Five Self-care Tips While Running The Long Race
And a simple mantra to get to the finish line
“Start a run and make sure you finish the run. Don’t mind how fast or how slow you are running. Just run. But the ultimate goal is to finish” ~ Eliud Kipchoge
Many years ago I signed up for a yoga teacher training program. It was a four-week residential program located in a verdant ashram in Kerala, India. I assumed that with my devotion to the practice of yoga and my enthusiasm for structured learning, I would breeze through the curriculum with flying colors.
I did not.
Instead, I found myself limping — literally and figuratively, through that difficult month, nursing my injured toes and my ego which could not comprehend why I was struggling so much.
It’s not them, it’s me
The well-planned and executed 200-hour program that was certified by Yoga Alliance was offered several times a year and my cohort had over 100 students from far-flung countries such as France, Iran, and Dubai. For my classmates, the food, the weather, and the general rules and etiquette were unfamiliar. Yet all of them seemed to be managing just fine. I, on the other hand, struggled with the rigorous daily demands of life in an ashram. I chafed at the rules and the unchanging…
