Power In Breath Yoga

Power In Breath Yoga Welcome to Power in Breath Yoga! We believe yoga is for everybody and for every BODY.

🌞Summer is officially 3 weeks away, but I'm feeling the chill vibes already. I've been practicing on my porch and lovin...
05/31/2026

🌞Summer is officially 3 weeks away, but I'm feeling the chill vibes already. I've been practicing on my porch and loving the fresh air & soundtrack that nature provides.

😌The bad news for group classes: we've outgrown the ability to have morning classes on the porch (well, that's kind of good too).

😀The good news: we've got two outdoor classes planned poolside at the Stonegate Swim Club!

🤩The BEST news: EVERYONE is welcome to join the classes at the pool! Not a member? No worries, I'll get you a guest pass.

✴️Join us for:

🌄Sunset Yoga to celebrate the Solstice
Sunday, June 21st at 8pm

AND

⛱️Poolside Yoga
Sunday July 12th at 4pm

🚨PS - New Students: Don't forget to grab your summer class passes for all the studio classes from 6/21 - 8/21!

05/28/2026

You don't really "find" peace. You work for it -- or at least towards it.

By tuning in.
By giving yourself grace and unconditional love.
And by sending that same grace and love out to all beings everywhere.

Peace.

05/21/2026

Here's why 👇

One of my personal training clients is an 80+ year old woman....who hates strength training. Like, really just dreads coming, doesn't enjoy it, and definitely doesn't want to do it. But she knows she *should.*

All of my normal suggestions (find a buddy, crank some good music, join a group class, watch a guilty pleasure show while you do some squats, reward yourself, etc) weren't enough to bridge the gap.....
..so I got fired. AND THAT IS OKAY!

First of all, she's 80 years old and gets to decide for herself what is worth her time and energy. AND, there are other movement modalities she does enjoy. She attends a water aerobics class regularly and rides her exercise bike at home. She also gardens and goes birding.

She is already doing a lot to maintain her mobility and independence without adding on an activity she really doesn't care for.

The point is - if you HATE / loathe / despise something that you *should* be doing, maybe it's not worth the perceived benefit. You are just fighting an uphill battle with yourself, and in the end you probably won't stick with it.

Fnd another way to achieve the same goal -- and find a little more joy in the process.

PS - she fired me one week and the next had the bright idea to start private yoga sessions instead 😍😍

I sliced my thumb nail in half cutting a bagel **picture in the next slide**What's interesting is that it didn't hurt th...
05/19/2026

I sliced my thumb nail in half cutting a bagel **picture in the next slide**

What's interesting is that it didn't hurt that much, and somehow the (extremely sensitive) skin underneath was barely injured. I did however need to find a way to prevent myself from ripping the nail off while I waited (WEEKS) for it to grow out.

I tried several things, but super glue was the magic fix. It held the nail in place and allowed me to keep using my thumb -- yes you need your nails to do anything involving grip or pressure on in your finger tips.

Even for something that seems so small and insignificant, the BIND (glue and band-aids on occasion) and the CONNECTION (counterpressure of the nail on the back of the finger tip were CRITICIAL to being able to function.

The same happens in our yoga postures - binds, bandhas, and connection make all of our shapes much more STABLE. And it's the same off the mat -- often times finding that stability in our connections with others.

Who is your super glue???

05/17/2026

Freedom in the shoulders - letting myself sink into them a bit - and my fingers shifting pressure forward and back as the brakes.... That's my usual plan in handstand practice.

I tried recently trying to be more rigid, fully engaging my anterior front line, and I was so focused on that rigidity, I lost the freedom to shift slightly. To wobble as we all do when we are trying to maintain our balance.

And I couldn't stay up for very long.

Maybe I was over-efforting, trying to put a new skill into practice. Maybe I was putting too much mental attention into engaging the front line of my body and I forgot about all of my usual mental cues and checklists. Maybe with time I will find more finesse.

Either way, lessons learned. And maybe not the ones that my teacher was trying to share.

What I learned in my own practice, and again later that day with a private student, was that being too rigid can make things harder than they need to be.

Maybe you need to soften a little.

Bend, so you don't break.

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Olney, MD
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