Equipose Yoga Studio

05/04/2026

Dear Yogis:

So tonight I take a different direction! I was very moved by my reading of Vaclav Havel's 1985 essay Disturbing the Peace, from which I took most of the thoughts below.

First, a little background on Havel. You may know his renown work in Theater of the Absurd, but his role as a global symbol of moral resistance against totalitarianism is the focus of this piece. He was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic or Czechia, including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (1993-2003), which reemerged as a democratic country after forty years of Communist rule. Havel was born into a wealthy family which was persecuted as bourgeois by the Communists. Although barred from higher education by the Communists, Havel finished his schooling and is considered one of the great intellectuals of the 20th Century. He spent five years in prison for his human rights manifesto which argued that citizens could dismantle a "system based on lies" by choosing to "live in truth." He spearheaded the non-violent Velvet Revolution in 1989, later that year becoming Czechoslovakia's unanimously elected democratic president. He oversaw the country's transition to a free-market democracy and its entry into NATO.

He argued that the fundamental struggles under totalitarianism were moral rather than political. He further believed that even small acts of truthfulness could undermine an entire oppressive system. He championed a "civil society," one in which independent organizations and active citizens, rather than political parties, hold power accountable. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003), Amnesty International's First Ambassador of Conscience Award (2003), and The Ghandi Peace Prize (2003).

Havel defined hope not as optimism that things will turn out well, but as the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. He emphasizes that hope is a state of mind, an orientation of the heart, and a "lifeline of sanity" anchored beyond immediate, dire circumstances. " Hope is the conviction that some things are worth doing, no matter how they turn out." " Hope is an internal decision, a dimension of the soul, rather than a reflection of the external world's state." "True hope is found in performing hopeless tasks, which provides the strength to live with dignity...." The roots of hope connect to a deeper human experience of responsibility and respect for something beyond oneself.

I hope Vaclav's words give you hope. It was very intentional that I choose Havel's picture above which the Dalai Lama because his yogic teachings have always been about hope, service and responsibility, and he, too, has suffered greatly under totalitarian rule.

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase Multi-Class and Unlimited Monthly passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

04/29/2026

Hi Lee!

I hope all is well!

My friend Regina and I used to come to your Friday class until she moved to Mississippi for her husband’s job and then I spontaneously moved to Houston. I did try and pop in on a Friday class before I left, but the studio was closed. I am sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye to you in person.

I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you and your wonderful instruction. You changed how I was able to breathe, recover, and take care of my mind & body with yoga. I talk about you often with others and encourage them to find an instructor with your understanding of anatomy and passion for yoga! You teach in a safe way that allows us to meet our body where it currently is at and how to progress by strengthening ourselves for the maximum benefits of yoga. There are not many teachers that will come and correct form to ensure you are actually learning and gaining from each pose.

With that said, there is no one quite like you (as you should already know 🙂) so I have decided to take an instructors course and will keep learning, practicing, and honing my skills to help others like you! You have been a light for all yogis that have had the opportunity to work with you. Who would have guessed that a chance drop in of your Friday class would change the trajectory of my life. Thank you so much for helping me find something I’m passionate about!

Many Blessings to you!

Jennifer Barrington

04/27/2026

Dear Yogis:

A short review this week about the importance of fascial release or stretching. Yin or sustained holding of a stretch is to address deeper layers of myofascial tissue within the muscles. Ball therapy is to break up unhealthy sticky spots that are actually dehydrated collagen knots, probably caused by not doing that sustained stretching! The image above gives you an idea of the massiveness of the body's fascial network. Your ability to stretch and contract your muscles depends on the condition of the fascia that surrounds them. Healthy fascia makes sure your muscles don't stretch to the point of injury or contract too tightly for too long. If you don't take care of fascia, it hardens around your muscles, preventing them from stretching and then keeping them in a contracted, often painful state.

When muscles are tight, the fascia forms tiny balls of collagen called adhesions. These adhesions, because the layers of fascia have lost their slide and glide, cause sticking to other tissues, resulting in misalignment and restricted motion. Chronically tense muscles cannot relax, and the soreness and often muscle spasms can be debilitating.

The next Ball Therapy Workshop is May 2. Text me if you plan to attend!

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes here.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

04/20/2026

Dear Yogis:

Thanks to the development of SQID, Super Conducting Quantum Interference Devices, we have knowledge confirmed about the immense power of our body's electro-magnetic field. We know that electrical charges travel through the neural pathways or nerves of the body like electrical wires creating an electro-magnetic field which extends from 3 to 6 feet all around the body.

