Om Old Orchard

07/18/2025

Let this picture of Jules eating key lime pie serve as your official invitation to Prayer with Our Ancestor this Sunday, 7/20, 11:30a

It’s also Jules’ birthday week!! Happy early birthday, .inspired!!!

06/20/2025

It's Summer Solstice Eve!

Stronger body, calmer nerves, clearer purpose. Join OM Old Orchard for a week of Summer Solstice practices, including chanting, restorative yoga, Ayurveda, and reflection. Sign up for Glenna’s brunch to receive your Seasonal Tips or for a Seasonal Blessing from Erin Ford.

06/12/2025

Where might you be in three months if you said yes?

This is one of my favorite pictures from St. Croix—even though I had arrived and my luggage did not. I was walking around the Caribbean in a polyester, non-breathable travel tank, still in socks and shoes.

BUT - it marked the beginning of a beginning.
A chapter that wouldn’t have started if I hadn’t said yes to an invitation to teach in the USVI.

That chapter continues this summer as I invite you to say yes.

Yes to strengthening your body.
Yes to nourishing your nervous system.
Yes to coming into rhythm.
Yes to connecting beyond—through your gifts and with your breath.

This summer is designed to be fun, informational, and supportive of you living your absolute best life. And it all officially starts on 6/22 at our Summer Ayurvedic Brunch with small groups launching on the auspicious new moon on 6/25.

Saying yes brought me into experiences, friendships, and purpose.

Where will it take you?

Stock up on credits tonight before our summer season sale ends at midnight and then go sign up for the program that will take you where you want to go ✨✨✨

06/08/2025

A big thank you to for the yin + meditation + mantra w/ guitar. You’re a blessing and we are grateful for the nourishing practice today ✨🫶🏼❤️

06/01/2025

✨This is both a reflection and an announcement ✨

Our inaugural St. Croix group (yes, we are going back), woke early on our last morning all together to take an open air trolley to Pt. Udall: the furthest most eastern point in the island and place of the first sunrise of the United States.

It’s safe to say that this morning proved meaningful on a level maybe nobody expected.

The silence as we waited for something we knew but that would also show up new.

There were soft tears as we felt what connected us to the sky and to the people who have come before us, or who left us too early.

As the sun rose, it was celebratory. More pictures, the silence broke and there were greetings… it was only right to properly greet the sun. We flowed through both the QiGong Greeting of the Sun and some half Sun Salutations…

Honoring this full circle of day and night… again, a marker in nature that brings us back to OM - to the full circle of life and the sound we make to honor that what taught our ancestors and will teach our descendants -

Completely in awe of the author of creation - thou that made the trees - for all we saw and all that laid beneath the oceans surface -

It’s in this that I find unique charge in announcing a new offer at OM: the OM Creative Circle.

Is it time in the studio to work on projects and connect? Yes, sure of course it is.

But it’s also time to connect the idea that you create just as the author of creation creates - share stories - and feel the power of making as more than a hobby but a unique expression of the divine through YOU.

Starting Sundays, June 8th 3:30p - 4:30p
See you there 🫶🏼❤️✨

05/29/2025

What is a “yoga vacation”?

When I accepted the invitation to bring The Stillness Practices™ down to St. Croix, I thought it might be fun—definitely fun—to open the trip up and let a few folks crash my Airbnb and hang out.

What I thought would be 2 or 3 people quickly turned into about 12… so we rented a bed and breakfast and opened the doors to more.

We had people celebrating graduations, birthdays, and big life milestones. Writers and photographers. Free spirits and executives. Some journaled while others snorkeled. Some snorkeled instead of vinyasa, and some skipped vinyasa entirely and opted only for the naps I taught in the afternoons (yoga nidra).

But every single one of them? Open-minded, incredibly kind, and uniquely able to contribute their own energy, skills, and presence to the moment. Thank you - Sharon, Shelby, Macy, Nora, Eric, Kelly, Laura, Lisa, Beth, Cindy, Linda, Bob, Jimmy, Kathy, Jules, Nicole, Cindy, Rachael, Anthony, Traci, Jamie, and Clara for making this trip exactly what it needed to be ✨🫶🏼🌴🌊🌺

Here we are, capturing our group photos for the Webster Kirkwood Times.

Now the big question:
Which one should we send in?

05/28/2025

Why St. Croix?

I’m home (though I haven’t yet been to OM!), and my heart is still catching up to all I experienced. This inaugural journey to St. Croix was more than a yoga retreat—it was the beginning of a genuine friendship between studios and a living, breathing example of everything I hope The Stillness Practices™ can offer.

At the heart (and soul) of this trip were The Stillness Practices™: a compilation of effective cues for softening, essential philosophies for being present, and creative ways to partner with the breath. Is it restorative yoga teacher training? Yes. We’ve got designing sequencing and a few “party tricks.” (Like this supported crow / floating down the river pose) But more than that, it’s a guide to living a life aligned with presence, listening, and deep care. Linda’s face the first time she saw the booklet represents so much of the support I am thankful for and the reason why OM is such a big deal (it’s the home to these practices!!)

There’s so much I want to share (plus get you excited for summer in Webster!!), but I want to do this experience justice—so I’ll start with a thought that still sits tenderly in my chest: I remember the first time I was given a key to UB (a studio here in STL where I started teaching). It felt like such an honor—to be trusted with a key and to hold space. That feeling returned in St. Croix, when I taught a Friday 5:30 PM restorative class to a room full of open hearts and willing bodies—about 35 souls held in Mariesa’s studio. To say it was touching would be an understatement. I am forever grateful for Mariesa’s love and trust.

Finally, I stepped even more fully into what it means to be a teacher—which, as it turns out, means becoming an even better student. This experience was a sacred exchange of stories, wisdom, presence, and breath. I am better for every person who said yes to this Immersive. They are pictured here - what a beautiful group of people.

I am glad I got the chance to practice .movement in my ball cap and overalls. It was the beginning of a thing.

More soon—there’s so much to say. ✌🏼

02/15/2025

🪷✨JULES APPRECIATION POST✨❤️

Jules has been teaching me so much about connection: to Spirit, to ancestors, to each other. Her willingness to TRY and to GO is inspiring.

She leads our monthly Prayer with Our Ancestor. Join us and expect the unexpected as you open your mind and heart.

Upcoming dates:

🪷 Friday, March 21 @ 7p - Prayer with Ancestors will start our Spring Equinox Retreat at the SLU Lay Center

✨ Wednesday, April 23 @ 6:30p on the Full Moon

🌊 Tuesday, May 20 - Fort Lauderdale, FL

🌴 Sunday, May 25 - St. Croix, U.S.V.I

❤️ Tuesday, May 27 - San Juan, Puerto Rico

Want more info? Message me. Let’s talk!