Get your free time here!

... (after you watch my 30 min video – just kidding)

Have you ever experienced fear of missing out (or FOMO)? Do you sometimes have trouble saying no to things even when you’re already over stretched? Or perhaps you know the sense of anxiety you get when you can’t get through all the reading or webinars or trainings you want to do at work– and have a constant sense that there’s some breakthrough contained in that thing you haven’t quite gotten to, or you’re about to miss something huge that’s going to happen?

If if you relate, you’re in good company. FOMO is now considered an actual mental health syndrome and while it’s defined as being about personal lives and fuelled by social media, I think it’s possible for the phenomenon to creep into all aspects of life.

When I quit my full time job earlier this year, I imagined that my life was about to become more simple. I had been working and maintaining yoga teaching on the side, so I figured working on just one thing had to be more straightforward, right? Wrong!

If anything, I’ve found FOMO gets out of control even more easily, and I thought it was really just me being easily distracted. But the more I work closely with my students, the more I see this is a really common story. In our society, we have so many voices clamouring to be heard and modern marketing methods being based on creating a conversation with you, it’s not easy to know which to listen to and which to ignore. We naturally want to try out things that looks promising but this is impossible because there’s simply far too much to ever get through.

And the thing that we lose in trying to work out which is worthwhile actually costs us something that is very precious. Time.  

So my aim is to give you as much value as I can without adding to the general noise or the time demand or FOMO that you can’t do it all.

This is why, unless you sign up for a particular event or course with me, you won’t get more than one email a week. It’s why I try and scale all my offerings to be as accessible and do-able as possible.

This is why I love mini challenges! The aim is for a commitment that anyone can do, for a price that is not going to prevent anyone from taking part and benefitting. The challenge will gently tweak your life in a positive way, without adding pressure. So you can start to feel the affects that little changes can make and what works best for life almost effortlessly.

Each day you’ll receive an email from me with a contemplation for the day and you can choose to either read that and take 10 deep breaths, or read on a bit more for some concise and relevant information. It’s designed to be a note of encouragement, inspiration and support for you. And because it’s spring, much of it will be inspired by the season and all about de-cluttering, cleansing and new beginnings.

The one thing I really do encourage everyone to do is to track their practice, so you can see how you’re doing and reward your progress! Really important.

If you haven’t signed up there's still time (click here) and if you have any questions, let me know!

Warmly

Ruth

21 Day Spring Self Care Mini Challenge launch!

Get your bounce back and tap into effortless spring energy and vitality

Those of you who have worked with me for any time at all know that I believe living in harmony with the seasons not only adds some fun and variety to life, but can have a powerful effect on our health and wellbeing.

I am so excited to announced the best offering I have created to date. This is a pilot challenge for an online course I’m developing that will retail for $97. But I am so excited about this I am launching it for $25 (against my business coaches advice, shhhh!)

21 day Spring self care mini-challenge

• This mini challenge is for you if you’re ready to get the spring back in your step after winter and want to embrace seasonal living more in your life.

• If you’re ready to get back into shape, fit, healthy and focussed, this is the challenge for you!

• If you’re sick of struggling with stress and fatigue but you don’t even have the time to think about what to do about it - this is the course for you!

Without a strategy for self care, health and wellness tend to slip into the realm of good intentions. Without a strategy you’ll be susceptible to stress, health and weight issues and the knock on effects that impact your work, relationships and happiness. You’ll be leaving all of this to luck and your efforts at sustaining good habits won’t stick.

With this you’ll develop and refine your own routine of self care that will give you immediate results and long term benefits and impact. You’ll get back into shape quickly and experience more energy, calm, clarity and focus. Your health overall will improve as you balance your stress levels and the positive impact of this will flow into your career, relationships and overall happiness and enjoyment of life. There is literally nothing in your life that won’t be improved by learning how to take care of yourself - and with this strategy you’ll learn how to do it almost effortlessly, so that it’s sustainable and pleasurable.

Why work with me?

I know about this stuff first hand after a health crisis in my mid 20s found me in the emergency ward. I had severe ‘grumbling appendicitis’ for years, which resulted in me literally being ill as much as I was well, diagnosed with chronic fatigue, clinical depression and leaky gut, among other things. It wasn’t a time I’d care to repeat, but what I learned, through trial and error, were strategies that enabled me to manage my health, psychology and life. This was when I decided to train as a yoga teacher, and embarked on a path to learning more about women’s health and lifestyle design.

As many teachers do, I then spent close to a decade also maintaining a corporate career. I’ve been married and divorced. I’ve lived and worked in a few different states and overseas. Which I share to demonstrate that I understand what it’s like to be busy, to have a modern life, and to have plenty on your plate.

Each week builds so the idea is to add on as you go.

Outline of the challenge

Prelude

What gets measured gets achieved! Set your intentions and decide how you will track your progress

Spring physical fitness - move

Add these to your normal routine or do them alone but give yourself rest days in between

You will receive four practices to keep (you can do one at a time or all together)

·      A 10 min start the day happy day practice

·      3 x 10 minute yoga shred practices

·      A stretch out yoga practice do after your shred

·      Connect to body wisdom practice

Mental fitness

3 practices including the easiest meditation you'll ever try

·      Loving kindness meditation

·      Working with the mind – mindfulness

Attitude

4 practices

·      How and who to use affirmations

·      A breath practice for peak performance

·      Support – connecting with community

·      Working with spirit

What will I need? 10 - 30 minutes a day, enough space to do jumping jacks, and a journal or something to write on. If you have more time or special gear, awesome.

I can't wait for you to begin! Sign up here before the 29th September, 2016.

Lots of love

Ruth