We've made it to the end of the year! As we reach the final days of 2023, we get the chance to look back at all the wonderful and challenging memories and experiences we made throughout the year.
We're so excited and grateful for all of you who have just recently joined us on this yoga journey, and to all of you who have continued to practice and participate alongside each other throughout these past years. We've made a lot of new friends and made memories with new faces in our community, and we're so grateful to have you all on this journey we find ourselves in.
For those of you who have been following along with us since January, we take this opportunity to look back at the resolutions we made for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and check in. A year can be a long time, and it can also go by in an instant. Although we set personal goals for ourselves at the beginning, we had many opportunities to check in periodically, and review our progress, and we were invited to change and amend those goals to better move with our intentions if needed. Now at the end of the year, we look back and view our progress with eyes of compassion, honoring our efforts and the dedication we showed ourselves, and offering ourselves grace for the places we may have fallen short of our original goals.
One thing I've learned this year from this personal practice, is that we always have the capacity to alter and change our goals to better move with and achieve the changes we seek in ourselves. When working with our personal goals, it can be far more helpful and motivating, to bring a sense of fluidity, and to allow ourselves the space to redefine our goals in accordance to the directions we wish to move in, as we get to know more about what we want for ourselves and why. Our goals can be dynamic, giving ourselves the option of change, as we change throughout the year.
You may have found that adapting those goals allowed us to continue our efforts, and actually make more meaningful personal progress, instead of becoming dismayed or disheartened at the first time we may have fallen short, and giving up.
Much like running a marathon (which some of us actually did this year!), we have the opportunity to adjust our pace throughout, so that we can make it to the finish line. Some weeks may have felt like a sprint and we made a lot of progress, and other weeks we might have needed to jog or catch our breath, but we nonetheless kept moving. Now with the finish line in reach, I invite you to look back and revisit the twists and turns of the course and how you made it through those more difficult paths.
As a final journal prompt for this year, take a few minutes out of your day today to reflect on.
1. What goals you set for yourself, if any, at the begining of the year
2. How did those goals evolve and change throughout the course of the year.
3. What helped you the most, in keeping up with your efforts?
4. How have YOU changed since the begining of the year?
We are so happy and blessed to have you all as members of our community. We couldn't have made it through the year without each of you contributing and engaging with each other in this wonderful community. We have so many exciting and new things coming up this next year, and we would be honored to have you continue your journey with us! Come join us for our final class of the year on New Year's Eve at 9am with Adriane Alvarez, and start the New Year strong with Ashtanga on the 1st with Ashley Llano! We look forward to seeing you in class!
Warmest Wishes,
The Home Yoga Family
Happy New Year