A Thought: Practice Journal

 

 

    I keep a practice journal and I write in it when I have a new insight, a challenge, or a breakthrough.  It is such fun to go back and read about where I have been to see all the ways I have changed.  (Especially helpful when I feel my practice is taking me no where!  And, yes, that does happen to me, too.)

    Periodically, I write down the basic information about my practice such as:  Poses I love, poses I avoid, challenges in my body.  I then postulate why I am loving or not loving a pose or what my body is telling me with my challenges.  There is always a reason.  Sometimes I get it then.  More often though, my insight comes from hindsight, reading back through my journal.  Keep a journal!  It will deepen the benefits from your practice.

  

Comments

[Carrie]

Hi Laura,

I'm enjoying your blogs. I used to keep a practice journal when I was doing my teacher training which ended last april. Not sure what became of that tendency, but it just sort of petered out. Now I am determined to start the habit again. Thanks!