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YOGA RETREATS: Senegal 🇸🇳 April 2026 🏝️ Croatia 🇭🇷 Oct. 2026🌴 Mallorca 2027🇪🇸 Yoga & meditation teacher/Martial Arts Yoga Online, @equinox NYC.

This morning I sent out my latest newsletter, and This morning I sent out my latest newsletter, and I’ve spent the day reading your beautiful replies.

Thank you.

Every message, every reflection, every story you’ve shared back with me has reminded me why I love writing these letters so much. They become conversations, not just newsletters.

This month’s letter came from a week of slowing down in Senegal.

It came from reconnecting with former students and teachers more than twenty years later, surfing alongside my kids, conversations that shifted my perspective, yoga philosophy, neuroscience, and even a few unexpected lessons from the Tao Te Ching.

Somewhere along the way I realized the newsletter wasn’t really about Senegal at all.

It became a reflection on what it means to slow down, trust the timing of our lives, and create enough space to hear ourselves again.

One of the lines that stayed with me as I was writing was this:

“Perhaps the lesson isn’t learning how to arrive in Senegal. Perhaps it is remembering how to arrive fully in my own life.”

If you’ve ever felt like life has been moving faster than your heart can keep up, I hope this month’s letter offers you a moment to pause and breathe.

If you’re already part of my newsletter community, I’d genuinely love to hear what resonated with you.

And if you’re not on my list but would like to read it, send me a DM with your email address (or just a ❤️), and I’ll happily send it your way.

I’d love to welcome you into this little community.

With love,

Ruah ❤️

#RuahYoga #YogaOffTheMat #MindfulLiving #YogaRetreat #CroatiaRetreat
Six months ago, one of my wonderful students gave Six months ago, one of my wonderful students gave her mother three private yoga sessions as a birthday gift.

Her mom, Harriette, had recently gone through the heartbreaking experience of losing the love of her life, her beloved husband of 50 years.

When we first met, I was deeply moved by her story and felt an immediate connection. We started simply: mobility, breathing, meditation, and gentle strength training.

Harriette also has severe scoliosis and was struggling with tight, rounded shoulders. We began with 2-pound weights and foundational movements designed to help her feel stronger and more at home in her body.

Week after week, she showed up and did her homework.

Today, she is lifting as much as 15 pounds in certain exercises and moving with noticeably more strength, confidence, and ease.

One of my favorite moments is hearing how she applies what we practice together when she walks through Riverside Park or does lunges down her hallway. She remembers the principles of Tadasana (Mountain Pose): standing tall, drawing her shoulders back and down, and lifting through the crown of her head.

The physical changes have been remarkable, but the greatest gift has been our friendship.

Every week, we move, breathe, learn, laugh, and share stories.

@harriettegram, I am so proud of you—it’s beyond words.

Thank you for your trust, your dedication, and the joy you bring to our time together.

Your story is a beautiful reminder that it is never too late to become stronger, stand taller, and discover what you’re capable of.

I hope this inspires those who read it. I know you inspire me every single week. ❤️

#NeverTooLate #StrongAtAnyAge #HealthyAging #AgingWell #MovementIsMedicine
There’s something about the water, the sky, moveme There’s something about the water, the sky, movement, breath, and spaciousness that always brings me back to myself.

Lately I’ve been reflecting deeply on energy:
how we spend it,
protect it,
waste it,
and replenish it.

After returning from Senegal, I found myself thinking so much about slowing down enough to actually experience life… and how much joy becomes available when we loosen our grip and become more intentional about what truly deserves our energy.

My newest newsletter just dropped and I shared reflections on:
✨ Brahmacharya & Vairāgya
✨ learning to let go of control
✨ neuroscience & the “care less list”
✨ healing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & winning gold after injury
✨ Senegal, Teranga, rest, courage & savoring life
✨ upcoming travels to Senegal & Chamonix
✨ Senegal Retreat 2027 🌍

If you’d like to receive my newsletters and stay connected to retreats, classes, writings, and community, DM me your email with the word NEWSLETTER 🤍

And if going on a retreat to Senegal, Croatia or other beautiful places in the world has ever whispered to you… stay close. 🇸🇳 🇭🇷 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
There’s something so powerful about looking out at There’s something so powerful about looking out at a room full of people in stillness.

Different lives.
Different stories.
Different struggles.
Different dreams.

And yet for one moment… everyone breathing together. Letting go together. Resting together.

In a world that constantly pulls us outward, spaces like this remind me how deeply we need connection, presence, movement, community, and pause.

So grateful for these packed rooms, these shared practices, and every person who shows up again and again to do the work of coming home to themselves.

This summer I’ll also be teaching at Bryant Park Yoga on July 14 in the heart of New York City and I would love to practice with some of you there too ✨

Come move, breathe, sweat, laugh, reset, and share this beautiful energy together under the trees and skyline.

Sign up @bryantparknyc 

Peace, love & light always. ☮️❤️✨

#BryantParkYoga #NYCYoga #Equinox #YogaCommunity #svasana @bryantparknyc
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