11/05/2026
We are gunna miss our wild and crazy dear yogi, friend and class clown Ralph Hastings. Although it’s been some time since he has been able to step foot into a yoga class for his dedicated practice, you could still count on someone asking how he’s doing in our Friday Gentle class. He was loved or tolerated but he always had a good time.
He made every class
fun loving and sometimes
Unpredictable but with the best of intentions in his heart.
He always mention the lack of toes he had due to diabetes yet that didn’t stop him from keeping us on our own!
You could ALWAYS count on Ralph to
make you laugh
to make you think
to make you smile
to make you practice your own patience
to make you loosen up
to show up when anyone needed something.
You could always count on Ralph, hell or high water. He was a trigger and a giver.
Whether he fell through the roof while fixing it, was battling his many congestive heart failure episodes or his defibrillator had to shock him back to life that am, he still would show up to his class even if it was THAT day! He was the most dedicated yogi I’ve met or most stubborn, perhaps both. The cat with 9 lives won’t step on his mat with us again but in our hearts we will always hear him request a “cheeseburger” at the beginning of class and say “May the long time sun shines upon you” at the close of every class.
Ralph, I bet you can run on all those new toes heaven gave ya but I’m gunna I assume they kept
the wings 😆 Remember when you got thrown out of class by your yoga teacher? 😳Remember the Ralphie dance Deborah Rolig made for you? 🕺 or when me, you and old Timmy dog blew a tire going 70 mph on 95 and you STILL got ya to your surgery on time! I’ll never know how.
How about just last week when I had to deliver the news of your passing to the class in a Bob Ross costume- I know you set that up and had a good laugh at me.
We will stay light, humorous and big hearted bc of you.
So may the longtime sun shine upon you Ralphie boy. Take care of your beloved Penny from up there. We will take care of her from down here.
With love, Namaste 🙏
Chrissy, Tana, April, Alisha, Berkliegh, Yvonne, Imad, Gwen, Jen E, Jessica,
maybe not Brian 🤪lol
And the whole community of Zenna Wellness peace out sprout