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Faith Books: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

8/18/2019

I chose this book, not because I am interested in biblical womanhood. I am deeply interested in who I am becoming as a woman of faith, and deeply interested in my journey with God.
But not interested in that argument.

I believe that it’s possible to see the Bible as the word of God and still believe that women can be pastors. That husbands and wives should submit their marriages to God, without one of them submitting to the other. That I can choose any haircut I want. Etc.

And that’s all settled for me, to be honest, so I didn’t read this book to take it all out and look at it all again.

But having read two books by Rachel Held Evans before, I knew that I could expect to learn more about her relationship with God and her faith. And she’s such a good writer, it was bound to be interesting. I was right about both those expectations.

Becoming Someone Else

The readers of Peter’s epistle would have immediately recognized 'praus' as the same word they use to describe a wild horse that had been tamed or a torrent of wind that had softened into a breeze. ‘Blessed are the praus, Jesus said, for they will inherit the earth.’ - Matthew 5:5, Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood.

In one part of the book, Rachel talks about her difficult quest to become more gentle. That women should be gentle, and that she, herself, was not.

I can well relate to the idea - because it is what I believed in my 20s and 30s - that I needed to bring something other than my sassy, and sometimes snarky personality to my relationship with God. I was too much, let’s face it, and I needed to change immediately.

The Christian life, in my opinion, was about becoming someone else. Someone God could really love.

Crazy talk, right? I think that now, decades later, I am about 90% convinced, most days, that that’s not true. The other 10% is a work in progress.

Mind you, I do believe that we become more of who we were created to be as we fall more and more in love with God. But I don’t believe we are meant to become someone else. Or something else, either.

So a book where Rachel Held Evans talks about being loud, snarky, and sarcastic? A woman who swears and has a contention jar for those moments when she gets out of line? I was all over it.

I don't agree, anymore, that it’s not really me that God wants. That we're not wanted just as we are. But I used to believe that with all my heart.

(image credit: RachelHeldEvans.com)

Homemaking

She watches over the affairs of her household. - Proverbs 31:27

I also loved reading about her homemaking efforts.

I didn’t learn to cook until I became a mother. When my mother came home from work each day, exhausted, and ready for her first drink as she began to throw something together for dinner, the last thing she wanted was my company in the kitchen.

Having anyone else need her in those moments would have been a bridge too far after a day spent loving all of her college students in one math class after another.

Without even realizing I had made that decision, I stayed away and eventually decided that cooking was not for me. That I couldn’t be good at it.

I didn’t learn differently until I found The Food Network and its late afternoon cooking shows one week when I was sick, bored and in need of comfort. My son and I curled up on the couch & were fascinated to watch several women cook dinner.

Maybe I could do that? And I did.

I recovered from that illness and began to expand my repertoire of meals that I could cook, learning & experimenting with my son in the kitchen with me. Alcohol not included.

So, I loved reading about Rachel’s own experiments with homemaking in ways she hadn’t felt comfortable with before writing the book.

What Do You Think?

Now that you've taken a listen and had a peek at what the book is about, what are your thoughts? Is this a book you would be interested in reading?

And I’d love to hear, in the comments, if you can relate to the idea that you should become something or someone else in order to be okay. Or any homemaking struggles you have had or overcome.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

P.S. Rachel Held Evans passed away on May 4th. I am so grateful to have known of her. She felt like a friend I hadn't met yet. I'll miss her, but am so glad we had her for the time we did.

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Cozy Morning Aromatherapy: Essential Oil Blends

8/14/2019

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Whether you are a morning person or you really need that cup of coffee to be able to start your day, essential oils are an effortless addition to your morning routine. - Mountain Rose Herbs

What is Cozy Morning Aromatherapy?

Let's start with what cozy aromatherapy is, in general. In addition to doing its regular aromatherapy job, cozy aromatherapy has a side hustle. It creates feelings of warmth, safety, comfort and coziness.

Cozy morning aromatherapy offers essential oil blends to help you transform & personalize your morning routine. But it also sweetens your mornings by helping you create warm, cozy feelings, too.

