LoveisJuniper

LoveisJuniper Juniper is a container for bodily practices, spiritual growth and the celebration of beauty. We offe Yoga, botanicals & Healing arts

01/01/2026

Become a member and experience all sorts of Somatics, Yoga and bottom up movement to create more clarity and ease.

Every year around this time, I watch people choose their word, set their intentions, make their resolutions. ( a friend ...
12/30/2025

Every year around this time, I watch people choose their word, set their intentions, make their resolutions. ( a friend recently asked me what my word is but I literally have forgotten already). And I always want to be that person who maps out a plan and then calmly executes it step by steady step.

However, New Year’s resolutions have never really worked for me.For a while I thought it was a “stick-to-it-ness” problem. Maybe I wasn’t disciplined enough. Maybe I forgot too easily. Maybe I’m just not wired like the people who create a five-year plan and actually follow it.

This weekend a friend reminded me of something: in Ayurveda, I’m very much Vata/Pitta. Air and fire. I move with feeling. I can be impulsive, emotional, intuitive, creative, lit up, and then… on to the next thing. Another friend once said, “You do everything with a lot of feeling,” and I took that as both a compliment and a mirror.

So resolutions, for me, start to feel fickle. They can hold us accountable in ways that sometimes feel tight, rigid, or unreasonable. They assume that the person I am on January 1 is exactly the same person I’ll be on March 18… or July 2… and she usually isn’t.

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I wish you the blessing of friendship for 2026. Join us for a deep dive on January 20th for more explorations and curios...
12/29/2025

I wish you the blessing of friendship for 2026.

Join us for a deep dive on January 20th for more explorations and curiosities.

Friendship is the bees knees. IMO.Join us on January 20th for a deep dive and exploration of Friendship. May we be bless...
12/29/2025

Friendship is the bees knees. IMO.

Join us on January 20th for a deep dive and exploration of Friendship.

May we be blessed by good friends in this lifetime.

What’s been your through-line this year. Wishing you all joyful and deep and meaningful times together. Come explore fri...
12/29/2025

What’s been your through-line this year.

Wishing you all joyful and deep and meaningful times together.

Come explore friendship with me in 2026.

We begin January 20th.

12/27/2025

Join me on January 20th for a deep dive into Friendship.

4 weeks to get clear and nuanced about some of the most important relationships in our lives

12/26/2025

Some thoughts on going deeper with our New Year’s resolution and intentions this time of year .

12/25/2025

I am sure the Germans have a long word for this feeling.

Ever wonder why friendships hurt so much sometimes?Maybe because friendship is one of the most underrated forms of attac...
12/24/2025

Ever wonder why friendships hurt so much sometimes?
Maybe because friendship is one of the most underrated forms of attachment we have.

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The science is wild: people with strong friendships live significantly longer and healthier lives than those who are socially isolated. They are less stressed, less anxious, and even buffer against chronic illness. Strong social connections are linked to up to 50% better survival odds compared with weak or no friendships.

friendship isn’t just “nice to have.”
Loneliness and lack of social support can be as harmful to health as smoking or obesity.

Friends literally shape how our bodies respond to stress.

Not all friendships actually help us.
Toxic or one-sided connections can raise stress and contribute to anxiety. That’s why quality matters more than quantity.

Which brings me to something I’ve been thinking about deeply this year. How we practice friendship.
Not just collect it like stickers, but actually show up for it, learn from it, and evolve with it.

That’s why I’m launching a 4-week series starting January 20th, dedicated to friendship as a spiritual and emotional practice.
We’ll explore how to:
✨ understand our patterns
✨ navigate disappointment
✨ build deeper, healthier bonds

If you’ve ever:
• struggled with close friendships
• wondered why some feel effortless & others don’t
• or just want more depth in your connections
this might be for you.

DM me “FRIENDSHIP” or tap the link in bio to learn more and join us.
Let’s treat friendship as the life force it actually is 🧡

12/22/2025

I have always loved the expression “putting a round peg in a square hole.” It feels oddly accurate when it comes to relationships. That moment when you are trying very hard to make something fit, even though every part of your body and mind knows it really does not.

This has been a recurring lesson for me as I navigate motherhood and friendships here in Cape Town. When I first moved, I found myself deeply craving “family friends.” The kind I grew up with. Kids playing karate on the bed (God, I loved that wild game with the Browdes) while the adults chatted politics in the background, half listening, half yelling for snacks, half trying not to have my legs broken from the wildness.

In my desperation, I tried to recreate this. I tried very hard. I pushed pegs. I rotated pegs. I convinced myself that if I just sanded down the edges a bit, it would work. But the fit never quite fitted. Eventually, I had to accept my friendship fate and stop forcing the hole.

And then a few months ago, the right peg arrived. No sanding required.

This is the kind of nuance we explore in my Friendship work. The ways we fawn, contort, and override our own signals in order to make certain friendships match our fantasy. And the grief and disappointment that come when reality does not cooperate. Friendship is a practice because it asks us to see clearly, and soften around what actually is.

Join us January 20th. Live and recorded classes.

Can you feel the Solstice vibe shift. Our relationship to time shifting. To cycles changing and telling us it’s alright ...
12/21/2025

Can you feel the Solstice vibe shift. Our relationship to time shifting. To cycles changing and telling us it’s alright to move on and let go. My friend told me the other day, “I am not late for anything in my life”. Yes! I loved that so much. Everything in its rightful time. I am sinking into the gratitude when my attitude goes a bit off key. I bring myself back, I look up at the mountain or steer my attention to my heart and to my friends who hold my cycles with me.

Happy solstice all.

12/19/2025

Join me in January for a special series exploring friendships.

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