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New yoga space in Aberdeen - Yoga in Grays Harbor 2026, inclusive and accessible yoga Hoquiam Aberdeen Grays Harbor Washington

a new chapter for little switch

Many of you know that weโ€™ve been thoughtfully searching for a space that better supports the way Little Switch is growing. We are so thrilled to say that we've found it.Weโ€™re moving! ๐ŸŽ‰ Beginning Sunday, February 1st (with our 5:30 pm Sunday Group class), Little Switch will open its doors at our new home:301 W. 6th Street, AberdeenThis new space gives us room to expand what we love most about our content with more space and better privacy, while staying grounded in the same consistent, quality, and bespoke yoga program we've crafted so carefully.

happy birthday Little Switch Yoga!

Today is the anniversary of the yoga project Little Switch Yoga!I launched last year with under $1,000 I'd painstakingly saved up to make a rent and deposit on our wonderful Vasa Hall space.In one year we've grown to three instructors, four regular weekly classes, three monthly specialized series (Plant Power Hour, which starts this upcoming Sunday - as well as LGBTQ+ and Friends Yoga, and Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation), and monthly pay-what-you-wish and free yoga events in the community.We've lowered blood pressure, improved sleep, strengthened physical health, provided a safer community space, and prevented many injuries.Little Switch has served ๐Ÿ,๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“.๐Ÿ“ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ ๐š ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ to the community, and partnered with Grays Harbor College, Grays Harbor Public Health, the Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, the Montesano School District, and the office of Veteran Affairs amongst other entities.Not one month has gone by without a free yoga event or outreach. These events in particular take a lot to plan and market, and despite many changes in my life (including becoming a fulltime graduate student) I've not lost pace once.Perhaps most important to me are the regular formal and informal testimonials I have received about improvements to physical health, mental health, emotional well-being, personal and community strength. I will share some of these testimonials below.Thank you Andrea and Rachel (the two other Little Switch instructors) - as well as our first planning committee of five who met on January 2nd this year.I also want to thank Members.Many people might not realize how difficult it is to survive - let alone build and run a project - as an out trans nonbinary person. Little Switch has definitely been excluded from some more mainstream business associations and medias because of my identity, and I think things are going to get worse.Rachel, Andrea, planning committee, and Members - YOU are the reason we've survived and thrived our first year!Despite formidable obstacles, Little Switch has performed very well in our first year. I will leave you with some testimonials from those who've taken part in our courses, classes, and events:"Having access to a group yoga space and the opportunity to share a yoga practice with others means that I practice more often and more fully than I would on my own. Since practicing (and teaching) at Little Switch, I've developed more physical strength and endurance, more flexibility, and have exercised my teaching skills. I'm hugely grateful to Little Switch for the opportunity to connect with a new community since moving to the area. Itโ€™s provided a sense of belonging and purpose in the midst of a disorienting move. Thank You Agni!"My anxiety is much better now and I noticed that not much gets me upset because I can now breathe and settle my thoughts before reacting. Physically it has lessened pain in more areas then I thought it would. This includes sciatica pain, shoulder pain, and heel pain which I had undergone a lot of doctor appointments. My body doesn't feel as stiff anymore also.…

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We are now at the historic Vasa Hall!

My family goes deep, here in Hoquiam. My Great Grandfather settled here with his wife, as an entrepreneur who lived and worked just a few blocks away from this very Hall. He was a titan of (tiny little) Hoquiam and flew the first mail plane to the Harbor! I am a fourth-generation Hoquiam entrepreneur and I'm so proud of this. I am also proud of the TYPE of enterprise I am bringing. It's different than anything we've previously had.

