Month: November 2017

Getting Schooled

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I found myself on a beautiful crisp fall day with Julia Coney, a wise and joyous yogi and woman of the world.  She helped me start to unpack what true belonging in a yoga community would mean.  What would it look like and feel like if everyone regardless of income, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, body type or physical ability felt that they truly belonged? What will it take? How will it come into being?  Who will be there?

After lunch, I found myself with a list of people and places to visit to continue my schooling — places that are vibrant, new, creative, inclusive.  Thank you, Julia.

All My Yoga Peeps

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What if the entire DC Metro Region was your yoga community?  What if you felt like you — the unique body, heart and soul that is you —  felt at home stepping into a new place to practice yoga?  That you weren’t just invited, not just welcomed, but that you really, really already belonged?

We all have our own yoga DNA from our studios, our teachers, and training…but we are also yoked by common threads.  We long to create connection. We desire to practice compassion for self and others, to honor the lineage and all the creative, vibrant expressions of the practice in the world. Our yoga peeps are all over this city, this region, this country, the world.

In August of 2017, my creative impulses were called away from the canvas and the pen and notebook by change.  This change wasn’t theoretical — it was really, really real.  My home yoga studio changed hands.  And with that change, I took a look around to see that landscape of the local yoga scene had been changing all along.

So, I did what I do every time I felt lost.  I got on with the business of finding myself here and now, connecting with self and others.  And I found the most amazing vision for our big community of yoga peeps and we worked to make this vision a reality.  Please see where we’ve been together at Yoga=Union.  Want to belong?  You are more than welcome and invited.  In fact, you belong already.

Join me in this adventure.