Lizzie Simons

11/20/2025

11/14/2025

Happy 24 Year Surgerversary to all those who celebrate! (Part 3)
Long story short: I had surgery, it changed my life, but it could have been worse, so I shouldn’t complain, right? (Joke’s on you, I’m from New England and we love to complain.)
Watch or listen for the whole story, but… be kind to others and be kind to yourself. You don’t have to be the perfect poster child for surviving. You don’t have to “overcome” your disability. You can just be. That’s a nice way to be good to yourself.

11/14/2025

Happy 24 Year Surgerversary to all those who celebrate! (Part 2)
Long story short: I had surgery, it changed my life, but it could have been worse, so I shouldn’t complain, right? (Joke’s on you, I’m from New England and we love to complain.)
Watch or listen for the whole story, but… “It could have been worse,” was my internalized ableism mantra. Breaking down that ableism freed me to live a better life.

11/14/2025

Happy 24 Year Surgerversary to all those who celebrate! (Part 1)
Long story short: I had surgery, it changed my life, but it could have been worse, so I shouldn’t complain, right? (Joke’s on you, I’m from New England and we love to complain.)
Watch or listen for the whole story, but the long and the short of it is that people with disabilities are everywhere, we don’t always “look disabled”, we don’t have to inspire you, we do have to be quiet about it. When we learn about and embrace disability we heal, and we help others live an easier life.

11/11/2025

Yoga gives us endless opportunities to create, expand, and feel how we feel in the moment. This scene from is one of the best scenes in TV I have ever watched, where after Jesse and Jane go to the Georgia O’Keeffe museum, Jane perfectly sums up why we do the “same things” on a loop. But it’s never the same. If our body is the door, and the world around us is the light and the experiences we have had; and even if we do the same sequence of shapes, it can feel totally different.

11/07/2025

What I eat for breakfast am need lunch on a day where I plan to ride to a bed from work.

11/06/2025

Getting warmer bit by bit.
Thanks to for having the right tool for the job with these defend thermo gloves, and for having all sorts of odds and ends for this experiment.

11/04/2025

This week’s playlist is centered on the feelings we get when it’s dark before we start an evening yoga practice. The abrupt transition when late afternoon sun ghosts us for sudden darkness. So drink in the sun when you can, light a fire within when you can’t, and feel it all.
Yoga Tunes for Shorter Days:
Runaway - AURORA
Good Ol’ Days - Hayley Williams
Dark Days - Local Natives
Emily I’m Sorry - boygenius
Forest Lawn - Better Oblivion Community Center
Looking Back - Lord Huron
Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On - Headlights
Permanent Feeling - Twin Shadow
Everything Matters - AURORA
Limerence - Lucy Dacus
Chess - Katie Gregson-MacLeod
Something’s Missing - John Mayer
N**e - Radiohead
Across the Universe - Rockabye Baby!
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11/03/2025

Hello my luminous friends! Pop over to my YouTube channel (linked in bio) for 25 minutes of gentle seated stretches. Yoga doesn’t have to be acrobatic to “count”. So take a load off and see how small movements can make a big difference. It’s all yoga.
https://youtu.be/s0LTLhaiJ-A?si=j-aq9nxK9T0EZJPQ

11/01/2025

GRWM: cold weather biking edition.
Exciting challenge to see how far into the cold weather I can go bike commuting for my first Colorado winter.




(Does anyone want to help me stay toasty while I bike commute this winter? XOXO)

11/01/2025

Here’s another Halloween playlist, but a little less creepy, but still spooky. 👻
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