Just as my 2016 goals were beginning to wane, the event Ritual Reboot: Self Care with Sonage at LOVE Yoga Venice became the perfect answer to Recharge. 
Thursday, January 21st, I walked into the beautiful yoga studio filled with vibrantly beautiful women, all here to collectively dive into Ritual and Self-Care.
We found our mats laid out for us with lovely, white bouquets of flowers, a rose quartz stone, an Allswell notebook and pencil to journal, and a goodie bag filled with Sonage facial products to take home. The founders of LOVE Yoga, Kyle Miller and Sian Gordon co-led us through a pleasing vinyasa flow that was both mindful and thorough. As we finished the meditation, Lavinia Errico, founder of Equinox fitness clubs guided us seamlessly through our savasana with imagery and visualization. Lavinia shared her story and interesting ways to incorporate ritual into our daily practice, and I found her talk to be sincere and heartfelt.
Looking around the room, it was obvious that every woman there had a daily practice of some sort, since we all seemed to be in-the-know of Wellness, but I loved that this workshop did not preach about DO’s and DON’Ts of self care. Ritual is deeply personal and must be created from within. It is reverential, sacred, and unique. My self-care rituals may be wildly different from the girl next to me, and that’s okay. This event was here for us to celebrate and remember ritual, however that looks for each person.
Anisha Khanna, CEO of Sonage, an innovative skincare company, spoke next about how self care equals self respect, and self respect equals self love. She eloquently posed the inner question, “What is Self Care? And what does it mean to you?” Food for thought. I pondered this idea and thought about all the ways we do and don’t take care of ourselves. This is the time to reboot that, to renew our intention of caring for self….Of course, we eat well, exercise, get enough sleep (hopefully)….but I got to thinking about the more subtle forms of self care; What kind of yoga does my body really enjoy? Are the thoughts in my head even remotely kind?
Self- care NEXT LEVEL people.
The event concluded with an enlightening talk from Ryan Hanes-Sloan of Moon Juice, where she aptly explained how juicing as daily nourishment and high powered natural remedies can flood the body with live nutrients and enzymes. Delicious juices, chia seed pudding and yummy dried mango treats to-go made detoxing look positively effortless. I’m heading to Moon Juice immediately for the chai milk nut!
I left the Ritual Reboot event floating on air: zen-ed out from the yoga practice, revitalized from the botanical and scientific skincare line from Sonage, and refreshed from the Moon Juice libations…Entirely RE-Booted from the inside out!
XX Cristy Candler
