Yoga with Angie (2026)

26/12/2025

What were the lessons life provided to you this year?

A year doesn’t teach us facts about ourselves, but time reveals our patterns, if we're willing to ask the questions, and are open to listening. Yoga gently redirects this inquiry inward, away from judging of others, and toward self-study. And self-awareness is the only place from which changes are possible.

Here are a few ways to approach this year end reflection:

- By examining the fluctuations of the mind. This year might have shown more clearly how the mind moves under pressure, uncertainty, love, or loss. Not who or what caused the reactions, but how quickly we grasp, resist, narrate, or soften. We can’t stop the waves of the mind, but we can see them as waves, rather than the ocean itself. The further down we dive, away from the waves, the calmer the ocean becomes.

- By examining the need to control timing, outcomes, relationships, even versions of ourselves. Rather than blaming circumstances, others or ourselves, yoga invites us to loosen the grip on the outcome, allowing life to happen through us. No situation or emotion is final.

- By examining the difference between effort and forcing. On the mat, as well as in life, yoga invites us to pay attention to this fine line, with our body, breath, nervous system, to consider if the effort we're applying is still nourishing, or if discipline has become self-harm disguised as virtue.

- By examining the capacity to stay present with discomfort, instead of fleeing, always needing to fix, or hardening at the edges. This is resilience, the quiet strength, the ability to remain grounded without collapsing, and without armoring or raising walls around the heart.

This year's experiences happened, emotions rose and fell, roles shifted. How did you show up for all these, what were your patterns? Stop to ask the questions, pay attention and discover your reality. Start here, now.

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
- Ram Dass

21/12/2025

Today was the winter solstice, when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest from the sun, when darkness reaches its deepest point in the longest night of the year.
Christmas is celebrated shortly after, with its many symbols of renewal. Christ is the Light of the World, born in the night, while stars and candles punctuate the ever-present light. But light needs darkness to have meaning, they are complementary expressions of the same energy.
Celebrating light is more than joy or positivity, it's trusting the natural cycles rather than resisting them, allowing stillness to reveal what striving cannot, it's the recognition that light is always there even when everything seems dark, rising from within the darkness itself. And so can we.

Happy winter solstice and Merry Christmas! ✨️

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
- Albert Camus

09/12/2025

Īśvara Praṇidhāna, or surrender to the higher power, is the fifth niyama in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.

Īśvara can be translated as deity, but in this interpretation it is not a "being" separate from us. Patanjali defines Īśvara as pure consciousness, a timeless organizing intelligence or the ever-present ground of awareness.
Īśvara Praṇidhāna then is not a practice of bowing in devotion to a deity, but rather the recognition that "we" are not the architects of "our" lives, that this higher intelligence is nothing other than our nature and nothing is outside of it, that life provides the timing, the openings, the opportunities, the mysterious synchronicities we could never bring about. It is the shift from "I am doing" to "life is happening". Surrender is strength, not passivity or resignation, it is an alignment with the flow of life. All we need to know will be unveiled at the right time.
This is the essence of Īśvara Praṇidhāna: the steady trust that clarity comes when the soil is ready, not a moment before.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

15/11/2025

Samyoga means complete connection or contact. It is the physical or metaphysical joining of two or more things, the point where the inner world meets the outer world, where awareness meets experience, the moment of spark.

Sometimes an old framed picture appears where it shouldn’t be, in a cafe where young talented musicians bend time into something both tender and bold. In that moment, the memory of the picture activates the memory of a lost dear one, and suddenly the world feels slightly tilted, as though it has arranged itself in a way that defies the ordinary linear sequence.
This is samyoga, the contact point where the inner world meets an external event, in a moment that seems to carry a charge.
The details of the moment begins to cohere. Coherence is what arises when the outer event aligns with an inner truth. It is the sense that this encounter, unexpected as it is, fits into the narrative of life in a meaningful way. The picture may have been placed there through ordinary causes, but the feeling it evokes is anything but ordinary. The timing lands with precision. The memory it triggers feels like a message, a visitation. The feeling that this moment is not random hits. The world did not suspend its laws, but the inner world recognized itself in the moment.
The miracle is not in the picture, but in the intimacy of this timing, in the tenderness of the memory. The miracle is in how the moment lands, and, for one heartbeat, provides the sense of being in that dear one's presence again.

When samyoga becomes coherence, and coherence becomes miracle, we are reminded that nothing loved is ever fully lost. The connections that shape us have their own ways of resurfacing. Their own timings. Their own subtle grace.
And sometimes all it takes is a picture out of place to show us that love continues to move through our lives in unexpected ways.

“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”
- Rumi 🌹

09/11/2025

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes the inverted tree (Ashvattha), whose roots reach upward into the heavens and whose branches spread downward into the world of human experience. Its roots are nourished by the divine source, while its branches extend into the earth, touching every aspect of mundane life: the senses, the mind, and all the actions, cause and effect.
The world we perceive (the “below”) is a reflection of something subtler and greater (the “above”). The two are not separate, they mirror each other.
This resonates with the Hermetic teaching of “As above, so below; as within, so without.” Both are invitations to see life as an interconnected whole: the cosmic and the personal, the visible and the unseen are one and the same. The vastness of the universe is reflected in the spaciousness within the heart.

