Elaine Oyang Yoga Therapy, Los Angeles, CA (2025)

11/01/2025

As the days get shorter and the nights longer, and with the upcoming daylight savings and festivities, it’s even more important to be extra gentle to yourself.

Pick one that resonates, and try integrating that one today.

Self-care is not about doing it all, or doing it perfectly.

It’s about reclaiming some time and creating space, even if just 5 minutes, to do so.

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What will you try to integrate this month?

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10/27/2025

Rest is a skill set and a portal for you to return to yourself, again and again.

Reclaim and return to rest on Nov 9, when your virtual portal opens.

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Comment REST to join the Founding Members Circle.

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10/23/2025

Fall is a huge transition in many ways. And with transitions like this, it’s always a good time to double down on self-care rituals, and even evaluate what no longer works for you and incorporate a new ritual.

Here are some that I follow.

I don’t do them all everyday. I don’t do them perfectly.

Self—care is to about another thing on your to-do list.

It’s a meaningful pause for yourself and asking: “What is my body asking for right now? How can I tend to it?”

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Is there one from this list that resonates most with you? Do you already have your own self-care rituals?

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10/22/2025

For the women who’s exhausted from the hustle, from trying to do it all ➡️

To allow yourself to slow down and rest isn’t a sign of weakness.

In fact, it’s an act of courage.

Because when you test, you’re reclaiming your time and energy back to yourself.

You stop letting others take your light, while you rekindle your inner resilience.

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is the community for courageous women to reclaim their rest, through:

- yoga that nourishes
- yoga that embraces rest
- yoga that reminds you that you are enough, just as you are
- yoga to help you remember who you are underneath the stress and exhaustion

And in case you’re wondering, that pose above? It’s an actual pose that helps the nervous system return to a sense of safety.

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Comment RECLAIM to join the waitlist. When our virtual doors open Nov 9, the movement of women reclaiming rest begins.

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10/15/2025

1. Yoga is a commitment to self-realization, and becoming a kinder and more compassionate person because of that.

2. The core of yoga is its sets of philosophical principles. The fancy poses are newer innovations.

3. Savasana is regarded as one of the most important AND advanced poses. Period.

4. A beginner isn’t going to be able to do downward facing dog on Day 1.

5. Doing what feels good all the time doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily beneficial. Growth requires discomfort.

6. Many wellness trends and science “breakthroughs” are yoga (or Ayurveda).

7. By traditions, an advanced pose is meditation.

8. See point #1

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Call me a traditionalist, but I believe in adhering and honoring this ancient wisdom.

It’s time to come back to what yoga really is.

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✨At we immerse in yoga’s true magic — to know ourselves again underneath the layers of stress, trauma, and exhaustion. To feel safe resting back within ourselves. A homecoming.

💛 Comment WAITLIST to join before our virtual doors open

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10/15/2025

1. Yoga is a commitment to self-realization, and becoming a kinder and more compassionate person because of that.

2. The core of yoga is its sets of philosophical principles. The fancy poses are newer innovations.

3. Savasana is regarded as one of the most important AND advanced poses. Period.

4. A beginner isn’t going to be able to do downward facing dog on Day 1.

5. Doing what feels good all the time doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily beneficial. Growth requires discomfort.

6. Many wellness trends and science “breakthroughs” are yoga (or Ayurveda).

7. By traditions, an advanced pose is meditation.

8. See point #1

Call me a traditionalist, but I believe in adhering and honoring this ancient wisdom.

It’s time to come back to what yoga really is.

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✨At we immerse in yoga’s true magic — to know ourselves again underneath the layers of stress, trauma, and exhaustion. To feel safe resting back within ourselves. A homecoming.

💛 Comment WAITLIST to join before our virtual doors open

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10/08/2025

“Oh, you teach yoga? No wonder you’re so fit and flexible!”

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Sorry to disappoint but that version of me is 10 years ago.

As my body and seasons of my life change, my yoga practice has to adapt and support, rather than stay rigid and depleting.

When I already push myself so hard in my daily life and my work, my yoga practice needs to counter balance that.

The more I know myself and my body, the more I value rest-based and introspective yoga practices.

Because when I nurture myself and value my rest, I actually discover who I am underneath the layers of stress, overwhelm, and exhaustion.

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🌙 How are you nurturing yourself and resting today?

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10/01/2025

October is an invitation to slow down, gather energy inwards, and get cozy.

