Better Day Yoga LLC

01/08/2026

Simple, yes? I’m dwelling on this concept this year—for my own physical, emotional, and spiritual health. What would feel supportive right now?
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Prakriti (constitution) and Care: Why One Size Never Fits All

Your Prakriti shapes how you respond to stress, rest, stimulation, and nourishment.

Some people feel restored through movement and variation. Others need structure, warmth, and predictability. Some thrive with gentleness and grounding, while others need challenge and engagement.

When self-care ignores constitution, it becomes effortful. When it honors nature, it becomes intuitive.

Ayurveda teaches that caring for yourself well means recognizing how you are designed to restore balance, not copying someone else’s version of wellness.

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01/07/2026

Unhook Your Shoulders

From my Divine Purpose email:

Let’s do this together. 🧘‍♀️ 🙏❤️🥹

Our shoulders are where we quietly carry so much—unsent texts, swallowed words, old tension, the effort of holding it together. Guardedness lives here. So does the weight of things we never said out loud.

How to do it:

Stand or sit comfortably. Slowly lift your shoulders toward your ears. Pause there for one full breath.

Then exhale and let your shoulders drop hard. Not gently. Let them fall.
Repeat this five times.

Each lift acknowledges what you’ve been carrying.

Each drop is a release.

A small permission slip that says: you don’t have to hold everything anymore.

As you repeat the movement, notice what softens—not just in your neck and shoulders, but in your chest, your jaw, your breath. This is your body practicing relief. Practicing trust. Practicing the feeling of being supported, even in uncertainty.

You’re not fixing anything here. You’re simply unhooking yourself from the tension that keeps connection at a distance.

Sometimes coming back to each other starts with letting your body exhale first.







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01/04/2026

This article resonated with me because all the business and marketing advice is to grow and expand!

While my business grew (quite a bit) this year, it was all organic. Current students invited new ones in. Past students asking to come back. I’m happy with this kind of expansion. My goal is continued quality time with my husband, friends and family— not “do more, chase, be brighter or better.”

“And when the world asks you to chase, when it tells you that “more” is the answer, may you remember there is another way. A way to root deeply. A way to belong to yourself. A way to listen for the answers buried in the clay of your own heart.”

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There is nothing you must “do.” It asks nothing of you but the truth of who you are. It will never demand that you do more, chase, be brighter, or be better. Wildness asks only that you turn inward and align with what has always been true.

Wildness is the ultimate homecoming. It’s the heartbeat beneath the noise, the steady, ancient ground under the never-ending expectation to keep becoming. It invites us to stay soft in the face of intimidation and the urge to strive. Wildness soothes the mind so the heart can speak.

It is knowing that who we are isn’t found in endless expansion, but in this exact moment, right now and choosing to fully inhabit our lives from the inside out.






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01/01/2026

Happy Now Year! Now is all we truly have—and I’m ready to live right here.

Let’s stay in the moment, present to this great big, beautiful life we’re all here to create. Together.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being exactly who you are. Please know how deeply I appreciate each and every one of you.

Here’s to a grounded, joyful, fully-alive 2026.

12/31/2025

From my Divine Purpose e-mail:

Today is both an ending and a beginning. The year we’ve lived—the messy, beautiful, exhausting, transformative year—comes to a close, and with it, every unfinished conversation, every lesson learned too slowly, every quiet victory we almost didn’t notice. And yet, from this ending rises a new starting line.

Take a breath. Let yourself feel the weight of what you’re leaving behind—and honor it. The late nights, the awkward moments, the decisions that broke you open, the moments of courage you didn’t even recognize at the time—they all matter. They are the soil from which your next chapter will grow.

At the same time, feel the stirrings of possibility. The blank page of a new year doesn’t ask for perfection—it asks for presence, for curiosity, for the courage to carry forward what matters most and gently release what doesn’t. You are not the same person who started this year. You are wiser, more tender, and more aware of your own strength. Trust that.

So, before you step into 2026, pause to notice yourself—your heart, your body, your mind—and offer gratitude for every small step that brought you here. Let this moment be a conscious exhale, a letting go, and a quiet welcome to all that is coming.

May the year ahead be gentle where it needs to be, bold where you need courage, and full of unexpected joy and quiet miracles. Thank you for showing up, for witnessing yourself, and for carrying your story forward.
Happy new year!🎊🎆

12/30/2025

New Year’s Final Relaxation — A Sacred Threshold

Allow your body to rest completely.
Feel the earth beneath you—ancient, steady, wise.
You are held.

Let the breath move like a quiet prayer.
Inhaling life…
Exhaling release.

You are resting at a threshold now—
A sacred pause between what has been and what is yet to come.

Behind you lies the year that has passed.
Not to be judged.
Not to be measured.
Simply honored.

Silently offer gratitude for all that shaped you—
The joys that expanded your heart,
The challenges that refined your strength,
The moments that taught you how to listen more deeply.

