Center for Living Mindfully

12/28/2025

Join Augusta F. Kantra this Wednesday for the 17th annual New Year's Eve Yoga & Mindfulness Celebration at 9am! Only 6 spots remain for in-person, but Zoom spots are unlimited.

12/20/2025

Wishing you a cozy holiday season and a soft year of accepting that you have always been enough,
❤️ Lacy and the Center for Living Mindfully

11/30/2025

David Kantra wrote this awesome article for Feathered Pipe’s blog.

The more you learn to determine what truly deserves attention, the more balanced your internal news cycle becomes.

11/19/2025

It’s never a failure. It’s never lost time. It’s a lesson, a data point, a jumping off point to the next big thing. You don’t have to earn rest; you deserve it simply because you are human. Every dataset has data points that are outliers or that don’t fit the trend. The only way we can be sure of getting a negative outcome is by giving up. Otherwise, just keep adding positive data points when you can, and your life will trend in the ways you’ve always wanted it to 💛
💕 Lacy and the Center for Living Mindfully

11/17/2025

Yoga Geek workshop was a gathering of some awesome folks! Thanks everyone!! For those that were on the waitlist, we’ll do it again. Namasté, Augusta

11/17/2025

What an awesome group we had at Yoga Geek Workshop: Where Alignment Meets Awareness. For those on the waitlist, we will do it again soon.
I loved the curiosity, the openness and the enthusiasm that these yogis showed! Thank you to everyone!!! You make teaching a JOY! Love and Namasté, Augusta

11/07/2025

Link to tickets in comments below.

10/27/2025

Yay! We’re going back to Feathered Pipe in 2026!!! This year was absolutely magical! So good, that we’re doing it again! Only 9 spots remaining! Jump in and join us!
Check it out at the link below.

A week-long immersion in mindfulness in a setting that invites your heart to open and inspires joy and connection - to yourself and to those that share this beautiful journey with you.

10/22/2025

Big Congratulations to Sasi Wilkins for earning her “Resting Buddha” for attending 520 Saturday Morning Yoga classes! (That’s 10 years’ worth of Saturdays!)
Sasi, May you know how much you matter and how much you are loved.
Love and Namasté
Augusta

This is the poem I dedicated to Sasi…
YOU, MADE OF DIRT AND WATER

sometimes it is necessary to reteach
a thing its loveliness—Galway Kinnell

There is nothing wrong with you.
Just ask a redwood if it ever thinks its trunk
too thick, or an aspen if its branches too bare.
Neither does a dandelion look at a sunflower
and wish it could be one. And the black dahlia
certainly has not learned to reject the color of
its petals. There is just no way you could be
ugly. No way you are wrong. Whatever it is
they had you believe about your inherited sin,
and who you must be. Whatever the violent
conditioning—Remember, you are made of
dirt and water, shaped by light.
Your ancestors imagined you in a vision,
their mud bodies galloping in stride—
let their wisdom bite down into your shoulder.
You, loved into breath. You, the pinnacle of
a determined lineage. You, the beginning of
a dream, the divine’s uttered expression.
Just as a river hugs its banks. Just as a bee
opens blossoms. Just as the sun wakens
the earth, again, so are you, beloved, made in
the image of inimitable belonging, shaped from
a reservoir of tenderness, so deep and clear,
so certain, there is no question of your loveliness.
Place a hand to your heart. Breathe. Feel again
the pleasure of being. Learn, once more, how
it is to praise. Then stride yourself, humbly and
curious, into this immeasurable new day.

Moudi Sbeity