Tag: fitness

  • A Sanctuary in Stillness: Restorative Yoga for Holiday Stress

    A Sanctuary in Stillness: Restorative Yoga for Holiday Stress

    My love, The holidays arrive like a glittering storm — all tinsel and tenderness, expectation and exhaustion. There is beauty in this season, yes. Connection. Celebration. But also… noise. Planning. Pleasing. Performing. And somewhere in the middle of all that, the body begins to brace. The breath shallows. The shoulders lift. The nervous system starts…

  • Held: Yin Yoga for the Lower Back

    Held: Yin Yoga for the Lower Back

    My love, There is a part of you that’s been holding too much. It doesn’t speak loudly. It doesn’t demand.It just stays — clenched, compressed, quietly bearing the weight of everything you’ve carried. Your lower back is not just structure.It is memory. It is survival. It is the part of you that bends without breaking…

  • This Is Still Yoga: A Note to the Practice You’ve Been Living All Along

    This Is Still Yoga: A Note to the Practice You’ve Been Living All Along

    My love, This may not look like yoga. There is no chaturanga.No playlist telling you to flow faster.No timer counting down the seconds until you’re enough. There is only breath.Stillness.A quiet pause.The long exhale after years of holding it all in. But make no mistake — this is still yoga. Not the yoga of mirrors…