Here at Meet Jeanine, I want to help you use aromatherapy to create a cozy, slow morning routine that helps you make mornings easier & better. Using essential oils can be among the best things that a slower lifestyle makes time for, and they can be a powerful help with mornings.

Here are five ways to use them...

(1) For waking up fully and becoming more alert.

(2) To banish morning crankiness and have cheerful mornings, instead.

(3) To create a more grounded, centered and peaceful morning routine.

(4) To be more present when you're spending time with your children.

(5) For staying motivated, focused and on task when you're working on a morning project.

For more ideas about how to use morning aromatherapy to empower your mornings, read my ultimate guide to creating your ideal morning routine.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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3 Slow Lifestyle Ideas You Can Try Today

8/6/2019

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Have you been wondering about or interested in trying a slow lifestyle, but you're not sure you have time for it? As moms, sometimes the busyness of life seems to happen without any effort on our part, and resists our attempts to intervene.

But getting started with slow living doesn't have to be a grand or complete change. It can happen gradually, with one chosen moment after another.

That way, there's no overwhelm and it will almost make time for itself. Take a look at these three easy ways to slow life down, try them out in the next few days, and see where they take you.

First, A Reminder of Your Vision

First, call up your general motivating vision for a slower lifestyle.

What is it that might get better or become easier if your lifestyle slowed down? What might you love about it?

Based on that brief visioning moment, choose an area for getting started, in general, and think about what you might do in the next week or so: create a slower morning, make room for an easier afternoon or slower evening.

Or maybe there's something you want to make time for in the next few days, and you can think about what you might move around so that you can do so.

For now, just create the vision. And maybe visit it for a moment or two each day. You're planting a seed for changes you can make in an easier, more organic way.

Once that's done, let's look at what you can do today, to get started...

3 Slow Lifestyle Moments to Create Today

(1) Take one thing off your schedule...

I have to do this one routinely, because I get so tempted to try to do it all. If it sounds like a good idea, I just add it to the list.

So I have gotten into the habit of looking for the thing I won't do. It feels better to choose not to ahead of time than to decide, exhausted, that I simply cannot do even one more thing.

I should mention that this often happens when I am prioritizing what I have planned. It dawns on me, often, in those moments that I have way too much planned, and then, I just start taking things off or moving them around.

What could you do that with, today, in your schedule?

(2) Choose one thing on your to-do list and give it your full, undivided attention, rather than multi-tasking...

I realize I often forget to slow down once my cleaning/cooking/laundry spree is done. This rushed mentality might carry over into my parenting, the way I feed myself, or the way I interact with my husband. During these times, I often stop to take a deep breath and simply slow down my movements. I might try to speak more slowly, walk more slowly, eat more slowly, and breathe more slowly.

(3) Our final one today is about stopping to breathe...

Try to take a five-minute breather sometime today, in between one activity and the next.

Catch your breath, and in fact, spend a moment just focusing on breathing deeply and slowly. Let the past moment recede completely and begin to open to whatever is next on your schedule.

But first, just be, during those unscheduled moments.

As your day comes to an end, reflect on this question and journal prompt: how did it feel to give yourself a slow living day?

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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Simple Ideas for Your Daily Homeschool Schedule

8/1/2019

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At Meet Jeanine, August is homeschool month. It's the month I finalize and complete my homeschool planning for the next school year. So I blog more lightly during the month, and sometimes take the whole month off.

This year, I've got at least one blog post planned for each week, and I thought I'd start us off with some tips for other homeschool moms who might also be finishing up your lesson plans for the year. Here are two homeschool tips that could make starting your day a whole lot easier...

Create a Homeschool Morning Routine

The best way to begin crafting the perfect morning time routine is to use the natural rhythms of your family lifestyle. We encourage you to mold morning time into the best version of it for your homeschool. So that might look like taking a few ideas and resources from various places and making a homeschool morning time routine that is uniquely yours.
-HomeschoolMasteryAcademy.com

Instead of just planning the year's topics and creating the lesson plans, consider planning a homeschool morning routine and a rhythm that will guide your homeschool day.

You already may be choosing certain days for certain topics, but the morning routine goes a step further to set intentions for each morning that make the morning go more smoothly. And if your homeschool mornings go more smoothly, your whole day is likelt to be better.

