30 Lessons from my 30th Birthday Yoga Retreat in Mexico

For my 30th birthday in November, I gave myself the gift of a 7 day yoga retreat to Mexico with Inhale Yoga.
Here my top 30 takeaways from this incredible experience:

1.  Walk Barefoot 
2.  Pause - Look at the view - Take in what's around you
3.  Skip the vinyasa
4.  You can do the hard things
5.  Fruit and hard boiled eggs for breakfast are beautiful in their simplicity
6.  You can have beans for breakfast too
7.  Acupuncture.  - Schedule it
8.  The people who serve your food? They're family too.
9.  See as many sunrises as possible
10.  See as many sunsets as possible
11.  You're allowed to change your schedule, to fine the ease you seek
12.  Make the ask
13.  Hot sauce and chunky salt
14. Breathe
15. Learn to make a perfect fried egg
16. Fresh flowers. EVERYWHERE. 
17. Water. Stare at it. Watch it sparkle
18. Check your mosquito net for spiders
19. Eat as many tacos as possible
20. Ceremonies are magical
21. Women are magical
22. Belt showtunes on the beach. Loud as you can. With a soul sister (Hello Emily^2)
23. Periodically write stuff down...then burn it.
24. Food: Fresh Local Natural
25. From the Temezcal sweat lodge ceremony: Mother Earth needs us to STOP using so much plastic 
26. Watch out for Scorpions
27. Try the expensive tequila
28. Grasshoppers taste exactly like you thought they wouldn't
29. It's ok if you operate at a slower pace than your fellow retreaters, you'll get there eventually.
30. Nobody is going to make this happen but you. Take the initiative, start saving, and schedule your next retreat ASAP!