The Yama Yoga Challenge

The Yama Yoga Challenge
40 days of Practice for Personal Renewal and Transformation.
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”

It is said that the ancients used to divide their year into 9 parts of 40, and that 40 was a sacred number, a number for renewal and transformation, a number for the waiting and testing before completion. Stories from many traditions and cultures celebrate this number. We hear of 40 days a...nd 40 nights of rain, of the 40 years in the desert, and the 40 days of fasting of Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed (May peace by upon him.) 40 years is the age of maturity, the days for which we mourn, the time for which a new born stays inside. In yoga we also say that it takes 40 days to fully change a habit and that we renew ourselves entirely on a cellular level over a 40 day period. A 40 day commitment to practice is a commitment to change and renewal and personal transformation.

The Yama Yoga Challenge challenges you to make this commitment to 40 days of practice. We will support you in this as we can. A discounted class package will be supplemented by home practice guides for the days that you simply can not make it to a class and you will be part of a community of other yogis and yoga teachers all committed to the same practice. The practice of yoga for 40 consecutive days will detox and strengthen you in every way. It will solidify yoga in your life and move you to a much deeper place with your practice. Start where you are with you practice and come and join us for 40 days – lets see where is takes us together.

The Yoga Challenge starts May 1 and will run to June 9th.


I will start to post practice ideas and encouragement from all of our teachers here as well as on our twitter and facebook - both our Yama Yoga Group and our Yama Yoga Challenge Grouup

We recommend a combination of classes at the studio and home practices.

To help you in this we have unlimited yoga class packages available:

Ritz for 40 days unlimited - 1800 QAR
Garvey’s for 40 days unlimited – 1500 QAR
(Workshops not included in this price.)

So the countdown is on.  Three days till it all beings.  Lets see where it takes us.


Namaste