Desert Lotus Yoga Abq

Desert Lotus Yoga Abq Yoga studio in Albuquerque New Mexico. Breathe in the moment at Desert Lotus Yoga!

🌱 Meet Our Team 🌱Each of us at Desert Lotus Yoga is here with one shared intention — to hold space and grow with you. To...
04/03/2026

🌱 Meet Our Team 🌱
Each of us at Desert Lotus Yoga is here with one shared intention — to hold space and grow with you. Together, we create a supportive environment for healing, connection, and community.
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Through breath, movement, and reflection, we aim to help you cultivate inner peace and personal wellbeing — even amidst the flow of a fast-paced world. 💫
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Come practice with us and feel the energy of our collective heart. 💛
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🦋🌷The Cost of GrowthNothing we are lasts, not even for the duration of our own lifetime. As unsettling as this may feel,...
04/03/2026

🦋🌷The Cost of Growth
Nothing we are lasts, not even for the duration of our own lifetime. As unsettling as this may feel, it also holds a quiet kind of comfort. We often experience change as something that happens all at once, in clear and defining moments, but in reality, it is something that is happening all along. We tend to focus on change as something to embrace or resist, to instigate or attempt to inhibit. What we miss is the growth, that quiet, unrecognized companion to change.
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To say that growth can be painful is deeply inadequate to describe the ongoing surrender it asks of us as we move through the stages of life. The cost of growth is not singular; instead, it is a chain of small deaths: the loss of innocence, of certainty, of past identities, of time. The late 15th-century metaphysical poet John Donne put this aptly when he wrote: “Our birth dies in infancy, and our infancy dies in youth, and youth and the rest die in age, and age also dies and determines all.”
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In the end, all of this is a good thing. If nothing we are is meant to last, then we are not meant to stay fixed or confined to any single version of ourselves. Each small ending creates space for something new to emerge—something wiser, deeper, more aligned. What feels like loss is also movement, and what disappears makes growth possible. Without this constant unfolding and release, we would never become more than we once were and the pain in would be exponentially more unbearable.
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Ahhh! This community. We miss you and your contagious laughter, your unapologetic confidence, and most of all your hugs!...
03/15/2026

Ahhh! This community. We miss you and your contagious laughter, your unapologetic confidence, and most of all your hugs! 🤗 Cali better be treating you well!

Member Appreciation Starts Now...With MALA Beads!📿We’re kicking things off with mala bracelets. Each time you come to cl...
03/03/2026

Member Appreciation Starts Now...With MALA Beads!
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We’re kicking things off with mala bracelets. Each time you come to class, you’re invited to collect one bead. Once you’ve gathered 27 beads, you’ll create your own mala bracelet to support your meditation practice.
Join us the last weekend of April for a special studio gathering where we’ll string our malas together and practice japa meditation as a community.
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You’ll find organza pouches and beads at the altar, where they’ll be kept to soak in the energy of our shared practice.
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🕯️🌱What Stays When You LeaveI was recently asked what I hope people feel when they walk out of Desert Lotus—not just aft...
03/02/2026

🕯️🌱What Stays When You Leave
I was recently asked what I hope people feel when they walk out of Desert Lotus—not just after a single class, but from having this place woven into their lives. While we have done our best to create a space where you can enjoy yoga, my heartfelt answer is much deeper.
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More than anything, I want you to feel less alone in the world. I want this to be a space where you can set down all that you carry, even if just for a little while. A place where you don’t have to perform, fix, or hold it all together. Where you can arrive exactly as you are and be met there—quietly, honestly, without expectation.
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If this space can offer even a small sense of belonging…of being seen…of being honored in your wholeness—then it is doing what it’s meant to do. Beyond that, I hope something subtle stays with you. A warmth. A steadiness. A quiet glow you begin to recognize not just while in yoga class, but out in your life.
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In yoga, we call this quality tejas—your inner radiance. It is not something you can chase or create, but something that is revealed and refined through practice. It’s the light of clarity, of courage, of presence. The kind of light that isn’t blinding, but illuminating. Over time, you notice it in the way you speak to yourself, in the way you move through challenge, and even in the way you interact with others.
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This is how the practice of yoga extends beyond the mat. This is how it becomes something lived. And it is in this quiet way, tending to your own inner light, that you help to light the world.
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Sovereign Fire 🔥🐎There is a flame that reacts,that leaps toward dysfunction,that feeds on urgency,that mistakes movement...
02/17/2026

Sovereign Fire 🔥🐎

There is a flame that reacts,
that leaps toward dysfunction,
that feeds on urgency,
that mistakes movement for truth.

And there is a flame that knows.

That flame is a steady ember.
A sovereign heat.
The kind that warms before it transforms.
This fire is within and it exists to burn away what was passed down —
roles, stories, reactions.

Let this fire purify the impulse to rush, refine courage into clarity.
Let this fire move you because your bones say yes.