Our daily lives unfold among the branches of the Ashvattha tree, in movement, emotion, the way we relate to one another, yet our sustenance comes from the root, from a natural, effortless intelligence.
When we forget the root we become entangled in the branches. But when we remember it as we move through our daily lives, our actions, words, and thoughts naturally align with something bigger than our own perspective and interpretation of reality.

So in noisy moments of confusion, when you find yourself entangled in the branches, rise up towards the roots of the Ashvattha tree for nourishment, so that every branch can flourish in harmony.

“As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm; as is the atom, so is the universe; as is the human body, so is the cosmic body; as is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.”
- Chandogya Upanishad

03/11/2025

Yoga with weights is an empowering practice that builds functional strength, and boosts metabolism and endurance.

We start with a gentle warm-up to awaken the body, move into a dynamic HIIT flow with light weights, cool down to release tension, and finish in Savasana to restore and recharge.
Meet effort with easy, and get strong in the body while maintaining a calm mind.

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31/10/2025

Back hip position in warrior I vs. high lunge

In warrior I, the entire back foot makes contact with the floor at an angle determined by the ankle mobility. The greater the dorsiflexion, the more the toes can point forward. The back knee is straight, lifting up and away from the floor.
This is an essential alignment cue: when the back knee bends, twisting forces are created in the knee joint that, over time, can weaken the ligaments and meniscus.
Because the back foot is grounded and the leg remains straight like an anchor, the back hip naturally moves into external rotation. For this reason, “squaring the hips” is neither possible nor safe. Instead, the forward orientation of the chest comes from a rotation of the torso, not by pushing the back hip forward.

In high lunge, the back heel lifts off the mat and stacks directly over the toes, which point straight ahead. This position strengthens the toes, especially the big toe, and allows the back leg to lengthen through pushing down on the ball of the foot.
Because the heel is lifted, the back hip can now align naturally with the front hip, allowing for a natural squaring of the pelvis. The back hip rotates slightly internally, and the back knee may safely bend here, since flexion at the knee joint accommodates a deeper, more mobile range of motion.

The energy of warrior I is grounding, stabilizing, and strong. The pose channels power downward into the earth.
The prevailing energy of high lunge is uplifting and dynamic. The pose draws energy upward and forward, ready for action.
When we shift from warrior I to high lunge, we’re not just changing the feet, we’re changing the energetic feel of the pose: from earthward to skyward, from foundation to freedom.

So next time you come up into warrior I remember to keep the back leg straight, let the back hip naturally open to the side and focus on twisting the torso forward.
Feel free to place your comments here or DM me if you wish to discuss further on this subject.

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"Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly."
- J.R. Rim

21/10/2025

Diwali, the festival of lights, honours the triumph of light over darkness, wisdom over ignorance, and love over fear.

Light is never far: look up at the sky tonight to catch the show of the Orionids meteor shower, as the universe seems to be celebrating with us! In the vastness of the unknown, light finds a way to travel across time and reach us.

But illumination comes in many forms: a whispered intuition to guide us forward, a spark of courage to push through an obstacle, a kind gesture of human connection which lights up our face.

At the same time, the light we send out in kindness, forgiveness, and hope, travels far beyond what we can see and might create an impact far greater than imagined.

As diyas light the earth and stars fall from the sky, may your heart be a flame of love, and your dreams burn bright across the universe.🌠🪔

12/10/2025

Autumn sun drifts in
Wind chime sings through weathered leaves
Sunday forgives all

10/10/2025

The rose blossom spends itself
Its fragrance blown by the cool breeze
Bare feet beg for the warmth of shoes
While rain drips down the heart chain

The heart learns warmth by losing it
That is the quiet price of summer
What warms us, burns us from within
And joy, like heat, cannot be kept

And so this summer burns away,
Form changing form, colour changing colour
We pay in freckles, wilted flowers
And evenings that refuse to stay

The body softens into the new season
Paying what's due and moving on
To live is to dissolve in summer’s light
To love is to let it end.

- Angie

27/09/2025

In yoga, prasāda means a gift of grace, something given freely, without expectation, something we receive with gratitude and humility. In the tradition of hindu temples, prasāda is food or offering first given to the divine, then shared with devotees.

To receive prasāda is to recognize that life itself is a gift, not something we can control or claim. Accepting prasāda is honoring the good intentions and generosity behind it, which is complete only when the gift is received with gratitude. To give is divine, but to receive openly is just as necessary. Giving and receiving both complete the circle of human connection, so that grace continues to flow from one person to another, until it touches everyone.

“The act of offering, the offering itself, and the one who receives are all Brahman. One who realizes this unity attains peace.”
- Bhagavad Gita

21/09/2025

Join us for the last Rise and Shine Outdoor Yoga of the season!

This Friday September 26th at 7:00 AM

Register at:
https://momence.com/Resilience-Yoga/Rise-%26-Shine!-(outdoor-class)/122714160?skipPreview=true

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Let's start the day with movement, breath, and the beauty of the outdoors! This is an energizing, grounding flow by the lakeside. We'll celebrate the closing of the season with community, gratitude, and fresh morning air!

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

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