01/05/2026
This weekend wasn’t about “doing yoga well.”
It was about staying in the heat of doing the work.
We studied and practiced santosha (contentment) and tapas (the heat of change) — which, if you’re honest, are often in tension with each other.
Be satisfied with who you are… and still be willing to evolve.
We looked at neuroplasticity — how the brain actually rewires through repeated experience — and why yoga works when it’s practiced as awareness, not performance.
We talked about trauma-informed teaching, because people don’t show up to class as blank slates. They show up with histories.
And then the real work happened:
They got up.
They taught.
They surprised themselves.
Not because they thought they were “ready,” but because growth doesn’t wait for readiness — it responds to willingness.
This is what yoga looks like off the mat:
Learning how to be with what is
and still choosing what’s possible.