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08/13/2026

Yoga has never been interested in separating the practice from the practitioner🧘🏼‍♀️

The way you breathe when challenged.
The way you respond when plans change.
The way you treat people when you’re tired.
The way you hold yourself when no one is watching.

These aren’t separate from your yoga.
They are your yoga.

The mat simply offers a place to notice the patterns that already exist.

Practice isn’t about becoming someone different for an hour each day.

It’s about allowing what you cultivate there to become how you live everywhere else🩷

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self inquiry, self awareness, inner work, presence, yoga philosophy, embodiment, authentic teaching, conscious leadership, personal growth, self reflection, mindful living, inner wisdom

08/13/2026

Before you head to the comments to tell me all about the manipulative people in your life...

Pause.

This post isn’t about them, I t’s about us. Manipulation isn’t always loud, calculated, or malicious. Sometimes it sounds like, “I’m fine,” when you’re hoping someone notices you’re not.
Sometimes it’s saying yes because you want to be liked, then feeling resentful when people believe you.
Sometimes it’s giving the silent treatment because you don’t know how to ask for what you need.
Sometimes it’s crying because you genuinely feel overwhelmed... and hoping it changes someone’s decision.

None of this makes you a bad person.
It makes you a person with patterns.
The goal isn’t to pretend you’ve never manipulated anyone. The goal is to catch yourself sooner.

Own it faster, repair it better…
Because that’s what emotionally intelligent people do.

That’s what embodied communication looks like.

And that’s radical responsibility.

So here’s the question...
What’s one communication pattern you’re actively trying to change?

I’ll go first: I don’t speak up and share my feelings in the moment to be “nice” with the intention of trying to bypass drama, yet usually resulting in double the drama.
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manipulation, radical responsibility, embodied communication, emotional intelligence, self awareness, healthy communication, personal growth, relationships, accountability, nervous system

08/11/2026

Many of us learned how to avoid conflict.

How to people-please.
How to hint instead of ask.
How to stay quiet instead of speaking honestly.

Very few of us were actually taught how to communicate.

Yoga reminds us that truthfulness isn’t simply about telling the truth. It’s about expressing ourselves with honesty, clarity, and compassion🩷

Healthy communication isn’t about winning an argument or always saying the perfect thing.

It’s about creating enough safety that truth can exist in the relationship.

Like any practice, communication develops through repetition.
Not perfection✨

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self inquiry, self awareness, inner work, presence, yoga philosophy, embodiment, authentic teaching, conscious leadership, personal growth, self reflection, mindful living, inner wisdom

08/10/2026

Everyone says they want accountability. Until accountability sounds like...

“Can I give you some feedback?”
Suddenly it’s...
“You’re judging me.”
“You’re attacking me.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“You’re too sensitive.”
“That’s just who I am.”

Here’s the truth...
Accountability isn’t comfortable.
It asks us to sit with the possibility that we contributed to the very thing we’re frustrated by. It asks us to listen instead of defend. To get curious instead of building a case for why we’re right. To repair instead of justify.

That’s not weakness.
That’s emotional maturity.

One of the greatest acts of self-awareness is being able to hear feedback without immediately making someone else wrong, because every difficult conversation is an opportunity.

Not to prove you’re right, to become more conscious.

The people I trust the most aren’t the ones who never make mistakes. They’re the ones who can own them.

That’s radical responsibility.
And that’s embodied communication.

👇 What’s your first reaction when someone gives you feedback: curiosity or defensiveness?
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accountability, radical responsibility, feedback, embodied communication, emotional intelligence, self awareness, communication skills, personal growth, leadership, healthy relationships

08/08/2026

One of the greatest risks in any profession isn’t a lack of knowledge…

It’s believing you’ve outgrown the need to keep learning.

In yoga, the role of the teacher has never been to become the authority. It has been to remain a student🧘🏼‍♀️

The moment we stop questioning, reflecting, receiving feedback, or studying, the ego quietly fills the space where curiosity used to live.

Teaching becomes about protecting identity instead of serving students.

Who is teaching the teacher?
It’s a question every leader should continue asking🩷

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self inquiry, self awareness, inner work, presence, yoga philosophy, embodiment, authentic teaching, conscious leadership, personal growth, self reflection, mindful living, inner wisdom

08/07/2026

The internet has become obsessed with diagnosing everyone else.
“Narcissist.”
“Gaslighter.”
“Toxic.”
“Manipulator.”

