Announcing All-New “14 Day Yoga” November Challenge!

This is the official announcement for the upcoming 14-Day Yoga Challenge. Read on for details about the challenge and how to sign up!

Since, the beginning of the 365 Challenge, many of mentioned you want to cultivate the habit of mediation, fitness and health. So this month of November, we’re going to be doing just that via the 14 Day Yoga Challenge starting Sunday, 13^th November!

The challenge is inspired by Celes @ Personal Excellence Blog. Thank you!

What is Meditation?

Firstly, from Wikipedia:

Meditation refers to any form of a family or practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize benefit.

Meditation is generally an inwardly oriented, personal practice, which individuals can do by themselves. Prayer beads or other ritual objects may be used during meditation. Meditation may involve invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such as compassion, or attending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state.

There are dozens or more specific styles of meditation practice; the word meditation may carry different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions.

What is Yoga?

Secondly, from Wikipedia:

Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: yóga) is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

Mediation and Yoga are one in the same. Honestly, you do not require to apart of a particular religion or community to enjoy the benefits of both. Mediation can help you unlock hidden meanings and answers that you seek in life, while Yoga can improve you health, mentally, physically and spiritually.

I used to sign off meditation and yoga, thinking its some lame habit that people practice because they can’t deal with real life. That was until I tried it for myself several years ago, and experienced its benefits for myself.

In 20 Surprising Benefits of Meditation Everyone Should Know, I shared 20 key benefits one can gain from using meditation as a long-term habit (read the article for more on the below):

1. Stronger, healthier heart.

2. Slimmer, better looking body.

3. Reversed biological Aging Process.

4. Reduced stress and anxiety.

5. Stronger immune system and improved mood

6. Decreased muscle tension.

7. Better sleep and a cure for insomnia.

8. Reduced tension headaches and migraines.

9. Laser-like focus.

10. Improved learning ability and memory.

11. Greater control over your thoughts.

12. Improved creativity.

13. Greater intelligence.

14. Unshakeable self-confidence.

15. Enhanced emotional resilience.

16. Improved decision-making skills.

17. Enhanced Productivity.

18. Better relations at work.

19. Greater happiness and peace of mind.

20. Clear life purpose.

14 Day Yoga Challenge

In the 365 Challenge, we mentioned habits and how we were going to cultivate them into our lives. Right now, we are going to add Yoga to the program and find inner peace for ourselves.

Starting from 13 Nov 2011 (Sun), and for the next 14 days till 27 Nov (Sun), we are going to practice yoga together every day, in the 14 Day Yoga Challenge.

Some pointers of the challenge:

1. We shall be Yogging together!
2. There will be no daily tasks but I will posting about the challenge and ask how everyone is doing. Plus, I will be adding my experience about the challenge too!
3. The time and duration of Yoga is up to you. You can Yoga anytime that suits your schedule as long as you are doing the challenge and benefiting from the experience. Please ensure while you do mediate and yoga, that you are comfortable and relaxed otherwise you maybe straining your body which is the opposite of the 14-Day Challenge.
4. Create your own Yoga journal on the journey where you can write anything down that you need too. I will be sharing mine on Eating Right For Your Body, if you need any ideas.
5. Every day, you are expected to fall-in to  (a)  ”report in” on your progress, both in your Yoga Journal and the group progress (b) journal about your Yoga experience (c) check with your fellow Yoga partners.

The objective of this challenge is to embrace meditation and yoga fully, without bias or expectations, for 14 days. You are encouraged to write down all your observations in your meditation journal, whether good or bad, so you can make your judgment at the end of the challenge on whether meditation is for you.  Who knows, maybe you will start floating at the end of the 14 days?

How To Sign Up: 2 Simple Steps

For the 14 Days of the Yoga Challenge, group coaching, online journaling and group support, it will be priced at a grand total of…. absolutely nothing!!!!!!!!!!!

All I request of you is to (a) commit yourself to complete the 14-days of Yoga Challenge and (b) do the following steps below to sign up:

1. Subscribe/Sign-Up for Eating Right For you Body Blog, RSS Feed (coming soon), Twitter and Facebook.
2. Sign up by posting in the blog. (If you have an account on WordPress, you will subscribe and if you are not with WordPress, you can also sign-up via email where you will be emailed everyday on the progress of the Challenge.
3. Tell all your friends and family about 14-Day Yoga Challenge by sharing the link of this post on Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz! (social media links at the bottom of this post.) The more people we have on the challenge, the more momentum we’ll build, the more we’ll get out of it as a group!

 What are you waiting for? Sign Up Now!

I look forward to hearing from you all and excited about starting the 14-Day Yoga Challenge on 13 Nov 2011.

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