Why The School of Sacred Practice Now?

We're living through a collective unraveling of the world as we’ve known it. Life often feels heavy, uncertain, and overwhelming. Our bodies—wise vessels that they are—are holding all of it. The tension in your shoulders, the ache in your back, the restlessness in your chest—these are not just physical symptoms. They're your body's way of processing what it means to be fully human right now.

We need movement that meets us where we are, not where we think we should be.

What Makes This Different

This practice is built on therapeutic yoga—breath, movement, and stillness that serves the body you have, not an idealized version of it. It's deeply compassionate embodiment practice that helps you:

• Reduce pain and tension through intentional, awareness-based practices. Our bodies are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress due to global uncertainty, economic pressures, climate anxiety, and social upheaval. We're literally carrying the weight of the world in our shoulders, backs, and nervous systems. Gentle practices that actually release this tension (rather than adding more pressure to "fix" ourselves) offer real relief when everything else feels overwhelming.

• Increase clarity and awareness of long-standing patterns that no longer serve. The old ways of pushing through, people-pleasing, and powering over ourselves aren't working anymore (did they ever?). Many patterns that helped us survive earlier in life are now creating more suffering. With everything changing so rapidly, we need to recognize what truly serves us versus what we're doing out of habit or conditioning, so we can respond to life rather than just react.

• Cultivate full presence with what is, including the difficult parts. We're living in times that require us to hold complexity—grief and joy, fear and hope, collapse and possibility all at once. The tendency to escape, numb, or avoid is understandable but ultimately unsustainable. Learning to be present with difficulty without being overwhelmed by it builds the resilience we need to navigate uncertainty and contribute meaningfully to change.

• Access your body's innate wisdom and intuitive knowing. With information overload and expert opinions constantly contradicting each other, we need to reconnect with our own inner compass. Your body knows what's true for you before your mind figures it out. In times of chaos, this internal guidance system becomes essential for making decisions that align with your values and well-being.

• Develop power WITH your body instead of power over it. This is perhaps the most radical and necessary shift. The same domination patterns that are destroying our planet show up in how we treat our own bodies. Developing a collaborative relationship with your body becomes practice for the collaborative relationships we need to create a sustainable world. When we stop fighting ourselves, we can direct that energy toward the changes that actually matter.

Yoga IS energy medicine. It enlivens the deep knowing that lives in your bones, awakens the intuition that gets buried under daily survival, and reconnects you with the wisdom your body has always held. When you stand up from our sessions, refreshed and nourished, you know what is most important to you and for you.

This is body-mind medicine for a new way of being in the world. When we learn to move with our bodies rather than against them, when we practice power WITH instead of power OVER, we don't just heal ourselves—we embody and model a different way of being. We become living examples of the collaborative, compassionate world we want to create. The personal truly IS political, and it starts in the body.

This isn't just movement—it's medicine for navigating life in these times.