Moment by moment, I choose to pause, feel my feet, connect to my center and choose vitality as I create from the place of truth and wisdom within each one of us. Will I fall? Yes. Will I make mistakes? Yes. The prize is not in getting to a goal first! The prize is in the journey and the richness of the experience. The victory is every time I realize that I have fallen, or that I have not been creating from my purpose, my vision and my intentions. With a smile and compassion, I will stand in my feet, dust off my pants, get reconnected to my center and create anew moment by moment. I celebrate this journey and each one of us.

What reminders and lessons are you taking with you?

The practice of forgiveness is one that I not only have to work on with others, but more specifically myself! As we end this program and step into day 41 the practice of forgivness is a gentle reminder that we have to be kind to ourselves. News flash people, we are HUMAN and we will fall in and out of carrying on our “40 days” feeling. The question remains, will we fogive ourselves?

I was having guilt for not practicing, every day that I committed to, but the guild serves no purpose and no power! To forgive and more on is such a courageous action, one that you have to choose over and over again. Today I am choosing to forgive ME for not being perfect, and for falling off track. The good news is that I now have some tools to get me back on the course.

I am ready to take on day 41 with ease, grace and POWER! How about you?

Community- It is the one thing that has kept me returning to Baptiste trainings, studios and teachers. The entire idea of Yoga, and truly keeping that gift alive is only possible if it is shared with others. When you are able to share an idea from the center of your soul to another individual- community forms around the idea and keeps the idea alive. It is like the transformation is the spark- the ember of the fire- and the community is the fuel. Community is what makes it happen. I have made life long friends at Baptiste trainings, and Baptiste studios. Just seeing the impact the individuals of the community have on one another is inspiring beyond words, and then to see the impact the community has on the world is absolutely breathtaking.

This post is meant to answer some questions we’ve received about the end and wrap-up of the program and to ensure that the transition into days 41 and beyond is smooth and powerful!

1. Will the website and facebook groups be available ongoing?  Can I pay for continued access to them?

The website and facebook pages will be closed at the end of Sunday, February 19th.  It can be tempting to keep going back in and re-read posts, inspired words, and thoughtful questions, but ultimately this is just continued focus on our past.  We want to empower you to create your future from right now without the context of what did or didn’t happen during the program.  The websites and forums were meant to support you, but never in perpetuity.  You’ve created habits and routines now like daily meditation and investigative journaling that will support you far more than these temporary sites!

In order to ensure you have ALL the podcasts, please click THIS LINK.  If you are still missing any in particular, please email chris at chris@baronbaptiste.com and we’ll make sure you have everything you need!

2. How can I stay connected to the people I’ve met here and to the Baptiste Community?

I LOVE how much we’ve received this question!  In many ways it’s the exact response we are envisioning at the end of any Baptiste Yoga program.  As far as staying connected to those you’ve come across during Digital 40 Days, I recommend the ‘normal’ means of online connection – seek each other out on email and facebook and stay current!  As far as the Baptiste Community, Baron’s Facebook Page and the Baptiste Yoga website are fantastic places to know what’s happening when, where, and with who.

Of course the best way to reconnect is always in person  The best opportunity is of course lies in an upcoming program.  Take the momentum you’ve generated at home and join us at a Foundations in Action, or Level One Training!  You are ready NOW!

3. When is the next Digital 40 Days?

We do not have our next one scheduled, but we’re looking at this summer or fall!  Our aim is to make the next version of Digital 40 Days

5. Is there a place I can give you feedback on the program in order to make it even better? 

So glad you asked!  Yes.  We have created a feedback form HERE, and if you complete it you get a free 90 minute “DJ Yoga Party” asana podcast from Mark White!  It’s a lot of fun to practice to.

One of the things I love so much about the meditation aspect of this program is how it builds us up from 5 minutes all the way to 30 minutes, twice a day. How many of us really thought we could ever sit for 30 whole minutes at a time in stillness by choice?! Like Don, I had sat for up to a half hour in meditation at programs with Baron, being guided through the meditation, but doing this on my own at home brings it to a whole new level, something that I acknowledge and appreciate each time I sit for meditation.

From this program, I take the knowledge that it’s possible to sit for 30 minutes, but also the knowledge that every meditation, no matter how long or short, can be a powerful practice of coming back to center and being grounded. I know that some days it seems like I need 30 minutes to find grounding so I take that time, other days I only have 5 or 10 minutes to meditate and I make the most of it, and in between there are times where I only have 5 breaths to reconnect to the meditative state in different situations throughout the day.

As you sit in meditation the final days of this program and beyond, truly allow every meditation to be a triumph, a chance to be still and know. When I meditate in the morning I know that there is a day full of possibility ahead, and when I meditate at night I know that when I live from my heart, and take lessons from every experience in every day, I live my life to fullest from a place of my inner power. As Baron says, “Stillness is not just a thirty minute exercise in the morning and at night. It is also a way of life. Eventually, our aim is to have our inner stillness reflect outward into all the comings and goings of our lives.”

• When did your body feel the best? When was your mind the most clear? And what/how were you eating during those times?
• What is opening up for you with your eating habits?
• What has shifted, and what new habits can you commit to?

And now it is time to CELEBRATE all that you have accomplished in this 40 day program. You are amazing and UNSTOPPABLE!

Finally I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Michael Pollan. “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”

This podcast focuses on Baron’s eleventh and twelfth Laws of Transformation: Be Still & Know and Understand the Whole is the Goal

The first is a 90 minute podcast by Certified Baptiste Teacher Karen Harrington of Liberty, IL

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We have two  90 minute podcasts by Certified Teacher Debi Grilo of Baptiste Affiliate Bala Vinyasa Yoga in Naples, FL

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The second is a 90 minute podcast by Certified Baptiste Teacher Elizabeth Johnstone from Stonington, CT.

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If the whole is the goal then the movement between the poses is a place to bring awareness.  It might be that this is a space in your practice that has until now just been happening.  Where in your life are you just happening?  Where are you more of an accident, good or bad, than a creation?

In your next practice, bring awareness to this in-between-poses place.  From this place of awareness you are able to create these in-between spaces from intention: full stillness and considered movements.  This is an empowered practice that will allow you to reach beyond the limits of what has up until now been so.  Be still and know and then come from purpose – be creation!