Weeks Well

Fostering transformation. Wellness entrepreneur with a career combo of finance, marketing communications, media spots, and yoga small-business ownership.

12/22/2023

Thank you for bearing with me while I’ve taken a short break! I’ve missed doing the podcast, and I’m so glad that Ty Powers is the person to bring me back and round out this year. He’s been working in the mindfulness, yoga, and Buddhist sphere for decades, alongside his wife Sarah who was a guest on this show in the fall. These two episodes with Ty and Sarah, who I’ve known for almost 20 years, feel like the best way to wrap up 2023. Stay tuned for a special episode next week on my year and my plans for 2024. And let me know what you think of these episodes!

10/27/2023

I’m back in the DC area next month for an in-person event!👇

✅ My annual fall retreat at Stonewall Abbey Wellness in Sperryville November 17-19.

Don’t miss the chance to take class with me and recharge and revitalize your practice this fall!

10/06/2023

My annual November retreat is next month, November 17-19 in Sperryville, VA! Now that I’m based in Denver, this annual weekend feels even more special—as a way to get a lot of in-person time with students in one of my favorite areas of the country. The retreat is quickly filling up, so reserve your spot now! And DM me with any questions! ⛰ 🧘‍♀️

09/22/2023

Paul Grilley on the podcast, y’all! What a brainiac and original thinker this guy is. Tune in to learn about the “origins” of yin yoga in modern yoga (he is the founder of it along with Sarah Powers, after all), as well as this 👇 and more!

🌈 the chakras as the multiverse,
🏺our body as something akin to a kind of clay you are working with, and,
⚒️ how the body is a battlefield between higher spiritual ambitions and animalistic instincts you need to survive in this world.

This conversation is one that I hope delights and inspires you!

09/08/2023

Tracee Stanley sources her teaching from the Himalayan tradition, Ta***ic teachings and—my favorite word from our conversation—remembering. She is the first teacher I have had on the podcast from the Himalayan tradition, and I would love to hear from you about any other teachers from this tradition you’d like me to talk to.

Tracee told me about her experience identifying as a post-lineage teacher—and how she dips in and out of teachings from elders and wisdom practices that continue to connect her to truth. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

08/31/2023

RIP Michael Weeks, October 24, 1993-August 20, 2023. I’m fresh in the field of grief over losing my brother who lost his battle with clinical depression and opioid addiction. I haven’t been able to practice yoga since last week because I am so struck dumb and sadder than I have ever been in my life. In our last conversation in late July, Michael and I talked about how committed we were to breaking the cycle of abuse, neglect, and addiction in our family. I told him I loved him; those were my last words to him. Every time we talked I suggested a yoga pose, a breathing technique, a yoga teacher I knew in Louisville, or for him to go for a walk, or to the gym, or to a dating app: Anything that would help pull him out of what always felt like the deepest well of incurable sadness, over his life not going the way he wanted, not having the parents he wished he’d had, not living in a world that felt safe and supportive to him.

No strategies worked, and he is dead. Today is Overdose Awareness Day. Today is the day for the communities of people struggling with addiction. It’s up to all of us. If you think you’re not in this community, you’re wrong. There are people struggling with this all over, and they are struggling more and more. If someone in your life is working with addiction or any of the mechanisms so closely associated with drug abuse, like PTSD, depression, or anxiety, please reach out to that person today. Let them know you’re there for them. Most of all, if you’re close enough to them or are a parent, or someone who can afford a step like this one, intervene right now and help them get into rehab. The task is Sisyphean, but it is so much more for the person struggling with addiction than it is for you. And strong interventions are the only chance that people struggling with these diseases have. It’s the truth.

08/25/2023

Dr. Shyam Ranganathan is a strong voice on social media, and Yoga Philosophy is one of the few yoga handles that actually stops my scroll. That's for the same reason he kept me rapt in our conversation two months ago. He offers a fresh perspective on pre-colonial yoga and how we can reclaim threads of it into our modern understanding of what we’re doing and how we’re practicing.

If you haven’t tuned in, listen now! It’s also worth a re-listen.

08/21/2023

Oh my gosh. These two not-shrinking-violets. If you expand the picture, you’ll see how much money is going monthly into their mouths. 😬

Here’s to middle school! Tween! Teen! God help me!

08/18/2023

What a delight meeting and speaking with Jillian Pransky Yoga two months ago 💞. For this week’s re-release, I’m still reflecting deeply on how she has inherited the yoga form of teaching from Pema Chӧdrӧn’s years of meditation retreats and metta (or positive meaning or kindness) practices.

If you haven’t tuned in, listen now. And please share the podcast! You will probably also love her book, Deep Listening.

My conversation with Jillian was one of the pods that makes me so grateful to wake up every day and do this work!

08/17/2023

☯️ Friendships are always changing and realigning.

🫂 My whole life, I’ve only ever been able to go deep with people; superficial is impossible. I just can’t! When in-person contact was sucked away in Covid, and when we then moved across the country while everyone was barely hanging on, I had to do some deep work to let go of the illusions that friendships stay the same and that people don’t have limitations.

🩶 And yet, the friendships meant to stick stay strong while new ones emerge. So this post is about friendship, tried, true, and new! 🙌🏾

08/11/2023

I think it's time in modern yoga to consider what Doug Keller and I explored in this re-released podcast. Doug is a fan favorite for a reason! In this episode, Doug and I explored Natha yoga’s 20 yamas (restraints) and niyamas (observances), versus the 10 that nearly every yoga teacher at least touches on in a teacher training.

If you missed this episode earlier, listen in now! And if you’ve already tuned in, it’s definitely worth a second listen!

08/10/2023

I’ve been slow on social this summer, as we continue to go through still more transitions (I’m finally working outside of the house again and minimizing Wash-Park-Zoom time, Cost Center #1 is at sleepaway camp, Cost Center #2 now wants to be a competitive athlete in three sports ⚽️🎾🏊🏼‍♂️, plus so much travel ✈️!).

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on this year and what we’ve come out of. Is inured the right word? Is that what we’ve become? People seem tougher, sharper, and less friendly on the edges, less interested in learning about new people especially. We had to train ourselves to go the opposite direction for two years! All I can say is that I love my family so much, and I’m so grateful for the yoga practice that brought me through it personally!

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