Underground Yoga ॐ

04/18/2026

Out of 15 fortune cookies, I was handed this one. 🥠🥡🥢🫶🏽

04/11/2026

This Goddess made it back home safely stepping out first... knowing she holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
The photo of her braid immediately took me to divine motherhood… the imagery representative of the umbilical cord that gives life within… and the root system the gives life from beneath Earth’s surface…
The ship aptly named Artemis, goddess of the moon, protector of women and children... carrying four outstanding, kind souls to explore outer worldly places… all now safe returning from her journey.
With all the darkness that surrounds the world lately, how lucky we are to be alive to witness what no woman has done before, what many women have sacrificed to make this happen over the last 50+ decades, and the women we lost pursuing this very dream that became a reality today for us all through the brilliance and bravery of Astronaut and practicing Yogi, Christina Koch.
🚀🪷🌖

03/29/2026

Your body adapts to what you do with it the most.
Same as our mind.
Keep doom scrolling, and guess what?
My daughter does something she calls “hope scrolling” and it’s exactly as it sounds.
We need to take accountability for our algorithms.
We build them ourselves, brick by brick.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you can unfollow the pages and people that post things you can get from media sources ON YOUR TERMS.
Meaning… set aside a specific time in your day or play catch-up at some point on your time off or days off and go in. And not a time of day you’re feeling particularly squeezed.
Maybe even set a timer!
Don’t go in without an escape plan.
That how we get sucked up and sucked in.
It’s just like planning a vacation or road trip-we need to plan.
Same for safely scrolling.
Plan for the pages you want to see, that bring joy to your soul and over time, you’ll be seeing more recipes, kitties & puppies, crocheting, scientific discoveries-what ever you fancy. Whatever your jam.
Just like your home…
If you built your algo, you can re-build it, too! At the very least-build an extension.
If you must keep your doom & gloom feed,try a balance seeking out pages on things that make you happy-and overtime your algo will insert the joyful clips in between your need to “stay informed”.
No need to ruminate every minute of every day on the fires we alone can not extinguish.
Making changes is not ignoring what’s happening around us, we’re protecting our peace so we can function and think clearly.
It’s taking charge of what enters into your most sacred of spaces.
We are better equipt to put out little fires in our own lives if we discern what is logistically and realistically within our control and, what isn’t.
Otherwise we’re no good to anyone, let alone ourselves.
And post. Add positivity into the word.
A flower. A tree. A squirrel, a bird, your pet.
Your morning coffee that you sat with quietly that hit just right.
And finally, gratitude.
What you are grateful for in this moment.
Breath.
Someone in your past that helped form who you are today.
The kind word from a stranger at the supermarket.
Your health.
Something… the car started. Food in the fridge. Anything.
Start hope scrolling your inner dialogue.
Expose yourself to hope.
We’d like to think the world is watching out for us, but in reality, we are doing the watching these days and it’s too great a burden to shoulder in isolation of our own thoughts.
The Universe will find balance, yes I believe this but, it’s up to us to seek balance within.
Participate in your own peace.
Never too late to start to change course.
Never too late to give other perspectives a go.
You might surprise yourself.
And deep gratitude to my daughter Katia for helping me see things again for the first time with a fresh perspective.

03/11/2026

I might be aging myself but, I grew up watching Jack LaLanne and yes, the first American lady of Yoga, Lilias Folan!
I was just a kid but I watched, riveted!
Maybe that’s when the seed was planted.
Fun fact: It was because of the road Lilias paved, the “Red Hat Ladies” all over eastern Pennsylvania would seek me out as Lilias was their first Yoga teacher and the referrals rolled in!! I still have keys to at least a dozen church basements and halls because they refused to take them back.
What a life we lead because of the Goddesses that come before us.
Humbled.
It is with loving hearts the Yoga community at large bids Yogi Lilias a peaceful transition.
Often referred to as the Julia Child of Yoga, she became a household name since we watched her TV show that began on PBS since 1972!
Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya Om…
May her soul be led from darkness to light and from death to immortality. 🙏🏽📿
Thank you, Teacher.

02/15/2026

They were welcomed home👣🐾 🙏🏽📿

02/10/2026

They made it. 🥹🫶🏽📿

Today marks a historic milestone—Day 108 - 2/10/2026! We have finally arrived at our final destination, Washington, DC. During the Interfaith Ceremony at the beautiful Washington National Cathedral, Aloka sat right in the middle of it all. He seemed so calm and dedicated, staying faithfully beside the venerable monks as he has done for every mile of this journey. It’s as if he knew exactly how special this moment was!

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

02/05/2026

Visibility can be perceived as danger.
This, we learned early on.
Being seen vs being judged.
Don’t make yourself small to avoid criticism.
Because… WHOSE criticism??
Take up space. You deserve to exist.
Be sensitive. Be loud. Say the things.
Say, “no more”!
Be done with things.
Leave yourself open.
Be in charge of all the expirations.
Get started on *whatever* unabashedly.
BE TOO MUCH.
Say what’s on your mind.
Cut ties. Make new ones.
Serve.
There’s no timeline on healing.
There’s no expiration for grief.
There’s certainly no rules to self-study.
BE VISIBLE.
Close the curtains.
Be emotionally naked to the person staring back at you from the mirror.
How long someone has been in your life has no bearing on how long they deserve to remain so.
Flow.
Float.
Rest.
But what ever it is, do you FOR you.
Gone are the timelines according to others.
You are in more control than the brain allows us to realize.
THIS, is freedom.
How does the song go…?
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
We’ll be judged no matter what.
So, just live.
It’s your house. Your rules.
Gate-keep the heck out of your peace.

01/26/2026

What I love is anyone I’ve been blessed to have in class is abundantly clear on what it means to live a meditators lifestyle… to live honoring Yogic principles according to being a good human as well as the Yoga Sutras according to Pantanjali.
Enjoy this validating post:

01/23/2026

A little inspiration this Friday pre-apocalyptic snow weekend! I laughed, I cried. Enjoy this funny human that could be any one of us…

01/13/2026

Here’s a little palate cleanser for you day… 🐾
Remember… is not why you got to you mat… it’s what keeps you going to your mat. 🫶🏽
Enjoy…

12/24/2025

And oldie but a goodie.
Sending big love to all! This time of year can be especially rough on some of us and I want you to know I feel it, too. We might be missing someone, something-like a paticular job, a pet, and we might be missing ourselves, too… maybe melancholy for a different time.
All normal.
Yoga isn’t teaching us to ignore our feelings, it teaches us all feelings are valid. We’re just not meant to take on too much emotional load and to be honest with the signs of unrest and ask for a little support, maybe some help from a neutral person in your life… and… listen to your gut-it’s rarely ever wrong.
Most importantly, you’re not alone.
Warm thoughts to each of you. xo