as follows:
❤ Create your own rules – but honour
them!
❤ Yoga
❤ Meditation
❤ Mindful eating
❤ Journaling
My Shiny
Spring Revolution is going to look like this:
❤ 2-3 studio yoga sessions a week
❤ Daily meditation (5 mins)
❤ Mindful eating (gluten free)
and continuing with my naturopath’s supplements and guidelines
❤ Weekly journaling questions from
the 40 Day Revolution book
❤ Weekly self-love date
I’m a list maker and I love creating this
fabulous lists of things to do, but then honestly sometimes get overwhelmed in
the action steps of it all. So my goals here are baby steps, and achievable. I’m
still on the healing path from a particularly nasty bout of depression and
adrenal fatigue. My leaky gut has good days interspersed with not so grand
ones. There are some days when my energy dictates I won’t be doing anything
other than going right back to bed.
So this program needs to be encouraging and inspiring, not dogmatic and
unrealistic.
Anyone in with me? What will your Spring
Revolution look like?
xo