Sangha Yoga Studio

02/14/2026

I just got off a call with the other women leading the Human Trafficking Advocacy Initiative (HTAI)… and I’m honestly feeling so lit up.

This is a group of powerful, steady, devoted women leading communities across the globe and braiding their work together for something bigger than any one studio, any one city.

And this year, Sangha is part of that braid.

If you’ve been around, you already know this has been introduced a couple of times. But being on that call today made it real in a new way. It’s international. It’s organized. It’s consistent. A very special long-haul commitment.

And I felt so proud that we said yes.

India has given me so much. The teachers who shaped me. The lineage that informs everything I teach. The devotion and sacred study that lives underneath our practices. Every time you study here, whether it’s a 200-hour, an online cohort, a one-off event, or your regular weekly class, you are already receiving something that was born there.

This year, we give back.

Our goal as a studio community is to raise $5,000 for HTAI in 2026. Supporting safe housing, education, advocacy, and recovery efforts for women and children in the red light districts of Kolkata.

Children who are dropped off because families cannot care for them.
Children whose mothers are forced into trafficking and need safe places while they work.
Children who deserve protection, education, stability.

It’s amazing how far a dollar stretches in Kolkata.

And it won’t just be one big moment in November (though that will be beautiful). We’re braiding this through the entire year. Through trainings. Through events. Through small, meaningful opportunities that allow us to participate again and again as a community.

Next week is our first.

A generous woman from our own community has donated handmade gemstone jewelry — tiger’s eye, peridot, precious woven bracelets, holistic-feeling earrings, even playful crystal keychains. They’ll be available in the studio starting next week by suggested donation.

Every single dollar goes directly to HTAI.

You get something beautiful.
You gift something meaningful.
And someone else receives housing, education, and advocacy.

This spring, our 200-hour trainees will also be offering donation-based community practices with all proceeds supporting the same initiative.

When you practice here, you take care of yourself.
When you study here, you deepen your life.
And when you invest here, you’re part of something that gives back.

I can already feel how beautiful it will be. Not just because of the money we’ll raise, but because of the way it braids us together, the memories each beautiful offering will create.

Stay tuned. There is more coming. More opportunities. More ways to gather around this. More ways to participate.

For now, plan to book your class next week and come see the pieces.

I’m so proud of this community.

02/14/2026

A one to few model that focuses on supporting real humans in living well by offering the full system of yoga.
That includes postures, experiential education in the other 7 limbs, energetic understanding and a healthy community where students are supported and instructors feel steadied and expanded💛

02/09/2026

We’re now settling into February, and if you’ve been in the studio this past week, you may have already felt the shift slower transitions, deeper breath cues, steady invitations to move from your center instead of your momentum.

This month brings us into Sthira and Sukha.
Steadiness and ease.
Strength and softness.
Commitment and breath.

As partners.

It’s the perfect anchor for this point in the year. Early February always holds that blend of lingering winter and the first hints of returning light. In Ayurveda, this is when Vata(airy, dry, cold) begins to give way to Kapha, a time when we naturally crave warmth, grounding, and a sense of being held from the inside out.

It’s also the time when many people feel their motivation dip. January’s novelty fades, and practice begins to ask for something deeper than enthusiasm.
This is where Sthira and Sukha really matter.

Throughout February, our physical focus is core as support, not just in the fitness sense, but in the yogic sense of remembering that strength is something we grow from the inside.

You’ll feel this through:
• Slow, intentional transitions or pulsations
• Breath-led movement (as always)
• Rising and stepping from the center of the body
• Floor-based practices that build core strength
• Standing sequences where core engagement reshapes the posture from the inside

The hope is that by the end of this month, you feel more supported from within. More steady, more connected, and more able to meet your life from your center.

Support your practice no matter where you are:This week, start noticing your core in motion.
How does it support you as you rise, step, or move through familiar postures?

02/02/2026

A new woman walks into class.
She’s early because she’s nervous.
She wants to get her bearings and feel safe.

She rolls out her mat.
A regular walks in.
She stops.
Looks at her.
And says,
“You’re in my spot.”
There is no faster way to make someone feel unwelcome.
And there is no faster way to expose where our practice is still surface level.

