http://www.citizeneffect.org/blogs/292/feed en-us http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/congratulations-20 <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Dear Megan,</span></p> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><img border="2" align="right" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; " alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/citizeneffect_production/blog_assets/487/Citizen-Effect-Yoga-Challenge_LOGO.jpg" /></span> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Congratulations on completing your Yoga Challenge! Great job on raising $351 for the foster home. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">The D.C. yoga community has raised over $11,000 so far, and we are still going! Please keep asking friends and family to contribute to your Yoga Challenge project. B</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">e sure to check back for updates from South Africa on the construction of the foster home as well.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span></span></span></p> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Now that your 30 days of yoga are over, tell us what your Yoga Challenge experience was like! </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Were you able to do 30 days of yoga? What were your favorite studios?</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span></span></span></p> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We hope you had a great Yoga Challenge experience and will partner with Citizen Effect again in the future!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Namaste,</span></span></span></p> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Jeff and the rest of the Citizen Effect Team</span></span></span></p> </div><a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/congratulations-20">read more</a> | <a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/congratulations-20#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="732">leave a comment</a> Jeff B. 732 at http://citizeneffect.org http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/thanks <p>Thanks so much to everyone who's helped me raise $252 so far!&nbsp; Mom, Liz, Rob, Daniel, Danielle and Sara - you guys are the best, and I&nbsp;so appreciate your support in both fundraising for the foster home and for keeping me motivated in my own yoga practice!</p> <p>Oh, and I can now bend over and touch the floor with out bending my knees! Woo hoo!</p><a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/thanks">read more</a> | <a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/thanks#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="670">leave a comment</a> Megan B. 670 at http://citizeneffect.org http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/yogainthecircle <p>On Wednesday, I tried outdoor yoga for the first time.&nbsp; Turns out that at 6:30 on a Wednesday evening, Dupont Circle is a pretty busy place.&nbsp; It was hot (a reoccuring yoga theme) and buggy, so not the most comfortable environment for yoga.&nbsp; The hardest thing was to not be distracted by all the people around us, staring, walking past and talking about us.</p><a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/yogainthecircle">read more</a> | <a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/yogainthecircle#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="669">leave a comment</a> Megan B. 669 at http://citizeneffect.org http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/oneweek <p>7 days ago, I started the Yoga Challenge, and took my very first yoga class.&nbsp; I arrived at Yoga Chai on July 1st a few minutes before my class, walked into the studio and immediately started sweating.&nbsp; It was hot.&nbsp; &quot;Don't these people believe in air conditioning?&quot;, I thought to myself. Turns out yoga studios aren't really interested in air conditioning... even during this crazy heat wave!&nbsp; Just one of the many things that have become second nature to me over this first week of the challenge.</p><a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/oneweek">read more</a> | <a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/oneweek#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="616">leave a comment</a> Megan B. 616 at http://citizeneffect.org http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/day-yoga-challenge-megan <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Keep up with the hard work you have put into the 30 Day Yoga Challenge Megan! If you want to share your personal yoga challenge with us we would love to read about it, all you have to do is post on the blog. <br /> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Namaste, <br /> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Annie and The Citizen Effect Team<br /> </span></span></p><a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/day-yoga-challenge-megan">read more</a> | <a href="http://citizeneffect.org/blog/megan-30-day-yoga-challenge/day-yoga-challenge-megan#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="587">leave a comment</a> Anne D. 587 at http://citizeneffect.org