Here are some reflection questions or journal prompts that may help you get started with envisioning your homeschool routine...

(1) What are the challenges your family faces each morning?

(2) How can you create a routine that solves them or lessens them?

(3) How do you want to feel during your homeschool mornings?

(4) What can you include in your morning routine to help you and your children feel that way?

(5) How would you like for your mornings together to begin?

(6) How would you like to begin the homeschool process?

(7) Is there anything you are doing now that you'd like to do differently?

Jot down any ideas that are coming to mind, and then, read on for a specific idea for beginning your homeschool mornings.

Use a Homeschool Morning Basket

A morning book basket is a basket or bag with books we’re reading at the time. Before we do anything in our school day we spend time reading these books or listening to them on audio. -Smart Mom at Home

With this homeschool idea, you start the day slowly and gradually, instead of rushing into activity. We start with a cup of tea and now, will be adding the morning basket idea.

Kids thrive with boundaries and routines; a morning basket is a reassuring habit that signals a transition to the start of the homeschool day. Morning basket is also a gentle way to start the day. If you have children who aren’t morning people, not much concentration is required to listen to a story that mom is reading. In fact, for some kids, this is the perfect way to slowly ease into daily lessons. -BookShark.com

What kind of books should you include in your morning basket?

For the morning basket, you are adding to the books you use already as part of your homeschool curriculum. You might choose poetry books, biographies, art books or other kinds.

You can read chapter books to your kids, or if they are older, each one can choose a book to read silently.

You also can use this morning time in other ways, as well. Here are some ideas...

(1) Have a morning quiet time with your children and add your Bible or an inspirational book to the basket.

(2) Write in your journal while your children color or draw and keep it all in the basket ready to be grabbed and used each day.

(3) Tell your children what you'll be focusing on during your homeschool day that day.

(4) Sing songs or read poetry to each other.

(5) Have a cup of tea outside on the porch.

However you choose to use it, having the morning basket as a daily part of your homeschool morning routine gives everyone a chance to wake up fully and transition gently into the homeschool day.

Hope this helps your family's homeschool journey!

Love, Jeanine

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Thanks & Goodbye to the July Ultimate Blog Challenge

7/31/2019

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A Fond Farewell to the July
Ultimate Blog Challenge

I am always ambivalent at the end of a great Ultimate Blog Challenge.

On the one hand, I am usually exhausted and craving days where I can ignore my blog for a minute. But on the other hand, I have usually had such a wonderful time connecting with other bloggers, and am often so pleased with the traffic that doing the challenge has brought me, that I wish it could continue.

And so it is this time, too.

Thanks, UBC bloggers, for another great blogging challenge experience!

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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How to DIY Your Morning Aromatherapy

7/30/2019

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This month, I have been sharing essential oils you can use to create essential oils blends for your morning routine. Once you have clarified the parts of your morning you most need to transform, you can choose the corresponding essential oils and use them to make mornings much easier.

I'm also offering a cozy morning aromatherapy guide with essential oil blend recipes plus mindful exercises, meditation moments and journal prompts you can use along with it.

But what if there's an essential oil you love, and you want to know if you can add it to a blend or substitute it for one of the others in a blend?

I love to DIY my own transformation, so I'm with you on personalizing the recommendations. Here's what to do...

The Motherlode of Essential Oils Recipes

In order to have nearly unlimited options for choosing the essential oils you want to use, for each of the ways you need for your morning routine, you'd need either an extensive aromatherapy education, or an extensive list of choices, with blends and recipes that you know will work for you.

I want to tell you about a bundle of resources that will offer you more essential oils recipes than you have probably ever seen at one time.

You will find blends or recipes you can choose as part of your morning routine. The only question is which ones will you choose?

Check out the Herbs and Essential Oils Super Bundle and get ebooks, classes, printables and more.

And when you purchase the bundle, you'll get my aromatherapy guide free. Just go to the guide page after you purchase it.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Five-Step Process for Creating Your Morning Aromatherapy Routine

7/29/2019

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Now that we've come to the end of our look at essential oils recipes and blends for morning aromatherapy, you can begin to choose the ones you want to try.

