10/15/2025
Happy 7th Birthday Village Yoga!
7 has always been an auspicious number for me, and there’s something about this one that feels a little extra special. “Yoga studio” has never felt like the right description for this place…. on the one hand, it’s just a few walls in a small town. And on the other, it’s all the things.
So, in the spirt of the last 7yrs (trying my hand at something I have no business doing 😜) I wrote a few words about what this place IS…
It’s watching Natasha paint a mural in a lockdown.
It’s the joy of a mat spray bottle in kids yoga.
It’s Saturdays at NAF in the rain. And the heat. And the bugs.
It’s the fresh flowers that just appear in the doorway.
It’s capoeira on Friday nights and Leala singing in Gaelic.
It’s shakey voice of the YTT grads teaching their first class.
It’s the sticker charts & polaroids.
It’s the Lil’wat students on their super-course.
It’s the tight quads and bike helmets at a p***a collab.
It’s the steamy mornings after the workout crew.
It’s the prenatal students swapping phone numbers and due dates.
It’s the accident handstand hole in the wall.
It’s the teenagers who come to Shelley’s restorative with their mums.
It’s the crutches, the tears, and the acl tears.
It’s the “send me that playlist”
It’s whistler adaptive, it’s the high school, it’s summer art camp, it’s having something to donate to your silent auction fundraiser.
It’s the potions, the teas, the bees, and pairing off for a blackbird croissant after practice.
It’s Kerry with an Om.
It’s the enthusiasm for a candlelit class during the 15th power outage.
It’s Rebeca with a 9am bubbly and it’s David demonstrating an internally rotated pez dispenser.
It’s a silent hug sharing the weight of grief and it’s the brand new babies on a bed of yoga blankets and blocks.
It’s the students who make you gyozas and fix your shelves without having to ask.
It’s a few walls, it’s nothing, and it’s everything. So maybe it’s not a yoga studio, but it’s yoga.
I don’t know what the next chapter will bring, but for today I am celebrating a community that continues to grow hearts.
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
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