#184 Why I’m Giving My 60-Day Sober Girls Yoga Challenge Away for Free
On seasons of devotion, burnout, and offering what once saved me
Last night, I announced that I am offering my 60-Day Sober Girls Yoga Challenge completely free (or pay-what-you-want).
For the last six years, this challenge has been a paid offering.
It was $150 USD for 30 days, and $300 USD for the full 60-day journey.
So why, after all this time, am I suddenly giving it away?
To answer that, I need to go back to 2019.
That was the year I quit drinking alcohol, and without exaggeration, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
There are so many parts of sobriety that people don’t really talk about until you’re inside of it: the way your brain chemistry shifts, the loneliness when your social life changes, the awkwardness of sober dating, learning how to tell people you don’t drink anymore, and the quiet grief of realizing that some relationships simply won’t come with you.
When I quit, I joined an online sobriety challenge that I genuinely appreciated. I received daily emails, encouragement, structure, and accountability. It helped.
But it was also very masculine in its orientation. It was very much about discipline, grit, and replacing drinking with training for something like a marathon or extreme fitness goal.
What was missing for me was spirituality.
No one was talking about meditation.
No one was talking about devotion, prayer, or the emotional body.
No one was talking about grief, softness, or nervous-system healing.
So I built my own alcohol-free journey.
I leaned deeply into my yoga practice.
I meditated.
I journaled.
I learned from teachers.
I read books.
I connected in community.
And slowly, quietly, my life began to change.
Out of that experience, Sober Girls Yoga was born.
It wasn’t a sobriety challenge with yoga tacked on once a week.
Yoga was the foundation.
The nervous system was the foundation.
The spiritual path was the foundation.
At that point, I had already been teaching yoga for over five years. I’d completed both my 200-hour and 300-hour trainings, and yoga was my passion.
From this work came:
Online challenges and courses
Retreats all over the world
My book Sober Yoga Girl
And a global community of women choosing sobriety through embodied practice
Between 2021 and 2025, I recorded 250 podcast episodes, interviewing sober people from all walks of life, from all over the world.
For six years, sobriety wasn’t just something I practiced, it was my singular focus.
And I loved it.
But something shifted in 2025.
As I settled more deeply into life in Bali, my work began to narrow and deepen rather than expand outward. My interests became quieter, more devotional, more inward-facing.
I noticed that less and less people I met in Bali knew I was sober (which is a great thing! It means it’s become less of my identity.)
My focus turned toward:
Running the Sober Girls Yoga Challenge again and again started to feel more and more difficult. With my life getting busier and busier I had less energy to devote to the women going through the challenge.
So last year, I quietly stopped running it. I used to run it every single month. Last year I stopped pretty much entirely.
And yet… people kept reaching out.
A sister wanted to join.
Someone wanted to repeat the challenge.
A friend needed sober support.
I suppose when you devote six years of your life to one project, the echoes last longer than you expect!
And here’s the thing: all the resources still exist.
60 high-quality yoga classes with me filmed in Bali
250 podcast episodes
60 days of written reflections and journal prompts which move along the chakras
And, I created all of this before ChatGPT existed. So every word, every class, every email came directly from my own hands, heart, and lived experience!
I want people to have access to these resources.
I want women to be able to use them on a sober or sober-curious journey.
But I can’t actively facilitate the journey anymore - to promote it in a genuine way, to host live calls, to hold community space in a WhatsApp group, and walk alongside people each day.
So I asked myself a question:
How can I offer this 60 Day Challenge without overstretching myself in the process?
The answer seemed obvious.
I give it away.
This challenge was created from my own early sobriety, when I desperately needed something gentle and spiritual to help me along the way. Offering it for free feels less like “letting go” and more like seva, an offering of service to the community.
So for the first time ever, the 60-Day Sober Girls Yoga Challenge is free.
There’s a pay-what-you-want option if you feel called to support the work, and you can also add my book or the classic Sober Girls Yoga sweater if you’d like something tangible mailed to your home, but there is absolutely no expectation for payment.
I am already so excited by how many people have signed up.
This feels like a full circle moment.
A release.
If this resource feels supportive for you, or for someone you love, I hope you take it and share it!
Happy Dry January.
With love,
Alexandra (Sober Yoga Girl.)
