Sugarcane Yoga

12/29/2025

Another turn around the sun.

This year brought epic challenges and joy, true heart work and inner peace, deep grief and gratitude.

I'm grateful for all of it.

This is 48.

12/18/2025

The last class of the lower body series we are focusing on the quadriceps. This dynamic flow will build awareness, add challenge and deepen your understanding of the powerful group of muscles along the front of the thighs.

Each flow builds onto the last, layering in concepts and complexity.

Stay to watch me fall out of the downdog variation in the last video 😂 We're here to practice, not to perfect.

**Over the past year, I've been teaching in a series format. That means we use several weeks to break down a larger concept rather than changing class ideas every week. The classes change weekly, but they link to one another in a progressive learning program. It's made it possible to explore everything with more detail and attention.

Every time I double down on something I think is too "basic", or "easy" or "boring", folks remind me how impactful teaching like this is. It affirms I'm doing the work that feels truly authentic and exciting to me.

I look forward to more deep diving in 2026!

12/12/2025

On Tuesday nights, I take a yoga class at my local studio. It's nice for me to be a student in community at a place I teach weekly, and to be guided by a fellow teacher.

It's a time I put on my calendar and look forward to even though I head to this class after a full day of teaching. For the past few weeks, as I leave my final class of the day, I haven't wanted to go. What I want is to go home. So instead of going to the yoga studio, I've done just that.

I know it's the right call for me to go home and do yoga, but I still hear the nagging voice that says I should go to the studio. I should take a challenging class. it should be a certain style, or length.

That voice quieted this week as I realized a few things:

It's almost winter. In the Pacific Northwest, we actually call it "The Big Dark". When I leave my last class of the day, 5pm feels like hours later than it actually is. It is harder for me to feel motivated when it's dark outside which means I am even more of a homebody in the winter.

This year has been a season of expansion, growth, and refinement for Sugarcane Yoga. I am honored to do the work I do and feel it is the work I am truly meant to do. And, I'm tired. Like, really tired. I am looking forward to a couple weeks off at the end of this month.

Lastly, in January of this year, my dad died. It was a long, slow, painful decline. While his death wasn't a surprise, nothing prepares you for the gravity of the loss. I started the year in grief. As we approach the holiday season, and in January the first anniversary of his passing, I'm ending the year grieving as well.

So when I got home last night, I said my hellos to my partner and dog, then spent some time on my mat alone like I've been doing the past few Tuesdays.

I'm listening to what I need in this season. And what I need is introspection, privacy, tenderness, and let my intuition guide me. My personal yoga practice is mine alone right now.

I'm honoring the season I'm in- actually, energetically, emotionally. And so should you.

11/12/2025

10/20/2025

Aya Yoga Oasis 200 hour Vinyasa teacher training starts in January and I am part of the teaching crew. Feel free to teach out to me if you have interest!

10/18/2025

Join us in January Aya Yoga Oasis

Looking to deepen your yoga practice or maybe you are looking to teach mindful yoga classes?

Applications for our 2026 yoga teacher training are still open!

10/09/2025

Myofascial Release is an effective self massage technique that uses tools to target the fascia or connective tissues in the body.

When done properly, it can soften areas of stress and tension, increase range of motion, improve circulation, and encourage a calm state in your physical body and mind.

In this 90 minute workshop, Meagan Lass will guide you through a self Myofascial Release practice for the nervous system.

In this workshop you will learn techniques that will help you:
-Down regulate your nervous system from "fight or flight" to "rest and digest"
- Reduce Stress
- Increase proprioception (body awareness)
- Relieve pain and muscle tension
- Increase relaxation response
- Learn to use MFR for a mindful, meditative state

If you are seeking tools to manage stress, increase body awareness and relaxation techniques- this workshop is for you.

10/02/2025

Firmly rooted in my perimenopause power era.

Teaching yoga with temporary sunglasses on after an emergency eye appointment (I'm ok!)

Towel around my neck because apparently I run now at the gym for extra cardio. In addition to strength training, yoga, meditation, walking, MFR, eating well, sleeping enough, going to therapy, not drinking, not smoking, limiting caffeine, sugar, spice, carbonation, fats, yada yada yada.

Sweaty from exercise. It's a little dark in here.

But I'm always a little sweaty these days (is it hot in here or just me?) and I definitely don't have limited vision.

Grateful every day for the tools I have and share to keep feeling rooted and resilient through all of life's ups and downs.

My humble photo admission to the

09/30/2025

Goals!

09/03/2025

How many variations of Tree pose, Vrksasana, can you think of?

Adaptive yoga aims to make yoga truly inclusive for everyone. That means the poses look different for everyone, to fit their individual needs.

I love how everyone has their own version. Look at the three different seated variations! In this group, folks are using chairs, wheelchairs, posts, blocks, and different standing shapes to make their unique Tree.

It's an honor and a gift to facilitate adaptive yoga classes. When I took this picture the class wasn't sure why I wanted to and when I showed it to them- Ah! Wow!

One person said, maybe folks won't be afraid to come to yoga if they see this.

YES! All are welcome, really.

09/01/2025

Are you interested in deepening your personal practice or teaching yoga? Aya Yoga Oasis 200 hour teacher training starts in January!