Patti Peterson Yoga

04/08/2022

Join me tomorrow!

We have so many exciting events coming up and one of them is a FREE yoga class! Get your friends and family together on April 9th at 9am for this fun and relaxing morning🧘‍♀️😍

03/15/2022

Anyone else obsessed with blueberries?
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03/11/2022

If you can make someone’s day, do it❤️

02/17/2022

Sometimes it’s surprising the seemingly small things that that create or stir up chaos in us. Today it’s this pair of shoes. For the past week I’ve been salty (there’s a pun here, wait for it) because we chose not to take a family beach vacation over valentines day. The trip had become a tradition that we looked forward to and was a break from Illinois winter. Instead we took a couple shorter more local trips in the fall. So this week all the photos popped up in memories, really digging into that wound. So many memories to be thankful for. And yet it just stirred up thoughts of what I didn’t have and what I felt had been taken from me the last 2 years. All the experiences and memories I expected to have and make. The memories I had pictured of the way I thought these years would look like. So how is it we can mourn something we didn’t even have in the first place? For me, it’s realizing that I didn’t know that trip in 2019 would be the last family trip of just the four of us. The last trip before my first born left the nest. The last trip before the kids wanted to bring friends. The last trip before our family changed.
All of this came up today as I saw my ratty worn out shoes that I can’t bear to toss yet because I wore these on each of those trips. Change happens whether we are ready or not. But the more we try to control and resist the change the harder it will feel. And that is what I can surrender today. Control. I can work to accept that we have made beautiful memories and going forward the new memories will have more faces.

02/17/2022

Hello everyone! I hope this season of life finds you making progress toward YOU! I know I’ve been hit or miss. Like many others, the past months have moved some heaviness to the front and couldn’t be ignored. There have been a lot of lessons and expansions. Since my yoga training my mind had been opened to living out yoga off the mat as well as on the mat and bringing life and all its experiences into balance. In doing so I’ve learned some modalities that support and supplement the practice of yoga. So, it is my hope to share those here. ❤️

02/15/2022

I’m in!

If you're in the US, get your kids involved in the Great Backyard Bird Count coming soon! It can take as little as 15 minutes and is a great way to introduce them to birdwatching.

You can pick where (from your backyard if you want), when (anytime over the 4 days), and for how long (minimum of 15 minutes).

Just count all the birds that you see or hear in the time you've chosen, and record them using a choice of simple apps.

details here: https://www.birdcount.org/participate/

02/11/2022

Take a listen!

Every winter as the ice begin to grow on the lake it creates magical sounds that been fascinating me for as long as I can remember. These sounds can be hear...

02/11/2022

Be happy. Be you.
What makes you…you? What makes you come alive? What speaks to your soul?

02/04/2022

Yoga in real life doesn’t necessarily happen on the mat.
It’s been a rough few days here and so we got out of the house to take a walk in the snow. We decided to make a group of snow people at the entrance of our neighborhood. And on the way back to our house we decided to make more at the next corner and at several houses on the way back home. By the end we were tired but in better spirits and closer to moving forward.
Sometimes yoga is taking action.

02/04/2022

I had a realization today.
I frequently think of my grandmother and I will always picture her wearing a housecoat. Her housecoat is my generation’s cardigan🤣

02/03/2022

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02/02/2022

What can be learned from an impending snow storm?