Asana is but a small piece of yoga!

Take yourself on a reflective journey with your journal and your heart and take your yoga off the mat with the invitations to reflect below.

The world needs your unique contributions from your clear and open channel.

Take a look at three core relationships in your life.

Look at how you treat yourself

There's a reason we send ourselves loving kindness first in the metta meditation practice before others. It’s like putting on your own oxygen mask first.

Look at how you treat yourself. How do you speak to yourself? Are you kind or unkind? Respectful or snippy? Would you treat your loved ones the way you treat yourself?

The relationship you have with yourself is the only one that lasts a lifetime.

Journal prompt:

When do I tend to beat myself up? 

Try on:

What does inner kindness feel like for me?

Look at how you treat the planet

Take a brutally honest look at your lifestyle and consumption habits. Where could you harm the planet less? It’s true there’s only so much we can do individually AND also the biggest way we give up our power is by thinking we don’t have any.

Create a practice of sustainability and do your best because you’re in charge of you. Remember one degree turns can add up a lot over time. Begin with little changes, they do add up and you’ll feel better about your relationship to spaceship earth.

Journal prompts:

Who am I when I allow myself to be immersed in nature?

What habits am I allowing that no longer align with my values?

Look at how you treat others

There are a lot of things going on in the world that need our attention and activism. It can be overwhelming. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Start from a place of nourishment of self and your actions will go further.

Do exactly what you can to help end racism, transphobia and all violence by working on the sanity between your two ears.

The world needs you in some way. Follow your guts to figure out where you’ll land. Start by reading the works of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ authors, supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ owned businesses (remember you’re always voting with your dollars) and investigating your own unconscious biases. “It’s a privilege to educate yourself about racism instead of experience it” says a protest sign and we all have to start somewhere.

Journal prompt:

What is a cause that inspires me?

Read:

Rachel Cargle

Jessamyn Stanley (especially if you practice yoga)

Susanna Barkataki (especially if you practice yoga)

I hope you found these invitations helpful. What specifically came up for you?

Feel free to share in the comments below.

Photo credit: Vonecia Carswell (@voneciacarswell)