Hopefully, you were able to print out the quiz, and rate the degree to which each problem affects you. Because now, you can begin to make use of the information you've received.

By the way, don't forget to download everything else that comes with the quiz - the morning aromatherapy journal, the mindful morning exercise ideas, the journal prompts, meditation moments and more.

Today, we'll talk about putting all of the information together into a plan for a personalized aromatherapy morning routine.

Creating the Plan for Your
Aromatherapy Morning Routine

(1) The first step is to create a master list of the essential oil blends or recipes you will need. You may not intend to use all of them a once, but know what was recommend based on the morning challenges you identified, and make a list of them plus any tools you'll need (like a diffuser, or cotton balls, etc.) to use the aromatherapy recipes.

(2) The next step is to identify how much time you want to spend each day doing your morning routine. There are nearly unlimited possibilities for ways to enhance the work of the essential oils - meditation, journaling, affirmations, and others - but which ones you can do, and to what degree, depend on how much time you can spare. Choose that amount and work from there.

(3) Once you know how much time you can spend, identify how many of your morning routine challenges you will tackle at one time. It's easy to decide to start with whichever one got your highest rating, but how many after that one?

You can take them one at a time, or if several ratings were similarly high, choose more than one.

(4), Next, also based on the amount of time you are choosing to spend, decide which of the morning routine ideas you want to add. Maybe you'll try brief meditation, but not journaling, or the reverse.

Make sure you don't get overwhelmed. Might be better to start small and add on as you go.

But make a master list of what you'd like to try, in general, and maybe circle or star what you intend to try first. For example, meditate for 5 minutes while inhaling the wake-up blend or repeat these three affirmations while I'm taking an aromatherapy bath...

If you're feeling motivated to really dive in, you could create a 2 or 3 day challenge for yourself, surrounding a weekend, and try several at the same time, noting which ones work best and whittle down your list of possibilities that way.

(5) Once you know what you plan to add to your morning routine, decide when and where to weave it in to what you're doing already.

Will you need to go to bed earlier? Wake up earlier in the morning?

Once you have answered all of those questions for yourself, you're ready to get started with transforming your morning routine.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga: Post-Challenge Journal Prompts

7/24/2019

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Doing this morning yoga challenge for the past week - or week and a half if you kept going over the weekend - gave you a chance to set a mindful morning aromatherapy intention and try it out for a short period of time. An experiment in altering and adding to your morning routine.

How did it go? Think through the journal prompts for reflection and consider what impact the challenge had on your morning routine, and on the way your mornings felt, in general.

Morning Yoga Journal Prompts

What was it like to isolate one yoga pose at a time?

If you tried any of the other mindfulness techniques or activities, how did they impact your yoga experience?

Was it worth it to include the morning yoga as part of your morning routine? If so, what made it worthwhile? If not, what kept it from being worth your time and energy?

How was this challenge experience similar to and different from other times you've tries yoga in the past?

Do you want to keep making room in your morning routine to explore yoga? If so, write down your plan for doing so.

Try the Morning Yoga Challenge Again

If you didn't get a chance to download the yoga extras - the affirmations, meditation moments, etc., or to try the challenge with the essential oil blends, I encourage you to try it again once you have everything in place. You can get the downloads here, and order the essential oil blends here.

If you're reading this post and you've never had a consistent practice, would trying a 7-day challenge, doing one pose a day appeal to you? Let me know in a comment.

For me, it was wonderful! They were all poses I had tried before, but without really focusing on how they felt. Trying one a day didn't require a lot of time, didn't hurt, and felt very empowering, especially when combined with aromatherapy blends and other mindful techniques.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Seven

7/23/2019

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Yoga will wake you up like a double espresso. Yoga breathing will stimulate your body and mind. The fresh oxygen and energy boost from deep breathing will wake your brain. Sometimes we wake up feeling groggy; Yoga breathing will clear the fuzz away, help you feel energized and give you clarity. It will help you feel brighter and more alive.
- One Yoga, Thailand; oneyogathailand.com

Day Seven: The Savasana Pose

Savasana shifts the away from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic side, and we experience a calming, sweet release. Over time, Savasana teaches us how—and that we can—move from anxiety and hyper-stimulation to this state of down-regulation where ... essential systems are restored and enhanced. - Annie Carpenter

The Savasana Pose gives you the opportunity to practice mindfulness while your body is deeply grounded. Doing this pose may lead to deeper relaxation and a calm, meditative state.

