Soleil Lune Yoga Center, LLC

12/27/2025

Energetic Balance: More Than “Just Take a Deep Breath”

Energetic balance in yoga isn’t about becoming a perfectly serene being who drinks warm lemon water at sunrise and never sends a passive-aggressive text (though… goals).

It’s about understanding how your energy shifts—and knowing which practices help regulate, ground, uplift, or soften you.

Ayurvedic guidance on balancing states:
✨ If you’re overstimulated (hi rajas):
Slow your breath. Add weight. Choose downward-moving shapes.
Your nervous system will thank you.
✨ If you’re sluggish (deep in tamas):
Add lightness. Upright postures. Slightly brighter breath. A little activation goes a long way.
✨ If you’re anxious or scattered:
Lengthen your exhale. Choose stability-based shapes. Bring awareness to what’s real in your body right now.

Students:
✨ You can shift your internal state more effectively with breath + intention than with hustle or avoidance.
✨ The way you move changes the way you feel—subtly, but powerfully.

Teachers:
✨ Recognizing energetic states is one of the most important skills you can develop.
✨ You’re not just leading poses—you’re helping regulate a roomful of nervous systems.
✨ Teach for the energy present, not the energy you wish people had.

And now… the snarky reality check:

Has anyone ever actually taught you how to balance your energy—beyond tossing out a “just breathe” while the class is collectively unraveling?

No?

Then your studio might be offering vibes, playlists, and sweat… but not necessarily yoga.

You deserve teachers who help you understand your inner state, not just your outer shape.

Energetic awareness isn’t woo—it’s the foundation for living with clarity, steadiness, and compassion.

Find spaces that support your wholeness.

The messy parts.

The brilliant parts.

All of it.

12/26/2025

Koshas: Your Five Layers of Being
(Not a Personality Test)

In yoga philosophy, the koshas describe the layers of your being—from the physical all the way to the quiet, blissful core you probably only brush up against in savasana before remembering you need groceries.

The five layers:
1 Annamaya — the physical body
(Your muscles, bones, joints… and all the spots that crack louder than your playlist.)
2 Pranamaya — the breath + energy body
(Where your inhale and exhale tell the truth before you do.)
3 Manomaya — the mental-emotional body
(Your thoughts, moods, and all the stories you swear are “just facts.”)
4 Vijnanamaya — the wisdom/intuitive body
(The part of you that knows better before you do the thing anyway.)
5 Anandamaya — the bliss body
(Those fleeting moments of contentment when everything feels right for absolutely no reason.)

For students:
✨ Yoga touches all five layers, not just your hamstrings.
✨ Some days you access the physical first; other days the emotional or intuitive layers lead.
✨ This is normal. This is the work. This is the brilliance.

For teachers:
✨ Cueing through the koshas turns your class from “follow these shapes” into “meet yourself more fully.”
✨ You’re guiding humans, not choreography.

And now… the snark you know and love:

Has anyone at your studio ever guided you to actually investigate your inner landscape?

To notice your thoughts, breath, beliefs, patterns?

To explore who you are beneath the layers?

No?

Then you might not be learning yoga—you might just be learning yoga-flavored fitness.

Yoga is about realizing the Self.

Capital S.

The you underneath the noise.

Find a teacher and a studio that want you to become your fullest expression.

It’s messy.

It’s brilliant.

It’s the point.

12/25/2025

🎄Christmas Blessings for Yogis🎄

On this holy day, we pause—not just to exchange gifts or indulge in cookies—but to remember the Light that sustains all life.

In yoga, we speak of prana, the life force flowing through every cell, every breath, every heartbeat. Today, we also honor the Divine presence of God that flows through all creation—the Source of Love, Grace, and infinite possibility.

May this Christmas awaken in you:
✨ Gratitude for your body, your breath, your mind—vessels of the Divine.
✨ Compassion for yourself and all beings, seen and unseen.
✨ Presence to witness the sacred in the ordinary, the holy in the everyday.

As we bow, fold, and breathe through our day, let us remember:

🎁 Every inhale is a gift.

🎁 Every exhale is an offering.

🎁 Every heartbeat is a prayer.

🎄Merry Christmas, dear friends.🎄

May your practice, your heart, and your life be filled with God’s radiant light, today and always.

12/24/2025

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12/23/2025

The Gunas: The OG Mood Regulators

The gunas—sattva (clarity), rajas (activation), and tamas (heaviness)—are Ayurveda’s way of explaining why you sometimes feel peaceful, sometimes feel like power-washing your entire house at 10pm, and sometimes feel like turning into a human pancake on your mat.

A quick breakdown:
✨ Sattva: clarity, harmony, balance
(Your “wow, life actually makes sense today” moments)
✨ Rajas: activity, movement, stimulation
(Your “I have 43 tabs open in my brain” moments)
✨ Tamas: heaviness, inertia, rest
(Your “gravity feels personal” savasana days)

For students:
✨ Your state changes daily. Your practice should, too.
✨ A rajasic day might need grounding; a tamasic day might need gentle activation.
✨ Listening to your energy is far more yogic than forcing a mood you don’t actually have.

For teachers:
✨ Reading the guna of the room makes you a far better guide than any playlist ever could.
✨ A tamasic Sunday morning crowd does not need your rajasic playlist of bangers.
✨ Balanced sequencing starts with understanding the energetic qualities in front of you.

And here’s the snark you long for:

If your yoga studio only talks about “good vibes,” “sweating it out,” or “manifesting your best self,” but never once mentions the gunas…

We hate to break it to you, but you might be practicing at a watered-down yoga smoothie bar, not a yoga studio.

