Ok, here is the shortlist.
Increase Your Energy
Help You Get Better Sleep
Reduce Your Stress
Helps You Recover
Support Your Immune System
Improve Your Balance
Improves Blood Circulation
Reduce Your Stress
It keeps You Feeling Ageless
As much as I like all of the above, I have to live with myself in the present moment and the present moment is all about thoughts that create feelings, so thoughts about how wonderful my body functions after an asana class leaves me feeling ageless and that ageless feeling are where I want to be.
ALWAYS
Your thoughts determine your feelings, which determine the actions you take or don't take in your life, creating desired or undesirable results. At 45 years old, my daily dose of yoga is essential for middle life. It's like a daily tune-up for mind and body.
I have a gift for you if you'd like to optimize your lifestyle this year too.
Suppose you subscribe to my Friday love letter, the Inbox Exhale. In that case, I send you an under 30-minute dose of seasonal self-care, a recorded yoga class inspired by traditional Chinese medicine themed by the current month and season, with access to the Inbox Exhale members section of this site that keeps all those classes stored for you in a library, if you like.
Yoga is just part of my recipe for Longevity; movement and breath practices are essential, but so is sleep, sunlight, hydration, nutrition, strength training, supplementation, and recovery. This is why I've decided to focus all month long on Winter Recovery to cover all of these pillars in a simplified way so it can become your second nature, your lifestyle.
If your eyes are reading this, I'm glad you're here. Please reach out to me; I would love to get to know you.
P.S. If you're into seasonal self-care, you need my favorite Katonah Yoga manual, Yoga as Origami.
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It's the last Friday before the winter fast, or more specifically, the Nativity Fast.
What does this mean for me?
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When I gave birth to Julian on August 8, 2001, my world changed forever. Suddenly things I never considered before, quality and ethics of food & water, necessary and unnecessary medical, the toxicity of products I used in my home, and contemplating the width and depth of my spiritual life came to the forefront of my mind. I reflect on this pivotal moment when I looked at my newborn son with strawberry blond peach fuzz and blue eyes and remember thinking, omg, I have him for the next 18 years at least; I'm responsible. A wash of overwhelm came over me for a while.
It's interesting how big moments can shift perception and how you engage with the world. This moment marked the beginning of my pursuit of an ever-evolving life of intention.
Yesterday I asked on Instagram what Autumn sounded like, and if it were in a key, what would it be?
Here are some of the answers;
football whistles
crunching leaves
suede
the key of G
For me, Autumn sounds like "These Days" by Nico, the creative conversations that produce El Tonto Por Cristo, chanting at a candlelit Vespers service, James & Ginger at the Texas Theater, less Instagram, more love letters, and presence.
The question about Autumn and its unique sound was birthed by the 13-hour road trip home after dropping off my youngest to begin his collegiate years, which had me reflecting on time, how quickly it goes by and where I want to spend it going forward.
less>more
While I continue to contemplate how I'll show up publically and where I'll put my efforts personally, I can tell you where I will definitely be, and that is at Le Jesswell, or thejesswell.com, my website, a virtual space that I cultivate for your exhale and mine, and in your inbox every Friday with your Inbox Exhale; I'll save all of my everything for you there.
Classes this week---
Thursday 9/7: Restorative Reiki 7 PM CST Yoga Up
Saturday: 9/10: Super Yoga Vinyasa 9 AM CST Super Yoga Palace
Voice Piece for Soprano---Yoko Ono
P.S. I genuinely share what I love; you can always count on that. I do earn a commission through the affiliate links I share unless stated otherwise. Thank you for trusting me.
Beauty for humanity.
If it's not good, beautiful, or true, I'm not interested— these are my late July musings.
This week, I came across a post on Instagram about its changes over the last two years and how it's trying to change us...
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My youngest son had his last day of high school today. And I'm feeling pretty emotional about it.
Time has flown by. My life as a mother and a parent was better than I could have imagined in many ways. In other ways, I have regrets and the classic enneagram three thoughts, did I do enough, was I enough, and how could I have done better.
Perhaps making this moment so difficult is that it is the end of a season; there have been many of those in the last couple of years, but this one is hitting me a little bit extra. I'm proud, and I'm mourning at the same time.
When I catch my breath, I can count my blessings. I'm so thankful for this Super Yoga Palace community. So many of you have been with me over the last 13 years as I built this brand, this space, and this experience with my boys in tow.
Seasons change, and the transition is often bittersweet; I am in it, sitting with all of it.
I'm very happy that we yoga together tomorrow. The class I have planned for each of you is what I also need too.
P.S. I genuinely share what I love; you can always count on that. I do earn a commission through the affiliate links I share unless stated otherwise. Thank you for trusting me.
