Perennial Yoga

02/17/2026

In a world where reality is breaking this piece is about what doesn’t break. Human decency. Community. And the quiet, radical choice to keep showing up for one another.

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01/25/2026

PRECIPICE

I don’t have answers, just my body bracing against a tide of cruelty that refuses to go back underground.

And what I want to say out loud is that if you feel bewildered, heavy, sick with the cruelty of this moment, you’re not alone.
Maybe the ache in our collective chest is a bell, ringing out the truth about the edge we’ve reached.

This is not just a political crisis or a cultural one. This is a soul crisis…the kind that reveals whether we are willing to become something truer or collapse into something crueler.

I’ve lived through collapse before. Not like this, but enough to know the shape. The peeling away, the disorientation, the bargaining, the sharp grief of realizing what cannot be restored because it was never whole to begin with.

As much as I want to bottle the harm, the vileness, the indecency, and shelve it out of reach, I know better. It’s woven into our systems. Etched into our habits. Carried in the stories we keep telling.

So the only true way through is to turn toward it and feel the heat.

This is the practice now…to face what we made, to name what must be transformed, to admit that we have all had a hand in shaping this, and that all of us together have a part to play in changing it.

If you’re still standing at a distance denying, avoiding, or allying with the strongman because fear tells you it’s safer, I understand. Fear is loud. But this force isn’t true strength. It’s pain, dressed in the costume of power. A bully with a microphone. And it’s not just coming for “them.” It’s coming for all of us. So I’ll keep naming it, not because I have the whole truth, but because I carry a piece of it, and because my humanity is bound up in yours.

We don’t get to look away. We get to look each other in the eye and decide…Will we let this fire forge us, or consume us?

Megan

01/24/2026

Staying Human Circle
Sun, Jan 25
6:00 - 7:15 pm
Perennial Fitchburg

A place to name what's happening, together.
FREE: https://perennial-yoga.com/staying-human

01/19/2026

One or two spots remain in each of our Winter retreats. Reserve your space soon.

01/16/2026

There’s a kind of hope you should never let go of. The kind that keeps people showing up for one another when things get hard.

But there’s another kind of hope that looks spiritual and sounds responsible, while quietly keeping you suspended above your own life. Waiting for the future to redeem the present.

That’s the hope the root fire comes for.

Megan Grace wrote about it in Part Two of her Becoming a Sovereign Self series.

There’s a kind of hope I will never tell you to let go of. The kind that keeps people showing up for one another when things get hard. But there’s another kind of hope that looks spiritual and sounds responsible, while quietly keeping you suspended above your own life. Waiting for the future to ...

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.