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Crunch Fitness | Hilliard, OH | VINYASA FLOW: Tuesdays @ 10:30AM
Crunch Fitness | Hilliard, OH | THE RIDE: INDOOR CYCLING: Wednesdays @ 9:30AM
Crunch Fitness | Hilliard, OH | VINYASA FLOW: Thursdays @ 10:30AM
Harrison Farm | Canal Winchester, OH | GOAT YOGA (April-October)

Life will offer you trials and trials and trials and trials until you’re blue in the face from yelling out for a break. Though I don’t look for deeper meaning in things that aren’t present in front of me, something feels strange in this year in my life. I went to urgent care for the third time this year (a cut that got infected) and prior to that I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I needed to go. There have been countless non-medical challenges and heartbreaks in between. It’s hard not to read between the lines and assign meaning to it all. My spiritual practices are rooted in the physical world to what I can see, touch, taste, hear and smell. The universe isn’t conspiring against me or anyone. 🖤

I wonder, though, how am I supposed to operate when the deck feels stacked against me?

One of the wildest classes we’ve ever done was on Friday the 13th at @ethylandtank. For the release of @taftsbrewingco Goats Afloat on a Boat, @harrisonfarm13 once again made goat dreams come true by bringing superstars Katherine Goat, Vivien, Sylvia and Oreo. Sylvia’s cashmere coat was adored by the yogis while Oreo tried to swindle a beer out of a few by charming them. Katherine Goat tried to make her way to the patio for happy hour with daughter Viven, who was secretly hoping to grab a drink when mom wasn’t looking. The goats stayed around for selfies with their adoring fans before departing safely for the farm. If you missed this, there’s still time this season to join us! The remaining public classes are tomorrow, 9/21, 9/29 and 10/5. Email harrisonfarm13@gmail.com to sign up! 🐐

Holding the shape of the moon. #ardhachandrasana

The moon represents feminine energy. In a very practical way, the moon follows 13 cycles per year, much like those who identify with feminine energy. From darkness into light, and back again. The tides of the ocean, the ambient light at night and the earth’s axis are all affected by the moon’s cycles. These cycles are stabilizing to the earth, like the stability of the cycles of the feminine. It is the world itself that shamed the significance of the number 13, afraid of giving power over to the female-identied. So on this Friday the 13th under the light of the Full Moon, take it as a sign of wondrous good luck. 🖤
📸: @nasa from Apollo 11

I gotta be honest, balance is my biggest challenge. Always, and in all ways. 🖤 It might be more traditional to lift the gaze, but at this moment, I needed the support of my gaze on the floor and the wall behind me.

No matter how many times it happens during Goat Yoga, these are the moments that never get old: when the goats take a dead run toward the yogis at the beginning of class, and when someone completely loses their mind in the moment with one of the sweet animals at @harrisonfarm13. If yoga isn’t about remaining present, I’m not sure what it’s about. 🐐♥️🧘‍♀️ We’ve got just a handful of times to join us for the rest of this season: 9/15, 9/21, 9/29 and 10/5. Full details on the Facebook event page. First image 📸: Elizabeth Frere

The slow moments are in the morning, when other things can wait. 🖤

Lately, I’ve been lucky enough that the days feel like a sprint toward 6pm when I cut myself off work. 🖤

On the flip side, I always feel like some bit of work awaits my attention. It’s stressful. If I don’t stop sometime, I’m afraid I’ll work until bed. I’m a firm believer that work will take as much time as you give it, and so I try to be efficient. 🖤

As hard as I try, things always feel unfinished at the end of the day. There’s always something looming. 🖤

Tomorrow, I’ll get up and start again. Probably right here. If you get up early enough, some things can wait.

Oftentimes, the answers reside within your own experience. .
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I find myself on my mat, delving out advice as if I’m my own student. .
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I think, “karnapidasana, urdhva padmasana, pindasana and matsyasana only feel good if I do them sometimes.”
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The guide answers, “so do them sometimes.”

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