Join us on the virtual stoop! Today I talk about planning, those of us that identify as the "planners", how impossible that is right now, anticipatory anxiety and how to work with what we're feeling when we can't plan for shit right now. Then, of course, we sit and do a very IN THE NOW koshas meditation. I also announce a new address for my online, on demand classes: ginayoga.com Love you neighbors! Share with someone who needs to hear it. May it be of benefit.

While it's probably the least April Foolsy feeling April Fools Day ever, I wear my bathrobe hoodie (I see you Lebowski) and talk about Hasya, one of the Tantric Nava Rasas or 9 emotional essences. It is one of the 9 "flavors" of human emotion and one we don't want to forget, even in the toughest times. Engaging in the humor of being human keeps us from drying out! I also talk about random hats as tools to keep silly alive and, of course, we sit together in Kosha Meditation. May it be of benefit!

Today I talk about why I'm wearing an enormous Burton sweatshirt from 1993 and why I'll never get rid of it. What snowboarding taught me about my ego and expanding my shame threshold to stay with the things I really want and believe in. The transcendence of the conditioned patterns of our ego is WHAT YOGA IS ALL ABOUT! Consistency gives more than it asks for! Keep your stories close y'all. Short calming pranayama followed by our koshas meditation! May it be of benefit.

It's a no BS Monday in the neighborhood! I talk about how we can work with the news that we'll be social distancing for another month and that we're more prepared for this than we believe. "Reverend" Gina is in the house today!! Then we go into a calm-inducing pranayama right into our koshas meditation. May it be of benefit.

It's Sunday! I sing the chorus of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and the moment my world expanded at U2 in Oakland in 1987 on the Joshua Tree tour. We have a moment of silent gratitude for the healthcare professionals that are having to heal people physically and hold space for their intense emotions. And for the decision makers right now, everywhere. I read Jalal Ad-Din Rumi's poem The Guest House and talk about shifting perspective from something being done TO us, to an invitation to grow, evolve, adapt. Suffering is always the catalyst for change on our evolutionary journeys. Let's do it so we can hold space for others when they come off the line. Then we do our daily koshas meditation. May it be of benefit neighbors!

I say hi to as many neighbors as I can today, sing Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting by Elton John, I talk about my theory of your preferred way of dressing being from the period of your life when you were forming your identity, we do some Q&A about music and meditation and teaching and then go into our Koshas Meditation! May it be of benefit!

Today we sing a little Friday I'm In Love by the Cure, talk about wearing hoodies from schools you didn't go to, rank our friends based on who you would call to break you out of jail and then I riff on how to hold space for your feelings and inquire into what they're trying to tell you based on the koshas model of consciousness. Then, our daily koshas meditation! May it be of benefit!

New hoodie alert! And I talk about waning enthusiasm for "workability" and the importance of having Reliable Ritual Resources at the Ready for when you start to mentally and energetically dip. We're unlikely to make them up in the peak of panic so good to know thyself and have them on hand and turn to them, consistently, over and over and over. Then I offer one I just created based on the 5 senses coping technique - 5 movements of prana, 4 4-count breaths, 3 things you're grateful for, 2 things you've learned and 1 person you're sending love to in this moment. Then we do our kosha meditation. May it be of benefit!

I did a takeover of Wanderlust's Instagram today and offered a little talk, a Yogafied coping practice 5-4-3-2-1 to discharge stress and get energy moving more intentionally again and, of course, our daily koshas meditation! Special thanks to all the neighbors from here who showed up there - I SAW YOU and it meant the world to me!

Today we reminisce about the Oregon Trail game and what it taught us about discerning what is truly important and essential, I read from my email with some questions to help you in making long-game decisions right now and, of course, our beautiful sit together. Thanks neighbors!