If you got up today even though you are burned out, depressed, in pain or exhausted, I love you. ♥️ If you did your job all week while also cooking, cleaning, home-schooling your kids, I love you. ♥️ If you have been alone for months and no one has touched you since March, I love you. ♥️ If you are tired of romantic love and all it costs, I love you. ♥️ If you stepped on your mat today after months of struggling to come back, even a little, I love you. ♥️ If you tried to begin again, and just couldn’t, I love you. ♥️ If you did nothing at all, couldn’t even get out of bed, I love you. ♥️ If you have given love and not been loved in kind, I love you. Because in the words of Love’s ambassador Ram Das, we are all just walking each other home. I will walk with you. I love you. ♥️ #iloveyou #valentinesday #yogaislove #loveheals #loveeveryone #onlyloveisreal #loveislove #loveismyreligion ...

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]"

16 April 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.

But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid...

Entire letter in stories ...

Masters Practice: 9:00am Sundays with Annie - today we will focus on strength and flexibility in the hips. What does it mean to “hug in” to a joint and what is “dumping” or “hanging” in your joints? These distinctions are integral to a safe and consistent lifelong yoga practice. In the first pose I am “resting” in tree pose. I have leaned my foot against my thigh and settled my hip over to the left. This puts an enormous strain on the hip joint. We do this in our practice to all the joints. We allow the places we are tight or misaligned to hold us up. A true yoga practice begins when we learn to make every pose active and stable. We will talk some about “joint stacking” and why it matters. Come build a practice for a lifetime. #masterspractice #yogapractice #strength #stability #yoga #yogamaster #practiceveryday #yogaLIFE #yogaJOURNEY #yogaRIOT ...

Many of us are searching without knowing exactly what we are looking for. 40 Days to Personal Revolution is a relevant and practical program that will lead you to the clarity of mind, body, and spirit that awaits on the other side of YOUR revolution.

Each week includes:
•Daily yoga practice
•Principles to cleanse your diet
•Instructions to begin and deepen a meditation practice
•Excavation questions to root out limiting beliefs and patterns

Link in bio to sign up!
Baron Baptiste’s powerful handbook of the same name available at the yogaRIOT shop.

#baptisteyoga #whybaptisteyoga
@baronbaptisteyoga
@baptisteyoga ...

7pm New Years Eve practice with Annie 🙏🏽 bring your beads or talismans to count your moon salutes by nines or twelves, 9X12=108, or one at a time. Bring your candles and your prayers. Bring your resentments and regrets. Bring it all to your mat and rinse it out one last time to leave 2020 behind. We did it. We survived the plague year. Lets close it out breathing and moving together. Not into 108 or don’t think you can finish? Come anyway! Do your thing! Sign up on our website. Link in bio or search yogaRIOT at mindbodyonline or in the @mindbody app. #yogaeveryday #yoga2020 #yoga108 #108 #newyearseve #breathe #wemadeit #letitgo #2020 ...

#nofilter
“Time passes at seemingly varying speeds. The slowest time I have seen is the time between the Winter holiday and the dawning of a new year. It is a time of quiet reflection, future dreaming, planning and imagining, creating. This year has taught me in a profound way how we must plan, then be ready to let the plan go. We have learned that anything can happen, and will, even if once thought improbable.
I have spent most of my free time this past month in my new ceramics workshop, which magically manifested for me as soon as I committed to being a potter. Last year at this time I couldn’t have imagined writing this message from my art studio with things I made and things that inspire me all around, a cat purring calmly in my chair. During the summer I could not have imagined listening to family walk around upstairs. This year didn’t turn out the way I hoped. I had plans that didn’t pan out and surprises at every turn. But it turned out. Every need has been met, though I cant say what magic made it so. Everything I have is a blessing. I hope for the future, but I don’t grasp too tightly to my hopes. Sometimes the Universe has plans we cant see, but we don’t need to see all the way, just the next few steps, illuminated by the light of hope. Be creative. Be nimble. Be ready to (breathe) pivot, to (breathe) slip through the cracks, to (breathe) be inspired, no matter what 2021 brings. I survived the plague year. We made it this far. We can do whatever comes next.”
-Annie, yogaRIOT Founder

#letsgo #2021 #breathe #hope #flow #practice #yoga #yogaeveryday #newyear #practiceeveryday #virtualyoga ...

