MARCH!!! We have made it!

🧘‍♀️ Class This Week

✨ Thursday, March 5th at 5:30 PM
📍 Fewell Park Recreation Center

My yoga sister Sue, from Yoga Bebe will be subbing for me this week! Please come out and join her for class. I will be celebrating my art students’ success at their district show reception. I'm so proud of them!

No need to miss me too much though, I’ll be back on the mat this Saturday!

✨ Saturday, March 7th at 11:00 AM
📍 Northside Recreation Center

If y’all haven’t made it out to a Saturday class yet… here is your chance! There’s a call for good weather this weekend, and what better way to start the day than with movement and community?

🌿 This Week’s Yogi Inspiration

I want to be honest this week.

I have been feeling overwhelmed and stressed lately. Work has been demanding. I am in the thick of planning our big annual art show while trying to balance work and life. There is always someone who needs something... a student to support, a colleague to collaborate with, my family, myself. Sometimes it feels like I always have to be “on.”

This week I felt those familiar tinges of anxiety deep in my chest. The beginning flutters of a panic attack that, thankfully, did not rise to the surface.

It has been two years since I have had a full panic attack. And it is not lost on me that around that same time, I began my yoga teacher training and committed more deeply to my yoga practice.

Coincidence? I think not!

I remember my first therapy appointments years ago and learning about four-count square breathing. What a gift it is now to have the knowledge of my breath and movement to help manage anxiety.

If you need it this week, try this simple practice:

Inhale for 4
Hold for 4
Exhale for 4
Hold for 4

Repeat that cycle a few times. Slow. Steady. Controlled.

Practicing yoga does not just mean rolling out your mat for an hour. It means using your breath in the middle of a busy hallway. It means pausing when you feel like you are losing air. It means remembering that you have tools.

Until we take our last breath, we will always have this one.

I am so thankful for this practice to return to. And even more thankful for our Thursday community. You all keep me motivated, committed, and accountable.

It makes me wonder, what changes when you pause long enough to take one steady breath?

Whatever you may be working through, remember that at the end of the day we always have our breath. Let us honor our minds, bodies, and spirits in the best ways we know how.

📸 Photos of the Week

Two moments I am so thankful for this week! First up, virtual yoga in my PJ's thanks to my hubby encouraging me to go back to what I know. Then asking some of my dedicated students to help our with show prep, and blowing me away with their talent! Reminds me why I put myself through this crazy time!

Grateful for you all.

Hope to see you Thursday with Sue, and Saturday with me 🤍

-Sarah