16/11/2025
Hi friendsšš¼ been a while since Iāve surfaced here.
A lot of things in my life have changed: I got married. I moved to Minessota! Iāve picked up a few cats, a few diagnoses (with just as many unknowns), and more than a few hobbies (as Iāve had to let go of others).
I continue to be a medical mystery & my symptoms continue to be as unpredictable and affecting all of my life as the Midwest weather. But if yoga has taught me anything over these years, is that change is our only constant. My body has changed. My abilities have changed. My situation has changed.
Among the grief of losing pieces of myself and so many things Iāve loved to chronic illness and disability (including teaching), Iāve also gained perspective, compassion, and new interests and hobbies!
Listen, I will be real with you: itās taken me a long time to overcome the shame of quitting teaching (among other things my bodyās decline has forced me to quit), especially as a former āgifted & talentedā kid & child of immigrant (iykyk š)
And as a recovering perfectionist, itās also me taken forever to overcome the not being immediately good at something and the also quitting it immediately (see above) and make bad art. And then choose to share said bad art with all of you.
But listen I didnāt spend years preaching to all of you in my classes to radically accept yourself where youāre at that day to then turn around and not do that for myself (and itās a challenge, believe me).
So here I am: I may not be teaching you yoga Asana anymore, but I can still impart yoga wisdom for all of us, (myself included). Just off the mat( for now⦠as I said change is constant and none of us know the future).
I plan to use this account to show off my various adhd art projects/current interests, show both the shadow side of living with multiple chronic, and often disabling, illnesses & the humor I find in it all (because balance), and my lessons in learning to divest of the perfectionist āgrindā mindset capitalism indoctrinated us all into. Now I recognize that this is all very different than many of yāall followed me for. If you no longer connect with this connect, thatās totally fair, I wish you well.ā¬ļøā¬ļø