Inspired by in September

I had three ideas for my Last Hundred Days of the Year Project: Pranayama, Yoga, and Writing a Letter from Love.

Pranayama because I miss it. I quit during the pandemic because, duh, aerosols! But recently, I have been doing some k-breaths (kapalabhati pranayama) and, wo. 

I had forgotten how high propulsive breathing can get me! I love it! So what if I commit to 15 minutes of that for the next one hundred? This has tons of appeal.

Yoga, and specifically Ashtanga Yoga.

Every month, I lead a 30-minute short-form sequence from the back of this book:

And I always say to myself: I need to do this every day. 

My students say the same thing. They say: We love this. 

So if they love it and I love it, why not commit to it for a bit every day?

This, too, has massive appeal.

And then there’s this Letter from Love that I want to write but can’t get myself to do. What the hell is this resistance about? So why don’t I commit to it for a hundred days and find out? To find out what this is about, check out  Elizabeth Gilbert’s Letter From Love Substack here. This is the hardest of the three, but it might reap the biggest rewards. 

Ultimately, I couldn’t decide, so I will try to do them all. I know I’m setting myself up to fail, but if any of them sticks, it’ll be interesting to see which one and why. 

Stay tuned.

Here’s what inspired me this month.

 Watching:

Suits still, and I caught the first episode of the new season of The Morning Show, but it wasn’t as compelling as I remembered.

Survivor started last night, and (spoiler alert): One day? She quit after one freakin’ day? Is this a generational thing? Have you no grit anymore, people? Sheesh.

Reading:

Almost finished Trust by Hernan Diaz (the Yoga Lounge Book Group pick), and I’m loving it. 

Queued up next: Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk,

and Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad. 

I can’t wait! 

Both of these are 600 pages, so I think I just kissed my Goodreads goal of 50 books this year goodbye, but I don’t care. I like big books, and I cannot lie.

Eating and Drinking:

Still doing Slow Carbs. No white food. And no dramatic change in body fat or weight metrics. It’s been three weeks. It’s getting harder now. I wanted rice in my stew. I miss fruit—and Brown Cow vanilla yogurt.  

I console myself with my nightly glass of red. My new fave cabernet: Freakshow

What were you inspired by in September? Let me know in the comments, and consider subscribing! Thanks for reading.

Love, Kath

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