And Why We Mistake Change for Loss Imagine how frustrating it would be to try to hold air or running water; compositions not designed for containment. Humans are no different. We say we’re afraid of change. But maybe we’re afraid of loss; of what happens when the things we rely on disappear, or being told…
Growth, Community, and the Practice of Staying Open The end of a year has a particular weight that (seemingly) immediately dissipates overnight as the calendar turns. Reflection and remembrances arrive welcomed or intrusive. For yoga teachers, this moment often surfaces familiar questions that shape new intentions: Am I still growing? Am I still connected? Am…
Intention, illness, and letting go + my (almost) Vipassana experience I’d temporarily forgotten how to slow down or switch off. Busy by my own doing, and a screen time to remind me. So I signed up for Vipassana. To recalibrate and refocus. I’ve wanted to since my 200-hour teacher training in India in 2017, when…
“Aqui na Oca Yary, somos diariamente lembrados de que não somos separados da natureza. Somos natureza.” We are not separate from nature. We are nature. As I write this, I’m eating açaí and thinking about two things. The first is the dilemma of sharing a place so special while wanting to keep it a…
Find Community in Yoga Trade’s Welcome Circle An online community can feel counterintuitive. We tend to associate real community with intimacy, something experienced in person. Yet preserving that sense of belonging today requires adaptation rather than resistance. Connection doesn’t dissolve online; it reforms. Yoga Trade facilitates expansion beyond local and familiar networks. The platform creates…
Bahia’s wild coast & a weekend at Unah Piracanga Imagine a place before time. Before overconsumption and unnecessary development. When we built treehouses, not compounds, and kids grew up wild, freely roaming in nature. Locally grown food, products without preservatives, homes without locks, existing quietly in the jungle. Accessible only by adventure. Here is my…
A conversation with Luiza Vianna from Brazil to Australia and back (in English & Portuguese) Lately, I’ve been thinking about impermanence. Not loss, but movement. I understand life as cycles, not lines. That we’re not reaching for something but returning to it. Not repeating the past, but recognizing the present is enough. Not ahead or…
Three years ago, I went on a retreat to the Yoga Farm in Southern Costa Rica that dramatically changed the course of my life. In May 2022, I graduated with dual master’s degrees in Environmental Science and Public Administration. Instead of walking at graduation, I submitted the final copy of my capstone from the airport. …
