How to stick to your daily yoga practice - my top 3 tried and tested ways

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Too often we can have the best intentions and plans but still don't commit to our daily yoga practice. I've been struggling with this for quite some time.

I'd create weekly schedules where I mixed restorative classes with some more challenging Vinyasa classes at different times of the day to make it as easy as possible for me to roll out the mat. And yet I'd still find too many (lame) excuses not to commit to it.

The Wellness Curator...

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"What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits." Carl Jung

Are you journaling? If not - you miss out on your greatest self-reflection journey! I recently started writing a daily journal again and I'm so surprised and amazed how many creative, inspiring and guiding thoughts keep coming up.

Start your journaling journey by asking yourself powerful questions like the one above or jot down notes after reading and watching inspiring stuff. It really does wonders to your mind & soul.


Here are my favorite finds to enchant you this week:

What's been happening?

Beach walk in Mosman / Cheese indulgence in Hunter Valley / Tea tasting at T2

I almost fainted when I saw the date of my last entry. It seems like time slips through my fingers. 'So much to do in so little time' the saying goes, right? But I'm well aware that this is just a lousy excuse. I do hope that you've already forgiven my little break from blogging.

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The Wellness Curator...

Dreamcatcher

"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity" - B.K.S. Iyengar

Current Objects of Bliss // Frage-Foto-Freitag

Heute kommt etwas Schwung in die "Objekte meiner Begierde" Kolumne. Ich mach nämlich zum ersten Mal beim Frage-Foto-Freitag von "Ohhhmhhh", dem coolen Blog von Steffi Luxat, mit (nachdem ich es schon seit längerem im Stillen bei meiner Gastautorin Viola mitverfolgt habe). Und das heutige Thema passt ja wirklich wunderbar hierher: es geht um 5 Dinge, die mich glücklich machen.

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Tea & Talk: Physiotherapist Will

I planned to post this Tea & Talk a couple of days ago but unfortunately, the rush of packing and getting everything ready for my Thailand trip got in the way. But it's worth the wait because the following little chat is a very interesting one. Well, OK, I'm a bit biased because the interviewee is my brother-in-law.

Current Objects of Bliss...

And here are my 5 favorite things for blissful living this week:

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Current objects of bliss...

So, I thought it would be a nice idea to share my current "objects of bliss" with you. Things that I love - some I own and some I wish I would - things that I find inspiring and things that simply give me joy:

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Yoga home practice: From procrastinator to addict

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For many years, I haven't been very keen on home yoga practice. My mantra was procrastination. I'd always find excuses for not rolling out my mat, even on weekends when it was really easy for me to squeeze in a nice, relaxing hour of yoga. Although I had tons of magazines giving me suggestions of  yoga sequences, it wasn't quite motivating for me to read first and then practice. I'd usually read the sequence, turn the page and keep on reading for another half an hour until every inch of motivation was gone. Even yoga dvd's became so boring after a while as I repeated the same sequence over and over again.

Sounds familiar?

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My Sunday: 108 Sun Salutations for Charity and a beautiful sunset

Wer hätte gedacht, dass ich jemals 108 Sonnengrüße in einem Stück vollbringe? Freiwillig sicher nicht, aber für einen guten Zweck gerne: "Off the Mat, into the World" und Organisatorin Vennes Cheng luden zum Charity Yogathon Event, dessen Einnahmen Opfern sowie Überlebenden von Zwangsprostitution in Indien und auf der ganzen Welt zugute kommen.

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DIY: My top remedy for neck & shoulder pain

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Today is world arthritis day. Around this time last year, my doctor told me the shocking news that I - having just turned 31 - was suffering from early stage cervical osteoarthritis. At first I thought she had mixed up my X-rays. I mean seriously - arthritis is what old people have, like 60+ year olds or my grandma, right? 

But then it suddenly kind of made sense to me: this ongoing neck and shoulder pain, occasionally spreading out to my chest, stiffness of joints especially in the mornings - there had to be an underlying cause for these symptoms. One night, I could barely lift my left arm, I was crying because the pain was so excruciating. It was this incident that forced me to do a checkup.

"It will only get worse if you don't start doing something about it immediately!", my doctor warned me. So, how to prevent my neck and shoulder pain from becoming worse?