Yoga By Laurie

Dancing into Sept. Liately🫶🏼 …Since Olive’s been back at school… I am almost getting it together to find a regular routine. I feel like the start of the school year is a great time for new beginning for everyone!

- Currently my workouts are handstand practice, daily walks with my weighted vest, yoga wheel, Dharma & Rocket Practice, weekly runs… pausing from reformer style workouts currently, and doing occasional F45 classes 1-2x a week.

- this weekend we made homemade sourdough goldfish… they were amazing🧡

- A must for me is weekly sauna & plunge a few days a week. I feel so grounded afterwards. Stephen and I try to go together. Love our plunge days.

- back in the swing of quick and healthy weeknight meals… after school is busier than in school hours. Olive has gym 3-4 evenings week.

- After a busy bday weekend last week, had a special mama and Olive day… pedis & shopping

- Fall gardening, (I’ll post in stories) has been in full swing. We got two avocado trees in🫶🏼

Last two giving quads & buns of steel vibes…

Overnight Oats

1/4 cup oats, 1/4 cup almond milk, 1/4 cup Skyr yogurt,
1 TB chia seeds, scant drizzle of honey…

This is the base I use for all of my overnight oats recipes, 14 grams of protein—— eat with 1 egg on the side for 20 grams of protein in this meal. Always an option to add in protein powder, and I always top mine with fruit, usually berries🍓🍒

✨✨ Late summer
New lipgloss
Romper
New compass necklace
Fresh hair, the one and only Natalie

Simple… 5 ingredients or less

Chicken & veggie bake with a side of air fryer sweet potato fries, and sliced beets

Truffle flavored bison & brussel sprout sauté

Coconut Cauli Rice with cilantro, lime and sugar snap peas

Celery Spritzer, celery, lime, mint, honey & sparkling lime flavored water

Blueberry Overnight Oats

First day of 5th grade for this girl! Wishing her and all the kids and teachers a wonderful year of memories and learning🩷

Part 2, Jackson Hole & Grand Teton hikes

Many more posts to share but St. George—> Park City—> Jackson Hole (Post 1)

Hiking and biking in Grand Tetons, plus dog friendly trails outside the park, white water rafting in the Snake River. We kept our eyes peeled for wildlife and saw bald eagles, moose, elk, deer. Too much fun! Loved having the dogs with us on this epic trip!

My true north✨✨✨Heading home after a week of adventures in Jackson Hole, Park City, and St. George. Being outside and with each other has been so restorative, and brought much needed clarity to how I’d like life to look for us going into the new school year. More slow life!! Each year is busier and busier!! I want to make lots of space for calm mornings, movement, nature, homemade food, sharing what I love, and showing up wholly for those I love.

As a reminder of these intention, I found a perfect souvenir! One I just love, a necklace holding a compass charm to always point my heart in the right direction. It’s from you can see it in my stories✨✨

Our precious Olive Kate is 10!!! Happiest Birthday to the sweetest of lights. Can’t wait for the amazing year that 10 will be🎂 Watching you grow and being your parents is the greatest gift we’ve ever received. July 30th is the happiest day for us too. We love you🩷✨✨✨

🥜🌶️Thai Peanut Chicken & Glass Noodle Salad

Easy, quick RECIPE:
For Chicken, (use Slow Cooker and cook to shredded consistency)
To slow cooker—> Add Thai Peanut sauce (to save time, but you can make your own sauce👌🏻) and two chicken breasts + minced garlic and ginger. Cook for 4-5 hours on low.

Before serving…
Thinly slice generous amounts of purple cabbage, bell peppers, jalapeño, shredded carrots, cilantro and/or mint… add to a large serving salad bowl.
Boil glass sweet potato noodles(check stories for brand I use)… add to salad bowl. Mix together veggies and noodles, then add in chicken with plenty of sauce. Top with avocado, sesame seeds, and roasted peanuts, a squeeze of lime. I like to add in more spice like 🌶️

This is such an easy and nutritious weeknight meal. Our family loves. Lmk if you try!