As the leaves turn color and the air grows crisp, we are reminded that this is a transition, outwardly and inwardly.

Nature is preparing for a dormitory period, as such, our bodies naturally are needing and craving that.

Enjoy the holidays and the festivities to come, but become more intentional in inviting blank spaces and protecting your own boundaries.

🍂How are you calling forth October?

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09/01/2024

Self-nurture is a constantly evolving practice. Self-nurture practices can vary by time of the day, season of the year, and season in life.

Life — it’s full of transitions. And for many menstruating people a major transition is perimenopause.

Once again, a rarely talked about topic unless one is going through the many challenges that can come with the hormonal shifts.

And once again, a sacred transition that is often treated like a “disease” in the Western medical fields.

But as with any transition in life, while perimenopause comes with its sets of challenges, you CAN navigate it with more ease if you have certain self-nurture practices in place.

This week, my good friend Yvette and I discuss how menstruating people can navigate these transitions with more grace and ease.

She tells us of:
* her own challenges of perimenopause
* how she applied her years of studies in yoga and Ayurveda to help ease her symptoms
* simple Ayurvedic principles to better prepare us for the transition and to handle potential challenges with more ease

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Listen IN 🎧 elaineyoga.com/podcast/ep-17 or LINK IN BIO

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08/08/2024

When you think of your period aka menstrual phase, you probably will elicit groans and whines.

For many menstruating people, periods (and even the week before the period) can be an inconvenient and even painful times of the month.

I’ve worked with many clients whose PMS symptoms start up to 1.5 weeks prior to their bleeding, meaning that they only have about 1.5 weeks of feeling good in their entire month! 🙁

The menstruating phase has often been touted as “dirty” in patriarchal cultures and societies, but it actually is a sacred time of the month for menstruating folks.

After all, the menstrual cycle is what makes creating life possibie.

This week, I chatted with Nicole Tillotson, menstrual health coach and founder of Season & Cycle, on how we can actually lean into the rhythms of our menstrual cycles so that we can experience the bleeding phases with more ease, less pain, and even harbor our intuitive superpowers.

She tells us that while PMS symptoms are common, they are not normal, and it is absolutely possible to be free of these painful and uncomfortable experiences when we start to live more in sync with the hormonal cycles.

The menstrual cycle is not inherently painful and uncomfortable. It is how we live out of sync with it that causes these common symptoms.

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LISTEN IN 🎧 link in bio or elaineyoga.com/podcast

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06/12/2024

You know that feeling when the time on your clock is glaring at you in the darkness of your room, reminding you just how many hours are left (not many) until you’d have to wake up?

No matter what our busyness culture says about sleep (i.e., “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”), sleep is an essential component in the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of a person.

Sleep is a passive process, but oftentimes we carry our states of busyness and fight-or-flight into the night without tools to down-regulate that energy and up-regulate our rest-and-digest mode.

For my very first guest interview podcast episode, I have a very good friend and colleague of mine, Lauren Ziegler, talk about the very thing many of us are lacking: SLEEP.

We discuss:

💤 How to know if your sleep needs improvement

💤 Being mindful and wise about our own daily habits that can affect our sleep

💤 How to better shift from sympathetic (fight-or-flight) to parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) at the end of the day for better sleep

💤 Correlations between sleep issues and emotional regulation

Head over to the link in bio or at elaineyoga.com/podcast to listen IN!

05/28/2024

Ten years ago me only knew how to work hard, push forth, and keep on keeping on. There was very little pausing and intentional resting. Even on vacations I had to “maximize” our time and see/do as much as possible.

A childhood upbringing and cultural influence instilled me the insatiable need to excel. What started as an external influence became a constant internal pressure.

This drive was behind every endeavor, and it led to my several burnouts throughout the last 10 years.

Each time I burnt out, there were some sort of physical or emotional manifestation, but there were always deeper inquiries needed to really resolve the outwardly manifestations.

With burnout, it really asks of us to contemplate on what’s driving our own actions. Is there an insecurity or an unmet need that we need to address and we need to nurture?

Indeed, my insecurities about myself, that I would only be loved and appreciated if I did everything perfectly, were the driving forces.

I share my story in this week’s podcast episode, dive into the definition of burnout, what leads to burnout, and how I regained my inner strength by nurturing myself.

Head over to the links in bio to take a listen! Then, follow-up with Episode 6 for a guided meditation to help nurture that inner urge to constantly excel to help prevent burnout.

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