welcome to the #thesweatlife.

Eleven of our favourite pieces + your personal style = the ultimate inspiration station.

We want you to share all the ways your favourite lululemon gear takes you from work to mat and back again (is there anything the Wunder Under Pant can’t do?). Just snap a photo of you rocking your gear and share it on Instagram or Twitter with the matching hashtag (listed below). Keep your eyes peeled on lululemon.com - your photo may show up!

yoga. run. hashtag it.

Here's the official list of gear that agreed to share the spotlight.

#coolracerback
#formejacket
#scubahoodie
#wunderunders
#wunderundercrops
#groovepant
#studiopant
#nolimitstank
#swiftlytech
#inspirecrops
#themat

Rocking a favourite piece of lululemon that's not included in this list? You can use the generic hashtag #thesweatlife to share your photo on this landing page.

Looking for a few more deets? Check our FAQs. Happy hashtagging!

Want to browse our 30 days of photos? Check out our album on Facebook.

Want to see more? Just search for #wtfsept or check back next Monday for a recap of week two - your photo may even be up in the spotlight!

We’re no strangers to 30-day challenges; yoga, vegan, raw food – you name it and we’re up for it. Lately our digital team has been having a ton of fun participating in Australian blogger, Fat Mum Slim’s, monthly photo-a-day challenges. We love that it forces us to take a few minutes each day to take in our surroundings and flex our creative muscles. Inspired by this concept we created our own photo-a-day challenge aptly named, What The Focus September (#WTFSEPT). Read on for all the challenge details and how you can participate this month! #themorethemerrier

wtf is #wtfsept?

The challenge uses the Instagram platform and is quite simple. For 30 days starting September 1^st, take one photo a day using the list of words as your inspiration (example: on September 1^st you’ll snap a pic of what ‘centre’ means to you). Don’t forget to hashtag it with #wtfsept so that everyone can see your beautiful images! We’ll be scouring our feeds to find our favourite photos each week and sharing them here on the blog!

but I’m not on instagram…

No worries friends! We are insta-obsessed but if you’re not on this channel feel free to participate on your own through your other favourite social networks. You can also follow along on your desktop using Hashgram to see everyone’s photos all in one spot!

Has anyone else schnitzeled and Seawheezed this week? How's your training going?

yoga and our digital world

After three days of wild and wonderful asana at the Yoga Journal Conference in San Francisco, I attended a panel called Digital Distractions and Your Practice, where a diverse group of yogis came together to talk about their digital habits. While we were waiting to begin, I shared a photo on Instagram but then sat with my phone in hand for the next hour, fighting the urge several times to slide it open and peek into my digital world.

The day before, a phone began ringing during Elena Brower’s class on Finding Grace. Its owner jumped up and immediately began apologizing but Elena responded calmly: “It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s part of the world now.” And just that morning at Janet Stone’s class, we stretched our fingers (along with everything else) in what she jokingly named Textasana.

Clearly, technology is becoming a part of yoga, whether or not you agree that it should be.

tips from the experts on managing your digital life

Be mindful of your breathing as you open your inbox and practice deep breathing. Email apnea occurs when your breath shortens before you open your inbox.  - Scott Rosenberg, Grist.org Executive Editor

Don’t use your iPhone as your alarm. If you use your iPhone, you immediately go from sleeping to your digital stream of information with no time in between to wake up in the “real world.” –  Congressman Tim Ryan

Meditation > Facebook. The feeling of gratification you get through interactions on a Facebook update could also be achieved through meditation. – Kaitlin Quistgaard, Editor-in-Chief of Yoga Journal and panel moderator

Do one minute of yoga and one minute of mindfulness a day. Why? Because everyone has 60 seconds (and you will likely do more than this naturally). – Gopi Kallayil, Google

All of the panel experts agreed that digital distractions can take you out of your physical body but that embracing technology doesn’t mean it has to rule your life or that you are any less yogic for doing so. In fact, as Gopi pointed out, the very meaning of yoga is “to join”. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (etc) are all ways of connecting with others and extending our worlds out from beyond our screens. The key is to do it mindfully and to be present in your “real” world too.

A great example of technology enabling connection came from panelist Sally Kempton. She holds meditation teleconferences where people dial in from all over the country, just to hold the same space over the phone line together, in silence.

Not checking my phone forced me to be present that day and at the end of the hour I didn’t feel as if I needed to hide it - after all, I had the world-changing possibility of connection with anyone in the world in my hand! That sounds pretty tweetable to me.

Where do you draw the line between your practice and the digital world?