05/10/2025
I am having a big nostalgic moment. I am longing for slower times, simpler times. I am finding it really hard to remember what life was like before ‘the phone’. I used to read .. a lot. Be creative and spontaneous. I do remember the first time I joined instagram, it was magical and I loved it. I followed family from America with an insight into New York living. I started posting family things , some work but mainly just catch up pictures with friends, it was fun. The trend then came for yoga pictures instagram became a place for self loathing and doubt. The yoga that I knew ( and were trained for - we don’t use yoga to show off ) was very much ingrained in my head from my teacher training and here on social media now I was seeing gymnastic type poses which didn’t fit the narrative of what I knew . It felt like a silent scream! Vinyasa flow was everywhere ..instagram yoga was born. Yoga was now a mainly skinny white girl , gymnastics, big money business and much like the practise that’s sold today. A far cry from the medicine I knew. But I think things are changing , I am reading more and more people want authenticity, a simpler life or a life back ! Growing home food, yoga at home in PJs , a burner style phone Nokia 3210 , family gatherings , cuts of tea round a friends, old VHS players , less consuming more engaging. I am I here for it. You? Ironically the ‘Yoga girl ‘ posted a truth instagram recently saying how she regrets the whole yoga movement years back , that she was hurting her body for pictures and starving herself for content and for what ? I think toxic culture is ending and people want truth , creativity and connection. Smaller classes are coming , intimate spaces for real life x
