October is coming up fast, and we're officially moving into Spooky season, Libra season, and the start of our Flowtober Yoga Challenge!
All throughout the month of October, members and teachers will be able to participate in our Stickerboard challenge! Students will get to challenge themselves to try and attend classes daily, or as often as they can with their schedule. You'll be able to keep track of your progress on the board, and place a sticker on for each class you take. There'// also be activities and opportunities to earn more stickers outside of class, so those of us with busy schedules need not worry! At the end of the month we will have a raffle with prizes!
The last few weeks we've been talking about ways in which we can incorporate healthy practices and routines into our days, so that we have a more stable, consistent foundation to lean on in difficult times. This week we expand on that by adding another layer! As some of us may know, when starting a new practice or routine that we want to keep, we can keep ourselves accountable in general, by relying on 3 different parties:
1. Ourselves
2. A Partner or Friend
3. A Community
WIth Ourselves, we have the ability to decide the boundaries and parameters, and we can give ourselves grace when we fall short or need encouragement. This helps if we are more introverted, or self-reliant.
A Partner or Friend: or an Accountabili-buddy as I like to put it, can lighten the mental load of starting new practices, and can gently help you along the way as you both work towards your goals. They can also help by just being something you look forward to in your day.
With Our Community, we have the potential to expand the benefits of the Accountabili-buddy, by adding more people! In a positive engagement with community we can find inspiration from our peers and others, that can give us energy to do more, that we wouldn't have had otherwise. This is one reason why we at Home Yoga love doing these stickerboard challenges.
Even just seeing a visual representation of your progress can be inspiring. You get to choose how you interact with the challenge, and whether or not you participate, and with all competitive things, we are offered the chance to let our ego step aside and not distract us from our goal of a more consistent practice.
So let's dive into this new Flowtober Yoga Challenge ready to grow, and see how many times you can make it in!
We've got some wonderful offerings at the studio these coming weeks. Dr. Gardner, will be offering Accupuncture services and workshops soon, we also have Maricel offering Lomi Lomi Massage, Reiki, and other services. This Sunday we have our monthly Reiki Share with Liana Soria, where she'll be incorporating Shamanic energies. Check out our workshop schedule online or on our social media for more info! We hope to see you in class!