Hohm Yoga

mornings

I have begun my morn­ing prac­tice again.

Cir­ca 2012 I had a kick ass morn­ing prac­tice going. Then I got a new job, that I love but is demand­ing. At the same time I also got a new boyfriend that I real­ly love, who is now my hus­band. The last two years have been a blur of some pret­ty out­stand­ing things, but in the process I stopped my morn­ing prac­tice and haven’t real­ly ever re-start­ed it.
Until now.

It starts like this:
5 min yoga (mov­ing in general)
5 min read­ing (some­thing insight­ful and positive)
5 min writ­ing in a jounal
3 min meditation
18 min

You can do it too. It is only get­ting up rough­ly 15 min ear­li­er, or des­ig­nat­ing 18 min you are already up to these tasks. If you are like me 5 days ago, I would lay in bed for about 25 min read­ing email, check­ing facebook/twitter/instagram, read­ing the news and the weath­er before get­ting out of bed and rush­ing to the shower. 

The morn­ing prac­tice (at first) real­ly does­n’t have to be pret­ty at all. The last two days I have had my hair pret­ty man­gled, I am in my paja­mas on my mat slow­ly creek­ing through some cat/cow pos­tures with bad breath. 

The point is that I made it to the mat, that I opened that book and read 1.5 pages more than I did yes­ter­day and that I closed my eyes and cleared my head ***before*** check­ing my email or Face­boook. That’s the impor­tant part of this, start your day by fill­ing your­self with things of your own choos­ing before the rest of the world does­n’t give you the choice. Fill your­self with men­tal and spir­i­tu­al vit­a­mins to keep you going. Then by the time (only rough­ly 15 min lat­er) you see that crazy work email you are in a space to deal with it that isn’t just reac­tionary. You don’t have to be a “morn­ing per­son” to do this. Email me if you need sug­ges­tions on pos­tures, read­ing or med­i­ta­tion apps, susan@hohmyoga.com.

Every­one can do it. No time like the present, set your alarm right now.