When I read stories like this, I feel horrified and grateful all at once. Horrified because there are studios where someone will actually look a new person in the eye and say, “You’re in my spot.” Grateful because I have never witnessed that in our space.

But I do see the pattern underneath it. I see it in the way people show up earlier and earlier to guard their spot. I see it in how we arrange our props like little safety zones. I see it when the room shifts and someone’s whole energy collapses because the plan changed.

Yoga asks us to notice where we cling, and right now we are a vata pitta society in a vata pitta deranged time, especially here in the U.S. Fast paced, full of fear, and full of people trying to create stability in any way they can. Sometimes it shows up in the smallest places, like needing your mat spot to feel okay. I get it, we are human. We love our rituals, and we long for predictability, especially when the world around us feels chaotic.

These things aren’t wrong. They are human. And they are invitations.

Aparigraha is often translated as non-grasping, but that doesn’t mean giving things up. It means looking at the places where we hold on so tightly that our flexibility disappears. It means noticing when our sense of safety gets tied to a corner of the room or a familiar routine. It means remembering that yoga is meant to soften us, not make us territorial.

If you feel unsettled when someone takes “your spot,” that feeling is not a failure. It is insight. It is the exact place your practice is inviting you to grow next. The moment you soften your hold, your practice expands.

Let the mat move. Let the view shift. Let yourself be shaped by the moment instead of the ritual around it. That is the transformation. That is the work. That is yoga.

01/21/2026

Let’s stop pretending yoga is easy fitness. Let’s stop pretending the postures are the magic instead of the vehicle for the magic.
Yoga is a program, a system, with 8 limbs that work together
Working the WHOLE program is where the magic is.

And the best teachers have experience working the whole program and know how to teach it as part of each physical practice.

That’s where our 200hr Yoga Teacher Training shines💛

You already know you’re ready for a deeper kind of study, a study that teaches you yoga poses and grows you into who you’ve been becoming for years.
When I guide a training, I’m giving you so much more than surface level instruction. I’m inviting you into a lineage I’ve devoted my life to, a path shaped by travel, years of practice, real mentorship, and the kind of embodied understanding that comes from living this work day after day.
You’ll learn the alignment, the sequencing, the safety, the way postures actually land in a real body.
And you’ll learn it alongside the deeper systems that give yoga its power, the energy body, the philosophy, the nervous system regulation that makes practice feel alive and sustainable.
In this 200 hour yoga teacher training, you’re not lost in a crowd.
You’re seen, challenged, and supported.
You learn the system of yoga through the body, through energy, through the mind, and you learn it in a way that changes how you move through your life.
If you’re feeling the pull toward deeper study, trust that.
The people who choose Sangha’s 200hr are the ones ready for steadiness, clarity, and a more embodied way of living.
💛
Kandice

01/21/2026

01/20/2026

01/19/2026

I once heard a woman say, almost casually, “I got into headstand the first time I tried.”

There was a pause, and then she added, “But to be clear, it wasn’t the first time my body had done the work.”

She went on to explain that while it was her first time upside down in that way, she had spent years practicing foundational postures. Warriors. Downward dog. Transitions. Building strength, awareness, and relationship with her body in ways that didn’t look particularly flashy. So when the moment came, her body already knew what to do.

I think about that story often.

It’s easy to be drawn to the more exotic shapes in yoga. Crow, headstand, arm balances. They’re interesting. They look impressive. And they can be fun to explore. But the real power of a physical practice lives in the foundations.

When we refine how we move through warriors, how we organize ourselves in downward facing dog, how we transition with care, we’re building strength that actually supports the body. Not just for one pose, but for the long arc of practice. We’re developing a conscious relationship with how strength is created, where it’s coming from, and how it’s being held.

This kind of work doesn’t rush the body. It prepares it.

There’s also something deeper happening here. Foundational postures offer the nervous system clear information. Where am I grounded? Where am I stable? What can I trust beneath me? That sense of physical steadiness is closely tied to what, in yoga, we might call the root. Safety. Stability. Feeling supported enough to stay present.

