Winter Self-Care
As part of our month-long virtual yoga package The Lakeside Series, we included live zoom workshops. Our last November workshop was on the topic of Winter Self-Care.
We thought we’d share our infographics with helpful self-care tips, along with a writing exercise to help you formulate your own winter self-care plan.
Self-study Writing Prompts:
How do you generally feel about winter?
Do you typically fight, or embrace the soft, quiet pace of winter?
What are your favorite winter self-care strategies that leave your cup feeling FULL? (ideas in the infographics)
Self-Care Plan Writing Prompts:
If you have 1 minute of self-care space, what can you do?
ideas: pet my dog, deep belly breathing, lion’s breath, drink water
If you have 5 minutes of self-care space, what can you do?
ideas: make tea, child’s pose, healthy snack, gratitude list, write a note to someone to snail mail it, check a short item of your to-do list
If you have 30 minutes of self-care space, what can you do?
ideas: meditate, read, call a friend, walk the dog, make a snowman, yoga
If you have 60 minutes of self-care space, what can you do?
ideas: hike, run, bath, complete a larger looming to-do list item (FEELS SOOOO GOOOD to get that weight off your shoulders!), make a healthy nourishing meal, plan your grocery list, call someone and tell them a joke
If you have more than 1 hr of self-care space, what can you do?
ideas: skate, cross country or downhill ski, snowshoe, make a snow angel, bundle up and walk down the driveway and keep going or find a hiking trail, read a book in a sunny corner with hot tea
Now - you have it! A self-care plan. You have the time to take care of yourself, whether it be short or long. This fills your cup, allows you more “bandwidth” to deal with the tough things that come your way. Keep in mind - self-care regimes and routines change with the season. Embrace the natural flow you observe in nature.
