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It’s January! A brand new yr! And a brand new yr means a brand new me!
I don’t care if each single day of yearly has given me a possibility to be a greater model of myself. I’ll make every day of 2024 about reinventing myself.
My first decision is to do an awakening, centering, grounding yoga circulation each single morning. No matter my New 12 months’s Eve bender, I’ll rise with intention early on New 12 months’s Day because of the rhythm of my inner physique clock just because it is going to be a brand new yr and I will probably be a greater me.
I resolve to eschew espresso as I come to my mat on January 1. Though I’ve been consuming 4 cups of espresso each single day for years, as an alternative I’ll ease into my house with a 78-ounce water bottle stuffed with positively ioned water. There, I’ll floor myself and discover focus. Although I could have a splitting headache, I’ll breathe deeply to generate caffeine inside my heart.
I resolve to time my yoga circulation every day so once I start my first Solar Salutation, the Solar will probably be rising within the east and warming my face. Meaning once I meet my mat on the morning of January 1, I’ll begin my Decision Yoga Circulation at 7:12 a.m., which is three minutes earlier than my telephone says the solar will rise, as a result of it should take me exactly that period of time to circulation into Solar Salutation. On January 2, I’ll begin my circulation at 7:11 a.m. And so forth.
I resolve to angle my mat by nonetheless many levels wanted every morning to completely face the Solar for my Solar Salutation. I resolve to find out how the Solar rotates by means of the sky on a Copernican degree. By doing this, I’ll turn into nearer to the whole enlightenment I resolve to achieve by February.
I resolve to by no means rush my breath or my poses in 2024. Even when I’ve COVID and should cough, I’ll cough silently and with intention and the cough won’t have an effect on my easily flowing breath. Truly, I resolve to not get COVID in 2024.
Though I’ve by no means been capable of apply Headstand, I resolve to maneuver into a strong and proud headstand on New 12 months’s Day. It is going to be a brand new yr, in spite of everything, and a brand new me. Whereas the wrong way up, I’ll give attention to my different resolutions, which embrace being extra common in my use of loo cleaner and dental floss. This may make me virtuous, which is one other considered one of my resolutions.
I resolve to not wobble as I transfer by means of my yoga apply in 2024. And if I wobble, I can’t decide myself—not even for a millisecond.
In each Savasana I settle into all through the brand new yr, I resolve to lie with a superbly clear thoughts, soul, and spirit. I can’t, even for a second, consider what I must do once I rise from my mat. It’s my decision.
I resolve that as I rise from my mat on January 1, I’ll clear it for the primary time in 4 years. For twelve months, I resolve to do a thorough wiping down of my mat with an eco-organic, non-comedogenic, gluten-free, and vegan cleaner that dissolves into the ether, thereby spreading betterment and pleasure.
After every apply, I’ll completely roll my mat and lovingly place it subsequent to the stack of 800-page books and 16 empty journals I resolve to learn and fill in 2024.
I resolve to do all of this enlightened yoga with gratitude as a result of it’s my decision to take action.
I resolve to be comfortable and to deliver happiness to each being I encounter in 2024. Completely happy New 12 months!
About Our Contributor
Author, editor, creator Lisa Jhung is a contributing editor to Yoga Journal and writes recurrently for Exterior and different titles. She is the creator of two operating books which can be illustrated, informative, and (shock!) jokey: Trailhead (VeloPress, 2015), and Working That Doesn’t Suck (Working Press, 2019). She’s been training yoga for greater than 20 years, largely to steadiness out and get well from path operating and different adventurous exploits.