06/20/2026
Teaching adults to play, and find childlike joy and playfulness is SERIOUS business & often, we need to get TF out of our heads about it all.
Listen, I know the world is a messed up place, and in a lot of ways, it always has been.
Yeah, there are hard things and feelings to deal with in your life, that’s true.
But joy has always been the resistance, and having fun is the lifeblood of rebellion.
We don’t bypass or run from the dark, the heavy, the messed up, the shadows — shoot, we don’t have to ignore the regular day to day mundane maintenance either — but we don’t have to live there, fam. And the yoga sure doesn’t either.
John Roedel wrote, “when I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place, let me be water,” and I am thinking about that this morning as I mull this all over.
We might roll our eyes about how a child can be fine one moment, crying the next, and be totally fine another moment later, but that’s fluidity. That’s expression. I think the inspiration or question can be: how can I be water, flowing between the dark, the light, and the in between, moving seamlessly and without resistance, but with curiosity and playfulness to experience the full spectrum of what life has to offer me?
At the end of the day, I’m just a yoga teacher. I’m not here to heal you— but I will hold the space for you to remember that love is real, movement is fun, you can do hard things, and you have permission to take up space.
Big love 🫶🏻
PS — sorry for the emojis. Can’t trust the internet to be cool, whattayagonnado