With each exhale, allow what no longer serves your spirit to fall away—
Old fears, old stories, old timelines.
Let them return to the earth, where nothing is wasted, and everything is transformed.

Now sense the year ahead—not as a demand,
But as an open field of possibility.
A blank page breathed into being by something greater than you…
And yet written through you.

You do not need to know the path.
You only need to trust the next true step.

Bring awareness to your heart space.
Imagine a soft, luminous flame glowing there—
Your inner light, steady and eternal.
This light has carried you through every season of your life.
It will guide you again.

As you rest here, allow a quiet intention to arise—
Not from the mind, but from the soul.
A word, a feeling, a frequency.
Let it settle gently into your being.

May you walk into this New Year guided by wisdom.
May you move with courage and grace.
May you remember that you are never walking alone.

Rest for a few breaths in this knowing—
Supported.
Aligned.
Exactly where you are meant to be.

When you feel ready, begin to return—
Deepening the breath, inviting subtle movement into the body.

Carry this sense of sacred presence with you.
Step forward across the threshold with trust.

Take one final breath—
And softly, gently, come back.

12/24/2025

I wrote this several years ago and use it each year during final relaxation in all my classes. Enjoy and Merry Christmas everyone! I so appreciate you!⛄️❄️🎅😘

Release to the magic of Christmas
Sitting in the glow of the twinkling lights of my Christmas tree, I release to the magic. Ever since I was a child, I have been aware of the magic of Christmas. No, it’s not the promise of presents, but the promise of an ever-growing goodness that permeates the world this time of year. It tickles you from the inside reminding you there is something more. When enough of us focus on peace and goodwill, even those who aren’t sure why will feel it and be aware of its presence.

This presence supports you with a sense that no matter what turmoil is in your life, love will accompany you. No matter how ungrounded and frazzled your outer world becomes, your inner Christmas remains unshaken.

Just as some beloved Christmas stories depict Santa’s sleigh to be powered with Christmas cheer, it is this Christmas magic that recognizes and awakens the magic always residing within. It is an energy you can’t touch or hold, but you know deep inside that something magical is empowered this time of year.

Just as the grandfather clock’s pendulum begins to swing to the same rhythm of a nearby rocking chair, every effort of good will synchronizes with all the others. Every effort of goodness, no matter how small, lights the indwelling goodness within each of us—the bell ringer on the corner, the cards sent to friends and family, the gifts chosen with love, the carols sung, and the prayers said. The rituals of family—baked cookies, trimmed trees, favorite holiday movies watched and shared, candles lit, photos taken capturing the moments—each and every action entrains with all others building a magical energy we call Christmas.

Let the magic of Christmas envelope you and release to its loving presence. Let it empower you from within and relax in the glow of your own inner goodness. Recognize your inner wellspring so that others will recognize theirs. Just as you shine your goodness out, others will be empowered to shine in kind. Merry Christmas!

12/23/2025

In past newsletters posted, I have referenced this short film. (Under 25 minutes). I’ve posted it during Christmas many times. It’s one of my favorites and a “must watch” at Christmas!❤️

The Star in the Night film is from 1945. We first discovered it as a bonus recording on our “Christmas in Connecticut” DVD. This short film makes me cry every time. It’s a modern retelling of the Nativity story set on Christmas Eve at a desert motel in the Southwestern United States. It won an Oscar—enough said. Hope you enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/OXjdBs70syY

This is a bonus feature on the Christmas in Connecticut DVD

12/22/2025

I love the word “magic”. In and of itself, I believe it creates the magic… 💫 perhaps because I’m anticipating it then! Let’s all anticipate magic! Energy goes where attention goes! This is from my Divine Purpose email:

The Winter Solstice just passed, and the days have officially begun their slow climb toward longer light. Even in the heart of winter, the universe is giving us a gentle cosmic nudge: brightness is returning.

Think of today as a little holiday gift from the cosmos. Candles flicker, twinkling lights shine in windows, and the quiet nights invite cozy celebration. The magic is in noticing the glow — in your space, in your heart, and in the small joys around you.

This is a day to welcome light wherever you find it: the sun peeking through clouds, a candle on your windowsill, or even laughter and warmth shared with someone near or far. Let the season’s sparkles remind you that brightness always comes back.








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12/21/2025

The earth leans into stillness.
The night opens wide, unhurried.
In the velvet quiet,
an ancient remembering begins to breathe.

This is the sacred dark—
where rest becomes devotion,
and silence hums with light yet to be born.

Soften your edges.
Breathe into the unseen.
Listen for what has always known the way.

✨ The light is not lost.
✨ It is gathering.
✨ It returns when we are open enough to receive it.

12/19/2025

Thank you for being here and for being a part of the Better Day Yoga community! I so appreciate you all!

Here’s my favorite e-card: https://www.jacquielawson.com/card/the-christmas-tree/3474465

12/18/2025

Lunges and squats (aka chair and Goddess pose) are standard fare in a yoga class… do more yoga! 🧘‍♀️ 🙏♥️

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