No Time For Yoga....Think Again.....

December has been a really busy month - I think it is for everyone.  School plays to attend, things to do for school fairs, presents to buy, house to decorate etc. I also had my first workshop to plan for which included hand making 25 eye pillows, oh and my youngest child became ill with chickenpox, so that kept me rather busy making sure he was happy and comfortable.  This is in addition to all my regular class plans and usual day to day stuff.  I love being busy and thrive on it but sometimes you can be tipped over the edge and feel completely snowed under.  This can be when your yoga practice can fall by the wayside and be forgotten for a while.  But this year I was determined that I would keep up with my daily practice however busy I found myself to be.

There was one particular afternoon when I thought I just had to leave my yoga practice and get on with the other 'stuff' but after some thought I decided to do a short 20 minute practice.  After doing my practice I was energised, bubbling with ideas and creativity and seemed to get everything done in about half the time it would normally take me.  That 20 minutes commitment to keep on with the daily practice really paid off, if I hadn't have done that, then maybe I would have been flitting about from one job to the next without completing anything.

So doing your yoga practice is NEVER EVER a waste of time, apart from all the physical and mental benefits, it can actually make you more effective with your time management, can focus the brain and tease your creativity back to life!  I seriously believe it to be true.  It is a commitment, but you and all those around you are sure to benefit from a refreshed and revitalised YOU - full of energy, ideas and FUN!!! 

My advice would be to schedule in your yoga practice, don't feel you have to do a full-on long session of practice.  This can end up demotivating you if you don't get time to do the amount of yoga you had planned - keep it flexible and remember ANY yoga is better than NO yoga.........

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