Chill Yoga

09/08/2026

Human contact and sleep ! 💤
I’d like to add building muscle 💪 and walking to the list …

When life gets busy, people often drop sleep and social connection first, then try to compensate with more complicated wellness habits. The evidence suggests those basics deserve a much higher place on the list.

Sleep shapes mood, anxiety, attention, appetite, and the ability to follow through on tomorrow's choices. Social connection is linked with long-term health and survival, and it gives stress somewhere to go besides inward. Exercise, gratitude, kindness, and meditation can help too, but no single tool replaces rest or relationships.

Try a smaller repair this week: protect one consistent sleep cue and make one specific human contact. Send the message. Take the walk with someone. Put the phone outside the bedroom.

Read my full article about which happiness habits have the strongest evidence behind them below. 👇

09/05/2026

Take time to Breathe this weekend.

09/04/2026

Yoga is more than the pose. 🧘‍♀️ It’s where breath, body, and awareness come together. 🌿

Move beyond the pose. Find the deeper practice. 🤍

09/01/2026

I have two spaces available at the 530p Thursday class .
Please dm if you are interested . 😊
7:15p class is full.

08/28/2026

FALL YOGA SERIES : ( 10 weeks )

ROOT & RELEASE
🍁 join us beginning September 3rd for 10 weeks where we embrace all that Fall 🍂 brings… practicing yoga poses and Ayurveda with every class.
love Chill Yoga

08/18/2026

In medicine we talk a lot about risk factors. Here is one that never shows up on a lab report.

Your comfort zone is not comfortable. It is familiar. Those two words get confused a lot, and the confusion is expensive.

The job you hate is familiar. The relationship that drains you is familiar. The way you eat that leaves you feeling terrible every afternoon is familiar. The voice in your head that says you are not enough is familiar. You keep choosing all of it because your brain would rather repeat what it knows than risk what it does not.

That is not comfort. That is a habit with a good disguise.

I have watched this in my patients for two decades. Every person I know who changed their life walked out of something familiar and into something that scared them, and on the other side found the first real peace they had felt in years. Sometimes it was a food pattern. Sometimes a job. Sometimes a story they had been telling themselves since childhood.

The door was never locked. You just kept calling the room comfortable.

You do not have to name your familiar thing in the comments. Just name it to yourself right now. That is the first step out.

But if you are feeling brave, tell us about a door you already walked through. Someone here is sitting in that same room, wondering if it opens.

08/16/2026

Just begin again … 🙏🏻

08/14/2026

I took this on my walk this morning.

The lake was so still it had turned into a mirror. Every cloud in the sky was there again on the water, doubled, and for a moment it was hard to tell which was the real sky and which was the reflection.

I stood there longer than I meant to. And it reminded me of something I keep trying to tell my patients. Stillness isn't doing nothing. A lake can only become a mirror when it stops churning. All that clarity, the ability to reflect the whole sky, comes from being calm enough to go quiet.

We treat our own stillness as wasted time. The unscheduled walk, the few minutes of doing nothing, the morning we resist filling. But your nervous system does some of its most important work in exactly those moments. Your body needs the still water too. It's when things settle. It's when you can finally see clearly.

So this is your permission. Go find a few still minutes today. Not to accomplish anything. Just to let the water go calm.

When did you last let yourself be still?

08/12/2026