“There were a lot of times where I might’ve  feel alone, but I always felt like I wasn’t. I had this relationship with my practice and this relationship with myself that was really rich and fulfilling, so I could draw about how lonely was, and then I could be interchanged by my emotions instead of being caught up in them. “

“Because we’re not supposed to love ourselves, that’s not what they want, they want us to be more insecure so we buy more shit.  And so that work we do on the mat and in our self-care practices are a way to take a pause, to say no…. to rework our way of relating to ourselves and each other. “ - Kameko Shibata

Melanie Green talks about the viewing parenting, business, and life through the lens of the Yoga Sutras.

Hormones are everything, that’s how we do everything in our lives, from intimacy to showing up at work, and when we don’t know what’s going on, that’s where we get these defeating feelings of “why am I not performing?”

-Bekah Andrew

“To me, the whole idea of being able to be aware of how your body responds to discomfort is incredibly important in being able to navigate systems of oppression and to be able to dismantle systems of oppression.”

-Dia Penning

“Being a parent is the most advanced yoga pose.”

Find more about Zach, including his best selling books and wonderful podcast at zachbeach.com.

Michelle mentions her latest offering called “Heal”. She says, “Along my healing path, the things that helped me mend my wounds were movement, prayer, writing, and surrounding myself with a community of women who get me. I am bringing together all these pieces and calling our community back together, to HEAL.” To find out more about HEAL and Michelle’s other offerings, go to her website, thepracticeforwomen.com

Simple doesn’t have to be boring. The more I teach the more I realize the most satisfying yoga practice is a simple one but infused with a lot of presence and intention and breathing. 

“Intuition took a lot of work, it wasn’t just innate.  It takes trusting yourself. I think we all have this ability and it really depends on the work we’re doing to tap  into it and to trust it because lot of us have intuitions, but we talk ourselves out of it. Speaking from my experience, When you do the work, to tap into intuition,  it opens up so many doors, and now I fully trust myself.”