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Sunrise this morning in our nation’s capital.
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Wishing everyone courage and capacity to meet the week ahead with grace.
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May we resist the powerful and scary forces that threaten our sense of hope and safety and stay connected to what makes us grateful to be alive. It’s a lot so please be gentle with yourself whenever you are able. If nothing else, I recommend rising early to catch these fleeting moments of sky art that seem to be a message from the universe saying: we all deserve love and beauty and wonder and awe.

Teaching “Contemplate and Commit” tomorrow at

Teaching “Contemplate and Commit” tomorrow at 3pm ET @pasttensestudio. Let’s take what we can use from the lessons of this year and leave the rest behind!

@jwalkoe chopped off my pandemic hair last night!

@jwalkoe chopped off my pandemic hair last night!
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#pickyourpodwisely

“…Alice was beginning to learn that life was n

“…Alice was beginning to learn that life was never lived in absolutes. People would both love her and rebuff her.; they would show both kindness and prejudice. The simple truth was that Alice would always be different — but to be different was to be extraordinary, and to be extraordinary was an adventure. It no longer matter how the world saw her: what matter was how Alice saw herself.
Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week”
- From Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi   @TaherehMafi Thank you for the gift of these inspiring words to end an extraordinary book. My 10-year-old and I read Furthermore together over the last few weeks before bedtime and it will hold a special place in our more positive pandemic memories.

Savoring these last brush strokes of this tender s

Savoring these last brush strokes of this tender season on my morning run. Thankful to the “more-than-human-world” for its annual lesson on letting go. #stolenland #Nacotchtank #nativeamericanheritageday

A great year to go off script for Thanksgiving. Lo

A great year to go off script for Thanksgiving. Loved starting the day with the sweet @pasttensestudio crew teaching a virtual “Grateful to be Here” class, then took a back seat in the kitchen so my 10 year old could make her two specialities: #ratattouille #wackycake
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First time we have spent the holiday in this house in years, which got me reminiscing for the days when my mom would cook a feast and invite anyone and everyone who had no place else to be. She often had the latest book by Anne Lamott on her bedside table at this time of year. When Lamott was growing up, her family never said grace, and, when she saw other families praying in thankfulness before meals, she longed for her family to do the same. Over the years, she and her brothers, in her words, “grew up to be middle-aged believers,” and this has been the result:
“So now someone at our holiday tables always ends up saying grace. I think we’re in it for the pause, the quiet thanks for love and for our blessings, before the shoveling begins. For a minute, our stations are tuned to a broader, richer radius. We’re acknowledging that this food didn’t just magically appear: Someone grew it, ground it, bought it, baked it; wow.
We say thank you for the miracle that we have stuck together all these years, in spite of it all; that we have each other’s backs, and hilarious companionship. We say thank you for the plentiful and outrageous food: Kathy’s lox, Robby’s bûche de Noël. We pray to be mindful of the needs of others. We savor these moments out of time, when we are conscious of love’s presence, of Someone’s great abiding generosity to our dear and motley family, these holy moments of gratitude. And that is grace.”

THIS IS HAPPENING!! Join Mimi and Alicia Advanced

THIS IS HAPPENING!!
Join Mimi and Alicia
Advanced Virtual Training for Teaching Yoga and Living Life
✨ January - June 2021  8 weekends + 1 evening/week +
Incredible line-up of Elective Modules with guest teachers:
Derek Cook, Abby Dobbs, Yael Flusberg, HawaH and Tesia Love

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A deep commitment to attention and inquiry are required to step into the path of the Sacred Self. If you are brave enough to walk through the fire of your own transformation, you will emerge with a purpose personally and professionally that fully expresses your highest potential.

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⧫ Somatic Inquiry ⧫ Scientific Study ⧫ Spiritual Practice ⧫

Open to all 200-hour RYTs.
With completion of the full program you will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

Click link in bio or slide left for more details. Sign up for our free class/info session on 12/13: www.mimiriegeryoga.com/300hr-sacred-self

Good morning! It’s a beautiful day to VOTE! Firs

Good morning! It’s a beautiful day to VOTE! First, soften your jaw and take a gentle breath in and all the way out. Then show up for all that’s possible and all that’s gone so terribly wrong.

Coming to you LIVE from my online studio this week

Coming to you LIVE from my online studio this week:
* Monday, Flow 1/2 via Past Tense Yoga Studio: 5:30-6:30PM
* Tuesday, Private Functional Flow Class (DM me if you want in!): 9:30-10:30AM
* Thursday, Align and Flow via Flow Yoga Center: 12:15-1:00PM
* Friday, Chakra Tune In (via Past Tense Yoga): 12:00-12:45PM
* Saturday, Continuing Education Workshop: Cueing for Yoga Teachers via Past Tense

Dreaming of the Spring Reset yoga retreat I was su

Dreaming of the Spring Reset yoga retreat I was supposed to be hosting here this weekend with my dear @nicholeferrigno 🌱
Scout and I took a long walk and then I sat for a bit on a rock and sent blessings to everyone who was due to join us. 🌱
The trees will go about their business here - I can sense the wisdom they long to share about the power of mutual aid. I hope we can learn how to embrace what it means to live as wholly connected beings in separate physical forms the way they do with such elegance and grace. Perhaps it begins with this surreal sacrifice of creating space between us, slowing way down and surrendering control. 🌱
I hope you are practicing patience with yourself and your loved ones. Adaptation takes time and can cause tremendous discomfort. If you have a moment to connect down into your feet and feel the ground, know that I am standing on this same ground sending you support through the web of energy that ties my heart to yours. ❤️

The beauty and certainty of the sunrise this morni

The beauty and certainty of the sunrise this morning was like a balm for my nervous system. May you find peace in the pause for these next several weeks. May you look up and appreciate your simultaneous smallness and how large life itself is - how connected we are to each other and the natural world. May you feel something hopeful about your ability to help others by simply surrendering to slowing down. May you sense your own resilience within that space between the difficult moments and the joyful ones.