profit & loss, little switch yoga 2023

I am so proud to say - and so glad to UNIQUELY say it! - that I am sharing my Profit & Loss report for little switch yoga here at year end.To be honest, I have never seen another yoga teacher or studio do this.As usual, I'm a bit of a trailblazer!Now.I am not sharing this to receive business or financial advice.I am sharing this, to give you further insights as to what I'm building!Little Switch will turn one year old, in about a month and a half.Even though I'm not yet making a living wage, I am very happy with how it's going.Please do read on, as this will orient you well to my vision!***2023 REVENUE for little switch yoga:$2,674.00 YOGA EXPENSESRent, props (including a large investment for blankets and blocks), insurance, registration, print materials, and professional development:$1,850.96 TIPS$117.00 NET PROFIT BEFORE TAXES (my wages including tips): $940.04 # of classes taught for little switch (57)+# admin hours (85.5)= hours worked: 142.5number of student-hours served: 250 --------------- $ per hour: $6.60(I did not include gas, my yoga clothes, tea and food in my Expenses this year)I know what some of you might be thinking."If you aren't yet making a living wage yet, why are you offering free yoga*?"First you should know: in my work for Ompractice, I DO in fact get paid a living wage. The numbers above, are reflective of my LOCAL yoga group. What this means is, my total yoga earnings are helping keep my spirits up as I try to build something self-sustaining here in the Harbor.But it's true, when it comes to my local practice I'm not paying myself first.ย Not yet!I am giving yoga scholarships, and it is also true that I am purchasing props as well (rather than paying myself).You may have also noticed I am not purchasing the cheapest props out there.For instance, instead of buying polyester blankets (like you'll find in most studios), I bought 100% cotton. I am using cloths I made myself, instead of disposable wipes. That kind of thing.THIS IS ALL BY DESIGN, BY INTENTION.I am creating a sustainable, joyful community.It takes money and time but it really, REALLY takes a lot of thinking, designing, and polling of my students, that kind of thing.I'm proud of myself (and grateful to my partner) for keeping these records through 2023.And I am REALLY proud of what I've built for the funds I've had.In fact, most entrepreneurs don't make ANY hourly wage in their first year!I've done this WHILE building something fantastic. You only have to come to class - or share tea afterwards - to see what I mean.I have a stellar reputation, a wonderful community, and in 2023 I always have had at least one student in my class (whew!) -ย and I have carefully created an amazing prop library, WHILE paying rent to a local, independent business owner!That said -It's time to move into 2024!How you can help:At this time, I don't need advice on how to market, or how…

what if a yoga class is too hard?

One of the goals with yoga, is to make yoga a regular thing that fits in with your life. Maybe that means once a year you take a de-stressing workshop, using yoga pranayama. Maybe that means three times a week you go to a sweaty hatha and vinyasa flow: building strength and mobility. Or anything in between.

yoga didn’t heal my body image, but teaching yoga did

I didn't want to write a post about my body image - ever, really! - but here we are. My terms of reluctance are legion: first, the cultural conversation seems over-saturated, often surface-level, full of the same platitudes and (increasingly) commercialized languaging. Secondly, as a white American voices like mine are over-represented in health and wellness spaces. Why should I add my thoughts? Who would be interested in hearing them, anyway? But it goes deeper than that. I'm tired of the body image conversation.ย  A conversation I haven't even dipped my toe in! I'm tired. Let's be real: I'm exhausted from watching the Diet and Wellness Industrial Complex shoehorn the sacred constructs of self-care and self-love into programs selling weight-loss subscriptions, quack remedies, diet programs and foodstuffs, and flat tummy teas. In fact the other day Facebook so kindly showed me a fat loss ad using the phraseology: "I've learned my inability to release weight is a trauma response." Reader, that headline alone made me feel D-O-N-E. Nothing more disgusting than telling a trauma victim it's their own fault they can't be smaller. *** But here's the thing. Under Capitalism - and its little red rover buddies White Supremacy and the Patriarchy - all our bodies are under assault, being sold and sold to, up for grabs. All human and non-human animals are served up, sliced and diced (for billions, literally), commodified in every way and marketed to relentlessly. Now: I didn't set that up. But I have to survive it. And so do you! And just because I'm Tired - Doesn't mean I have nothing of value to add. I deserve to have my say, in the chance maybe - just maybe - I could help someone reading here. Because I know my interests and my goals are far more wholesome than those of Capitalism. *** Some day I'll tell my story of what I am up against. What it was like growing up in my maternal family lineage - surrounded by the women who sang duets and trios with one another about how they needed to lose weight, or how they were "bad" for eating that cheesecake, or how their asses were too fat and their features too unlovely - and the men who encouraged these women to care about this stuff. The men (including my beloved Grandfather) who wanted these women to make themselves smaller, the men who took pains to compliment women when they shrank (physically or socially). Some day I'll tell my story what it was like growing up, crammed into the wrong gender. Because if you think you know how it feels to have your body shape and size policed, growing up trans is a whole 'nother Level. My whole childhood it was "girls" or "boys" and which one was I, har har. I was complimented for any "femininity" of figure and form - I was never given space for my own gender autonomy. "Look at you here," my mother says to me, jabbing…

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