Refuge Yoga

02/24/2026

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Hi friends! Please fill out the 2026 Refuge Yoga Participation Form - - even if you are a regular student. I've done a terrible job in the past keeping up with waiver forms in paper form at class. I think this system will help streamline things. I appreciate you!!

This is your waiver and data collection form to participate in any/all activities hosted by Refuge Yoga in 2026. This form must be completed entirely before the start of any in-person or online event or yoga session, public or private. Be assured, your personal information remains private with me. I...

02/18/2026

In case I ever forget to say this.

02/18/2026

I wanted to share this with you, my much loved students, on this Ash Wednesday ❤️

In a time when so much is crumbling, is burning, I don’t want to romanticize the ashes that come with destruction and devastation. As we approach Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, I do want to keep asking what the Holy One can do with dust, and to keep looking for how I can be part of that. So many blessings to you, beloved ones, as the new season arrives.

BLESSING THE DUST

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “Ash Wednesday Cross”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

02/13/2026

Lent starts on Wednesday , February 18. I'm reading the plan 'Lent 2026 | Guided Journey to Matthew & Psalms'. Check it out here:

Celebrate Lent with a powerful forty-day journey following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, with traditional Lenten Psalms each Sunday. The story comes alive each day as Through the Word’s ten-minute audio guides walk you through each chapter with clear explanation and engaging storytelling. F...

01/18/2026

I (Brenda) will be unavailable to teach 2/24-4/24. Please note, my amazing sub, Cheri, will teach 2/25, 3/4, 3/25, 4/8, and 4/22.

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01/18/2026

There is no yoga this week, 1/21. I will be out of town helping family members. I will see you all on 1/28!!

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01/08/2026

This happened the other day at my gym and I thought everyone was being a little silly. I thought this is a person that I’ve never learned from before and I’m sure she has something to teach me and she did in fact teach me that very basic Yoga has value. She had no fancy transitions and she’s clearly been doing this a very long time. She’s comfortable in the foundational practice and it was lovely.

01/08/2026

01/06/2026

Time to break up some concrete. See you all Wednesday!

01/04/2026