Last night I went to a hot vinyasa class and let the sweat pour. It’s amaz­ing how a phys­i­cal purg­ing can wring out all the emo­tional tox­ins as well. No yoga class today because I couldn’t get home early enough to grab the restora­tive class at Thrive Yoga. I could not get to the gym as planned because of a mix-​​up on the sched­ul­ing of our car.

I’ve come to real­ize that I already have the right mind­set for the 40-​​day chal­lenge; it’s just a mat­ter of mak­ing time to go to as many classes as pos­si­ble. My daily rou­tines include   mind­ful­ness, med­i­ta­tion, breath work, restora­tive yoga and ther­a­peu­tic yoga. Just qui­et­ing my mind enough to pre­pare my body for bed is a kind of stag­gered vinyasa in which I shift into a more rest­ful rhythm. What I will get out of the 40-​​day chal­lenge is the accu­mu­la­tive impact of step­ping up the fre­quency of attend­ing class, which are almost always more phys­i­cally demand­ing than a yoga ses­sion at home.