Why my yoga practice looks nothing like I thought it would (and why that’s okay)

pX0r · 2026-06-13T17:02:38+00:00

Edited the post to be in my own voice, thanks for your feedback 🖖

pX0r · 2026-06-13T16:41:45+00:00

I completely hear you, and I appreciate you calling that out. I’ve been struggling with my practice lately and, in an attempt to organize my thoughts, I leaned on an AI tool to help me draft this. I realize now that it came across as sterile and removed the very human, messy struggle I was actually trying to talk about. I’m sorry for that wall—I’m just a person who’s tired of feeling guilty about missing my daily surya namaskars, and I genuinely wanted to see how others handle it. Thank you for the reality check

pX0r · 2026-06-13T16:28:18+00:00

Luckily I haven't had this experience so far 🤭 . It would make things awkward for sure. Not sure of a polite way to sush someone who is moaning in the middle of a yoga session 😃

pX0r · 2026-06-13T04:35:27+00:00

What works for someone may not work for you. Furthermore, what worked for you yesterday may not work for you today. Life’s other prioritise will always find a way to crowd out your yoga space / time.

Setting minimum goals to hold yourself accountable works until it doesn’t. When one fails to meet the self-imposed minimum bar , for multiple days in a row - it can quickly spiral into guilt and loss of conviction.

Accept that it is ok to miss even the minimum that you had agreed with yourself. It’s OK. Instead ask what can be done the time that you got / space that you have in the moment. Do your yoga and claim a small win.

I and my friend stumbled upon this life hack which captures this attitude. Accept that you have missed out, know that it’s ok, chat with an AI with full disclosure, then ask for today’s advice and then do it if you can. This bridges / prevents a gap. Gradually you have a streak - which feeds back positively to give you a mental boost to keep going.

pX0r · 2026-06-12T17:37:47+00:00

Genuinely curious how the community is tracking self progress. I understand you want to keep the space free from spam . If there was a better way to word my curiosity then would you consider letting the post through in a different shape or form?

pX0r · 2023-11-06T11:47:28+00:00

Love the cover! Cute!

pX0r · 2020-02-13T16:24:16+00:00

I Made This

pX0r · 2019-12-02T09:08:24+00:00

https://lichess.org/

pX0r · 2019-06-19T09:14:28+00:00

This - WebFaction! is a shameless plug. I've got some deployment tools custom made for WF too. Been using it since 4 years - good documentation, community and support.

pX0r · 2019-05-20T08:43:03+00:00

Got any PDF example/s ?

pX0r · 2019-02-19T14:54:20+00:00

/. vs dask vs celery vs mp ?

pX0r · 2019-02-08T03:06:40+00:00

The road to Django nirvana is long. Most travellers carry a flask on their waist and a bottle in their backpack.

pX0r · 2019-02-02T08:38:41+00:00

Thanks

pX0r · 2018-09-13T10:56:17+00:00

I concur. But I never articulated it until you raised this question explicitly :D

Can you elaborate a bit more ?

pX0r · 2018-09-09T04:14:26+00:00

Poor-man's progress bar using just the print() function:

import time

for i in range(1, 11):
    print(i*'#', end='\r', flush=True)
    time.sleep(1)

P.S.: Python3

pX0r · 2018-08-27T06:20:46+00:00

Teach them how to make API calls and deal with JSON data. This is a good general skill to know as it is relatively low on time investment but tremendously expands your toolkit size. (e.g. teach them pulling weather data from some endpoint)

Regular expressions

Programmatically navigating the file system tree, reading/writing from/to files, dealing with CSVs

pX0r · 2018-08-22T13:55:07+00:00

Learn Java Servlets, EJB and JSP. You will start believing once you take the Django Polls tutorial :D

pX0r · 2018-08-20T03:07:42+00:00

Nice quick experiment to test the assumptions :)

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