Frameworks Yoga / Richard Gartner

01/09/2025

For those already registered, we look forward to seeing you at check-in on Thursday! If you’re looking for a spontaneous escape or planning ahead for a mindful weekend, we have a few rooms available for both “Autumn Renewal Yoga Retreat” weekends.

🧘‍♀️ Last-Minute Retreat – This Weekend!

September 4-7 (Two Queen Bed Rooms available)

Reconnect, recharge, and reset in the serene setting of Casa Om Potomac. Whether you’re craving deep relaxation, vibrant community, or inspiring yoga practices, this weekend getaway has everything you need.

🌿 Second Retreat – Three Weeks Away

September 18-21 (One King Bed Room Available)

If this weekend is too soon, we’ve got another chance for you to join us near the end of the month. Same beautiful location, same soul-nourishing experience.

Both retreats include:

☑️ Daily yoga and meditation sessions

☑️ Delicious vegetarian meals

☑️ Nature walks and downtime by the Potomac River

☑️ Time to reconnect with yourself and others

✨ Spots are limited and the first retreat is just days away—click below to save your space.

👉 LINK IN BIO FOR THIS WEEKEND

👉 VISIT FOR SEPT 18-21

Andrea and I would love to share one of these peaceful and inspiring weekends with you.

25/08/2025

SITTING ON THE CEILING 🟡NEW BLOG POST🟡
I love a good analogy, and I incorporate them in my teachings as much as I can. To understand the world, moment to moment, we are constantly creating links to things we already know and perspectives we already have. Our brains are in the business of making analogies.

Analogies usually feel more accurate without getting finicky or in the weeds. As a teacher who thinks a lot about cueing, I can be finicky for sure: “In Downward Facing Dog, flex your knees to release your hamstrings at their insertions, then engage your multifidi to increase your lumbar lordosis and the anterior tilt of your hips.” But it’s less confusing and more fun to say “sit on the ceiling.”

My 300-hour teacher training includes plenty of discussion on the use of language to evoke. When I guide somebody through strong poses like Chair, or Plank, or Handstand, I use mechanical language like “rocket your heels up” or “plow your hands through the floor.” During quieter poses I opt for more naturalistic language: “saturate into the floor like groundwater,” or “settle like sediment toward the bottom of a pond.”

Our nervous system operates a certain way, and that way is unique for everybody. Same for our bodies and all of our relationships. Yoga and meditation can help us see them for what they are. If we notice thoughts as thoughts, they often don’t have as firm a grip on us. If we notice we are upset, we become less upset.

To see things as they are seems to be the best chance at increasing our perspective and improving our situation. If analogies can help expand our understanding, I embrace them.

More info on Frameworks 300 in bio.

18/08/2025

Andrea Kirkham of and I are co-hosting a retreat at September 4-7. There are a few spaces left. If you can take a weekend to restore with yin yoga, myofascial release, vinyasa, and lymphatic practices, in an amazing space, we hope you can join us! Reach out with any questions.

15/08/2025

15 years ago, I met at a yoga workshop. It’s been better and better every year, and feel like the luckiest guy for having met her. Nothing is ever promised, but I’d love another 45.

07/08/2025

I first guided this program in 2018 and have wanted to do it again ever since. I’m happy to announce I’ve teamed up with to offer Frameworks 300 | Pittsburgh 2026.

Over the course of nine months, we’ll dive into experiential anatomy. We’ll discover several key types of meditation practices. We’ll reflect on what is important about our practice and our day-to-day lives.

We’ll discover our abilities and potentials, and how to see these in others. All while having a great time with thoughtful sequences.

Please reach out with any questions about the training. I so look forward to this!

30/07/2025

🔵 New Blog Post 🔵 “I couldn’t find a recovery routine for healthy ligaments. So I created one.”

Five Ways I Support My Ligaments [Yin Yoga Workshop this September, link in bio]

Search “muscle recovery after exercise” and you’ll get a million tips on both passive and active techniques, nutritional advice, and various studies that determine the ideal duration of rest.

