·  Doing yoga might help you find some ‘inner peace’. Just becoming aware of your breath can surprisingly bring you a lot of calm during times of stress. During yoga practice, we do gentle exercises that bring strength and flexibility to the body. Yoga is a non-striving practice, and so it is a great time to cultivate self-acceptance of your body and mind just as it is. Through yoga, you gradually find the connection between your thoughts, emotions, physical body and how they all affect each-other. This increased self-awareness will help you become more in tune with your body and mind. 

Tomorrow the August Yoga Challenge starts. Anyone can get involved. Send me a message in my ask, and I’ll make a little team on Tumblr.

What does it involve?

• Everyday do a little bit of yoga. Preferably go to a class once a day in August at your favourite studio. Or do self-practice at home. Try practice for 1 hour a day. 
• Also, try and do some SEVA. SEVA is selfless service. An example is to raise money for your favourite NGO.
• Journal about your yoga challenge, write how it goes. Write daily.

Namaste. 

Are you keen to join me on a 30 day yoga challenge in August?

Doing yoga everyday in August?

Commit to your mat this August, by doing a bit of yoga everyday. Also let’s try and do some SEVA (selfless service) by raising funds for this awesome organisation called Home from Home, please email Pippa Shaper at pippa@homefromhome.org.za for more info.

Like my page Coffee and Yoga on Facebook, and lets create a team.

Come on, lets motivate each other.

Going to do a 30 day yoga challenge in August. Who’s joining me? It’s for charity too! Click here to read more about it (It’s ok that you’re not in SA, anyone from any country can do it)

indiedreams:

A big part of the equation of personal adult growth for me is to learn to except constructive criticism. I’ve made progress in this department, but I still secretly hate it and will secretly (momentarily) hate the criticizer for whatever they say.

Today I received some criticism during my yoga…

What are your favourite yoga books?

I must admit, I am feeling very down today. I have had a chronic sore throat for what seems like 6 months now. It is really affecting my daily life, and I can’t seem to do a full primary series Ashtanga practice without feeling faint/exhausted.

I am going to the ENT today. Hopefully he can get to the bottom of this. I feel like a fake yogi… surely all this yoga should be helping me to get better?

All I want is HEALTH.