Our Community Needs Yoga.

Dear Friends,

It’s finally happening. We will have our first class at Shine on Sunday, June 11th, at 10:30 am. It has been a long journey for all of us.

I have had to practice yoga more in this year and a half than ever before. Santosha, or contentment, above everything else. Month after month, we all waited, but there was absolutley nothing we could do. No amount of arguing, no amount of wishing, no amount of pushing wildly forward could change the fact that I needed to wait. This big, beautiful house was on its own schedule and my will couldn’t change that.

I have gained a great deal of perspective over this time and have used all of yoga’s tools everyday to be ok.

I’ve been reminded of how deeply I love the sweetness our studio created for people, the beauty of supporting my teachers’ growth, the presciousness of being responsible for the nurturing of our community, and the gift that is teaching for me.

I’ve heard from so many of you that your life is harder, lonelier, less joyful without Shine. I’ve heard how you are suffering. Some in body, some in mind, some in heart.

This is not an easy time living in our world. My goal with this evolution of Shine is to make it easier for you.

Shine is different on the other side of this. It’s smaller. It’s more dedicated to all the tools that yoga gives students, not just the physical practice. It’s focused even more on supporting the vulnerability of us all, along with courage and joy.

Shine is also the same on the other side of this. It’s a place, as always, where you can let go of your world and feel safe and loved. We continue to take the responsibility of sharing yoga with you as something vital. We continue to be, as one student put it to me recently, light bearers for you. We continue to learn voraciously and pass that knowledge on to you.

Welcome home. I can’t wait to begin again with you.