adrienne shum

The inspiration for the name of this session comes from this quote by one of my teachers, Michael Stone:

“Reawakening love and intimacy for one’s self and beyond requires practice. This is not because love is something far away from us but because we forget. We forget that intimacy is near. We forget how to relax with others. We forget we are whole. Realization is a kind of remembering rather than an achievement or virtuosic accomplishment. Practice awakens the dormant and often invisible interiors of mind, body, and heart in order to establish a more tender, responsive, creative, and active self.”

More than ever, we need to remember what’s important. Practice helps us realign to what’s meaningful for us, here.

4-WEEK FEBRUARY SESSION
INTIMACY IS NEAR: YIN & YANG YOGA
Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm CT
February 3, 10, 17, 24
$60 (includes 7-day replay)

Each day of class, you will be emailed a unique Zoom link to gain access. Feel free to hop onto the Zoom 5 minutes early to say hi and chat!

Shortly after each class, a link to the recording will be sent out, which will be available for 7 days.

Humans are meaning-makers, and the stories we tell ourselves tend to be the ones that affirm our beliefs about the world and ourselves. They tend to be stories that prop up our sense of identity and worth. This makes sense: we need some sort of stability in the chaos.

Then again, these stories can also bind us.

Our yoga practice is about seeing through those stories, and realizing what they are: just stories. With great tenderness and compassion, we season our stories with a proverbial grain of salt, in order to make room for the unknown. Yes, this can be destabilizing and scary. And, it can also be freeing.

Let practice help with deepening our capacity to settle into the unknown.

4-WEEK JANUARY SESSION
THE STORIES WE NURTURE: YIN & YANG YOGA
Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm CT
January 6, 13, 20, 27
$60 (includes 7-day replay)

Each day of class, you will be emailed a unique Zoom link to gain access. Feel free to hop onto the Zoom 5 minutes early to say hi and chat!

Shortly after each class, a link to the recording will be sent out, which will be available for 7 days.

NOTE: REGISTRATION FOR THIS SESSION IS NOW CLOSED. To get notified about upcoming sessions, please sign up for my newsletter here.

There’s a lot of benefits to practising at home. First of all, there’s zero commute: no headache of fighting through traffic, trying to find a parking spot (if you drive), dealing with inclement weather, or showing up at a studio one minute after class has started just to find the door is locked. Preserving sanity, when it comes to commuting, is paramount.

There’s also less performance anxiety. We can let go of the pressure of having to conform, and instead can modify the practice to suit our needs without worrying about how that might look to others.

There’s the flexibility: join the class live if you can, and/or do the replay. Bonus if you get to do both, and notice how the same practice lands differently, depending on the day / mood.

And this: it’s much easier to chat one-on-one before / after class. We can take advantage of the flexibility that this format allows, and talk about how to modify the practice so that it makes the most sense for the current version of you.

There are other benefits (like getting to practise alongside your pet, tee hee), and they’re as individual as we each are. Not everything works for everybody, so ultimately it’s about finding what works for you.

I’ve been teaching online for five years and I’m very thankful for the folks who have shown up and continue to show up. I’d like to continue doing this for at least five more years, which means I have to acknowledge that the cost of living is changing. As a result, I’ll be raising the price of 4-week livestream sessions by $10 in 2025. I think this is still quite affordable, and hopefully you see the value in it as well.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out here.

Take care and be well,
Adrienne