Welcome to the 21 Day Intro to Vinyasa Flow Yoga Challenge
January 29, 2021 - Day 19
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.
"Santosha is a word meaning center, belonging and contentment. It's a feeling of belonging to the moment you're in, rather than wishing it were something else. Santosha is at the center of everything, whether you have it or don't have it determines what gets woven around it."
- Em Hrovat
Journal Thoughts.
Humans are natural storytellers. Next time you’re sitting in traffic, or waiting in line, take a moment to check out the thoughts that are running through your mind. Chances are you’ll be knee deep in a story. It may be a newspaper article you read over morning coffee and are now recounting, plans you're making for the weekend, or a disagreement with a friend that you're rehashing in your mind. Either way, it’s a story. And chances are, it has a theme.
Themes are the central plots to our story lines and we tend to make choices that reinforce these beliefs. We select relationships, careers, and situations that confirm our expectations and reinforce our stories.
These stories are the lenses through which you interpret the world. If your lens is green, everything looks green.
Is your default “This is hard, I can’t do this,” or is it “This is difficult, let’s see how I do with it today."
With time and practice, you will distinguish between the stories you tell yourself and the reality in front of you, making space to live in the moment, accept what comes, and to create a new story about yourself—one that reflects your highest self, rather than a habitual or outdated story.
Can you switch your focus from all the things you wish you had, and start taking stock of what you do have now? Life can switch in an instant. We are constantly surrounded by blessings and abundance, we just have to be able to notice them.
Contentment is never attained. Never caught, never held, never bought. It's not a place you finally arrive at. Joy is paid attention to. It's always there.
"Think of the phrase "pay attention to." You're paying attention, you're buying the experience of what you notice the most. If you are constantly seeking, you'll be in a perpetual state of lack and needing more. If you focus on gratitude and contentment, you'll experience more wholeness in your life."
- Em Hrovat
