For me, community is a safe place, where people hold similar values, and can come and plant seeds, plant a garden.

Figuring out how to build community is one of our main goals in the coming year. I realize that this word is over used especially in marketing and in social media. For me, community is a safe place, where people hold similar values, and can come and plant seeds, plant a garden. It is a place that actively cultivates and encourages growth, learning, sharing, it involves support, love, compassion, fierce determination and an insane amount of accountability.

A COMMUNITY CAN NAVIGATE A PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION OR A SERIES OF PROCESSES. IT'S A COLLECTIVE OF PEOPLE LISTENING TO EACH OTHER, INTERESTED IN ONE ANOTHER, WANTING THE BEST FOR EVERYONE.

Obviously, people have very different experiences with communities.

If we are going to create one, let's be honest, the Yoga Garden Studio, architecturally, and as a space, it is phenomenal. It is open, spacious, full of light, gorgeous gardens, and beauty all around. The truth is, the community that grows from there, can also be as influential, progressive, and inclusive.

Yoga is all about transformation and change.

I really appreciate all the courage it takes everyone to come out of their shell and be in a social setting. I appreciate all the effort everyone makes to plant trees, seeds, and to take a moment and say...Yes, to being alive in a positive way. Yes to positivity. We are encouraged to be frightened, to not trust, to consume, and proceed. It is very commendable when people gather, and resist. It is also very special when they can share their experiences.

Yoga Garden is working to be known for its OFF THE MAT community building events. These events are seasonal. This season was extra tricky, but our Klarka and Sebik managed and built a super team of mama's when the weather and covid situation permitted. Twice a week moms came with their babies in strollers and worked out in luzanky. This upcoming season, winter 2022 we will be making bolsters at the studio. We sew them, stuff them and make them all, just like the first winter when we opened, we knitted our blankets. We get together and make things instead of going to buy more things, because frankly we all have too many things. If you are reading this and you thought to yourself, no I don't...(have too many things) well I high five YOU!