Our 50 trillion cells are bathed in consistently fluctuating invisible magnetic forces which are affected by the quality of our thoughts and feelings and then carried out into that 3-to-6-foot aura
surrounding us. This field connects us to others' cells and theirs to us. Bruce Lipton pioneered this work and called it epigenetics, the theory that our thoughts affect us at a cellular level. He wrote about this in his article "Chaos to Coherence."

Our magnetic waveforms, if they are in "sync" or operating in harmony, are in coherence, which occurs when two waveforms come together. Very simply, a waveform represents the electrical activity of the heart. When the heart and the brain are in coherence, as in a meditative state, there is well-being or harmony. People in coherence are more sensitive and resistant to negative fields of energy in others. Fear manifests as stress, which has been shown to cause approximately 90% of illnesses because stress is like a resistor in the electrical flow in the body, sometimes referred to as "the virus of thought.'

If lightning bolts can emit one billion photons of light energy and each of our 50 trillion cells can emit .07 positive volts, then we can harness 3.5 trillion volts or 3,500 times the electrical energy of lightning! This is power to HEAL. The human heart has been recorded to emit as much as 100,000 photons of light per second. That is a frequency or vibration that can transform negative events, change matter, and send light and love.

Sting and I highly recommend:
Levy, Paul. The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (Select Books),2018.

Ball therapy May 2!

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes here.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

04/10/2026

Dear Yogis:

I am borrowing words and wisdom again this week, this time from Rebecca Solnit, noted author, activist, and environmentalist. I thought Easter Sunday was a good time to offer hopeful words to ponder. (Yes, I know that is a dragonfly, not a mayfly in the picture, but it was the best I could do. Dragonflies get more photo opts than the lowly mayfly).

A tortoise knows it takes time for change to reveal itself; it watches "the slow journey of ideas...seeing what is invisible" (Solnit, 35). The mayfly has a short-term view "which breeds defeatism and despair" (33). Because the genealogies and evolutions, trajectories and historical records are "often left out of the news, we cannot "see [the] power that emerges from below and ideas that move from the margins to the center" (33).

Solnit offers some really powerful examples of extraordinary change that was not visible. She writes about The Occupy Wall Street uprising in 2011. Many "crushed by debt and decrying the systems that crushed them" evolved into the Biden Administration's 2023 announcement of student loan relief. The mayflies said that the uprising was a failure in 2011 when an Occupy protest in Lower Manhattan was broken up by police. Later in 2012, The Debt Collective was organized to abolish housing, medical and educational debt. To date, Federal law has forgiven over 2 billion dollars in student loans. The tortoises/activists had made student debt a public issue and a part of Biden's campaign platform.

In 2020, after 31 years of organizing, a coalition of Native American Nevadan ranchers and other rural people created The Great Basin Water Network to defeat Las Vegas's attempt "to exact 58 billion gallons of water annually" from arid eastern Nevada, one of the driest places on the continent. Wildlife and rural communities would have been decimated without those tortoises!

The student-led movement to get Harvard University "to divest from fossil fuels" took ten years to reach victory in 2021.

The New Deal's "epic tree-planting program" helped stop the erosion that caused The Dust Bowl. BUT "70 is young for a tree" (37).

It's increasingly difficult to take a tortoise view of things with trampled human rights, science ignored, The Constitution at risk, and Truth be damned, but as my friend Marie so profoundly stated, "You can't see the mountain from the mountain." Blessings and a long view for our future on this spring day.

Solnit, Rebecca. No Straight Road Takes You There (Chicago, Illinois, Haymarket Books), 2025.

Kundalini continues each Sat. at 10 am, except the first Saturday of the month. The fee is $25. The next ball therapy session is the first Saturday in May.

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes here.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

03/30/2026

Dear Yogis:

I am sharing some thoughts from my Yin teacher this week. They seem appropriate, even necessary, at his time in our troubled world.

“As the winter swallows its tail of snow and frozen wind, we begin again our endless study of the watercourse way. Snow melts and the streams swell without effort. Sap runs up and down the trees as their buds begin to breathe with the promise of more space in a Spring wind. Birds return with great effort, and yet without pride. They sing simply as an expression of this day.

May we participate in this beauty however our life allows.

In this way may our yoga practices continue to turn towards the way the stories of nature unfold in our lives, and in our own bodies. May we gather in our classes again this season, with the fragility and fertility of our own unique path, and the power of acceptance.

May we gather in this peace during the world's troubled times,and find new gravity in our hearts.”

Blessings, and great gratitude to Biff Mithoefer for these words

Kundalini continues each Sat. at 10 am, except the first Saturday of the month. The fee is $25. The next ball therapy session is the first Saturday in April, so register soon to reserve your spot.

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase 5-Class, 10-Class and Unlimited Monthly Passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props