For ligaments, though, the answers are different in both number and kind. There is much less research on ligament recovery, and most of it outlines steps for injured ligaments, not healthy ones that merely need rest.

Here’s what I landed on that feels like healthy recovery:

➡️ I take off high impact work for nine days
I call this an “impact break.” With injuries, ligaments take longer to heal than muscles. I’m assuming the same about healthy ligaments. Muscles take as long as 72 hours to recover, and I’m tripling this.

➡️ Yin Yoga 90 minutes a day until Day 7
Yin Yoga “exercises” ligaments very differently from how a muscle gets exercised. Ligaments and other passive tissues get exercised with long, unforced, steady holds of 2+ minutes. I’m doing this through Day 7, and then rest my ligaments for 48 hours before returning to running or plosive exercises.

➡️ Myofascial release
Self-massage, cupping, and what I call “rolling around” all help irrigate my entire internal ecosystem, moving lymph and blood around.

➡️ Walks and active yoga
During the time I typically go to the gym, I take walks and practice ‘Yang’ yoga, with a bit of flow and dynamic poses.

➡️ Intrinsic muscle exercises
Intrinsic muscles are ones whose main function is to support our joints, the ones wrapped around our hip sockets for example. I’m doing some ROMA (Range Of Motion Activation) practices to connect with these muscle groups.

➡️ Schedule breaks every 9-12 weeks
It’s hard to describe, but I get a sense of joint weariness after ~three months of steady high-impact work. I’ve learned to be intuitive with my limits, and wind up taking these 9-day breaks about once a season.

09/07/2025

I’ve designed an outline of a yoga renewal weekend you can create for yourself. It includes practices from my YouTube channel and ideas for a rejuvenating retreat at little to no cost (Link in bio).

This was inspired by a client who created her own three-day retreat weekend. She scheduled three sessions with me and took time to garden, visit her mom, and go to the farmers market. Her intention was to be in the moment, unrushed.

I often think things need to happen at a certain speed. When I catch myself thinking this way (read: often), I remind myself of three things:

1. Focusing my attention allows me to work better.
2. I can enjoy any activity I focus on.
3. Pauses are just as important as activities.

Check out the link in my bio to access the outline with links to yoga videos. My intention was to keep the timing loose. You could schedule specific times if you’d like, and omit and add anything you’re inspired to.

04/06/2025

Happy summer everybody. If you have the time, check out my latest dynamic practice.

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04/04/2025

Support your subs! I’m taking time off and will see you in class again in May.

26/02/2025

The first weekend ✅ sold out ✅ quickly! I’m exited to announce a second retreat weekend this September with Andrea Kirkham at . “Autumn Renewal” is a transformative retreat with yin yoga, vinyasa, myofascial release, and lymphatics. Link in bio for info and to save your space.

07/02/2025

FEBRUARY = SHOULDER FOCUS

In both myself and my clients, I see more shoulder discomfort when it’s cold. Our shoulders ride up near our ears to preserve warmth, and layers of thicker clothing can restrict our range of motion.

Shoulders can be both unstable and tight, paradoxically at the same time. As someone with a big range in my shoulders, I’ve done a lot of work to stabilize them, so I can enjoy my range while being safe.

“Straight from the Shoulder” addresses shoulders of all types and gives people a framework for getting results, whether it’s developing sensation in their shoulders and upper back, flexibility, or stability.

The “HIIT, Yin and Release” workshop this month also has strengthening and stabilizing practices for our shoulders and upper body. Don’t worry; our legs will not be neglected.

Lin’s in bio. Stay warm and stay well.

13/01/2025

It feels fabulous to begin my 20th year of teaching by being here at with this wonderful group of trainees. Just warmed up for my Immune System reset class, then heading home. Can’t wait to see what the next 20 years of yoga reveals.