November 2022 Reflections

Dear Friends,

You don't need me to tell you that it’s been a trying 2.5 years. From a global pandemic, to national civil rights movement, Yoga Tree and YogaWorks shutting down their studios, devastating wildfires, political turmoil, loss of personal freedoms, the events of this year have caused major shifts for us both personally and collectively.

While our roads and paths have shifted differently because of our unique situations, almost all of us have been separated from community and our typical touch-points of human connection. Our work and levels of financial stability have changed. As Covid rocked our worlds, we were all forced to find new resilience and it meant that we had to bear much bigger burdens. A lot of us are still working with new layers of anxiety, depression, and that scatterbrained feeling of being in 2.5 years of fog. If we aren’t dealing with this personally, we probably know someone who is hurting.

While I would never wish for a pandemic, or forced separation from so much of what we all love, I try to take comfort in what I have been given during this strange and scary piece of human history:

Time and Opportunities

I am watching my daughter Quinn grow up in a way that I never thought I could. Because I teach closer to home and have a small commute, I get to have dinner with my family more often than not. I have spent more time in my home than I have in years.

It recently occurred to me: If 2020 - 2022 has taught us anything, it's that all challenges bring opportunities.

The lessons I have learned on the mat - both as a teacher and student - have never been more applicable, helpful, and necessary than they've been in this year. I want to keep passing those on.

With that in mind - I am excited to share that I have been working with Rachel Barge and her amazing team at Leap Grow Inc - making updates and upgrades to my website and my yoga offerings in a way that feels like an authentic expression of my yoga teaching. A place where you can find information about my classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings.

Jane Goodall has this great quote - “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

I am grateful that I have the support of Rachel and her team at Leap Grow to help support the difference that I want to make on this planet.

In 2022, it feels like I am standing on another precipice of big change. The yoga landscape has radically transformed over the past 2.5 years. And yet, I strongly believe in the power and resilience of the community we have built together over the past 16 years. We found our way onto the zoom screens and back into the Green Yogi studio over these many pandemic months, and we will wind our paths together in person, with all of you hopefully, sooner than later. Please check out my new website for opportunities both in the studio and outside the studio to connect with each other.

I look forward to seeing you in the path - Pete