Welcome to the 21 Day Intro to Vinyasa Flow Yoga Challenge
January 31, 2021 - Day 21
Each day’s class will be available all day right here on the 21 Day Intro to Vinyasa Flow Yoga Challenge. Below the video are helpful tools and recaps to guide you through the 21 day challenge.
"The whole purpose of the last 21 days was to give you an opportunity to un tap dormant potential within yourself both physically and mentally."
- Em Hrovat
Namaste
Thank you for spending the last 21 days practicing yoga with us. The purpose of this challenge is to introduce you to new thought and movement patterns to invoke a curiosity toward your own growth and potential.
One next best choice at a time, we can redirect our habitual behavior, and with persistence, become a stronger, more purpose-fueled version of our self.
Andy and I are grateful that you joined us for this 21 Day Yoga Challenge. We hope you are feeling the physical effects of engaging with this strength based practice and learned something you can use to stay grounded throughout your day.
We look forward to practicing together again soon.
Em & Andy Hrovat
The armor of a steadfast spirit.
To be steadfast is to be unwavering in the conscious participation of your own life.
With the current state of our World, every day brings new questions, confusions, frustrations. Right when you think you’ve found footing on this impossible ground, something else shows up to shake the land and knock you on your ass again. I get it. How are we supposed to be grounded and centered when things are the way they are?
It’s been almost a year since the lock down first began here in the US. I bet by now you’ve experienced a taste of the ‘clear vision’ promised by 2020 and suddenly have a better understanding of what is and isn’t working in your life. Plans have been cancelled and reconsidered. People are leaving citites and heading to rural safe havens. Jobs are being terminated and a lot of us are left wondering, who am I now? Where do I fit within this new normal?
With businesses having to close their doors, relationships and habits being questioned and reconsidered, and plans burning to the ground, it’s important to remember this fact. The only thing you can ever control in life is yourself. You are not at the mercy of the sways of the world, you simply need tools to skillfully navigate the unpredictable and sometimes unpleasant waters of this experience.
The 5 things you can control are a tool to find grounding when everything around you feels uncertain or unreliable. They help to redirect your efforts toward more skillful choices by understanding what is and is not worth responding and reacting to. What this world needs now more than ever, are more individuals living consciously, awake and aware of how their actions are contributing to their life and to those around them.
Control yourself. Your habits and choices are the root of everything in your life. You always get to choose your response, you get to choose what thoughts you accept and reject, and you decide your level of commitment to the quality of your own self care and consistent growth as a person.
Control your environment. You are the average of everything you consume and everything you give your time and energy to. Who are you spending time with and communicating with the most? Do they uplift you or drain you? What are you watching and listening to? Are you honest and reliable? How do you respond to adversity and things not going your way? How do you treat those around you? You are always in the seat of control. If something in your life is not in alignment, it is up to you to allow it to stay or courageously move forward without it. What you consume, ends up consuming you. You are what you eat - mind body and spirit.
Control your actions. You see something that goes against your personal opinion, someone hurts your feelings, you get fired, your partner strikes a nerve, seven red lights in a row when you’re already late. How do you respond? The easiest way to own your actions and feel good about them is to pause before every response. Before you hit send, before you open your mouth, before you leap forward, before you take another step, stop. Take 5 breaths and notice each one as you are taking it. Remember who you want to be in this world and how you want to make others feel when you are around them. THEN respond. This practice alone will change your life.
Control your situation. Stay or go. Allow or set a boundary. You’ll never find the next door if you’re too busy criticizing the room you don’t belong in. Complaints separate you from important self reflection and growth. If you don’t like your situation, change it. If you love your situation, nourish the f*k out of it.
Control your story. How you relate to the happenings of your life, determines the quality and sustainability of your experience of contentment. You have permission to unsubscribe to any story you’ve been telling yourself about your place in the world that no longer serves you. You are not stuck where you land, and you always get to choose the ending.
The steadfast warrior is not at the mercy of the sways of the world. Rather, it is someone who has the heart to contribute to this world with intention and the backbone to be selective with what thoughts, habits, people and experiences are subscribed to and allowed in.
My hope is you can take one or two of the tools we’ve discussed and continue integrating it into your everyday life. This is truly the only way you will experience any change in your life, is this constant engagement with your self improvement.
- Em Hrovat