Meditation Moment - breathe in and out, slowly and deeply, becoming as still as possible. Is there any anxiety or concern trying to get your attention? Give it time right now to come to the surface.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Six

7/22/2019

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We know how it feels to leap out of bed after hitting the snooze button one-too-many times and rushing around in the morning - our nervous system definitely knows how it feels all-too-well…. Giving yourself an extra hour or half an hour in the mornings to wake up and practice will allow your nervous system to begin the day in a far more relaxed state.
- Emma Louise Newlyn, in Yoga Practice, ekhartyoga.com

Day Six: the Half Moon Pose

Half moon reminds me that dedication, surrender, falling and laughter are all equally important aspects of this practice. Teaches us the journey is more important for self awareness and self acceptance that "nailing" the pose. - Lisa Menard Schmahl, harmonyyoga.com

The Half Moon Pose is a stress reliever. It also may help you lessen feelings of anxiety or the experience of depression.

Meditation Moment: Connect to the feeling of being off balance when life knocks you down or throws things off kilter. Feel the combined power of all the moments of getting back up again with a deeper awareness & appreciation of just how strong you are. While you're in that moment of power and strength, let go of any stress you've been carrying.

YMMV: So Proceed with Care

As with any healthy undertaking, your mileage may vary, and it's always a good idea to talk to a doctor or healthcare provider before jumping into a new form of exercise.

Looking at this pose makes me imagine that it could be helpful to learn and try it with a yoga teacher nearby to make sure you don't topple over. :)

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Five

7/19/2019

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Once you make your morning yoga flow a habit, your body will get used to waking up at that specific time. This will help to regulate your circadian sleep cycles, which we often throw out of whack by varying when we go to sleep and wake up. As your sleep cycle regulates, you’ll find it easier to fall and stay asleep and you’ll wake up feeling more alert and ready to take on your day. - YogaSix.com

Day Five: The Mountain Pose

This pose promotes stillness in both the mind and the body. It is a very upright pose that brings a feeling of strength and confidence. It is also very opening, which frees you from fear. It is a very grounding posture because of the connection to the earth through the soles of the feet.
- Yoga Freedom, yogafreedom.co.uk/blog

The Mountain Pose - as you focus on your breathing, this pose may help you decrease anxiety and increase awareness, making it easier to notice life without judging it. And standing tall in the physical sense may increase your ability to stand tall emotionally.

Meditation Moment - ask yourself where in your life you most need to stand tall, and see what comes to mind. Just keep breathing deeply and slowly and breathe love into whatever thoughts come, in response.

You Can Continue through the Weekend

I have been taking weekends off during this blog challenge, so I will be bringing you days six and seven next week. But if you signed up to get the whole challenge, all at once, you can feel free to do them over the weekend, and still try them again next week, if you'd like.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Four

7/18/2019

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Practicing yoga first thing in the morning offers you a way to clear your mind and get your body ready for the day. Energizing poses, such as backbends and sun salutations, feature prominently in a morning session. Yoga in the morning sets the tone for the day. It gives you time to set goals and reflect on the ways you'll deal with challenges posed by your family, friends and coworkers. - Livestrong.com

Day Four: The Triangle Pose

Triangle pose is an ideal way to pinpoint the stress we carry in our lower backs. It also opens the shoulder and extends the neck — two places where tension lives. Moreover, Triangle requires focused concentration and attention to the breath to keep the ego from making us feel inadequate or unsteady. This breath, and total presence in the moment is the single most powerful tool in relieving stress. - Camille Dodson

The triangle pose offers both solace and release of all the anxieties and feelings you store in your body. It also can become a reminder to stay emotionally present to yourself, on a day-to-day basis, so that your feelings can be processed and released as they arise.

