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made this possible. 🙏 While they are a force for good in our community and are local to DFW (for now), this free series is available to anyone in the world. 🌎

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To our continued and collective healing…

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The Daily Well

So many feels on this day, his 17th birthday.

Taking my personal details out of it and universalizing this for all of us, here is the question:

In this last year of his (legal) childhood, what do I want to leave him with? Beyond all the lessons, all the skills, underneath the daily grind and the highs and lows… what do I really want him to remember and know about himself?

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What I’m hearing from several of my teachers is this, in a nutshell:

What are we each individually contributing to the field right now?

I know it’s not everyone’s belief that our attitude on this side of the world matters. Maybe people think they’re not that powerful. But we all are. What we’re putting out into our communities, our families, the words we’re speaking, the bravery, the courage… putting that into the field m a t t e r s.

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Even amidst a challenging season, if you’re in one, we can still stop and acknowledge that which is stable and beautiful in our lives on this full moon…and make an effort to nourish that. 🌝 ♥️

Every kid I bumped into this week in the DFW area is exhausted. It’s a lot going from summer vibes to what I think is a way to long school day.

Personally, I am practicing holding the container for their moods and their needs, putting aside my own reactivity. They’re little nervous systems feel overwhelmed. Looking at what I can take off our schedule this weekend, and having a three hour family retreat in the afternoon where all technology goes off and we just noodle around the house doing whatever.

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I was at a yoga philosophy training many years ago, and the teacher said he dedicated his book to his sons with the inscription along the lines of “may your path be smooth.” Later, he wished he said “may your path be full of bumps and twists and turns.” We want the best for our kids, but we also know that their growth comes from their own pain. Parenting is such a trip, I’m always wondering if I’m doing it right or wrong. What I do know is that helping guide them through the lens of mindfulness has given them a sense of self-empowerment and independence that I certainly did not have at their age. Our youth is dealing with a lot. So much of it brings me to my knees, especially to sit with what’s happening in this world to kids who aren’t straight/white/religious majority. All I know is that we have had some real situations where the deep truth that “no feeling is final” saved us. If mindfulness taught one thing to kids, in my opinion, that would be it. Nothing lasts forever, this too shall pass, right now it’s like this, no feeling is final. Instead of bypassing it’s giving teenage brains the perspective that it will not always be this hard, and that can be life-saving. Anyway, if you’re still reading this post, it’s a long winded the way to say that I just released a free mindfulness meditation teen series. Link in my bio if you want free access for your teen!

Once you have access to the meditations, you can then download The Daily Well app if you wish and they will be there in your library. 😎

Tag your friends with teens for whom this could be of benefit! 🙏

“To receive well is to know the wisdom of surrender.” Toko-pa Turner

Our muscle of receiving can atrophy with hyper-independence, a lifetime of self-reliance, constantly doing, and only forward movement.

I am learning. Thank you 2023 for all your very uncomfortable gifts. 🙄♥️

Welcome to June practices, Daily Well members. Here is a blog on what we'll explore : https://www.laurenyoga.net/blog/sixth-chakra

And a link to sign up and join us if you wish!
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Friends :: two workshops coming up with me this weekend at ♥️

Friday night I partner with for a pure restorative practice with Kenny’s energy clearing music.

Sunday afternoon a different kind of practice, some movement, lots of myofascial release and somatic work, with one aim to get you into a parasympathetic stay for as long as possible and allow your body to work it’s magic to heal.

Register for both at www.urbanyogafw.com

I do believe this will be my last in person teaching until fall. 🥰

Thanks for the birthday love everyone! The best gift I could ever wish for is the gift of health for everybody that I love. Very grateful in this moment. ☀️

One of the biggest learnings of my whole entire adult life. 😎

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Wistful in a totally staged photo in Mexico 😆 trying to figure out how to do this work/live thing somewhere else, maybe, eventually, one day.

Did you plant any seeds for spring? That word Karma that we all know, translates as a “seed.” It’s an action you take now that blooms later. It’s one thing to know which direction we’re headed, and another thing to take the little steps required to get there.

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Move your body to move life through you on this new moon. We cannot think our way through stress release. 🌚

“Recent studies and discoveries increasingly point out that we heal primarily in and through the body, not just through the rational brain.

