sustaining loving kindness precious bellweather, my daily crucible bringing honor
to my teachers

Goals
x2026

so much recipricol joy in watching my peoples journies

single leg
reverse cable lunges

Single Arm Lawnmower Rows
(rotational strength!!!)

Repair

also 2015 xoxo @davidgarriguesyoga

2014

2015

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

Inquiry and curiosity are powerful allies in reckoning with fear and helplessness.

These feelings are a tell that the prefrontal cortex has been impacted. This part of the brain has been demonstrated to be an important structure for executive functions.

No wonder we feel stuck. But feelings aren’t facts. If we can notice this stuff, we can start breaking the cycle by using our techniques. Thats the yoga.

So, be curious.

In love, in life, in your practices.

@cultural_dc

@transformerdc

Mysore, 2015

sometimes you meet someone who opens up your world simply by existing

Thanks,
@nikki.fulford

“Ah, so you’ve had your saturn return since I last saw you.”

“Whats a satutn return,” I asked Thank you, friend.

Colonizers gonna colonize.
Oppressors going to oppress.
Its your body, its your choice.

These aphorisms help push back against self-reinforcing loops of domination—social, cultural, political, even spiritual. It’s a systems insight dressed in streetwise wisdom. Could I be any more explicit? Hello!

In Systems Thinking, Donella Meadows would call this a reinforcing feedback loop—where the outputs of a system feed back into it and amplify its behavior. Oppression, like colonization, is often maintained not by a single decision or act, but by persistent patterns, institutions, and narratives that replicate themselves over time.

This is why practices like Ashtanga Yoga can be quietly revolutionary. When practiced with awareness, they cultivate true inner freedom—and the ability to see, question, and ultimately disrupt these harmful loops. But yoga divorced from its roots—or co-opted by the very systems of oppression it seeks to dissolve—can also become just another tool of colonization. Which is why the how and why of practice matter as much as the what.

Discipline matters, but independent thinking, high conscientiousness and empowered agency should be the emergent properties from practice.

In reclaiming bodily autonomy, ethical clarity, and collective responsibility, you’re not just doing yoga—you’re decolonizing it.