Rantoul Yoga

12/23/2021

here's a link to newsletter note from out the blue to say

happy holy days!

07/10/2021

Hi sweet Rantoul Yoga fam, I miss you! 💜🤸🏽‍♀️ You still practicing? I’m at the old studio today cleaning & I wonder if anybody wants a free set of blocks? They were an anonymous gift to the studio and I’d love to pass them on like so. Comment below or message me & we can figure out when to handoff. (I’m focused on projects today so will check this later on).

06/19/2020

Thank you all for the loving messages, cards, & gifts to connect as I close Rantoul Yoga. You have no idea how much it means to receive your memories, blessings, and care as I harvest the lessons from this chapter and discern next steps!! 🙏🏽 Deep gratitude.

If you'd like to have a keepsake from the studio, check out these (etsy links in comments) or message me to come by next week for moving sale of selected props, random junk, and all art. ♥︎

06/02/2020

With so much tenderness and trust, I want to let you know I'm closing Rantoul Yoga. We have sweat, we have laughed, we have cried, we have learned! I bow to this chapter, and to each of you my teachers. Thank you for the journey. Thank you for showing up to stretch your bodies, minds, spirits.

Shout out to Pastor Carol Lakota Eastin who inspired this project by inviting me to host yoga classes in the basement of the First United Methodist church in August 2013, way back when i had just moved home to Rantoul. Deep gratitude to my father Bill Scott for making this project possible by providing the empty upstairs conference room of his law firm for free studio space, which allowed me to offer donation-based classes AND made us the only yoga studio in the entire universe to be lined by strangely safe-feeling vintage law books.

Biggest thanks go to each of you who followed your curiosity up the stairs and gave me the gift of supporting you in your healing journey. You grew me up so much! You made me a teacher, & you were so patient with me when I cancelled class for illness and for bike-abouts. Holding sacred space for your practice has been a treasure and an honor.

Culturally and personally, this mighty wind of pandemic has spotlit anything that is out of alignment --- systems, relationships, habits, policies. What needs to end? What neeeds to shapeshift? I wonder what changes are afoot in your world. For me, I have come to see that as much as I love it and want to keep growing my own practice and teaching practice, yoga asana is no longer the center point of my offering. The embodiment it supports is the doorway to the community singing, collective grieving, and story-sharing practices that are calling me deeper. Every ending is a beginning: I look forward to following this thread where it leads, and stewarding the evolving vision of soulful sanctuary for Beloved Community as it unfolds into its next chapter. I don't yet know where or what is next! I welcome your prayers.

Thresholds offer a chance to harvest: "Never a failure, always a lesson." If you're moved, I'd love to hear from you - both what you appreciated about this studio + your practice + my teaching, and any constructive feedback i need to hear to integrate to navigate well this choice point. Feel free to call or email or invite me on a walk.

(In the comments is the full newsletter announcement including ways to stay linked to my work and resources for facing and ending internalized white supremacy.)

May all that we created & shared that is Love produce fruit in due season.

My favorite way to tend transitions is the H'oponopono prayer:

I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.

Lyndsey Scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT783b4X8N0

Love note on closure.

05/29/2020

💜💜💜 TONIGHT Specifically for Black, Indigenous, People of Color grieving for the loss of George Floyd :::::: there is a Healing space for you held by Ruth King, beloved author of _Mindful of Race_.

Follow this link to register
https://linktr.ee/liberate

05/12/2020

“The only time we ever know what’s really going on is when the rug’s been pulled out and we can’t find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep. Right now — in the very instant of groundlessness — is the seed of taking care of those who need our care and of discovering our goodness.” — Pema Chödrön

05/05/2020

Resilience!

Find wisdom and support for mind-body-soul-community alignment in this free online conference.

A free, online conference created to resource ourselves for surviving & thriving in these times.

04/28/2020

Follow the link to receive this amazing free resource package, including meditation, nervous system regulation, and parenting & relationship support:

"Whole / Self Liberation is a space created to inspire and support folks as they work to make a difference in their communities and integrate their social justice values into their lives, relationships and work.

SOCIAL CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION REQUIRES AN UPROOTING OF WHAT’S NOT WORKING AND SPACE TO CULTIVATE WAYS OF RELATING TO OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE AND HUMANIZING."

Liberatory Care Practices is a collaborative resource from members of the WSL community. It’s been created to support you to heal, get free and move towards radical wholeness for yourself and the collective as we navigate these times.

04/15/2020

HUGE THANKS to all those who are supporting the studio to make it through right now.... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽from encouraging letters with checks slipped in, to signing up for the online classes, to contributing to this new prop paypal pool. It really means the world to hear that you value our work and want it to thrive.

The Paypal Pool: i made a giant new prop purchase right before closure! Eek. Including the non-paypal donations that've come in, we're about halfway to the goal. $270/$563.48. Thank you!

Would you donate $5 or $50 to help keep your local yoga studio afloat?

Baby steps towards earthspeed Sanctuary. I am making some minor upgrades around the studio, and welcome your support in doing so with ease! To provide increased comfort in meditation + conversation-based gatherings like the racial healing group (and also potentially offer some chair yoga!) i ordered...

04/09/2020

Breath break! ♥︎ Hi RantouL. ♥︎ If you need a stressbuster pause right now ~ here's a simple guided meditation that i made for my students at JDC. Slow it down and stayyyyyyy curious.

If you'd like to be part of a locally-based support group, check out Here We Are: Chair Yoga & Connection Virtual Support Group -- beginning next Thursday 4/16, runs for 6 weeks. Designed to lush up your self-care toolkit through seated meditation & yoga, as well as share how you are navigating these times -- what is challenging and what is opening. We need to tell our stories, crowdsource some diverse wisdom, and put our pieces together right now! **RSVP**

(Sliding scale with full scholarships available as needed.)

Stay curious art : Nevertidy @ Etsy Love is Telepathic : Mark Samsonovich

04/07/2020

hi yoga fam. Just dropped a newsletter::::
(follow the link to subscribe)

Here's RY current online offerings during closure as well as a 10 minute meditation video to slow you down.

Stay well, stay rooted, stay open. Send me a line let me know how you're holding up! Xx

dear Ones -  it's lonely over here without you! Physical studio:: closed indefinitely.  Universe of mystery:: open, opener, openinggggg...... i want to reach . . . . Hellooooo over there, how is it for you? and... i also don't want to add to the so much-ness of online words right now.  so, a quic...