Monday, April 27, 2026

Trust the timing.

Hi, Subscriber First Name,

This was meant to land in your inbox Friday afternoon. Instead, I spent Friday at urgent care and then the ER, after listening to a few days of compression in my lower leg my body wouldn't let me ignore. The good news? It’s nothing serious. No DVT. Just a body asking for attention and getting it.

The whole thing turned out to be the week's lesson in real time. I trusted my own knowing—that something was off—and got it checked. I'm grateful for both the instinct and the answer…

…which made it a little funny that trust was already this week's reflection theme, written before any of that happened. Sometimes the universe doubles down.

→ Read On trust

It opens with a squirrel named Sally and ends somewhere quieter. I hope it finds you well.

Come practice with me.

Wednesday nights at Lighthouse Yoga Center (Brightwood, D.C.)
6:30p ET | Vinyasa Flow | 60 minutes
7:45p ET | Restorative | 75 minutes

The April Friday Candlelit Yin series at Bluebird Day has wrapped—thank you to everyone who came live.

If you’ve been curious about private yoga, let’s talk. We’ll move at your speed. (Interested but don’t live in Washington, D.C.? Private yoga is actually pretty amazing virtually.)

🎉 The May Series—my 50th, my gift to you

May is my birthday month. I'm turning 50, and to celebrate, I'm offering three online classes—three different practices, three different times of day. I'd love to have you in the room for any or all of them.

• Friday May 1, 7:30a ET
  Move Breathe Be | 30 minutes—kicking off the month

• Tuesday May 12, 5:15p ET
  Birthday Hatha Happy Hour | 45 minutes—hatha + pranayama to close, optional toast at the end 🥂

• Sunday May 31, 7p ET
  Yang/Yin | 60 minutes—closing the month softly\

My gift to you? All three classes, free.

Your gift to me? Sign up for all three, and commit to yourself.

Use code 50THBIRTHDAY at checkout to register for the full series for free. Or take any class a la carte ($8 | $12 | $16). Can’t make one live? You’ll get the recording.

→ Learn more and sign up

Food for thought.

This week was Earth Day, and the Move Breathe Be Pose Library happens to have three takes on Vrksasana, or tree pose—one standing and two inverted. Three different relationships to the ground. Three different invitations to trust.

Vrksasana is, at its heart, about trust. It challenges our fear of falling. Through practice, we learn to trust our inner self.

• Vrksasana (standing tree)—trust your standing leg and that falling is part of the practice.

• Supta adho mukha vrksasana (supine handstand)—practice the alignment of handstand with the support of the floor.

• Ardha adho mukha vrksasana (half handstand)—trust your hands with the wall (or a chair) as backup.

If you haven’t explored the Pose Library yet, you can sort by Opening, Standing Poses, Inversions, Backbends, Forward Folds and Restorative. The above live in Standing Poses and Inversions respectively.

→ Explore the Pose Library

Want me to break down a particular pose in version two of the Pose Library? Let me know which one(s) you’d like to see!

Coaching.

Sally the Squirrel made trust visible to me—the daily wager we all make, mostly without naming it. If you've been quietly weighing something this week, wondering whether to trust your own knowing, coaching is one way to get clearer on what your instincts are already telling you.

I work with people who are ready to trust themselves out loud.

→ Schedule a free consult

A breath before you go.

Trust is not the absence of doubt. It's the willingness to act anyway—to listen to the leg, to extend the paw, to begin again.

The opposite of anxiety isn't calm. It's trust.

Inhale. Exhale. Whatever this week asks of you—you can trust yourself to meet it.

with love ✨, CATHERINE

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