I sat down with my friend and amazing yoga teacher Samara Speller to chat yoga, teaching, and what it's been...
Ksenia's sustainable summer favorites
Summer has arrived (finally)! Here are my go-to sustainable warm weather favorites — for a weekend getaway, a spontaneous beach trip, or a carefree backyard hang. Soak in the start of the summer, the long days, and warm sun rays.
No. 4 — Home Practice, Quarantine Edition
Supporting our mind-body-spirit enables our immune system to do what it's designed to do — heal itself — when (inevitable) challenges come up. Here are my go-to, holy grail, preventative, immunity-boosting staples on a bootstrapping budget.
No. 2 — Things We're Digging This Spring
No. 1 — Yoga And Wellness For Winter
A sporadic newsletter of yoga, wellness, and sustainability things we're loving. Our go-to's for keeping cozy and healthy and well through the winter.
5 Ways To Help The Planet (How Yoga Got Me Caring)
Truth be told, before I started practicing yoga, I didn’t give much thought to the environment, or how to help save the planet. I’ve always loved animals and nature and a good beach day, but sustainability wasn’t top of mind. I also loved shopping, fast food, and all the latest things. Every week bags of trash would go out on the street. I think we recycled, but I’m not sure.
But then something shifted.
Breathwork Intro, An Anxiety Quickfix
For the most part our breath is on autopilot. We breathe whether we think about it or not (thank goodness, got enough on my plate!)
BUT what’s so interesting is that if we do start to think about our breath, we begin to control it. We can consciously slow it down, speed it up, pause it. Our awareness affects our breath. Breath is the ONLY function in the body like that. That’s why breath is so special.
No-Coffee Coffee, Herbal Alternative For Your Nervous System
Ah yes, the modern cycle of late nights and early morning coffee.
It’s something that seems fine and sustainable. Or so I thought.. when working 80+ hours a week in finance and later at tech startups. It kept me going when I was running on little sleep, crappy food, no exercise, and brain fog. But was coffee really helping or was it a band-aid?
As we practice, we release a lot of energy. “Exhale, release anything that no longer serves you…” Energy doesn’t just disappear. Some of it transfers into our space and onto our mat.
That’s why it’s such an important practice to regularly cleanse your mat and your space of negative energy that may have gotten stuck.