Our annual Christmas day tradition continues - we will practice together at 9am and join our breath in movement.
While so much about this year hasn’t gone to plan we have each other and our yoga community. The global community is hurting, but we have Hope. Let it shine! Bring your Christmas tunes, or metal jams, whatever sets your heart on fire! For a big hearted vinyasa flow! Come Christmas with me! Sign up at the link in our bio or on our web page. #christmasyoga #yogaeveryday #merrychristmas ...

Who has taken our new Power Yoga Shred class with @kar_yogi_bear?! It will make you feel like the picture above 😠🔥

Power yoga shred is a cross training combination of yoga and HIIT! Offered every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1:30 pm (PST)! Only 30 mins— you have time to SHRED 💪 #yogaSHRED #yogaRIOT ...

Matching pjs for the holidays? No, make it matching yoga sets! 👯‍♀️

We’ve heard they’re way cooler 😉

We are fully stocked and have a variety of sizes! If we happen not to have your size, we can always order any size! Set up your private in-store shopping appointment or Zoom apt today! 🎁 #ShopSmall #ShopLocal #yogaGIFTS #yogaRIOT ...

Happy #CyberMonday & #MaskMonday! #MaskSelfie featuring our member, Catherine! These @Onzie masks are available in our boutique in packs of 2! We are running a limited-time promotion where if you buy 2 packs, you get 1 pack free! Perfect time to stock up... and they make great stocking stuffers 😉 DM us for your safe clean socially distanced private shopping appointment!

Today, we encourage you to continue to shop small. Did you know we have an online store? Check it out in the link in our bio! 🤗

#WearAMask #WearingisCaring #ShopSmall #ShopLocal #yogaRIOT ...

Since yogaRIOT opened our doors, we've had a mission: To cause a ruckus in your being, to disrupt the status quo of your yoga, and to create space for you to step into your biggest, most power self. We believe the work we're doing in the world is for good and we want to keep doing it.

As the months have gone by, we have watched hundreds of studios close. Many here in Portland. To be touched by this ferocious pandemic is to be human on earth.

The truth is, with a 50% drop in membership, and a 90% drop in retail sales, we're in rough waters.

Community is a power greater than ourselves and it is because of this community we have made it this far. Now we must ask for more. If you intend to return to yogaRIOT in the future, the time to support us is now.

What you can do safely:
🔸Buy online memberships for friends and family
▪️Buy private classes for yourself/your pod
🔸Set up private shopping appointments in our clean socially distanced shop
▪️Zoom shopping appointments with curbside pick-up
🔸Shipping and wrapping available so do all your Holiday shopping with us (watch our previous post to see just some of what we offer in our boutique!)
▪️Switch from an online membership to unlimited before we reopen
🔸Increase what you pay for your membership or give a one time donation

🔶Please direct message us to set private in-person or Zoom shopping appointments.
◾️Links in bio to our website for membership sales.
🔶Please email us at Info@yogaRIOT.com for more information on any of this.

If you took the time to read through all of this, thank you. 🙏 We love our yogaRIOT community and appreciate your continued support ❤️ #SmallBusinessSaturday #shopsmall #shoplocal #yogaCOMMUNITY #yogaRIOT ...

We’ve added a NEW class for this “Freeze” time:
The quick & dirty 30!

This 30-minute power vinyasa flow is a great way to take a break and move 🤸🏾‍♀️
Leave the class feeling cleared and grounded 🙌

Missed the first classes today? Don’t worry- it’s on the schedule again tomorrow at 10 AM PST!

Who wants to try the quick & dirty 30⁉️ #yogaRIOT ...

Our Thanksgiving tradition is on!
Join Annie at 9 AM (PST) on Thursday for a powerful 75-minute gratitude flow. Twist, reach, breathe, move to begin the day in gratitude 🙏

Sleeping in on Thanksgiving? 😴 No worries! This year we got you with TWO MORE classes taught by Kari! A 1 hour class at noon or a quick and dirty 30-minute practice at 2 PM! Get your flow in before you share love and food with your people. ❤️

Sign up for any of these Thanksgiving Day virtual Zoom classes in the link in our bio! 💻

Thanksgiving yoga is one thing you can count on this year. We got you! 🤗 #Gratitude #Thanksgiving #yogaRIOT ...