I get it, those behaviours absolutely exist, here’s the question I’m more interested in asking...

Where do I do this?

Not because you’re a bad person.
Because you’re a human being.
Most of us learned unhealthy ways of communicating long before we learned healthy ones. We learned to shut down, guilt-trip, avoid conflict, people-please, get defensive, or manipulate situations because, at some point, those behaviours helped us survive.

The problem is that survival strategies don’t always make healthy relationships. This isn’t about shame, it’s about radical responsibility.

Healing doesn’t begin when you become an expert at spotting everyone else’s patterns. It begins the moment you’re willing to own your own.

That’s the work.
That’s where freedom lives.
And that’s the conversation I want to have.

👇 Which communication pattern have you had to unlearn?
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narcissism, radical responsibility, communication, self awareness, emotional intelligence, healthy relationships, manipulation, personal growth, embodied communication, accountability

08/07/2026

The Yoga Sutras invite us to remember something many of us have forgotten: beneath the conditioning, the fear, the striving, and the stories we carry, our essential nature is already whole🩷

This doesn’t mean life is free from challenge or pain. Rather, it reminds us that suffering often grows from our identification with thoughts, expectations, and the belief that we are separate from our true Self.

As our practice deepens, we begin to relate to life’s experiences differently. We become less reactive, more present, and more rooted in what has always been within us- joy, love, and awareness.

If you’re ready to explore the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras beyond the mat, we’d love to have you join us for this month’s Sutras Study Group🧘🏼‍♀️

📅 August 26, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM PDT

Registration is available through the Experiential Teacher Path. Come study, reflect, ask questions, and deepen your understanding alongside a supportive community✨

We’d love to practice with you🫶🏼

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self inquiry, self awareness, inner work, presence, yoga philosophy, embodiment, authentic teaching, conscious leadership, personal growth, self reflection, mindful living, inner wisdom

08/05/2026

For a long time, I thought integrity meant keeping my promises to other people.

This season has taught me that integrity also means keeping the promises I make to myself.

The last few months have been some of the hardest of my life. There has been heartbreak, grief, uncertainty, and more tears than I’d like to admit. There have also been moments where I realized I had drifted away from myself. I slowly started choosing peacekeeping over truth, approval over authenticity, and being “good” over being honest.

I’m no longer interested in living that way.

This isn’t a dramatic reinvention. It’s a return. A return to speaking more truthfully. A return to asking harder questions. A return to taking radical responsibility for my own patterns instead of pointing at everyone else’s. A return to teaching only what I’m willing to live.

Over the last few months, this page has evolved.

Over the next few months, this page is going to evolve further.

We’re going to have conversations about communication, manipulation, boundaries, power, accountability, nervous system patterns, and the uncomfortable truths that actually create freedom.

I’m not an expert who’s figured it all out and I’m committed to doing the work alongside you.

I’ve spent years teaching anatomy, yoga philosophy, nervous system regulation, somatics, and embodied leadership. None of that is changing. It’s deepening. Because all of it comes down to one thing: how we show up in relationship, with ourselves and with everyone around us.

If you’re looking for someone to tell you everyone else is the problem, this isn’t your space. If you’re ready to stop performing, stop people-pleasing, stop hiding behind old stories, and start living with greater honesty and integrity...

Welcome.
I have a feeling this next chapter is going to be the most important work I’ve ever shared.

Let’s begin.
❤️
Colynn
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Integrity, radical responsibility, embodied leadership, embodied communication, self awareness, nervous system regulation, people pleasing, authenticity, personal growth, communication skills

08/05/2026

This isn’t about how many trainings you’ve completed or how much you know. It’s about the depth of your own inner work🧘🏼‍♀️

What parts of yourself have you been willing to sit with?
What discomfort have you learned to breathe through?
What truths have you been brave enough to face?

As teachers, we don’t guide others where we’ve never been. We create space from the spaces we’ve first created within ourselves.

So the question isn’t, How can I become a better teacher?

It’s: What depth have I met myself at?

Because your presence will always teach more than your words ever can.

The deeper you meet yourself, the deeper you’ll be able to meet those who come to learn from you.

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