8 March 2024 a.k.a. Day 1 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga I did 51 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with 🎶📀Bon Jovi 💓What About Now album🗡️🌹 released 8 March 2013 Why I chose this album: Because it was released on this day, 11 years ago.  

Does anybody want what’s left of me?

👩🏼‍💻 the day 1 story 

. This year long #dailybonjoviyoga challenge is inspired by the 2009 movie “Julie and Julia”, which is one of the very few 21st century movies I actually bothered to watch multiple times in the past five, six years or so. And in all probability it’s not a usual suspect. I mean you could have just guessed I’ve seen “Bohemian Rhapsody” over a dozen times, yeah? And compared to “Bohemian Rhapsody” the 2009 Nora Ephron movie does look almost fragile. The movie is based on two true stories; That of a famous American cook Julia Child, who brought French cuisine to America. And of Julie Powell who embarked on her 365 day challenge in August 2002, when she vowed to cook herself through Child’s “Mastering the  Art of French Cooking”, and blog about it. It were the earliest days of blogging culture on internet! And of course she got a book deal after she finished her accomplishment. The movie vividly shows the impossibility of such an intense cooking challenge, combining it with a fulltime job.  To do that AND to write about it? Julie’s accomplishment was a tour de force. But I also love the movie for its old-fashioned blogging software. It is such a trip down memory lane, and it makes me nostalgic for not having been one of those earliest of bloggers. Anything up to 2009 would have counted, in my opinion! But I did not get a blog until 2010. Julie starts the challenge because she is at her wits end; After a promising start, her career has flatlined, and she’s failed in all her attempts to write a book and get published. The challenge gives her something to do, a reason to rush home and do something constructive and exciting with her spare-time. But of course, with such a brittle foundation, a meltdown is just one dish ending on her kitchen floor or in the sink, away! And that is exactly how I feel too. Although my challenge is in NO WAY, as vast and full-on as Julie Powell cooking herself through Julia’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking; And our 2024 blogging software is an easy breeze compared to 2002; I have no idea how strong my foundations currently are, and if their weak points accidentally coincide with going on a daily yoga blogging challenge. What I did do, to mimic Powell’s journey, is set rules around when I can do yoga, and when I can blog. Although I work as an independent, I will stick to the hours Julie Powell had for her project! So on weekdays that means I will be writing or doing yoga AM (before Julie’s worktime), or after 7 PM (after her worktime). This is rule number one, let’s call it “The Worktime Rule”: The challenge can only be done outside office hours.   And although I will do daily yoga, if just for half an hour, at night; I will preference sleep over writing. So the blogs will not be daily, but the yoga will. This is “The Daily Yoga Rule”: I will do yoga every day, but not blog every day. Like Julie’s dishes, the yoga sessions will then be combined to one post. On day one I felt * looks at notes * scared, excited and curious, before I started my first yoga practice for this challenge. It felt important, that I had chosen. “Something” was being done about feeling stuck, just like Julie had felt stuck when she started her challenge. She didn’t know what to do about it, and figured something, something big and action oriented, something that would fill her life with something other than worrying about work; Was better than doing nothing. I loved the yoga and my relaxation the final songs, was so deep. It was like I was paralyzed, that’s how tired my body was. But my mind was awake and clear. And I remembered the lyric that had struck a chord, and that symbolized the thin layer between hope and realizing how vulnerable the new path still was. The lyric that illustrated that this year of #dailybonjoviyoga was not a done deal. Too much had happened, things I was unsure I would ever heal from.

“I ain’t checking out I still got my dreams Does anybody want what’s left of me”

What’s Left of Me, Bon Jovi

. ~Rock Star Suzy

The Yoga of Friday March 8, 2024

Here are the manual and the schedules I used for this practice. Throughout this entire year I will only be using free resources. Source Friday March 8: Free 2021 manual Daily Bon Jovi Yoga 2.0 -> https://dailybonjoviyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bon-jovi-yoga-set-list-2.0-yoga-framework-incl-sticky-men-schedules.pdf I used schedules 1. Opening sequence 4. Transition poses 5. Backbends and 6. Seated forward bends and twists I did a relaxation during the final two songs, Room at the End of the World (11) and The Fighter (12) See you tomorrow, for another day of  #dailybonjoviyoga You can follow all content on: Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram.