Your body has been the only one with you since birth. No matter how you have spoken to it, thought about it, or treated it, it keeps showing up. It grounds you to the earth through your feet and it meets the day with your breath. It carries you through the miraculous... and the mundane. Through hospital rooms and holidays. Through grocery lines and quiet mornings. It is the constant you have always had. You are the one who truly lives with you. You have been gifted this body

Can you believe that there are only nine weeks left in 2025?!  Sixty‑three days. Sometimes it's hard to grasp just how quickly time flies, isn't it? But I don't want that number to land in your chest with the weight of pressure. Instead, let's look at it through the lens of ✨possibility✨. Take a moment here to maybe close your eyes for a breath and picture the rest of your year as it is unfolding right now . What do you see ahead? The calendar squares, the errands, the travel

I remember the week I tried to fix everything with an intense at home fitness program long before my instructor years. I had a new mat,...

For far too many mornings lately, I've woken up with that familiar weight in my chest, like I had been holding my breath in my less than...

I stepped out onto my porch the other morning and laughed a little at the air. September on the calendar, but July on my skin. The sun...

Have you ever noticed that moment right after an exhale? Your body isn't quite empty, but it's also not quite full, it's just hovering in...

Yall, I just love fall. It's is one of my favorite times of the year! The mornings are softer, and the cicadas less insistent. If summer...

Community makes everything easier When we move and breathe together, the nervous system gets the message that we are safe, seen, and...

Stop waiting for the perfect plan. Start with the right check in. Sometimes I obsess over what our flow should look like this week. I...

You know that moment. You meant to come to class. You even put it on the calendar! Then work ran late, you got home, and the couch felt...

We’ve all been there. You have the greatest of expectations, have looked at the class schedule and you know how great you’re going to...

You wake up. Your body feels heavy. Your brain is already chattering, offering a hundred reasons why today’s class, or walk, gym day, or...

How to let go of perfection both on and off of our yoga mat Yoga is not a performance. It’s not a shape to master or a standard to meet....

Sometimes life feels anything but balanced. Last week, I lost Piper, my sweet, fiery little chiweenie. It was sudden, unexpected, and it...

I still laugh a little when I remember a conversation I had with a friend who joked that yoga is just "standing on one leg and pretending...

you are not broken : the stories we tell ourselves (and the ones we can rewrite) Have you ever caught yourself thinking: “ I’m just not...

Do you get overwhelmed when there's a lot of noise around you? Do certain lights, textures, or smells drain your energy more than they...

Part 3 of our Burnout deep dive I remember the day I woke up and realized I had fully hit a brick wall that was burnout. I had started...

Last week, we slowed down enough to listen… to name what’s been heavy… and to get honest about how burnout might be showing up in our...

Part of our “Still Standing” Series at Empower Yoga Hartwell What is Burnout? I want to be open and personal as we move into this month’s...