If you're like most people, you make lofty, healthy goals for the New Year, but, also like most, you probably lose track of those goals or otherwise can't keep up with them. Most especially if those goals involve improving your health, you need to get back in touch with them and there's no better way to do that than by getting away on a yoga retreat.

1. The Peace And Quiet Helps You Re-Focus On Those Forgotten Goals

If your daily routine features a lot of rushing around, meetings, traffic, and other stress-inducing activities, you've probably pushed exercise out of your mind, simply because you have too much else to do. A retreat removes you from your hectic schedule, allowing you to focus, once again, on the importance of exercise in your life and on the mind-body connection you've let slip away from you. 

2. Being Around New People Re-Vitalizes Your Motivation

Meeting new people, especially those with similar interests and goals, brings back that motivation you had in the beginning of January. You all want the same thing and have likely been distracted from it for the same reasons: Your job, kids, spouse, stress, exhaustion, and more. Share stories, trade secrets, and learn how you can re-vitalize your motivation, finding the inspiration you need.

3. Reconnecting With Your Body Renews Your Commitment To It

Daily stress is akin to an out-of-body-experience, especially considering the lack of control you feel under such circumstances. All you can do is go with the flow, getting everything you need done, on time, without so much as five minutes left for yourself by day's end. That situation causes you to lose the close connection you need with your body in order to devote the necessary attention to it; however, yoga is one of the best ways to reconnect, closely, with your body, renewing your commitment to self-improvement.

4. A Daily Regimen Of Positive Exercise Snaps You Out Of Your Stress-Cycle

Not only will you not have the stress of your usual routine, but it will be replaced with positive ways to spend your time and take care of yourself and that may be all you need to snap out of the cycle of stress afflicting so many people. Stuck in that stress-cycle, you likely fall back on comfort or convenience foods and neglect the body as a temple.

5. Watching Your Calendar For The Retreat Reminds You Of How Fast Time Flies!

As the day to leave for your retreat approaches, you'll be reminded of how quickly time gets away from you. Doesn't it feel like your New Year's Resolutions were made just a few days ago? Has half a year already gone by? Good grief, it's time to catch up with the clock, get back to your goals, and put yourself in control of your life.

Hopefully, your yoga retreat will bring you back to the goals you felt so committed to earlier in the year. Maybe next January, you can start the year off with a yoga retreat, so you start off on the right foot, with nothing standing between you and success. For more information, contact yoga retreats like The Yoga Collective.

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