Perennial Yoga

01/05/2026

What if becoming wise isn’t about gaining anything...but about losing everything that was never truly you?

01/05/2026

This season, Perennial is offering three Winter Retreats at Anaway Place - a peaceful sanctuary in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Only afew spots remain for each retreat.

Snow Moon Clarity - Led by Megan Grace with sangha support from Meghan Behn, this midwinter retreat offers space for rest, reflection, and renewed clarity through gentle practice, stillness, and the quiet beauty of the season.

Heart of Devotion - Led by Keith Borden with sangha support from Mick Mac Ionnrachtaigh, this retreat weaves yoga, mantra, myth, and movement to awaken courage, joy and heartfelt devotion inspired by Hanuman.

Witch Wisdom - Led by Shandra Bauer with sangha support from Alessandra Rella, this women's retreat invites intuitive exploration through slow yoga, circle, and time in nature.

You can learn more and reserve your space here. https://perennial-yoga.com/Retreats

We hope you'll join us for a nourishing winter weekend at Anaway.

Love,
Perennial

12/29/2025

As we stand at the edge of a new year, I’m writing with a transmission for the crossing.
2025 asked everything of us...our patience, our courage, our clarity. 2026 will too.

LIVING FROM A SOVEREIGN HEART
A Year-End Transmission from Perennial

We’ve come to the end of a year that didn’t drift quietly by.
We’ve felt the friction... in our bodies, our homes, our ecosystem.

The world is shifting beneath our feet.
This isn’t just politics, or weather, or headlines.
This is the raw fact of transformation. Collective and intimate.

Something ancient is being composted.
Something entirely new is beginning to root.

Nature doesn’t resist change.
She yields. Sheds.
Molts. Dies back.

She reminds us that all of life moves in cycles.
Inhale and exhale.
Becoming and unbecoming.

There are seasons of growth, and seasons of letting go.
We are in one of those sacred undoings now,
what yoga calls the space between breaths.
Not a failure. A return.

This return doesn’t come gently.
We are watching old systems fracture.
Political. Economic. Spiritual. Familial.
What was hidden is being exposed.
The cruelty, the grasping, the disconnection,
it’s all being pulled into the light.

But instead of collapsing into fear,
or fighting to hold up what no longer serves,
we can choose something far more powerful.

We can stop participating in what harms.

Not every structure is meant to be saved.
Some things must fall.

And part of our soul work now
is to stop reinforcing the very systems
that make us forget who we are.
To stop offering our life force
to what extracts, exploits, and divides.

This doesn’t mean we disengage.
It means we move with discernment.
We grieve what’s dying, yes.
But we stop trying to resurrect it.
And we begin feeding what is tender, emerging, and true.

We stop giving power to what holds power through fear,
or simply through the momentum of old habits
that no longer serve who we’re becoming.

What this time is asking of us...individually and collectively...
is to redefine power.
Not as dominance.
Not as control.
But as something truer.
Something that begins within,
and ripples outward.

A power that takes shape in three sacred expressions:

Presence
The courage to stay with what is real,
within you, around you, between us.

Coherence
Living in alignment with what you know to be true,
so your inner and outer life become one.

Kinship
Remembering that you belong to everything,
and everything belongs to you.

And this kind of power can only arise
from within a Sovereign Heart.

A sovereign heart is a heart that belongs to itself.
It no longer bends to be loved
or silences itself to keep the peace.
It feels deeply, but isn’t ruled by its wounds.
It has grieved, and keeps on opening.
It knows what is true,
and stays near that truth, even when it’s inconvenient.
It’s not closed off. Not above it all.
It’s rooted.
And from that rootedness,
it moves through the world with clarity,
with tenderness,
with power that liberates.

This is what Perennial is here to cultivate.

Not just poses or practices.
But the capacity to live from the Sovereign Heart.
To remember the pulse of the real
beneath the noise of the world.

