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✎ Essay · Science and Tech
From Violence to Vision: The Radical Potential of Ashtanga Yoga to Combat Systemic Oppresion
Using Ashtanga Yoga to dismantle systemic oppression and promote healing. Reflections from my enriching experience in Birmingham, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, alongside friends like Heather Sullivan and Cory Bryant. Explains the appeal of systems thinking after a life-altering hate crime. Ashtanga Yoga can be a vehicle for inclusivity and empathy, challenging entrenched systems of oppression. Lets talk about it.
Read the essay →My friend from @theyoga.club Liz @lizzoouli suggested I record my practice to check in on some asymmetries I'm balancing. She’s worried I don’t get enough time with a teacher for myself. I broke my ankle and rib last year getting hit by a bicyclist, and my wrist about a year before that getting hit by a car. I am really proud of my generally good attitude, outside of one meltdown phone call ( thanks @made_by_mara !!). Yoga has instilled patience and persistence, pragmatism and a solutions focused growth mindset. 10/10, would recommend. The yoga, that is. The getting hit by stuff is a 2/10.
If you need some support in your practice or healing journey, hmu. This stuff works.
If you need some support in your practice or healing journey, hmu. This stuff works.
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This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
This is a mommy appreciation post. My parents were in their 70s when they decided to move to Mexico— and somehow now they’re in their 20s. It is a great blessing of this life to love your parents and be loved by them, and the older I get the more I appreciate that. One of my favorite things about my mom is that my friends call her Mama Hall, cause i think they know immediately how loved they are. It’s neat. She’s just like that, full of love and grace, while also being very, very funny. I try to talk to mom and dad for a good while every week, and I think I see mom more now than I have since I was a teenager.
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
Love you mommy! @gail.hall.927
My old buddy @seantoland_ is just killin it on socials lately. Go look.
in imageHow's yoga going? My karma Samadhi seantoland_ My old buddy @seantoland_ is just killin it on socials lately. Go look.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
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So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
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So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
So inspired after our Intermediate Intensive.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
Currently missing my friends @coryyoga and @magiccityyogi -- but glad to be back with my other best friend. This one likes to practice outside-- the other two... Well, not so much. It's good that we're not all the same!
Up Next: Primary Series intensive at @theyoga.club this week end.
I miss my friends so much 🥲
in imageWhat do you do when a yoga posture stirs you up?
I can honestly say I've tried it all and this where I am today
I can honestly say I've tried it all and this where I am today
✎ Essay · Practice
cumulative strength: how a casual approach to chanting helped me appreciate my practice more
When my brother passed, I felt blindsided. It hadn't occurred to me that such a thing would happen, even though looking back I can see that with that kind of drinking, it was inevitably going to happen. You can't drink like that and not die…
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✎ Essay · Science and Tech
How Breath Training Can Transform Your Sports Performance: Evidence and Techniques
Have you ever felt like your breath was holding you back on the field, court, or track? Just like a mischievous puppy chasing its tail, most athletes are blissfully unaware of how their breath can propel—or, heaven forbid, impede—their performance. Breath training, often overshadowed by the…
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✎ Essay · Science and Tech
Navigating Overtraining in Ashtanga Yoga: Signs, Solutions, and Self-Care
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You dive headfirst into the wonderland of Ashtanga Yoga, blissfully aware of the transformative power of each pose—until one day, the thought of stepping onto your mat feels more like a chore than a joy. Overtraining can sneak up…
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✎ Essay · Science and Tech
Getting Great: Adaptive Resistance and Isokinetic Training: Optimizing Muscle Growth and Fat Loss
Ever wonder how that gym buddy of yours keeps sculpting their physique while juggling a dozen other life commitments? For this Ashtanga yoga practitioner, the secret sauce often lies in mixing the right ingredients of training modalities and intensities. I‘ve been particularly partial to adaptive…
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I am *so* proud of my friends. @dcmagazine Got this one *so* right!
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friends. @dcmagazine Got
this one *so* right!
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friends. @dcmagazine Got
this one *so* right!
vS
versusequity, smashigram and nikkibraden
DYNAMIC
WASHINGTON
versusequity We are so proud to be featured in @dcmagazine's
2024 Dynamic Women
Nikki Braden and Ashleigh Payne e..
@reunionhotyoga so sad to miss the social!!
I love this crew!!
I love this crew!!
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so sad to miss the social!!
I love this crew!!
TEXANS
JAGUARS
CANS
@reunionhotyoga
so sad to miss the social!!
I love this crew!!
TEXANS
JAGUARS
CANS
@reunionhotyoga
✎ Essay · Personal Notes
In Memory of Paramaguru Sharath Jois
It is with great sadness that I share the news of Sharath Jois’s passing. At 53, Sharath's passing is quite sudden. He is considered by many to be responsible for upholding the Mysore style of ashtanga yoga's lineage. As such, for many in the Ashtanga community, Sharath’s teachings and presence became central to their (our) practice, and his loss will be deeply felt
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