While everyone is talking about how you can make 2010 your best year ever, I invite you to restore yourself.

Why?

It’s hard to heed advice like “reinvent your life” when you’re exhausted from the holidays and anxious about yet another year ahead.  It’s overwhelming to feel that everything in your life could use a “change”. Consider restoration as a pathway to a state of health, soundness, or vigor.

As I choose restoration this year, I’ll share with you my one BIG tip to guide you on your own pathway to restoration:

B: Be open to making your first yoga class of the year (or your life!) the beginning of  restoration in your life.

Yoga can help you become open to restoration by helping you relax and gain clarity.  A regular practice has many health benefits that are proven – especially those that relate to stress management.

Need convincing?  If you’d like to know the health benefits of yoga, do some research beforehand.

I:  Invite a friend to a yoga class that you found particularly inspiring and beneficial in mind and/or body.   If the friend is resistant, let it go.  This is also part of yoga practice….acceptance.   There may be a better time later…or, perhaps someone else you can invite?

G:  Go to a yoga or mind/body event in the next two weeks to kick off 2010.   I’d like to invite you all (if you’re in the metro NYC area), to a restorative yoga class this Saturday, January 9th with Rita Trieger whom I met last year through Elements Yoga in Darien, Connecticut.

Rita Trieger is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fit Yoga magazine, as well as the author of Yoga Heals Your Back (Fairwinds, 2005), and Tranquil Mind, a meditation and yoga CD. A nationally known and sought after teacher, Rita incorporates many different traditions into her inspiring and challenging flow-style classes. She is also a certified Relax and Renew (restorative yoga) teacher as well as a Reiki practitioner. Rita lives, practices, and teaches yoga in New York City, and in Connecticut at Elements Yoga, Stamford Hospital’s Health and Fitness Institute and the Bennett Cancer Center. More recently, Rita has been hired as the stress management facilitator for the newly established Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness, also at Stamford Hospital. Her dedicated students are truly a testament to her genuine, spirited style.

Check out Elements Yoga in Darien, CT for more information on new classes, workshops and retreats.  They have a really great retreat coming up in Jamaica in March 2010 you’ll want to find out about!

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