💜Cabbage is one of the healthiest vegetables. Did you know it has more vitamin c than oranges?!? Purple cabbage has even more antioxidant properties.

“I get to choose HOW I show up.”
One of my favorite affirmations… I live and breathe this message to myself all day long. Seriously!!

It’s a reminder over and over again if you don’t like your energy, your attitude, negativity… change it… when things get hard or challenging… how do you react? We are so lucky that we get this choice each day and all the moments within the day✨✨✨✨ These words help me a lot🤸🏼‍♀️

Back home and feeling so inspired, well rested, and renewed!! Ready to bring forth and share so much goodness!! Excited🤩 Fall sourdough workshop that will include even more than first one, maybe I’ll finally start writing a cookbook/wellness guide, diving back in this week to working with my clients in person and I’ve missed you all, and can’t wait to catch up!! 🤍🤍🤍

Kauai🤍🌊🌺 Islands are my spirit place, and this one was especially magical✨✨✨

Beautiful hike to Waipo falls and Waimea Canyon views.

🌺🌊👙🫶🏼

Still here in Kauai and loving to explore such a beautiful place with my besties. Hiking is addicting here, I can’t stop finding more trails for us to check out. Each one more beautiful than the last.😉🌊🌺

Kauai🌊 you’ve already stolen my heart. I love anywhere I can acceptably hike in a bikini😂 First day and we did a hike with caves and tortoises, 2 secret beaches, spent time on the beach snorkeling, pool of course, and lots more Hawaii charm sprinkled in.

Giving… this is effortless vibes…jk🤣 this pose is hard work!! But what can be effortless is grace. Giving yourself grace and extending it to others. We’re all doing the best we can. Operating under that assumption has been helpful for me lately, allowing me to show up better and meet others where they are❤️

❤️🤍💙 the 4th, rewind

☀️ always my season! Summer invokes passion, new projects, boundless energy from the sun, longer days…. Aww it just hits right for me!!

We are prepping for travel a bit but looking ahead to various exciting projects/ideas coming early Fall!! Thinking maybe a sourdough cookbook in addition to a Fall Workshop, maybe a focaccia workshop too… Power pop up yoga… I don’t know what else yet, but feeling all of these. Let me know what you want to see!!

Continuing in love my work on I have hours most weekday mornings. The most amazing clients who feel like friends🩷 Lucky to work with and know through this platform!! I will miss you all over the next few weeks while we are away🌺🌊✌🏼

Summertime captures…
- Sunset walks
- Longer days, have me getting in more practice + more workouts
- Bedroom camp outs after movie nights
- Can’t get enough of the beach
- reading constantly…. I have my morning books and cozy night time reads Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley latest on my kindle
- still overjoyed about our next chapter and Stephen’s change of command/retirement
- first ever sourdough workshop

Coaster ride to downtown🚞… so much fun today being tourists with family in town visiting.

More from a beautiful weekend celebrating

Getting a front row seat to the way she adores him is one of my favorite parts of motherhood. You don’t know how lucky that you are, that we both are🩷🩷🩷

Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s who make life more fun, adventure filled, and safer for their babies. Thinking of my own Daddy too, and the blessing he is in my life💕

First glimpses

Ready for Summer☀️☀️☀️

Life!! New chapters just around the corner for our family🩷

Olive finishes 4th grade this week, she already started at a new gym for her gymnastics, and Stephen is down to two weeks left in command. So much to smile about, and so much staying the same amidst the changes!! We’ll stay in California, the dogs are still rotten, I’m still trying to do all the healthy things🫶🏼😀 Excited for the summer.

Wheel Mornings are my favorite!! ✨✨✨ what do you love practicing SO much right now that you can’t wait until the next time?

I heard a quote about getting uncomfortable, and it went something along the lines of your ability to be successful at reaching a goal directly relates to your ability to be comfortable with its opposite…. So like, for example if your goal is handstand, the opposite is NOT being able to balance very well or at all. You have to practice to get better, BUT to ever be successful you would also have to be comfortable with the falling out ALOT (at least for me😂).

So essentially, both are a practice! The physical skill + the mindset of being ok with pursuing a goal that feels impossible sometimes.