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Yosemite retreat day 2! After the grounding of our first class, we now luxuriate in the opening, expansiveness, and spac...
05/26/2026

Yosemite retreat day 2! After the grounding of our first class, we now luxuriate in the opening, expansiveness, and spaciousness in the body (& mind!) through lots of mobility, spinal waves, & big, reaching postures

We pull it all together with our final class! Dropping on Wednesday 🦅🌈

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05/22/2026

Snapping hip syndrome is *usually* a harmless sound that happens when a tendon, the iliopsoas, slides over a bony part of the hip.

It can come from a few things:
* Lack of deep core + pelvic stability
* Hip flexors overworking
* Femur not centering well in the socket
* Tight TFL/quads with weak glutes/adductors/deep core
* Rib flare + anterior pelvic tilt changing hip mechanics
* Sometimes irritation inside the joint itself

When your ribs flare and your pelvis tips forward, your hip flexors end up yanking the leg down instead of the deep core helping control the movement.

Which is why stretching the hip flexors won’t fully fix it. You also have to address the root of the issue: deep core engagement, rib to pelvis positioning & stronger pelvic stabilizers.

Here are some cues to fix it for 90% of people!
1. Lower your bottom ribs heavy to the floor

2. Take the arch (anterior pelvic tilt) out of your lower back and find a neutral pelvis. Not a totally flattened back, but just enough space to slide 2-3 fingers under your low back.

3. Exhale as you lower the leg, and keep your ribs and pelvis as still as possible, keep exhaling as you lift the leg back up.

4. Don’t lower your leg so far to the floor

5. Try bending the opposite knee more and stepping the foot closer to your bum.

If you want to fix your rib flare and retrain your core as a system, comment “RIB FLARE” and I’ll send you a 7 day free trial to my program where you can watch my 22min FIX YOUR RIBFLARE CLASS + join my deep core program ✨

❗️if the clicking is painful, you may have labral irritation or impingement, and should see a medical professional

Join me for Yosemite Retreat ✨ noticing how the vastness, expansiveness & stillness in nature resides inside you, too ✨ ...
05/20/2026

Join me for Yosemite Retreat ✨ noticing how the vastness, expansiveness & stillness in nature resides inside you, too ✨

Over the next week I will be posting a 3 part yoga series filmed in beautiful Yosemite, inviting you to get out of your mind and into your body, and explore these qualities in your practice

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” John Muir

The first class of the retreat is live on my online studio ✨ and thanks to my mom and besties & for joining!

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05/07/2026

If your two bottom ribs poke out of your shirt, that is rib flare! It is common in pregnancy, postpartum, and people with scoliosis.

If you have rib flare, there are two big things to watch in your training: rib to pelvis alignment and overworking your hip flexors.

➡️A lot of traditional ab work like crunches, planks, and leg lifts can make it worse without you realizing it, because they pull you out of alignment or dump everything into the hip flexors.

Rib flare is already coupled with dominant hip flexors and weak deep core, so training this way just reinforces the pattern 🤦🏻‍♀️

To start fixing it, you want to get better at two things:

1. Exhaling and letting the ribs come down fully
2. keeping your pelvis more neutral so your deep core can actually switch back on and your diaphragm, pelvic floor, and TVA can work together again.

If you want help with this, comment FLARE and I’ll DM you my 22 min FIX YOUR RIB FLARE + deep core program you can try free with a 7 day trial ✨

05/01/2026

why yes I do, thank you 😌

05/01/2026

the ones that mind don’t matter, and the ones that matter don’t mind 😌

Just a vegan, minimalist, backpacker trying to figure out the meaning of life ✨This was my first ever paid job teaching ...
01/14/2026

Just a vegan, minimalist, backpacker trying to figure out the meaning of life ✨

This was my first ever paid job teaching yoga! First ever yoga shoot for a friend’s studio in KL! I didn’t know how I was going to make it at the time, but I had a burning conviction that *this yoga thing* was what I wanted to do, and I pursued it with all I had…

Even when all my friends & family thought I was crazy 😭 baha, unfortunately I am STILL here, doing the thing, and it was not just a fad!

Found my pink this year 🌸 while Harper grew to be a toddler The high of the year has been seeing her personality come ou...
01/01/2026

Found my pink this year 🌸 while Harper grew to be a toddler

The high of the year has been seeing her personality come out. She’s so smart, playful and outgoing!

I also really wanted to feel like my body was my home again, and throughout the year I made it my priority to carve out time for myself and my movement practice.

The low of the year was losing my village- both my mom and bestie moved away and we didn’t have any family close by to lean on 😭

The biggest lesson this year, surprisingly, has been leaning back into hardness. My whole ethos for the last decade has been softness & ease! Mindfulness, being present, a relaxed nervous system… these were things I centered my life around and taught as a yoga teacher daily 😌

But now with motherhood, I found if I don’t have a hard EDGE, I’ll just disappear. Discipline and hardness around my boundaries, especially the time I absolutely need for myself, allows me to be the version of me I want to be the other 95% of the time 😌

Overall, still the best year of my life 🥹

And another year as an

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