This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | June 25, 2025 — Dispel assumptions with your powerful voice

Happy good Wednesday 💜

Sometimes I wonder (and doubt) whether I’m very good at facilitating yoga. I know I don’t teach how many others do and I started deviating from things I was taught in my yoga teacher training a long time ago. I’ve often felt insecure about this and would find myself muddling through an explanation for how I teach when I couldn’t outright say what I don’t teach.  

On my very confident days, I recognize that I’m purposefully and beautifully different, and I’m finding freedom in explicitly owning what I’m not: I don’t wish to perpetuate a system of thinking that focuses on shape as outcome or that glorifies certain body types. Instead, I like to give people inroads to get to know themselves so they can continue that self-exploration outside of a class and off their mat. 

People often come into a conversation about yoga with me with common assumptions of what yoga classes are like or what being a yogi is about. Many of these things are untrue for me. Being open about what I’m not as a yoga teacher and differentiating what I specifically offer has helped me be seen just as I am, and outside the yoga realm, clear communication has become a way that I feel loved and seen. 

So today, particularly as we immerse in the energy of a new lunar cycle, what would you like to say out loud to the world? What silent assumptions do you want to dispel with your powerful voice? 

With gratitude and good energy,