And if that kind of living speaks to something in you,
something quiet, something longing, something brave,
you are warmly invited to come closer.

Perennial isn’t just a yoga studio.
It isn’t just a community.
It’s a living field.
A place to remember what you already carry.
A place to become part of the pulse.

12/21/2025

A Winter Solstice Note

Last night at our Winter Solstice Passage, I shared a story that’s been close to my heart lately.

Becoming a grandmother this year has pulled me back into the world of nursery rhymes and childhood stories. The simple ones. The archetypal ones. The ones that carry a quiet wisdom we often need to remember as adults.

One of those stories is How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Seen through adult eyes, it’s not really about Christmas. It’s about what happens when a heart grows small. Not because something is wrong with us, but as a response to pain, separation, and heartbreak.

What changes the Grinch isn’t punishment or getting his way. It’s witnessing connection. He watches the people of Whoville circle up, stay together, and keep singing even after everything he thought would destroy their joy is gone. And something in him softens. His heart grows.

Most of us know what it’s like to have moments when our heart feels a little too small. Not as a failure, but as a very human response to living in a demanding world.

This is the kind of remembering Perennial exists to support.

A place to come when we need to soften again.
A place where nervous systems can settle.
A place where hearts can remember their true size in the presence of care, rhythm, and community.

This is why we keep practicing. 💛

Heart-Expanding Practices This Winter:

This winter, we’re offering twelve four-week mini-series across January, February, and March. Each series is different in theme and teacher, but all share the same intention. To create steady spaces where our hearts can continue to grow. These series are included in a perennial membership or $100/series.

We’re also offering three winter retreats at Anaway Place. These retreats hold the same invitation. To slow down, soften, and let the heart expand through time in nature, practice, and shared presence.

With a warm heart,
Megan 💛

12/17/2025

Here are 2 gift ideas using our customizable gift card. Your recipient can use your gift to attend a Movement Mini-Series, or apply towards a Winter Retreat.

Give the gift of yoga.

12/15/2025

If you’ve been listening for an invitation to come back to the center of your life, this might be it.

Perennial Wisdom Yoga School begins January 8.

Here’s what one person who walked this path said.

“A powerful, incredible experience with two authentic masters… My life and my soul were forever changed… Just do it.”
Nancy N.

This is a 200 hour yoga teacher training program, and it is also an initiation. Study, devotion, breath, body, and soul. A path that changes how you move through the world, and how you meet yourself inside it.

Apply soon or reach out to have a conversation first.

https://perennial-yoga.com/yoga-school

12/07/2025

A meditation on the energies that shape us from the inside out, the ache that guides us, and the essence waiting beneath it all.

The ancient reminder that your life is not meant to look like anyone else’s

12/05/2025

Join us for one of our Winter Weekend Retreats in the Driftless Region.

https://perennial-yoga.com/retreats

12/04/2025

12/02/2025

Some spaces don’t just look beautiful.
They do something to you.

They slow you down.
They soften your edges.
They ask you to breathe deeper and remember what matters.

That’s what these rooms were built for.
For bodies waking up.
For hearts opening.
For souls remembering.

Welcome to Perennial.
Perennial-yoga.com

11/24/2025

As we move through these coming weeks, alternating between moments of turning inward and moments of expressing outward, keep your yoga practice front and center. Your practice is here to help you remember that you are carrying a Light inside of you. Whenever you need to, you can turn toward it, place your steady hands around it, and let that inner Light guide you into the rooms where you love with ease, and into the spaces where love is, well, a little more tangled.

Join Katie Hill this Friday from 3:00-4:30pm. In addition to a soothing yoga sequence, she'll incorporate the therapeutic benefits of aromatherapy.

https://perennial-yoga.com/perennial-way

11/21/2025

Finished a mural for for their AIR room. Agni sacred fire, and waters journey from earth, sea, and sky. What a delight to be able to practice in such a place. So grateful! ❤️🙏❤️ Many thanks to and !