Yogi Day in the Life

/ Self-Diagnosed Yogi

Happy Thursday, Friends!

What a beautiful misty day it’s been! I’ve been busy creating and working on stellar projects! I’ll update you on Sunday! I’m trying to hone in on my morning routine still but that night night routine is an actual keystone habit. A keystone habit is one you don’t have to think about. You just do it and it lines up other habits to support you fully.

My keystone is early to bed, and I’ll share tips to help alleviate the stress and get you ready to rest your tired, overworked mind and body🙏🏽

I typically start my morning without an alarm. My husband’s been waking at 4am this week so I get up around 4:30. I use the bathroom, brush my teeth, scrape my tongue, and use my Nettie pot to flush my sinuses followed by Nayasa oil.

My morning routine tool kit; Nettie pot, Nasya oil, and my tongue scraper.

I began my meditation with morning sage. A great tip is to take off a leaf and burn that. Just a single leaf so your bundle lasts forever! I grew my own sage last year and bundled it for my prayers and meditations. I bought amethyst (crown chakra) & citrine (solar plexus chakras) to assist me keeping my chakras balanced and each stone serves a purpose. My citrine attracts wealth & success and if you place it directly on your root chakra for 15 – 20 min it regulates energy and stamina. So in case you were wondering what that pocket in your panties were for…. wonder no more😂

My new stones I just cleansed with my sage and will recharge at the next full moon because I need my energy!

After, my meditation & water therapy (I chugged 2 – 24 oz. Cups of water) I stretched and moved in the form of 4 – 5 full sun salutations to greet the morning! Yummy! I like to get in some twists to preheat the digestive fire oven! I usually don’t eat till 11 or so but no harm in getting my body ready for lunch!

My altar with the flag my grandpa was honored with at his funeral. He was a WWII vet. I miss him. Also, my other grandmas and grandpas on my dad’s side. Of course, my stones, singing bowl, sage, and Ayurveyda book.

Post sun salutations I went outside with my dogs, and I enjoyed the clouds and got in some steps. I love grounding my day being outside.

My dogs love their daily walks. I do too!

I spent the morning working my day job. Lunch was a hit, and I created a new recipe based off my friend’s nettle soup she shared with me. It uses nettles, potatoes, lots of garlic, chicken broth, lemon peel and the lemon juice. This soup is so bright and lovely.

The brightest tasting soup! Fall in love with your greens! Happy 4/20!

Me and my mother-in-law decided to meet up and shop for plants when I ended my day job duties. I absolutely love all the possibilities and enjoy digging in the dirt! My M.I.L. does too so we are best friends! LOL! I bought St. Johns Wart which (yes, the sleep/antidepressant herb) has the most beautiful flowers! Also, bee balm, golden rod, dutchman’s pipe, and so many dahlias and black satin petunias.

April showers are ensuring the May flowers, fingers crossed the freezing weather is gone…

For dinner I enjoyed a chicken salad. I marinated my chicken in sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic, and coconut sugar then grilled it! Yum! I added it to my Dole salad mix, added mandarin oranges and this was a great dinner! Full!

I made it to my Wednesday class of Yin Yoga. I love it! We hold our poses for quite a while and there’s nowhere to escape to! Just you, your breath, and the pose. How positively freeing it is to me. I give myself too much leniency and with Yin I accept the rawness of my thoughts and use all the love I can muster to alleviate the intrusive thoughts without moving out of my asana. It’s a lot for real! Like if I let go of the pain and concentrate on my breath, I find my jaw tightens or my shoulders hunch. The trauma and self-doubt have to live somewhere, right? I am working on this which feels like it’ll be a lifetime! But I have nowhere to be but here.

My favorite time of the day is my night routine. Yoga was amazing and I’m ready to unwind fully. I used my dry brush to help scrape off the day and I draw my bath using my rose scented bath salts and bubbles. I made myself some moon water with roses and essential oils from the last full moon, and I add all to the bath and nestle in with a great book. Right now, I’m reading “Violeta” by Isabel Allende.

I make my moon water with spring water, rose petals, rose essential oil and stir in a big glass jar and place outside to get the energy from the full moon. This past week it was called “Pink Moon”. So fitting 🙂

After my bath I did self-massage with my sesame oil and some rose lotion and dressed for my comfy bed. It’s 9 pm and I’m oiling my feet with intention to every inch. Feet like to be touched and oiled, I’m finding. It helps me sleep like a baby. I also take Valerian root or melatonin as needed to get me in the mood for sleep. I heated up some turmeric milk to aid with sleep as well. Yummy! I mean…yawnnnn! I love my Insight timer which has thousands of meditations loaded on the app. It’s free and I love it! I played “Back to Sleep” by Andrew Johnson. Way better than counting sheep.

This has been a really amazing day and I signed up for my herbalist classes. I’m so excited to begin this journey! I can’t wait to take you with me, and we can learn together! Well, I’m off to dreamland and we’ll talk soon! Have a great week and enjoy the beauty in everything!

Namaste!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi.

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