When those foundations are in place, effort becomes more sustainable. Strength builds without force. Awareness sharpens. And over time, the practice starts to feel less like something we’re doing to the body and more like something we’re doing with it.

That’s very much part of what we’re exploring this month at Sangha.

This week in practice, whether you’re joining us in class or practicing on your own, I invite you to bring your attention to the foundational postures. Notice how they feel in your body. Notice where strength is being built. Notice what changes when you bring your awareness more fully into the shape, the breath, and the transition.

01/18/2026

When I was invited to be part of a human trafficking advocacy initiative this coming year, it was an immediate yes in my heart.
This year a grouo of women from around the globe are coming together to raise funds for this special cause. Knowing that this work is being carried forward collectively, by women in many countries, cultures, and communities, feels incredibly powerful to me. It’s a reminder that this is not a solitary effort, but a shared commitment to protection, dignity, and care.

For me it as a student of yoga, and a teacher, also feels like a rare and meaningful opportunity to give back to a land that has given me so much, and to do so in a way that feels close to my values and my lived experience.

Traveling to India and studying there shaped me in profound ways. The practices that sustain my wellness, my teaching, and my livelihood were born there. Being in that landscape held immense beauty, devotion, and aliveness. It also introduced me, very clearly, to a depth of suffering that is difficult to understand until you witness it firsthand.

India holds extraordinary richness, and it also holds extraordinary density. So many lives, so much resilience, and not nearly enough resources to go around. I’ve seen what it means for people to hold joy and celebration alongside deep adversity. I’ve also seen how fragile safety and freedom can be for women and children, especially in places where systems are strained and support is limited.

That awareness has stayed with me.

So when the opportunity arose to support organizations doing real, on-the-ground work for women and children in Kolkata, it felt like a natural extension of the gratitude I carry for the teachings and traditions that have shaped my life.

This year, Sangha will be engaging in a human trafficking advocacy initiative with the intention of offering tangible support. We’re approaching this with reverence, clarity, and care. Our hope is to raise at least $5,000 through a primary community fundraiser, along with smaller acts of giving throughout the year.

I’m exploring a few different options for community fundraisers - what i iniw is i want it to be an opportunity for many to gather, enjoy one another, and contribute to something meaningful together. It matters to me that giving feels connected, human, and rooted in relationship, not obligation. And of course we want to raise funds!

In the past, we’ve supported the Humane Society and initiatives serving women navigating domestic abuse, alongside quieter forms of giving woven into our year. This initiative is a step into a larger commitment, and I’m grateful to be taking it alongside a community that values integrity, devotion, and impact.

More details will be shared as plans take shape. For now, I wanted you to understand why this matters so deeply to me, and why it feels aligned to carry this work forward through Sangha.hr isr

01/15/2026

Something really good is happening at the studio right now.

In just the last couple of days, three people who have been practicing with us, some for months, some for just weeks, chose to step into deeper care for themselves by becoming members. That choice matters. It reflects devotion. A decision to tend to health more fully, more consistently, and more honestly.

One of the notes I woke up to this morning came from someone who has walked with the studio for years. She shared how deeply supportive her practice here is feeling right now. How steady it’s been for her nervous system, her body, her life. She also named how meaningful it’s been to feel held and contained in this season. Reflections like this tell me we’re doing something right.

Everything at Sangha is intentionally offered in a one-to-few model. No matter which class you attend, you’re practicing in a smaller group where you’re seen and your body and energy are responded to in real time. That level of attention supports growth on every level.

This approach also creates continuity. In an industry where many studio relationships last only a few months, our community tends to grow slowly and stay connected for years. When people are known and supported over time, practice becomes something they return to, not something they cycle through.

Growing membership opens up real possibilities for the community. More members means more classes and more opportunities to practice. It also allows us to bring on more teachers, adding diversity of experience and perspective. All of this deepens the studio, and it’s something I’m genuinely excited about as we look ahead.

January gets a rough rap sometimes. We don’t subscribe to that here. We’re a community. We love welcoming new people, and we love continuing the path with those who have been here through many seasons

09/03/2025

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