Modern Yoga Talks

What does progress in yoga actually look like beyond flexibility, advanced poses, and physical achievement? Jules explores growth through asana, strength and mobility, breathwork, meditation, yoga philosophy, spiritual practice, and the different seasons our yoga practice moves through as our bodies and lives change.

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Choosing yourself doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes it’s resting before exhaustion, saying no before resentment builds, or letting someone be disappointed without abandoning yourself to make them comfortable.

This Sunday Reset is a meditation on grounded self-love, boundaries, and learning to choose yourself without apology, while still being loving, generous, and kind.

Yoga is a practice. The yoga industry is a business. And those are not the same thing.

Jules talks about the unpaid labor yoga teachers are often expected to absorb; checking students in, cleaning, promoting classes, growing attendance, and doing work beyond the hour they’re actually paid to teach - and why calling that “Karma Yoga” deserves a much closer look.

Service can be freely offered. Labor can still have value. And you can practice Karma Yoga and still send an invoice.

For the next few minutes, nothing needs to be solved.

This Sunday Reset is an invitation to step away from the urgency to fix, understand, decide, or accomplish; and give yourself enough space to feel your breath, your heart, and yourself again.

Some things need time. Some things need distance. Some things simply need quiet.

A feeling can be completely real and still not be an instruction.

Jules talks about the difference between listening to what we feel and immediately acting on it—anger, fear, missing someone, overwhelm, and the uncomfortable space between reaction and clarity.

Sometimes the question isn’t “What should I do?” Maybe it’s simply: “Is this information… or is this instruction?”

What if being a better yoga teacher doesn’t mean correcting more?

Jules talks about alignment, intervention, student autonomy, and why some of the most important teaching happens when we notice something, and decide to leave it alone.

Good teaching isn’t about manufacturing identical bodies in identical shapes. Sometimes it’s about helping students understand their own bodies well enough to make a choice.

Sometimes we think closure is one more conversation, one more explanation, or one more chance to finally make sense of what happened.

Jules talks about the uncomfortable reality that the person who confused you may not be the person who can give you clarity, and how searching for closure can sometimes become another way of staying connected.

Maybe closure isn’t getting the perfect ending. Maybe it’s realizing you don’t have to keep standing in the doorway.

Why is it so hard to rest without feeling like we should be doing something?

Jules talks about productivity, exhaustion, the strange need to earn our rest, and what happens when being really good at functioning keeps us from noticing we’re depleted.

Maybe the question isn’t, “Can I keep going?” Maybe it’s, “Do I actually have the capacity for this?”

What if starting over isn't actually the problem?

Jules talks about commitment, leaving before things can hurt, staying until there's nothing left, and becoming so good at rebuilding that sometimes we forget we don't have to wait for everything to fall apart first.

Maybe progress isn't never finding yourself in the same place again. Maybe it's recognizing it sooner.

What if beginning again doesn’t mean going back to zero?

Modern Yoga Talks is back—but not by trying to recreate what it used to be.

In this episode, Jules talks about her own pattern of starting, leaving, rebuilding, and learning that being good at beginning again isn’t always the same thing as knowing when to leave. She explores the difference between failure and change, why old patterns can return even after we understand them, and what yoga teaches us about the practice of returning.

Maybe progress isn’t never finding yourself in the same place.

Maybe progress is recognizing it sooner.

If there’s something in your life you’ve been telling yourself you have to “start over,” this conversation is an invitation to look at it differently.

You don’t have to erase what came before.

You can begin from where you actually are.

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