Refuge Yoga

11/15/2025

🌸 No limits. No labels. Just you and your mat.

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Come to yoga class. I’ll help you with your cortisol ❤️

The most dangerous hormone in your brain is slowly rewiring your mind.

It’s called cortisol, the stress hormone. A little of it helps you survive. Too much of it, for too long, can destroy you from the inside out.

When cortisol floods your brain for days or months, it begins damaging the very neurons that help you think clearly and stay emotionally balanced. Over time, this chronic stress response shrinks the hippocampus, your memory center, and strengthens the amygdala, which fuels fear and anxiety.

That’s why constant stress doesn’t just make you tired; it literally rewires your brain to expect danger. It becomes a loop, your body feels stress, your brain releases more cortisol, and soon your thoughts spiral into anxiety and depression.

Scientists have found that cortisol can permanently harm neuron connections, making it harder to focus, remember, or feel joy. The longer it stays high, the deeper the imprint it leaves.

But here’s the hope: your brain can heal. Regular sleep, physical activity, mindfulness, and real emotional connection can lower cortisol and help rebuild those damaged pathways. Your mind is wired to recover, it just needs peace to do it.

Protect your brain. Because stress isn’t just a feeling; it’s chemistry rewriting who you become.

11/10/2025

When we can quiet the noise of external distractions, our inner vision has the chance to come into sharper focus. 👁️✨

This is the work of meditation (and it looks different for everyone).

The common thread?

A willingness to turn inward, to release attachment to the external world, and to trust the deep personal wisdom that already lives within us.

What are you able to see when you shut your eyes?

11/08/2025

11/07/2025

There will be no class on the 12th or on the 26th. We will have class on the 19th.

10/28/2025

10/07/2025