A week ago the producer from Yoga Journal took me to this really special vegetarian restaurant in Guangzhou after we finished our first day of shooting. Such a cool place. The menu was designed with Chinese medicine in mind. The food changes on the menu each month with the change of the season. Each course the waiter brought to us he took the time to explain all of the ingredients, where they were from, why they were chosen and how they will affect our body.
Journal writing after class!
1. What are your favorite parts of your yoga practice? What parts of the practice are the easiest for you? What poses do you like? What poses are you good at doing?
2. What are the most challenging parts of your yoga practice? What are the hardest poses? What parts of the practice do you dislike the most?
3. Your teachers are the challenging parts of the practice. Your teachers are the poses you don't like. Your teachers are the poses that are hard for you to do.
4. What are these challenging parts of the practice teaching you about your practice?
5. What are your favorite things to do? What parts of your life are going really well? Who are the people in your life who you really like? What parts of your life are easy?
6. What parts of your life do you not like? What parts of your life are not going well? Who are the confrontational people in your life?
7. What are these confrontational people in your life teaching you about yourself? What are the challenging things in your life teaching you about yourself?
The challenging parts of your yoga practice will teach you the most about how you are out of balance. The confrontational people in your life will teach you the most about yourself. Look closely at the things that are hard for you to do. Look closely at the people who challenge you. What are you learning about yourself?