Meditation Moment: take a moment just to focus on breathing slowly and deeply. Open your heart to letting go of any toxic feelings you have been carrying around, and as you breathe in, breathe in comfort. As you breathe out, let go of tension and stress.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Three

7/17/2019

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Yoga can calm your mind and start your day in a positive light Yoga is an ancient practice that has been cherished for thousands of years. One of its primary benefits is its ability to center and focus the mind, thereby reducing a great deal of stress. If you feel rushed or anxious in the morning, a few yoga postures could help tremendously. - Hillary Lebow

Day Three: The Warrior II Pose

As you embrace this pose, "you may be given confidence to face your fears, courage to move forward, compassion to embrace another, and wisdom to surrender to the one who holds the reins." - Shiva Rea

The Warrior II pose is about letting go of tension and finding the peace in every moment. It's about seeing through the illusions so that you can get to the truth. And about wisdom and courage.

Meditation Moment: Imagine being filled each day with the courage to face your fears, and to easily handle any stress that comes your way. See yourself using wisdom to divine the truth in any moment. What does that feel like from the inside?

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Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day Two

7/16/2019

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Morning yoga can give you more focus all day long. It’s so important to take a few minutes for yourself in the morning to breathe, connect with your body, and set your intentions for the day. As you breathe through your yoga flow, you’ll be providing your brain with loads of fresh oxygen. This will help sweep away any last bits of sleepiness and increase your mental clarity for the day ahead. - YogaSix.com

Day Two: The Seated Twist Pose

You might notice the centering benefits to your consciousness. As the layers of muscle and bone revolve deeply, your attention is drawn into the stable, unmoving center of the pose. And this ability to stay centered as the hubbub of the world swirls around you will pay obvious dividends in the yoga of daily living. - Julie Gudmestad

The Seated Twist pose is calming to your mind and nervous system, and can re-energize as it releases stress & toxic energy. The energy it releases comes from deep within your body.

Meditation Moment: imagine that long-held stress, deep within your body, is being released. Welcome the sense of calm and the refreshing energy that comes to take its place.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Morning Yoga Challenge: Day One

7/15/2019

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Practicing yoga the very first thing in the morning is perhaps one of the best ways to really reap its many health benefits. This is due to several factors. First, establishing a routine of yoga in the morning helps your body to regulate its sleeping habits. In time, your body will become used to waking up and immediately receiving a boost of energy from yoga, which will make the act of getting out of bed that much easier since your body will have a task to look forward to. - TheJoint.com

If you haven't tried yoga before, or done it consistently, and you wonder what it would be like to do yoga poses as part of your morning routine, take these next seven days to give it a try. For these next seven days, we'll focus on one pose and on an aromatherapy blend that may help with that pose & the energy it represents.

But if you have any movement challenges or health concerns, it's always a good idea to exercise caution and diligence before trying a new form of exercise. Might be good to check with your doctor or healthcare provider. Just saying.

And once you know you're good to go, let's try the challenge...

Day One: The Seated Meditation Pose

"...the base of our spine is pressed firmly into the mat. With this, we physically root ourselves into the earth and find a sense of grounding. From here, we can do the mental and emotional work to determine what is stopping us from that sense of grounding in our lives. -YogaJournal

The Seated Meditation pose can help lessen stress & anxiety, calming your mind. It's a root chakra pose that can help you feel more centered and grounded.

Meditation Moment - imagine that all of your stress and any anxiety is leaving your body and going deep into the earth, sending back and creating a deep sense of rootedness. Allow peace to fill each cell of your body.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine

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Becoming Someone Else

Homemaking

What Do You Think?

What is Cozy Morning Aromatherapy?

First, A Reminder of Your Vision

3 Slow Lifestyle Moments to Create Today

Create a Homeschool Morning Routine

Use a Homeschool Morning Basket

A Fond Farewell to the JulyUltimate Blog Challenge

The Motherlode of Essential Oils Recipes

Creating the Plan for Your Aromatherapy Morning Routine

Morning Yoga Journal Prompts

Try the Morning Yoga Challenge Again

Day Seven: The Savasana Pose

Day Six: the Half Moon Pose

YMMV: So Proceed with Care

Day Five: The Mountain Pose

You Can Continue through the Weekend

Day Four: The Triangle Pose

Day Three: The Warrior II Pose

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