Yoga With Rene

Who are you becoming through your practice?

Yoga isn’t just something we do, it’s something that quietly shapes us over time.

The longer I practice, study, and teach, the more I understand the incredible depth of this path.

It’s not an activity we check off a list.

It’s something we become when we surrender our breath and body to the gift that is Yoga.

For me, the transformation has been subtle and powerful.

What began as a way to reduce stress slowly, and lovingly, started to soften places where I had built very strong walls.

At first, I didn’t understand what was happening.

I just kept showing up.

Something kept calling me back to my mat again and again, long before I had words for why.

With patience, practice and most importantly, guidance from teachers who had walked the path before me, light began to find its way in.

Sometimes gently. Sometimes like an explosion. The shaping continues. It always does.

My practice now spans nearly 30 years, and it’s entering a new phase, moving beyond the purely physical and into the devotional, the ritual, the symbolic.

A teacher once spoke of this to me over 20 years ago.

At the time, it made absolutely no sense.

I wasn’t ready.

But the seed she planted took decades to grow.

I bow to her wisdom now.

So I’ll ask you again, softly:

Who are you becoming through your practice?

If you’re feeling called to deepen, to study, to question, to be supported, there are two spots remaining in our upcoming Yoga Teacher Training.

We begin February 20th, and our journey opens with Christena’s Shamanic Community Class, a powerful and welcoming way to step in.

And if what you need today is simply to practice together:

🌀 Tonight at 5:45pm — Rene’s Reset
Gentle Flow + Yin + Nidra (truly the best combination ever)
📍 Life Time Woodstock

With love and devotion,

Rene

P.S. If the Georgia Mountains, yoga, and sound experiences are whispering your name… you’re not imagining it. Only a few spots remain for our sweet local retreat weekend with me & Kei. I’d love to share that space with you.

There is a way of moving through life where action no longer binds you.

That freedom doesn’t come from doing less, it comes from doing without attachment.

From releasing the grip of expectation, outcome, self-judgment, and over-efforting.

The image that keeps coming to me is moving through life like you’re gently coated in something non-stick.

Nothing clings, nothing hardens, nothing defines you too tightly.

Experiences still happen. Effort still arises. You still show up fully.

But the residue doesn’t linger.

When effort is released, everything becomes lighter. Floatier.

Action happens… and then it’s gone.

This is the heart of equanimity, not indifference, but steadiness.

Not disengagement, but freedom from being yanked around by every success, mistake, or opinion.

A mind that can act clearly without contracting.

A heart that stays open without being bruised.

In practice, this looks like:

Moving with sincerity, not strain

Breathing without forcing

Letting effort pass through you, not define you

When wisdom is present, action stops sticking.

And liberation quietly takes its place.

If this resonates—if you’re longing to move, breathe, and live with a little more ease—I’d love to hold that space with you.

✨ Wednesday (Tonight)
6:00 pm Flow
7:15 pm Surrender to Be

✨ Thursday

5:45 pm Rene's Reset

Gentle flow, yin & Nidra

📍 All classes at Life Time Woodstock

With love,

Rene 🤍

P.S. This Friday’s special event is all about Equanimity. The skill of staying steady in the midst of life. It’s also your chance to enjoy Early Bird savings + a beautiful YTT gift. Best. Deal. Ever.

P.P.S. If you’ve been feeling called toward Yoga Teacher Training, this is your moment. When action no longer binds, clarity tends to follow.

This morning’s card pull stopped me in my tracks.

The first words out of my mouth were, “Stop it. Just STOP it.”

Even though I knew, in my heart of hearts, it was the last thing I truly wanted.

To be in a state of free fall into love has been breathtaking… magical… and exhausting.

There’s a quiet reckoning happening when you realize you are expanding beyond the roles that once defined you.

Scary and exhilarating, all at once.

The amount I’ve been resting lately tells me something important.

I am evolving into something different.

Not knowing the what or the how would normally spark fear in me.

Instead, it’s sparked curiosity.

Standing at a precipice, at a threshold, is not new territory for me.

I’ve been here before in this lifetime.

Yet somehow, this time feels both familiar and entirely new.

It feels like running into a dear friend from long ago.

You forgot how much they mattered… until you’re standing in their presence again.

Maybe it’s the passage of time.

Maybe it’s the work.

But I feel softer now, more receptive, more willing to receive the wisdom that’s arriving.

My quiet refrain has become:

“Take me where you will. I am ready.”

Much of my existence feels like floating.

Like being gently dismantled into smaller, shimmering pieces, snowflakes dancing in the air.

Each one meaningful on its own.

Together, they create something luminous, adaptable, and alive.

A soft covering that takes the shape of whatever it lands on.

Moving beyond what’s familiar and into an intuitive space requires grace.

And energy.

And rest.

And trust.

If you’re feeling any of this too, know you’re not alone.

The practice is where we learn how to stay present inside the unfolding.

✨ Practice with me this week:

Today (Tuesday) | 11:00 am Ashtanga
Life Time Alpharetta (only 2 more!)

