Developing a Home Yoga Practice

Nov 3

Home Practice

If you're really like me, you have monthly passes to amazing boutique gyms, athletic clubs, and top notch yoga studios but STILL want to use your downtime to chill at home like the homebody you are.

If you're really, really like me, you are a low-key introverted loner and over-excitable extrovert who loves people and teaches 10+ fitness classes around Columbus to rooms of many inspiring and hard-working students.

Boiled down: I get my fix of socialization regularly. My me-time is just that: for me.

As an only-child and bookworm who adores squirreling away in my office for hours and hours on end working on projects for clients and Peace to the People, my path to living a true yoga (self-realization) journey involves me doing my own practices on my own time, when it works best for me.

And in this spirit of self-love and convenient self-care, I hope that my online classes eventually benefit thousands of people just like me: ordinary, working people with dreams and passions and real-world everyday life to deal with.

Click here to access my free eBook on Developing + Sustaining a Home Yoga Practice

Not all forms and philosophies of yoga are alike, clearly. With a personal emphasis on iRest Yoga Nidra, meditation, vinyasa yoga, and restorative yoga, I teach with fluidity and an emphasis on mindfulness.
There are teachers who teach you the exact opposite: wake up most every single day—early! Do a strenuous ass practice—the same one! Challenge yourself! Push through your pain!
Not my style. To each, their own.
Our modern lives are often already filled with a LOT of pressure, stress, and feelings of overwhelm. Do you personally need MORE pressure and intensity in your life? Or seriously, using some extraordinarily common sense… do you occassionally need to intentially incorporate the exact opposite into your life?
Though you might not initially feel like you are “doing anything” click here, here, and here to access more information about the mindblowing benefits of slowing down and simply being.
Activating this side of the nervous system is not only incredibly nourishing, but also has a long, long, LONG list of major benefits to your health and wellness.
So anyway, in my teaching and practice, I advocate first: trusting YOURSELF. There are lots of people with forceful or intimidating claims letting you know how you SHOULD be.
We are already whole. Even with all our quirks and imperfections, I promise you—we are all enough, exactly the way we are.
Of course we can continually work on being our best selves, but imagine the peace and power you could tap into if you appreciated with gratitude where you are RIGHT NOW while working towards where you’d like to be.
So anyway, if you are looking to develop a home yoga practice, many studio owner might get ticked for me to let you on one of the biggest secrets, but… this really can be COMPLETELY free. Once you know a bit about mindfulness, a few simple breath techniques, the intricacies of some helpful poses, a common sense way of sequencing the poses… ok, you might want a LITTLE guidance if you’re a total newbie (in which case, feel free to sign up anytime to access my free library of at-home yoga practices here!) Otherwise, going to community classes is AWESOME. I’m a teacher after all, and teach many weekly classes around Columbus, Ohio. You can’t replicate at home practicing with a group of people, lying still and silent in a room full of breathing beings, and reawakening the body and breath in a haze of palapable yoga bliss in a room of a bunch of other people who shared in the same experience with you… being in community is a gift on its own, truly.
However, yoga (as much as modern culture may have sold out to the max) is NOT about your expensive-ass yoga pants and your over-the-top accessories. Cool $50 yoga bottle, bruh. Neato, gang. But seriously: this practice is about SELF-INQUIRY, aligning with your deepest desires, your body, your breath, your very sense of being.
You don’t need any fancy equipment, any expensive memberships, anybody other than YOU to access this place of inner peace.