Fire as medicine does not leave you scattered.
It leaves you lighter.
Clearer.
More yourself.
So as you rise from this place,
may your flame be sovereign —
not wild with reaction,
but powerful with knowing.
May it warm your life.
May it illuminate your path.
And may it burn only what is ready to be transformed.

🌱 Meet Our Team 🌱Each of us at Desert Lotus Yoga is here with one shared intention — to hold space and grow with you. To...
02/06/2026

🌱 Meet Our Team 🌱
Each of us at Desert Lotus Yoga is here with one shared intention — to hold space and grow with you. Together, we create a supportive environment for healing, connection, and community.
🪷
Through breath, movement, and reflection, we aim to help you cultivate inner peace and personal wellbeing — even amidst the flow of a fast-paced world. 💫
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Come practice with us and feel the energy of our collective heart. 💛
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MindfulLiving InnerPeace

🫶💘The Faces of Self-LoveI was listening to a podcast recently and the guest shared an idea that struck me: we engage in ...
02/05/2026

🫶💘The Faces of Self-Love
I was listening to a podcast recently and the guest shared an idea that struck me: we engage in acts of self-love far more than we realize, but we don’t recognize them because our culture tends to overlook anything that isn’t grand or glamorous. It got me wondering–what are the ways we love ourselves every day?
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It may sound cliche, but the smallest things often carry the greatest impact. When we take time to brush and floss our teeth, we are loving the future self that will have healthier teeth as they age. When we pay the dreaded bills that arrive in the mail, we are loving the future self that will have less anxiety going to the mailbox. When we
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assert our needs through the boundary of a firm “no”, we are loving ourselves into greater authenticity. There are many more faces of self-love than what our culture typically offers us. More often than not, self-love looks like a quiet night at home rather than an expansive spa day. Over time, these small, ordinary acts build a robust human life.
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The aha moment for me was this: self-love does not always involve ease or excitement. Sometimes it is hard. Sometimes it is tedious. Sometimes it requires difficult decisions.
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We can look ahead and imagine how the ways we care for ourselves today will serve our future self. And we can look back at the difficult moments we’ve already lived through. It is almost certain that many of the actions we took during those times can be seen as acts of self-love, even if we didn’t know it in the moment.
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01/08/2026

New beginnings start here ✨
Join our New Beginnings Yoga Series—a supportive, grounding space to learn, explore, or return to your practice.
🪷4 hours of intentional instruction
🪷14 days of unlimited classes
Perfect for beginners and anyone craving a fresh start.
Come as you are. Begin again.
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“As student and teacher together we request Divine protection” 🕊️The Shanti Mantra is a shared prayer for peace—an invit...
01/05/2026

“As student and teacher together we request Divine protection” 🕊️
The Shanti Mantra is a shared prayer for peace—an invitation to enter practice with calm minds and open hearts. When we chant it together, student and teacher alike ask for protection, clarity, and harmony, remembering that the path of yoga is not walked alone. True growth unfolds in community, where learning becomes mutual and peace is cultivated together. Thank you for being part of this community 🙏
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🙏🏼🗝️Let These Hands Stop ShakingWhat is panic? From where does it arise? Is it a messenger or a malfunction? From a yogi...
12/30/2025

🙏🏼🗝️Let These Hands Stop Shaking
What is panic? From where does it arise? Is it a messenger or a malfunction? From a yogic perspective, panic reflects prana gone awry, our vital life force surging upward and outward in restless, uncontained motion. In this scattered state, we are pulled into the mind—into anticipation, fear, and loss of control—often feeling strangely disconnected from the very body that is trembling, signaling its need for grounding and care.
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Mercifully, the cure lies within the disease. The answer to frantic prana is the humble, grounded, and purposeful, connection to something greater than our own suffering, greater than our own racing thoughts. While anxiety pulls us upward into the mind—into anticipation, fear, and loss of control—acts of service return us to the body, to contact with the earth, to movement and belonging. In this way the poet’s words “when I wash the feet of the world, my hands stop shaking” become a testimony to the power of giving. When our energy is given over in service to something larger than our racing thoughts, prana reorganizes, the nervous system softens, and the grip of anxiety begins to loosen.
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It is worthwhile to remember that disorders of panic and anxiety do not define us; within the context of yoga they arrive not as identities, but as guides. Though their presence can feel anything but advantageous, they serve to call us back toward balance, embodiment, and inner harmony.
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If panic grips you, if anxiety is a frequent visitor, remember you are not alone. When the sensations lift, and they will, find a way to give to the world so in need of your gifts.
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11200 Montgomery NE Ste 7
Albuquerque, NM
87111

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 10:30am
4pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday 11am - 1pm
Thursday 4pm - 7:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 7:30pm
Saturday 8:30am - 10:30am

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The goal of Desert Lotus Yoga is to hold space, grow, and build community in order to reach our highest purpose. By integrating breath, movement, and mindfulness, we strive to promote the development of inner peace and personal wellbeing in a fast paced world.