A New Year series of guided daily yoga habit-forming is coming soon!  Commit to daily mindful self-care, and deepen your yoga practice.

WHO is Daily Yoga Habit for?

• Anyone interested in beginning a daily yoga practice 
• Experienced practitioners who want to deepen their practice on a daily basis​
• Anyone looking to set up a daily system for physical, mental and spiritual self-care 
• Anyone interested in developing a regular meditation practice
• Anyone curious about the effects of a long-term daily yoga practice
• No prior yoga experience needed

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  -(Attributed to) Aristotle

WHY Daily Yoga Habit?

1. To skillfully set up a daily self-care routine for physical, mental-emotional and spiritual wellness
2. To feel grounded, centered and focused, especially at the start of each day
3. To have a daily practice for keeping your mind and body open, strong and healthy
4. To develop a lifelong habit of prioritizing your health and well being
5. To become skillful at regulating your nervous system during moments of stress response
6. To experience the effects of a daily yoga practice that includes comprehensive tools: physical poses, skillful breathing, meditations and yoga and mindfulness teachings
7. To receive guidance by a trained yoga teacher with over 7 years sustaining a daily yoga habit, 11 years experience facilitating yoga classes, over 20 years personal yoga practice and over 20 years training and working as an educator
8. To start or deepen your yoga practice with a thoughtfully-planned professionally sequenced curriculum 
9. To have a purposeful soul-centered daily ritual that aligns your mind, body and spirit to the joy, wisdom and peace of your core being
10. To see Life around and within you through loving awareness, supported by the ancient practical tools of yoga psychology and mindfulness
11. To increase emotional intelligence through yoga psychology and mindfulness practices
12. To build self-trust, self-compassion and loyalty to your inner being by having a dedicated practice
13. To enrich your relationship with the world and beings around you through awakened being
14. Read more here about 21 wellness benefits of having a daily yoga practice.

WHAT is Daily Yoga Habit?

Daily Yoga Habit is 28 days of up to 20 minutes​ of comprehensive yoga practices guided by Michelle Chua, RYT, to grow a sustainable personal daily yoga habit.   Each session includes curated postures, mindful movement, breathwork, meditation and yoga philosophy and mindfulness teachings that honor the tradition of the 8 Limbs of Yoga and integrate tools from yoga psychology and mindfulness practice. 

Start with 10 minutes of yoga a day in week 1 to establish consistency in showing up to your practice. Week 2 increases the practice time to 15 minutes a day.  Progress to 20 minutes daily by weeks 3 and 4.  

Daily Yoga Habit is a new and improved sequel to our 2021 daily yoga ritual series, Morning 21.  Based on our community's feedback, here's what's new:

• An additional week of guided practices (28 days instead of 21).
• Dive deeper into mindfulness .and yoga psychology teachings about energy centers or chakras.
• Start with 10-minute practices in week 1 to establish the practice of showing up consistently.  After a week of establishing your routine, dive deeper with progressively longer practices, not to exceed 20 minutes.
• Know your journey of topics that we'll cover ahead of time and go back to the topics and practices you'd like to repeat, as they'll be clearly labeled.
• Clearer audio with upgraded mic and video devices.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
-Lao Tzu

Explore the following topics: ​

Week 1 -

• Balance your heart energy center, or anahata chakra.
• Create through inspired action.
• Unleash the power of gratitude.
• Attune to abundance.
• Breathing technique for uplifting mood, energizing your body and promoting clarity of mind
• Mindfulness Meditations
• Open the shoulders and hip flexors, increase spinal mobility and strengthen the back 

Week 2 - 

• Activate your brow energy center, or ajna chakra.
• Strengthen loving self-awareness.
• Practice compassionate self-study.
• Develop skills for clear perception.
• Breathing techniques for anxiety and grounding
• Meditations for connecting with inner wisdom and ability to envision and manifest
• Stretch your back and hamstrings and boost circulation

Week 3 -

• Activate your solar plexus energy center, or manipura chakra.
• Understand mental patterns that cause suffering.
• Integrate strategies for letting go of limiting thoughts and beliefs.
• Take the reigns of your mind.
• Energize the body and promote digestion
• Strengthen core muscles and balance

Week 4 - 
​Balance your sacral energy center, or svadhisthana chakra.

• Play in the flow state.
• Honor your practice as your teacher.
• Journey forward with Self-trust, joy and surrender.
• Promote balance in the left and right hemispheres of the brain (neural integration)
• Open energy flow in the lower back and hips 

HOW, WHEN and WHERE?

1. Register below by December 31, 2021 to start Daily Yoga Habit on January 1, 2022 for 28 days.  
2. Receive a confirmation email with private access to Daily Yoga Habit website. Bookmark this page on your online viewing device for convenience.
3. From January 1 through 28, check the site for your daily 10-20 minutes of prerecorded guided yoga.  Each video will be posted by 12am Pacific Time each day for you to view at your chosen daily practice time.  It's highly recommended you start your day with Daily Yoga Habit, using it to set the tone for your day and ensuring it becomes a priority in your daily routine, just like showering and brushing your teeth!
4. As the days progress, you'll have cumulative access to previous videos until January 28.
5. Practice Daily Yoga Habit wherever you choose and can access the videos online.  It's highly recommended you designate a consistent and convenient time and place to practice, where you can be uninterrupted.

Meet Daily Yoga Habit Creator + Facilitator, Michelle Chua

My own daily morning ritual of yoga with meditation, postures and breath work is where I recharge my body-mind to see life more clearly and remember that my optimal well being empowers my positive impact in this world.  It's when I source inner wisdom to color my lens for the day.  (Watch this video sharing my backstory.)

As we share 28 days of yoga together, my intention is to help rekindle your love for your body and let you directly experience your vast wisdom, strength and resilience to live each day fully and share your greatest presence with this world.   
​Read Michelle's Bio here.  If you have any questions, feel free to email Michelle here.  

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.  -Rumi

What People Have to Say...

Listen to Mari King share her experience with Michelle's most recent daily yoga online program, Morning 21, in October 2021:

I have been taking Michelle's yoga classes for eight years. She has an inner peace that permeates each class and leaves her students with a feeling of calm.  I have been joining as many of her classes as I can attend in a week, because they keep me sane, centered, and rooted in a very challenging time. She brings a sense of joy and depth to the practice. Michelle does an excellent job including poses and movements to build heat and then cooling down in a meditative way. I would recommend her classes to anyone I know!

​- Shona Ganguly (Sun Valley, CA, USA)

Being new to yoga, Michelle's yoga sessions have been eye-opening for me. Her step-by-step, calm, and succinct instructions have been instrumental for a beginner like me. Michelle connects well with her students and cares enough to ask if there are any areas we want to focus on during class, and she implements those seamlessly into her routine. The philosophies she explains are well integrated into the classes. She enjoys instructing so much that it is contagious.

- Jonathan Calzada (Sun Valley, CA, USA)

How to Register for Daily Yoga Habit

1. Fill out the form below, providing your best email to receive confirmation.
2. Choose your energy exchange below to help cover production costs, organization, admin and delivery of Daily Yoga Habit.
3. Submit your investment amount.

Energy Exchange for Daily Yoga Habit

In the spirit of accessibility and community, this offering is available at tiered energy exchange amounts.  Please assess your financial ability and choose the investment amount below that seals your commitment to your Daily Yoga Habit and offers heart-centered energy exchange.  Thank you for your support!

• $99
• $77
• $55

To send your investment amount, scan the Venmo app account for @root2riseyoga below or send the amount through Zelle app to Mary Michelle Chua at Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com.  Please note this amount is non-refundable after December 31, 2021.