Yoga Endeavour

Yoga Endeavour Offering online and in-person group and private yoga classes, special events, and retreats.

08/23/2026

Surrender isn’t woe-is-me.
It’s not giving up.

I’m not the damsel in distress.
I’m the f*cking main character.

This is karma yoga. Yoga of action.

You show up. You do the work you’re there to do, obstacle or not.

It’s not about me being the one who teaches. It’s about making sure the teaching happens.

So this morning, I couldn’t just go AWOL. That teaching had to happen with or without me in the room.

While I was out here filling my tire, I made sure our community still got to fill their cups.

I’d love to know, what are the little ways you practice surrender every day?

07/23/2026

Can we please just slow the fck down.

I want breath before movement. Presence over performance. A pose fully inhabited instead of hit and abandoned for the next one.

I want a meal I cooked with love and care, not something delivered and thoughtlessly inhaled while moving on to the next thing.

I want a conversation without my phone in my hand, or anywhere near it.

I want the slow burn, not the instant gratification of chasing through dating apps and DMs.

I want to take the long way round, traffic be damned. Give me scenery, not the shortcut.

I want opinions I’ve actually sat with, thoughts I’ve meditated on, not hot takes fired off for the rage bait

I want the anti-hustle life.

Is that too much to ask?

Tell me, what’s one thing you’re doing as slowly and as intentionally as possible right now?

07/02/2026

The least interesting thing yoga gave me is flexibility.

I’ve been through illness, divorce, job loss, and grief. Sometimes all at once, sometimes in polite succession.

What got me through all of it was everything else the practice gave me.

A way to sit and observe myself when that was the last thing I wanted to do.

Peace when everything was falling apart.

Discipline that had nothing to do with motivation.

Hope when the world felt like it was on fire.

A sense of connection when everything around me felt fractured: to myself, to others, to source.

If that’s what you’re looking for, hi 👋, you’re in the right place.

06/19/2026

Why is yoga so expensive?! A lovely man asked me this in earnest at a recent event.

And honestly, fair question.
It’s not the first time someone has said this to me
and it won’t be the last.

I’ve tried breaking down the membership maths.
Come three times a week and you’re paying about ten dollars a class. People’s eyes glaze over.

Because yoga is not a one-off workout, it’s a committed regular spiritual practice, so why would you be just dropping in?

So maybe I should try a different approach.

Would it be more reasonable if I asked you to:
Bring me breakfast?
Clean the floors after class?
Do our books, build our website, fix our HVAC?

The tradition does have precedent for this.

And I’m honestly not sure what would get more of a reaction: a $25 drop in or an hour of your time.

The reality is that at our studio, we do everything we can to make it accessible. Five dollar community classes every week. Sliding scale yoga philosophy book club. Scholarships.

We’re not trying to get rich…
I promise you we are definitely not getting rich.

But someone has to keep the lights on. ✨

So tell me… Cash or time, how do you want to pay for your yoga?

06/15/2026

Compared to how old yoga actually is, Virabhadrasana is a baby.

It doesn’t show up anywhere in the yoga tradition until 1934, when it appears in Krishnamacharya’s text Yoga Makaranda, written at the Mysore Palace.

Turns out it closely resembles poses from Danish gymnastics in the 1920s, which were part of a wider wave of exercise and fitness movements making their way into India at the time,

right as Krishnamacharya was developing the style that would go on to shape Ashtanga and much of the standing pose vocabulary used in yoga today.

Somewhere, a Danish gymnastics instructor has no idea what he started.

So the shape is pretty new. But the name, and the myth behind it, is centuries old.

And it’s one of my favorites, because it helps connect to this idea of devoted action. When I started practicing not just Virabhadrasana, but all poses, as offerings, dedicated to something beyond myself, everything shifted.

The compassion it brought into my practice was unexpected. For myself, for the times I couldn’t do what I wanted my body to do. And for something larger, something I was only beginning to feel connected to.

That’s what the stories behind these poses point at. A reason to show up on the mat that has nothing to do with the shape, and everything to do with embodying the essence of it.

The history of yoga is hiding in plain sight, in the names of poses you’ve been practicing for years.

What pose should I crack open next?

06/01/2026

If you think you know what a yoga practice is, read this👇

I showed up for the workout and spent years completely missing the point. Here’s what I know now:

1️⃣ it’s not a flexibility contest
You don’t arrive flexible. You become flexible. Or you don’t, and it doesn’t matter. Show up as you are

2️⃣ 10 minutes is enough
Find your daily minimum and protect it. I’d take 10 minutes of pranayama every day over an occasional 90-minute class every time. The practice rewards showing up, not performing.

3️⃣ asana is optional, actually
The poses are one limb of eight. Pranayama, meditation, how you treat other beings — all yoga. The whole system is pointing toward one thing, and the poses are just one road in. That road leads to meditation.

4️⃣ leave the lululemon at home
Or don’t. But you don’t need it. No specific clothes, no mala, no crystals, no carefully curated aesthetic. None of that is the practice.

5️⃣ yoga doesn’t have a type
Any age, any background, any body, any identity. The image of who does this practice and who teaches it has always been narrower than the practice itself.

6️⃣ question f*cking everything
Listen to the teacher, go back to the source texts, then test it in your own life. The tradition doesn’t ask for blind faith. It asks for direct experience. That’s the whole point.

7️⃣ the guru is you
A teacher can point the way, and a good one is worth everything. But the real guru has always been within. Every practice, every teaching, every moment of stillness is just helping you hear what was already there.

✨ and the one I keep coming back to ✨

8️⃣ you’re not here to become someone else
Yoga doesn’t build a new you. It removes everything that was never you to begin with.

What’s one thing you wish you’d known before you started?

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