It’s Day 17 of the Summer of Strong Challenge and we are beaming from ear to ear seeing all of your posts!

We want to hear EVERYTHING! How is it going? How are you feeling? Are you enjoying this time coming to the mat for YOU? Tell us! Tell us! Tell us!

Sending all of you so much love and joy! Can’t wait to see you this Wednesday at our live ✨

Virtual hugs to everyone G-Fam!!

As of Wednesday of last week I was feeling under the weather therefore I couldn't come to the mat until today. It doesn't take long to become "lazy" and overthinking the : should I do a workout or not!! Finally I made the choice to do day 12 today and then I was motivated to continue on to do day 13. I'm feeling rejuvenated, relaxed and energized at the same time. Thank you Marnie for creating workouts that are adaptable to our mood and body in that moment! I will be back on the mat tomorrow xo

-seeing 3 friends this past weekend: a beautiful and pleasantly challenging hike with one, an arts festival with another, and coffee with another.

-an extra day off (today!)

-leisurely mornings

These are the classes that made up my 100 days. They wouldn’t post with my last post.

Today I chose to complete my favourite class, M/<60 LIVE NEW YORK BARRE SCULPT /194, because I am celebrating 100 days on the mat! This is the first time I have achieved this in the 2.5 years I have been subscribed to M/BODY.

Not all of these 100 days looked the same. Some days I chose a M/<60 SIGNATURE, other days I chose a M/<10 STRETCH FLOW. There were times when I chose to do all the jumps, times when I chose heavier weights and times when I utilised all the modifications. Many of the days were a mix of all of the above.

However one thing that is true for all of these days is that I am grateful for each one.

I have never been a consistent journaler, feeling like I need to relive my days on paper always just made my hand cramp and gave me a strange anxiety but I started reading “The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay last month which is a beautiful book of essayettes he wrote based on keeping a list of his daily delights for a year—so I was inspired to start my own little book of delights which has turned into just a bullet journal of gratitude, things that bring me joy in the day to day and I’m loving this format so so much. I hope you all find moments of delight today and everyday, they are always there whether tiny or massive or few or flowing <3

My gratitude list

These past 2 weeks I have been grateful that:

1. I chose goals that were achievable as it has been enjoyable to engage with them.
2. I continued with growth that I achieved during previous challenges e.g. I started the challenge by sharing a selfie.
3. By engaging with the activities and my goals, I have finally taken steps towards habits that I need to get back to/ want to try.
4. I ended June feeling more present and closer to my usual self on the mat that I started it.

Last night I took an outdoor yoga class at a winery with my sister-in-law. It was my first outing since having our baby 3.5 months ago and boy was it amazing to be out in nature and enjoy some adult time.

I’m grateful for my husband watching and putting our three girls to bed for us.

I’m grateful to live in such a beautiful area filled with so much nature (and wineries).

I’m grateful my baby happily takes a bottle allowing me some adult time.