Wednesday | 6:00 pm Flow & 7:15 pm Surrender to Be

Life Time Woodstock

With love,

Rene 🤍

P.S. BEST. DEAL. EVER.
Register for Yoga Teacher Training this Friday at the event and save $200 + receive one of the training books. Truly special, don’t miss it.

There are always so many things rising from my heart to share with you.

Here are a few gentle musings that have been surfacing for me lately, perhaps one will meet you right where you are:

1. Let it come to you.

When we release excessive effort, truth has a way of finding us. Softly, beautifully, and right on time.

2. Rest is the deepest form of healing.

Make rest abundant in your day-to-day life. From true rest, right action naturally arises when the moment is ripe.

3. Draw inward and remember your wholeness.

Too much external focus can deplete us. Turning inward nourishes, restores, and reconnects us to what is already complete.

4. Let things fall apart so they can be rebuilt.

There is liberation even in the quietest revolution of the soul. What dissolves creates space for something more aligned to emerge.

5. Association matters.

Surround yourself with those who love you, support you, and reflect your truth back to you, always.

If you’re craving space to move, breathe, and reconnect, I would love to practice with you this week:

✨ Tuesday at 11:00 am — Ashtanga at Life Time Alpharetta (only 2 left!)
✨ Wednesday at 6:00 pm — Flow at Life Time Woodstock
✨ Wednesday at 7:15 pm — Surrender to Be at Life Time Woodstock

With so much love,

Rene 🤍

P.S. Equanimity is key to a peaceful mind. And learning how to cultivate it makes all the difference. Join us for this upcoming Equanimity Clinic to explore this powerful practice.

P.P.S. This is the last week to save $200 on Yoga Teacher Training beginning in February. If you’ve been feeling the nudge… trust it. 🙏

I knew it the moment I woke up.

The air felt different. Softer. Unhurried.

I moved through my morning rituals without negotiating with time.

When I came downstairs, I filled the kettle and turned it on, then slowly unrolled the top of the bag of fancy decaf, like opening something precious.

I measured the grounds, poured them into the bottom of my French press, added hot water, stirred, and set the timer.

When it beeped, I pressed the coffee slowly, listening to the low, squishy sighs of it yielding.

I chose one of my favorite mugs (from Yogis, of course), poured, paused, whispered a short prayer, exhaled… and sipped.

And in that moment, I remembered:

Today is Special Coffee Day.

It changes every week, but the devotion stays the same.

One morning set aside to honor not doing more, just doing one thing fully.

A small ritual that reminds me that the sacred doesn’t announce itself loudly.

It hides in care. In presence. In simplicity done with love.

This is the same spirit that lives at the heart of yoga, especially in Yoga Teacher Training.

Not techniques. Not performance.

But reverence. Truth-telling. Sitting with what’s real.

Learning how to listen beneath the noise and let meaning reveal itself in its own time.

If something in you has been quietly loosening… softening… undoing, this is not a mistake.

It’s a threshold.

And you don’t have to cross it alone.

Tonight’s practice is an invitation to come home to yourself.

✨ Thursday | 5:45 pm
Rene’s Reset: Root + Surrender + Nidra
📍 Life Time Woodstock

Come rest your nervous system. Come feel held. Come remember what’s essential.

With love,

Rene 🤍

P.S. Community Class with Liz is TOMORROW at 5:30 pm. Register now and gather with kindred spirits.

P.P.S. Equanimity Clinic with Lisa & me is NEXT FRIDAY at 6 pm. A beautiful chance to explore steadiness together and 📚 Last chance to save $200 on Yoga Teacher Training + receive a free gift. If the quiet voice inside keeps returning… listen.

Some mornings don’t call for motivation or productivity.

They call for honesty.

This poem came from that place.

Not from understanding but from listening.

Becoming Undone

Something has gotten under my skin
and I can no longer pretend it hasn’t.

At first, it was quiet,
a small irritation,
a whisper I could drown out
with doing.

But it stayed.
It grew teeth.
It asked to be felt.

Now I am tired in a way
that sleep both answers and deepens.
Dreams arrive vivid, insistent,
carrying symbols I don’t rush to explain.

My body calls me inward,
to bed, to belly, to stillness.
Once, I would have resisted.
Once, I would have filled the space with noise.

This time, I let myself soften.

I feel myself being pulled downward,
even while standing upright.
As if surrender has weight
and love has gravity.

The winds of change move me
without asking permission.
The waves of uncertainty wash through.
I do not fight them.

I am not afraid.

I feel grief for what is ending.
I feel love for what carried me this far.
I feel awe for what has not yet taken form.

This is not falling apart.
This is falling inward.
This is the holy work
of becoming undone.

With so much love,

Rene

P.S. 💫 Registration is open for our next Community Class!
Friday, the 16th at 5:30 PM — Root + Surrender with Liz. See you there 🤍

P.P.S. ✨ NOW is the time to register for Yoga Teacher Training.
Deepen your practice, expand your understanding, and find your people with me & Lisa. Early Bird discount ends soon! Details here.

P.P.P.S. 📖 If poetry isn’t your thing, you might enjoy one of my books instead.
You can find them here 🤍