A Note from Alex

Have you ever heard the expression, “Do as I say, but not as I do?”

I realized recently that that’s basically the way I’ve been running my online community since I moved to Bali

(But basically…since ever!)

I started the Mindful Life Practice when I was living in the UAE

While I was there, I was a full time grade one teacher I was out of the house working between 6am-4pm every day. From 4pm onwards until 10pm, I would run the Mindful Life Practice.

Not only was I teaching yoga classes, yoga teacher trainings, and sober challenges - I was also the head of marketing, web design, accounting, etc And the company would make usually about $2000 a month - not even enough for me to pay my yoga teachers & assistant who was supporting me. My teaching salary funded this.

When I built the business enough to quit my job, I moved to Bali. But I was SO afraid of change. We were established as a Zoom Yoga community, and did yoga every day on Zoom in the pandemic. I was afraid if I wasn’t available 24/7 online for my members, that I’d lose them. So I tried to keep the same schedule as I did in Abu Dhabi - PLUS a four hour time change. That meant I worked some days until midnight or 1am, and got up at 5am It was absolutely wild

I’ve gone through big personal changes in the past 6-7 months I quit coffee, I changed my diet, I went off my mood stabilizing medication, I stopped eating refined sugar. As a result, I found I’m much less able to stay up late

Then I moved to a farm (the new Mindful Life Practice location) and I officially cannot sleep past 5am There are roosters, there are ceremonial noises, I literally sleep and wake with the rest of the world. I can feel the world turning and my body is in tune with it. It’s absolutely magical.