08/06/2026
well time flies when you’re having fun… or working on opening a yoga studio 😉 just getting a chance to post about my yoga retreat 7/31-8.2. wow, just wow.
HELLO AUGUST VERMONT YOGA RETREAT 🧘♀️
we released by the fire, ate vegan ayurvedic indian/western cuisine, experienced guided nature bathing, so much yoga and meditation. sat in the shala for an hour practicing our abhyanga oiling. blasted off under a meditation sound bath with a 7 foot gong. enjoyed solitude. enjoyed conversation. practiced not being busy. and well, the rest of the details are sacred 😆
leading my third yoga retreat at 30, is truly such an honor. the ceilings are constantly changing and growing taller for me. I dreamed about this life 10 years ago. however, the gratitude I have about my own life path is such a minuscule focus of what I want to share here.
I am so grateful for the students who decide to trust me, and mostly themselves. to show up somewhere they have never been, with people they do not know, and trust that I have their back. this is the entire mission of jess be here.
there are the dualities of life: life’s inevitable happiness, bliss, the excitement!! life’s inevitable pain, confusion or suffering. we walk our individual paths alone, yet at the same time, we can find ways to hold whatever “it” is, together.
how would we possibly recognize one without the other?
can we find the earth beneath our feet between it all?
this is our observant yogic practice.
can I also just give a crazy big shoutout to shannon who has attended all three retreats I’ve run?! shannon - none of them would’ve been the same without you. ♥️🔥
swipe through to try to visualize the bliss!!
but to really feel it — well, maybe you meditate on if the next retreat feels right 😆
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