Yoga at the Carnegie

06/14/2025

Here is the link to our updated page. We are now Wild Hearts Studio, next to the Kingston. (For those of you who already know this, I just now figured out how to put a link to the news page.). (Eye roll). https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572178142280

A safe, inclusive yoga community where people of all ages, sizes, and abilities can feel seen and welcomed. Services include asana, breathwork, meditation, aroma touch/reiki, massage.

01/17/2025

We’ve changed our page! I had to start a new page, so go there and like/follow us!

01/17/2025

Hi everyone,
You just received an invite to follow the page Wild Hearts Studio. I'm tired of not being able to change the name, so created a new page. I won't be making any updates to Yoga at the Carnegie anymore - look for new info on the new page. (And be patient with me as I navigate the fun times of trying to sync this new account with instagram, google, and Canva.). 😳

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01/13/2025

Truth.

I practiced yoga for 75 days straight.

And then, the holidays came and I found myself entertaining family and caught in the busy and so I set the practice aside.

Ten days ago, I started up again.

It might be easy to think, “I am starting all over,” but that isn’t the truth. Flows and poses that would have been challenging without ANY practice came with ease.

Life is a series of starts and stops.

It’s way too easy to judge the stops as failings, but if we can just look at them as a pause, a recalibration — then we give ourselves the grace to not only start again, but to be human.

Breaks are normal.

Quitting would mean I never ever practiced again.

This instead, was a pause, and in that pause I realized, “I love this practice.”

Have grace on yourselves.

And celebrate all the starts.

They may feel like start-overs, yet they rarely set us back to day one.

Instead we are picking up, starting again, and moving forward.

And even if it is day one again, it’s day one plus all the other days.

~Rachel

01/12/2025

01/06/2025

So this was on the sidewalk in front of the studio this morning. How perfect! Dare to begin! Always, the hardest part of yoga is getting off the couch to start. 🧘🏻‍♀️🕉️🌀

01/04/2025

Continue.

Continue
by Maya Angelou,
Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Into a world which needed you
My wish for you
Is that you continue

Continue

To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your acts of kindness

Continue

To allow humor to lighten the burden
of your tender heart

Continue

In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter

Continue

To let your eloquence
Elevate the people to heights
They had only imagined

Continue

To remind the people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you

Continue

To remember your own young years
And look with favor upon the lost
And the least and the lonely

Continue

To put the mantel of your protection
Around the bodies of
The young and defenseless

Continue

To take the hand of the despised
And diseased and walk proudly with them
In the high street
Some might see you and
Be encouraged to do likewise

Continue

To plant a public kiss of concern
On the cheek of the sick
And the aged and infirm
And count that as a
Natural action to be expected

Continue

To let gratitude be the pillow
Upon which you kneel to
Say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge
You build to overcome evil
And welcome good

Continue

To ignore no vision
Which comes to enlarge your range
And increase your spirit

Continue

To dare to love deeply
And risk everything
For the good thing

Continue

To float
Happily in the sea of infinite substance
Which set aside riches for you
Before you had a name

Continue

And by doing so
You and your work
Will be able to continue
Eternally

[Image: The Way (circa 1950s) by German artist and illustrator Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989 ).]

The Artist Wrote:
“To people attuned to my compositions, they may well be mirrors of their own experiences. It is because of this that I have left the explanation of the drawings completely to the viewer so that they are not bound by my interpretation of what each picture should be.”

Poetry, Tea and Me

12/30/2024

Our 2025 manifesto 🧘🏻‍♀️❤️🌀🕉️

25 Manifesto Rules for the Year.

1. Stare fear in the face. So often fear stops us. Instead live fearless - knowing when to stop and when to move and when to be brave.

2. Invest in your friends. Good friends listen and show up. Do the same. Friendship is give and take and give and take. Friends are the ultimate gift.

3. No excuses. You must take care of yourself: heart, body and soul. There is no excuse for forgetting you. Your family needs you to love you with the same tenacity that you love them.

4. Guilt doesn't need to dictate choices. Don't let guilt stop you from taking care of yourself. Guilt keeps one stuck.

5. Read real books again. Watch a mini-series. Start jogging. Do something that is not work, not chores, but simply that makes you happy.

6. Love your body. Your aging body. Yes, that. And stop lamenting the wrinkles, but embrace them as another year lived.

7. Don't short-change yourself. You are amazing.

8. Listen more, judge less. Comparison is the death of contentment. Instead of judging, be happy for others.

9. Slow down. Hold hands more. Say "yes" to one more book. Let them get the gum in the check out line. Just be present.

10. Create margin in your life. That space in-between the busy and the crazy where you can just breathe again.

11. Don't be afraid of "no" and trying. The worst that can happen is that you brush off and try again.

12. Be proud of yourself. Like really nitty gritty proud - of all the showing up and trying and giving and little things you do that matter so greatly.

13. Give to others. Maybe it's not money or time, but sometimes it can be grace extended.

14. Be straightforward with your words.

15. Love well. Love without fear. Love unconditionally.

16. Forgive. This. Over and over. Grudges destroy, forgiving brings freedom. And if you’re not at a place of forgiving, it’s okay.

17. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Don't lament the falling - celebrate the standing.

18. Learn from your experiences and mistakes. They don’t need to define. Sometimes those spaces of experience make us real and in the real spaces we forge connection.

19. Take risks. The biggest risk for me in life is the risk of not trying.

20. Mindset, mindset, mindset. What one thinks truly is what one believes, what one becomes.

21. Be adaptable. Life can change in an instant.

22. Love others deeply. For who they are, for their courage, for their story. Kindness and love are priceless.

23. Be a learner, but don’t let learning stop you from taking action. You have to start. Try. The only way to walk (or run) a thousand miles is to complete mile one. So be brave. Start.

24. Do the work. Whether it’s the mental work to change patterns or the active work to change things - talking and doing are some different. So don’t be afraid of hard work, put in the effort. Talking about change and working for change are completely different.

25. Step into YOUR story and fuel YOUR soul. Live unapologetically yourself. This is your time, now.

Begin. 🙌

~Rachel


PS: I originally wrote these at the end of 2019 and have been adding on with new lessons learned.

original words by Rachel Marie Martin of Finding Joy

12/28/2024