Take one step towards your calling and the universe takes 10,000 towards you

DC! I am humbled and inspired. Thank you so much for all who attended Week 1 of our FREE 10 Week Yoga for Runners program. Your presence has 💯 surpassed my vision. You are grounding, nourishing, and expanding my heart and mind in ways I’ve never experienced.

I don’t know about you, but 2023 has been coming at me HARD. I started off this year feeling like the angry gods were swinging low. It was very heavy handed and dark for a long time.

I knew I was going through an incubation period. I cycled between devotional surrender and utter despair. Little did I know the ground was being taken from underneath me so I would experience the support that comes from being seen, felt, and held by community.

Mindful Strides was born from the love i have for the different communities that step in and keep us going when things get especially challenging.

For me, it was the yoga and the running community.

Every morning, on my way to teach, I observed people moving about their day to day life: running the waterfront, the monuments, the empty city streets at 6:30am. I smiled remembering the days I had purpose and would lovingly wake up before the sun and drive to Woodley Park to practice.

I decided to start running and talk with the runners who were attending my classes. I discovered a lot of them are training for the Marine Corps Marathon. I resonated with their excitement about training towards something, the meditative aspect of it, and moving towards something that not everyone in your life understands.

I felt it. I still do.

I see so much similarity in these communities: discipline, devotion, experiencing meditative absorption and knowing that we all have access to it.

I wanted to INTENTIONALLY CONNECT all of us

Bring in local businesses and community leaders

Redistribute + repurpose resources

And create spaces where we can directly experience the profound effects of being in a community who cares and actually follows through.

9 more weeks of this is a gift.