Take Charge and Manage Your Yoga

Once you develop a good set of goals for your yoga practice, pat yourself on the back – easy. If you’ve crafted your action plan to tackle these goals, pat yourself on the other side – easy again. Now take a few minutes and finish up and learn how to manage your yoga plans with some management tools.

Logbook, Diary or Personal Journal

Manage your yoga sessions with a handy log book, diary or personal journal for recording class times, length of sessions, feedback and other data you’d like to note for future reference. You can check out log books and journals at your local bookstore, library or online, to see which type you might prefer to try. You could also grab a 3-ring binder and print out home-made log sheets made from software on your computer like Microsoft Word or Excel.

After you choose which type to use, keep it in a convenient location to grab on the go and use both at home and at your yoga class regularly. You could keep it near your gym bag stuffed with your loose clothing and roll up mat, for example, and keep a pencil with eraser handy there, too, to jot notes in the book as needed.

Planners or Calendars

You also need to make sure to coordinate your yoga activities with the rest of your daily plans. So grab your calendar, day planner or other organizing tool(s) for this. A popular way on computers today is to log your yoga sessions into a software calendar like Microsoft Outlook offers and print them out if you need to. With online calendars like Outlook, you can set up your yoga session on one day, then schedule it to repeat automatically on its own daily, bi-weekly, on the same day of the week and other options. This way you won’t forget upcoming yoga classes.

Other popular calendar and planner systems are sold by Franklin Covey and other brand names at a local office supply store. Check out their software that’s compatible with Outlook and even handheld computers. Or choose from a variety of ringed binder-type planners.

When you have your choice, follow up, logging and keeping your yoga dates regularly.  See what works best and revise your management tools and skills – and get help with them either from the place of purchase or your yoga instructor - as needed.