I had the most awesome Sunday, so won’t bury that lead.

I’ll be fine.

Teaching should be fine.

Volunteers for charlie walks encouraged, and maybe a cane if someone has an extra. .

Got hit by a cyclist today while also biking.

Ankle is super swollen.

Ambulance = $1000.

Cop gave me a ride home.

Feeling super inspired by my teacher David’s creativity.

This book is just amazing. Poetry in motion.

Me, in between updating my blog.

YOGA SCHEDULE:

Friday
Ashtanga's Primary Series @ 7:30a
Vinyasa Flow @ 12p

Saturday
Mysore @ 9

I love lifting
and coaching
on this thing

work stuff

work stuff 😍👨‍🔧

I love love love this woman.

Sometimes tying yourself in a knot helps when you feel like you’re all tied in knots. Feeling grateful for my friends who help with both. We’ve been working hard on making something very special for our ashtanga community. Feel free to message if you’re interested in a training for Ashtanga teachers (and those with established practices) that want to learn how to help support their community.

Made it to Nashville

smelly grass, smelly grass
whaaat aaare theeey feeeding you?

Karen's the first person. I ever saw use this to teach.

2015

2015

11 months after wrist ❤️‍🩹,
my body whispered “come play,
it’s safe.” And I did. And it was. (gosh, @theyoga.club is beautiful.)

cc: @vanessisamess

Sundays with Charlie be like

"here I come, back on my bullshit." @daniidoesyoga "us gossiping" - @esitzler

Such
a simple
creature. @theyoga.club new toys

Yesterday

Holly’s writing moves me. Sign up for her newsletter—- homespun yogic wisdom from a dedicated Christian yogi.

Sunday is shapin’ up just fine

what in the climate change hell is happening here?

Adventures in the Arts with @judydcz -- We saw the American Ballet Company's production of Romeo & Juliet at the Kennedy Center.

Finding the energy to do the things that give us more energy can feel frustrating at times. I've been someone who had to "guard" his down-time, and I get it. But seeing performance art, catching up with friends, and generally being out in the world and in community also has a way of recharging my batteries.

It's a balance... But ultimately, the question becomes whats draining, what's sustaining, and what's nourishing.

Be a fountain, not a drain. Seek fountains.

If your engagements and responsibilities have precluded you from being in community, I want you to know I wish you well.

The pandemic has done a real number on people. Being around people who had to pretend like they were scared of going out so they didn't have to go to their domineering bosses idea of an "office" did a real number on people. Actually being scared did a real number on people. Watching loved ones die while your unemployment ran out and your business owners kept their PPP money and friends got raises and cars and houses... well, that did a real number on people. Being these people did a real number on people.

May we all heal from this collective trauma.

Cause listen... I know this is a hot take...I gotta tell ya... There's nothing quite like seeing art in person with people.

Just another lovely day at the office.

Mysore at @theyoga.club — meditation/breathwork/bodyweight strength. It’s life changing stuff. #aboyloveshisshala

Sivananda Yoga
Teacher Training…
15 years ago.

“Where’s the yoga here?” is a question folks often begin to ask themselves when they learn more about how yoga actually works.

Yoga as a practice is designed to cultivate deep states of peace and well-being. A state where we feel unafflicted by life’s highs and lows… where we see things as they really are.

What I teach is the Yoga of Synthesis— a framework for personal observation. This requires bearing witness to ourselves.

The five principal of yoga are:
1) Exercise
2) Breathing
3) Growth mindset
4) Diet (food *and* information)
5) Relaxation.

It can be really confronting to realize that we’re underrested and overtrained— or any other combo that highlights personal deficits that interfere with our attachment to gross shapes.

It’s not “do more with less” or “no pain, no gain.”

Its more like “How can I eradicate violence in my life.” And “how can I be a better friend?”

But that stuff, you can’t really see it in pictures. You can’t tell off the bat if you’re inside of a joy factory or a misery machine. Yoga rooms should be Joy Factories— most folks do a good job of creating misery machines all by themselves.

As a teacher of yoga, my job is to teach people to see more clearly by offering them instruction around what we’re really looking at— and, generally it’s not the macro shape— but the subtle forms.

It’s hard to get good data!

The simple truth of the matter is that it’s often in letting go of the big excitements and the construction of the sorrow of defeat. It’s letting go of the highs and lows.

It can be tempting to sell yoga off the backs of pretty people doing pretty poses, or promising transcendental experiences.

It’s all far less exotic than that…

Believe it or not, the Yoga of Synthesis is happening all day long— our work on the mat each morning helps in that process. If you’d like some help finding the yoga in your yoga practice, feel free to reach out.

11-12 This Could Be You Hey Team—-

Had a Saturday cancellation! I’ve got space for a private on Sat from 11-12.

Any takers? DM me.

Grocery store dates
are the best date. In today’s edition of “Your mind created your reality…”

Were y’all expecting Rihanna to be like:

In December of 2021, I began two months of living in Mexico. My parents moved down to the Yucatán right before COVID hit— my brother and his lady lived down there first. It had taken forever to sell my parents home— and the future was looking bright. Then my brother died. Then Leigh died. And my folks were locked in and locked down.

On the one hand, I was glad they were safer there than here. On the other, I was presented with profound grief. Those months in Mexico, replacing my yearly sabbatical to India, provided time with my first and most influential teachers: my mom and dad.

Plus, yoga on their roof looks a lot like some of my other favorite and meaningful roofs.

Having a consistent practice helped anchor me when things were truly terrible. If you’d like to learn a simple set of practices that match your unique needs, feel free to DM.

apparently there’s a football theme party happening today.

I had the most wonderful time teaching at @yogashalanashville — such an incredible group of people.

Cory— thank you so much for welcoming me into your home and sharing so much with me! Cory (@coryyoga) and Richard (his wonderful husband), are just the literal best. And boy, I even made a new friend (shout out to Heather @magiccityyogi from @birminghamyoga ).

Thank you so much @yogashalanashville for being so much fun, for being so interested in our work, and for being so darn cool.

Until the next time, Nashville!

I stopped posting to Instagram because I felt fairly certain it was responsible for a great deal of harm that has come to a great number of people.

As a teacher of yoga, I felt irresponsible using it to as a platform to promote the work that i do, knowing that it can do such great harm. So, ya know, I only posted to my stories and basically used it as a way to send memes to like 4 of my besties.

But, ya know, I have an awesome little yoga studio @theyoga.club to promote. And, I want to make more money as a yoga teacher.

So, here I am again, knowingly running the risk of presenting half truths, using pictures as commodities, and banking on the fact that good looks and pretty pictures go a long way.

Wish me luck! How do you all make heads or tails of the ethics around this?

h/t @mor.eye.ah a full vibe

h/t @ada_moves_plants with that good shit (sound on)

the best coach

See the schedule!

why is this so funny. that quesadillas not the only thing gettin burned.

(It’s ok, they’re allowed to be there)

Had an incredible session with this astrologer: Elise’s reading are 😍🥹😮🤯

look ma,
no brace!

Getting support from an old friend. @fitqueenirene

2016:
First international tattoo competition in goa

@pujaloveit @cryscan18 @ericalmartinson @tara_lizbeth

here’s to 2023

2023