Humble Hearts Healing & Yoga

No more in studio classes FOR NOW. I’ll be completely honest hereI took this news horribly at first. It weirdly triggered fear & old wounds. This year has been rough for everybody but for some reason, I didn’t feel that until the past couple of days. All the shit I didn’t deal started to resurface and I felt buried & defeated. I put a lot of energy in to something at the end of last year/beginning of this year that ended up really hurting me. I pretended I was just mad & u...sed anger to run from it but it hurt. And it seemed to come up with all the other fear, loss, guilt, that challenged me this year and I finally had a good old cleansing cry for all of it. Before that, I was starting to feel like a fraud. How can I tell people that it’s crucial to sit in their feelings in order to heal, while I’m literally ignoring the fuck out of anything that makes me feel vulnerable? Over the past few days as this stuff comes up, I reflect on the year so far and how it has been bumpy, but I realize that it’s been hard to see & face the dark parts because there has been so many beautiful connections along the way. And so much support. Part of that sadness I felt was mourning these connections made. Of course, the internet has its perks in that we can still connect & continue building a community. But I also long for that touch, the sounds of each breath, the energy that is created in a class. I was beating myself up for being so negative. But then I reminded myself that I am human. I’m allowed to feel. I’m going to be sad about things. I’m going to feel like I don’t have my shit together. I’m going to cry over things, even if somebody else has it worse than I do. My feelings are still valid. I do trust that things will work out. But it was definitely time to take my own advice, sit with it all. Do some work. Feel how I feel. Now, I feel fortunate to have experienced these connections, these valuable lessons & I’m happy to move in to the unknown without fear weighing on my heart. Who else has been ignoring some heaviness? Get your cry on. Be vulnerable with yourself. Refresh! It feels good! I’m excited to connect with you through zoom classes next week!

Advice from a brilliant and most creative mind. Sometimes that idiot can be our own self doubt that talks us out of something great or people who don’t think like we do. So, listen to Stan. He was wise, creative and created something HUGE that is a part of so many people’s lives.

Join me at Sugar tomorrow (Friday) morning 6 am For RISE UP WARRIOR Greet the day with intention manifested by movement and breath. ... Text Jayna to get your spot 403 632 6652 or DM her @sugarthestudio We’ll be sure to let you know if anything changes!

Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing. It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no ...longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution. It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day. A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure. True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from. And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do. It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t. It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening. If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with treating yourself and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness. It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to fix yourself and start trying to take care of yourself and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place. It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people. It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life not escape from it. -Brianna Wiest [Illustration: Yaoyao Ma Van As Art ]

SLOW FIT FLOW 7 PM Tuesdays at Sugar Studio Think power yoga but in slowwwww motion, some holds and some flow. This class gives us opportunities to stay connected to our breath, feel the body in each posture & through each transition, bringing awareness to the muscles at work. This class is about building strength throughout our entire body, improving flexibility & balance. Over time as we strengthen the core muscles which play an integral role in holding everything in align...ment, we improve our posture both in our practice and our every day life. Get at Jayna for your spot. 403 632 9539 or DM Sugar Studio Illustration by Handsome Girl Designs #poweryoga #slowmotionchallenge #feelthepower #yoga #coreyogaasanas #suryanamaskaruntilyoudrop #sunsalutationsfordays #coreindisguise #lovehateme #strongisbeautiful #strongisfit

Slowing it down slightly for December but classes are still running in our zone. All classes this month are at Sugar and are pre-register only. Text Jayna to get your spots or DM her @sugarthestudio page. See you there!

Round 2 7 WEEK CHAKRA SERIES With a little restructuring of dates, time and place, we’re ready to carry on with this series. AND the option to join in studio (space limited) or online is available as well. So, you can join from the comfort of your own home or join in the studio. This makes a perfect gift for anyone dipping their toes in to the waters of self healing, wanting a little extra self care & love or anyone interested in learning a little bit about the chakras th...rough meditation, mudras and asana (yoga postures). With a whole week in between each class, it gives time to reflect on the chakra we’ve worked with and use the tools to encourage balance within that chakra before moving on to the next. The whole series is a $95 investment in your mind, body & soul. Series starts Friday, January 8th 5:30pm at the beautiful, cozy space that is Sugar Studio @sugarthestudio (or of course the comfort of your own home if you choose) If you have any questions, please reach out! #chakrahealing #chakraseries #onlineyogaworkshop #instudioyoga #chakrasandasanas #selfhealingtools #learnthetoolstoempoweryourownhealing #youhavethepowerwithinyou #wejustneedareminder