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YOGA RETREATS: Senegal 🇸🇳 April 2026 🏝️ Croatia 🇭🇷 Oct. 2026🌴 Mallorca 2027🇪🇸 Yoga & meditation teacher/Martial Arts Yoga Online, @equinox NYC.
The journey of life teaches us that you can love y The journey of life teaches us that you can love your life… and still feel overwhelmed. You can be grateful… and still feel tired. You can be strong, capable, high-performing (I. See you my friends 🤍) and quietly wonder if you’re doing too much. If this season# has felt heavy for you, I want you to know something. There is nothing wrong with you and this is just a moment of time that will eventually pass. You are not behind. You are not weak. You are not failing. You might just be in a season that requires a different kind of strength. This past month reminded me how easy it is to keep saying yes to good things. Work we love, people we care about, opportunities we prayed for, and still tip into depletion. And what I’m learning again is this: Resilience is not pushing harder. It’s knowing when to soften. When to recalibrate. When to choose rest without guilt. That’s Santosha. Not settling. Not shrinking. But making peace with where you are so you can move forward wisely. If you’ve been carrying a lot lately, I see you. If your nervous system feels a little frayed, you’re not alone. I wrote more about this in my newsletter, about burnout, about Olympians and failure, about a conversation with my theologian mom on being in the “in-between,” and about how discernment actually creates momentum. If it would support you, join the list and read it. And if what you’re craving is space to reset in community, Croatia and Senegal are open. Not as an escape. But as a steady, intentional yes to yourself. You deserve that. We all do. As March begins, consider this your permission to recalibrate. #mindbodyconnection #emotionalresilience #santosha #yogaretreat ruahyoga @recoverienyc @gregorgraciejiujitsu @equinox @premabrooklyn 🙏🏼
After a few very full weeks (and being cooped up i After a few very full weeks (and being cooped up in the freezing cold!), I’ve been craving the extraordinary culture this city has to offer. Going to the Brooklyn Museum to experience the portraits of Seydou Keïta was just the medicine I needed. We walked slowly through the exhibit talking about the history of Mali and the transition of West Africa to independence… then we sat in meditation together under the great chandelier in the Beaux-Arts Court. Art, then stillness, then integration. In the end, we paired up with one another and looked into one each other’s eyes to see each our creative and highest self, then we shared it out loud. To witness art and then be seen like that is powerful. Afterward, we shared thieboudienne and mafé at Café Rue Dix, with meaningful conversation, vulnerability, and real connection. Several women in this circle are coming on the Senegal retreat this year, and the whole day felt like a bridge, Brooklyn meeting Dakar. Someone asked at dinner, “When are we doing this again?” So I’m thinking about it… Perhaps another gathering at Metropolitan Museum of Art — explore art, meditate, then eat food from that culture. Stay tuned. DM me if you’d come. Or take it further, join on retreat and explore art, culture, and consciousness around the world. This is yoga off the mat. This is community/sangha. #RuahYoga #Sangha #ArtAsMeditation #SenegalRetreat
BJJ + Muay Thai doubles. Then yoga. Then heat. The BJJ + Muay Thai doubles. Then yoga. Then heat. Then cold. Not to prove anything. Not to chase anything. But to practice Santosha, contentment & peace with what is. This month I’ve been reflecting deeply on resilience. Olympians miss podiums. Athletes get submitted. We all arrive in moments where momentum shifts up or down. Neuroscience shows the brain learns best after friction, mistakes, challenge & even failure. But only if we maintain regulation in our nervous system. Only if we don’t identify with the moment. When I’m doing BJJ, Muay Thai or yoga, I do my best to practice not being defined by the experience each time I show up and go with the flow. I breathe, release, continue, learn and grow. When I was recently slowed down by the freezing weather and feeling under the weather, I felt an old fear surface, memories of surgery and injury, of being forced to pause. A quiet anxiety about losing progress. But every time I’ve honored the need to slow down, I’ve returned stronger. Clearer. More precise and present. Every athlete I know says the same. In the sauna and cold plunge at @recoverie, I regulate. Heat challenges the body. Cold sharpens the mind. Breath anchors the nervous system. Inhale, gather. Exhale, release. Inhale, receive. Exhale, trust. Santosha isn’t comfort. It’s steadiness inside discomfort. It’s peace within effort. It’s refusing to let one moment define you. I’m sharing more about this, the neuroscience of resilience, the lessons from martial arts, and how to build sustainable strength, in my upcoming newsletter. If you’re not on my list yet, make sure you DM to join. And if you want to experience this work more deeply, not just in a post, but in your body, your breath, your community, come practice with me on retreat in Senegal & Croatia. Immersion changes you. The ocean, the training, the conversations, the stillness, they create the kind of resilience that lasts. Somewhere between effort and surrender… contentment appears. This is strength. This is resilience. This is sustainable evolution. #ContrastTherapy #YogaRetreat #SenegalRetreat CroatiaRetreat @gregorgraciejiujitsu @recoverienyc
Lately, some of my favorite moments have been roll Lately, some of my favorite moments have been rolling straight from Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu into a slow, grounding yoga practice at @gregorgraciejiujitsu . Training. Sweating. Being challenged. Then softening. Breathing. Arriving. February’s theme is Santosha. Not complacency. Not settling. But making peace with what is so that you can open yourself up to boundless possibilities. After a stretch last year when I couldn’t move my body the way I wanted to due to a back injury and surgery for a fibroid, moments like this put everything into perspective. I don’t take moving my body for granted. I want to experience it fully and savor everything. I let myself feel the privilege of being here, in my body, right now. I’ve also been returning to a practice I first learned about years ago while reading When Things Fall Apart, the Tonglen meditation. Breathing in, we sit in the mud and meet discomfort, effort, emotion, sensation. Breathing out, we offer relief. A cooling breath. A softening. A moment of ease in the body, mind, and spirit. It begins with offering relief to ourselves. And as freedom grows, it expands outward to others and all living beings. Movement. Breath. Presence. Arriving fully, again and again. Grateful to be practicing, training, breathing, and learning on and off the mat. What is helping you practice Santosha this month? #Tonglen #Santosha #Presence #YogaAndBJJ #RuahYoga
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