We can all create more room and more opportunities for growth in our nervous systems.

We do this primarily through what our bodies experience and do - not through what we think or realize or cognitively figure out.”

- From the book Burnout.

I appreciated that Shannon had us do this at SSYC. I do believe it was the underlying reason that people couldn't quite put their finger on why the studio felt so good, but it did. I even had a conversation with someone just yesterday about the vibe, the energy, the attitude at SoulSpace...and we've been closed almost 5 years now.

Starting this process with my little business this month:

Your Company’s Purpose Is Not Its Vision, Mission, or Values The distinction matters.

March practices…over at .well which OFFICIALLY launched!

I’ll share more on it this weekend. Maybe one day I’ll hire a marketing person and will have beautifully executed lead-ins to new products launches. Ha ha! But for now, this is how it is and right now it’s like this. Thank you for being here for all of it, my friends.♥️

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Mood board. 🏖️😎✌🏽

Gabby and I have two spots open for our retreat next month at :
✨King room open
✨One spot in a double (two Queen beds)

Daily:
✨ Two daily yoga classes taught by us
✨ Morning meditation
✨ Evening nidra
✨ Farm-to-table food, spacious modern rooms, evening salt water hot tub gazing at the stars, naps, space to think, time to be.

March 25-30 ♥️ DM and I’ll send you more details.

📷 of me last time we were there before the world changed ♥️

Save the Date! 🖤

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Women and Wealth kicks off on March 8th at 8 am with a Mindful Meditation featuring moi, founder of Lauren Yoga and .well and brought to you by and .

Following an hourlong mindfulness class with me, I’ll be interviewed by CEO of . We’ll discuss the importance of taking care of yourself, which is the greatest wealth of any entrepreneur.

“Lauren coaches individuals on living mindfully. Understanding that we are an overworked and overwhelmed society, her workshops inspire ways to feel better in life without it being "one more thing" to add to the calendar. She is a certified mindfulness instructor through the University of California at Berkeley.

Holland founded the HOLLAND collective full-service communications agency after working as the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Fort Worth Opera. HOLLAND collective is not just another agency with a list of “best practices” and cookie-cutter strategies to communicate a message to the world. They are driven by a passion for telling inspiring stories to build narratives and reputations, with the ultimate goal of becoming an authentic extension of the brand.

Join us for our Morning Keynote, Health IS Wealth with these two powerhouse women!”

Link to tickets to this virtual conference here : https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fwomen-wealth-2023%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR30bcbE2EzR2BInv7ziAbvFIdOK_ALE6k3I71sijyDl_apjftlN9OsKWZo&h=AT0C9x9-Rzlvh0neayY1qeGyYKKYrcmkEdkHDQEyRU9oCy4leIa31Rat8Tp7sKpX__4fA6OYMhYVo9aDIvZksmMg-tTK8vdvHXWMVQmHn7RBFnGzCc7wTBCVaaEWlQrut3j59iA&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2BXbSV5bn1YE8QFqnR70ynyQRKCvHjszRyjJMj7Ecza0MW0Aaf52yKjkNURhaTFx1f4lo-mYKrKohA4AmYbYetmty5dTPWkWsx8pio-FK5PivjOmW6LjVmj2QCeme5EgoluPX_o-7ONk3jcbfFAnm2F_-j_CWiHLR2yV2iHLbSCgdTrg ⭐️

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To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.

The people they're too exhausted to be any longer.

The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.

We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost.

But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be.

It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way.

Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. 🔥

Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.

- Heidi Priebe

We boycotted Valentine’s Day since our old era of overpriced prix fixe dinners and too many alcohol-fueled fights 😆 A friend shared this quote with me a few days ago and after all these years…he is still this for me and has respected every version of me through our time together. ♥️

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Offered freely for Members of Lauren Yoga.

Registration always open : First two weeks on me!

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February in the membership!

It's always open :: First 2 weeks offered freely 🖤

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Registration now open for an in-person daylong meditation retreat at the gorgeous Springbox Farms in Weatherford, Texas.

Saturday April 15, 9a - 4p

Sign up : https://loom.ly/t7GSBu4

Members :: email me to receive $25 off your tuition!

Daylong meditation retreat DFW — Lauren Yoga Daylong meditation retreat on a beautiful farm out west.