Can’t wait to learn from @scott_moving_forward t

Can’t wait to learn from @scott_moving_forward this weekend. He is with my Path of the Practiced Teacher Advanced Training group today and then leading a public workshop tomorrow @flowyogacenter!

DC Yoga friends! @scott_moving_forward is coming t

DC Yoga friends! @scott_moving_forward is coming to Flow Yoga Center to lead a workshop aimed at yoga practitioners who want to learn more about how Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) can improve active range of motion and increase awareness of body blind spots. He is a super friendly human and passionate teacher who has found a positive way to use Instagram as a tool for learning and connecting. I met him at @jenni_rawlings workshop @circleyogadc last year and can’t imagine a more fun way to spend the weekend than with @dianazotos from @ThreesPhysiyoga at Circle on Friday and Saturday and Scott at @FlowYogaCenter on Sunday!
Intro to Functional Range Conditioning: Improving your mobility, joint health and injury resilience
March 8, 2020
1:30pm-3:30pm
In this workshop we will go through the basics of Functional Range Conditioning. We will learn the difference between flexibility and mobility. We'll discuss the benefits of Controlled Articular Rotations ("CARs"), the concept of prerequisite joint functions, and strengthening your end ranges of motion.
After the intro, Scott will take your through the morning CARs routine. Then through a 30 minute yoga-focused Kinstretch class.
All Levels.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=736&stype=-8&sessionChecked=true

My dog recommends trying your next stillness pract

My dog recommends trying your next stillness practice in a patch of sunlight.

Mimi and I are thrilled to be teaching together fo

Mimi and I are thrilled to be teaching together for the second time on New Year’s Eve! Join us to close out the decade with a luxurious 2.5 hour “Resolve to Evolve” practice. Let’s begin again together!

How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean c

How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing— each stone, blossom, child— is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance, push out beyond what we each belong to for some empty freedom. If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again to learn from the things, because they are in God’s heart; they have never left [God]. This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

I am so excited to announce a new teacher training

I am so excited to announce a new teacher training program I will be offering in 2020:
The Path of the Practiced Teacher - Advanced Yoga Studies "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
It is only when we remain open to our own process of growth and learning, when we walk through the fire of our own transformation, that we can fully alchemize the nectar of the teachings and offer it to others. This is the path of the Practiced Teacher -- it is an advancement that cannot be hurried or downloaded. It requires deep commitment to intention and attention and inquiry to live with the uncertainty and faith required to step into the flow of a greater current. It is with great humility that I invite you to reignite the fire of your practice to realize your highest teaching potential.
THE 2020 SCHEDULE:
Friday evenings and one Saturday per month for 9 months:  Fri: 6:oopm-8:00pm and Sat: 10:30am-6:00pm
JAN 31-FEB 1: READINESS MAR 6-7: KNOWLEDGE  APR 3-4: AWAKENING MAY 1-2: HARMONY JUN 5-6: DEVOTION JUL 10-11: SKILLFULNESS AUG 7-8: COURAGE SEP: 5-7: GRACE - Overnight Labor Day retreat  OCT 3: CELEBRATION POTLUCK
For more information and to apply: www.aliciamoyer.com/events.

Readying the space for opening night of teacher tr

Readying the space for opening night of teacher training. Aware of that deep lesson that sometimes the best preparation is the experience of your own practice. I could keep cramming more information into my head space this afternoon, but a walk in nature with my dog followed by chanting and sitting in silence seems like a better way to open my heart space. This is the invitation I hope to offer the students when they arrive.

As the summer sizzle begins to fade, @nicholeferri

As the summer sizzle begins to fade, @nicholeferrigno and I are dreaming of Autumn! Our next yoga retreat, “Rooting to Recharge”, will be perfect pause in our busy lives to tap into our deepest source of energy before winter calls us into the quiet. All levels of practice welcome! 🍁🍂🌿
Join us the weekend of October 25-27! 🍁🍂🌿
Registration link in bio: aliciamoyer.com/events.

The Early Bird deadline is fast approaching for ou

The Early Bird deadline is fast approaching for our fall Living Yoga Teacher Training cohort @pasttensestudio. I love teaching group asana classes but there is something extra special about having the time and space to share the other practice tools - especially to sing together and build a deeply connected community rooted in learning and growing. If that sounds a lot like preschool it’s because we really do have that much fun and it really does feel like a rare opportunity to begin again. . . .
Yoga welcomes you as you are but rarely leaves you feeling like you did when you began. This program is like a high voltage dose of that experience.
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https://pasttensestudio.com/living-yoga-teacher-training/

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