Yoga with Corinn

23/06/2026

On Octavia Butler's birthday, her immortal reckoning with change: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/octavia-butler-god/

23/06/2026

I see many friendships bloom because of yoga. I hope more of the good happens to all of us.

Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise, Mikala Jamison wrote in 2024. https://theatln.tc/z5fhRvrd

When Jamison was teaching indoor cycling, she was the nicest version of herself: “warm, welcoming, and encouraging to the point of profound corniness, despite my usual caustic tendencies,” she writes. People that met in her class started dating; strangers went out for coffee. “These experiences have convinced me that group fitness classes are the best place to make friends as an adult,” she continues, “an idea supported by research that suggests that the glow of exercise’s feel-good chemicals has interpersonal benefits.”

Once, friendships were born in what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places”: physical spaces that aren’t a home or a workplace, don’t charge (much) for entry, and exist in large part to foster conversation. Group classes don’t quite fit in that definition—they can cost money, and their primary activities are “sweating, grunting, and skipping a few reps when the instructor isn’t looking,” Jamison writes. “But they fulfill many conditions that social-psychology research has repeatedly shown to help forge meaningful connections between strangers: proximity (being in the same place), ritual (at the same time, over and over), accumulation (for many hours), and shared experiences or interests (because you do and like the same things)”—a less awkward way to find people with similar interests than at work or at a party.

Even if you don’t find your next best friend at Zumba class, getting into a fitness habit might help you step out of your comfort zone and make more friends in other spaces.

“A room full of grown adults flailing, shouting, and running miles without ever going anywhere is a fundamentally ridiculous prospect,” Jamison continues. “Ridiculous things, however, play a crucial role in connecting with others: They make us laugh.”

🎨: Debora Szpilman

23/06/2026

23/05/2026

23/05/2026

Not available to spend the entire with us? You can register for just the yoga classes instead! 👍🏼☺️🧘🏻‍♀️🌿

05/05/2026

Mom’s Month 🤍
Gentle Flow Yoga and Brunch with Teacher Corinn () and Teacher Aki ()
📅 May 17, 2026
🕰️ 9AM to 11:30AM
🌷Register here: https://forms.gle/Vj3MZFnpveWKwzBp6

23/04/2026

17/04/2026

Join Serenity in the Pines, a restorative yoga and forest bathing experience in Camp John Hay. Slow down, reconnect, and restore with DuckWorld PH.