Real yoga teaches you how to understand your mind, your energy, and your patterns—
not just how to do chair pose to a beat drop.

Find teachers who go deeper.

Your practice (and nervous system) deserves it.

12/22/2025

Meet Beth – Our Resident Mind Bender (Retired, but only technically)

If the thought of diving into your inner landscape feels a little…intimidating, don’t worry—Beth’s been guiding people through their inner terrain for over 30 years. As a seasoned mental health pro, group facilitator, and all-around transformation enthusiast, she knows how to hold space for the messy and the magical.

Beth brings a sharp mind, a deep heart, and a delightfully sarcastic sense of humor to every class—making her a perfect fit for the darkly hilarious SLYC crew. (If you’ve ever cried and laughed in the same savasana, you know what we mean.)

She’ll be the first to tell you she’s not the bendiest or fanciest yogi in the room—and that’s exactly why people love her. Beth shows up real, passionate, and fully present. She’s here to move with you through the hard stuff, the heart stuff, and everything in between.

Her classes are grounded in intention and fueled by breath—because she knows that breath has the power to literallyrewire your brain toward peace. (Neuroscience, meet yoga. You’re welcome.)

Whether you’re new to the mat or deep in your practice, Beth will guide you inward with curiosity, compassion, and just the right amount of sass. Age, flexibility, experience? She’s not concerned. She’s just glad you showed up.

So, are you ready for change? Growth? A few belly laughs?

Come bend with (Dr.) Beth Johnson.
It’s an inner adventure—and one hell of a ride.

12/21/2025

Chakras get treated like sparkly spiritual stickers, but in yoga philosophy they’re actually energetic-organizing hubs tied to the nervous system, emotional patterns, and how we express ourselves in the world.

A few things worth knowing:
✨ “Blocked chakras” aren’t literal. They reflect under- or over-expressed patterns, not a clogged cosmic drainpipe.
✨ You don’t need to believe in spinning wheels to understand that energy collects in different regions of the body.
✨ Emotional release in yoga? Yes—totally normal. Also chakra-related and also just you being beautifully human.

For students:
✨ Notice where you hold tension or emotion. That’s energetic intel.
✨ Softening the throat, deepening the breath, grounding your feet—these all influence the subtle body without any spiritual theatrics.

For teachers:
✨ Chakra-informed cueing doesn’t require a monologue about indigo light.
✨ “Relax your jaw” and “steady your gaze” are throat + third-eye cues without the horoscope vibes.

And now…the snarky but necessary PSA:

If someone offers to “unblock your chakras” for $199, sage bundle included—please know this is, at best, a Band-Aid, and only remotely effective if they’re truly skilled energy workers.

The only path to lasting change?
✨ Deep inner work.
✨ Self-inquiry.
✨ Actual awareness.

Because no one can clear a lifetime of patterns for you—not even the very enthusiastic person waving incense like they’re blessing a medieval castle.

Do the inner investigation.

That’s where the real transformation lives.

12/20/2025

What does your mind’s voice whisper to you in the moment of giving up in your practice?? The specific inner chatter that urges you to tap out is the signal that you fallen into your default zone.

I can’t.
I shouldn’t.

I don’t want to.

This is too much.

Dispose is crazy/wrong/stupid; I don’t need to do this.

I’ve done enough, no need to push it.

I’m the exception; this won’t work for me.

I’m no good at this.

You want to start paying attention when you’ve entered your default zone, because recognizing it is where the possibility for transformation lies. A pose is the perfect opportunity to confront what you do when things get hard.

You’ll notice that what comes up in the moment of giving up is just a bunch of words. Just words. YOU give words their power. You act and don’t act based on the conversation in your head. You empower those conversations and then act accordingly.

You may wish to consider how your thoughts don’t have to be directly connected to action. You have thoughts, but you are NOT your thoughts. They definitely don’t have to run the show.

You can take conscious action in the face of any thought or inner conversation if you are alert, present, and aware that it’s there. YOU have ALL the power. You decide what you do in the moment of wanting to give up.

What would your practice, and your life for that matter, look like if you did not empower the noise in your head?

# surfyoursoul

12/19/2025

The Vayus: your inner wind system and NO not that kind!😂

Ayurveda and yoga describe five vayus—directional movements of prana.

Think of them as your inner wind currents… but the elegant, subtle kind, not the kind that make you blame the mat next to you.

A quick tour of your energetic weather patterns:
🔹 Prana Vayu (inward + upward): governs intake—breath, ideas, inspiration
🔹 Apana Vayu (down + out): elimination + grounding
🔹 Samana Vayu (toward the center): digestion + assimilation (of food and experience)
🔹 Udana Vayu (upward): growth, expression, clarity
🔹 Vyana Vayu (outward): circulation + integration—your energetic Wi-Fi signal

For students:
✨ Notice which way your energy naturally flows during practice.
✨ Breath and attention can redirect these currents—like subtle, internal weather magic.

For teachers:
✨ Sequencing with the vayus creates energetic coherence, not just choreography.
✨ You can cultivate grounding, clarity, expansion, or integration without a single “float your heart toward the sunbeam of eternal joy” cue.

And now a serious question:

Does your yoga studio teach you any of this?

No?
…Get a new studio.

Or at least start asking better questions. Energetics matter.

12/18/2025

🔥 Sacred Rage 🔥

Ah, anger — the emotion we’ve all been taught to hide under a thin layer of “I’m fine.” But here’s the truth: anger has a place in the practice. Making time and space for your sacred rage is not only allowed — it’s necessary.

In Yoga philosophy, we talk a lot about presence and compassion, but compassion doesn’t mean complacency. There’s a sacred kind of rage that rises when we witness injustice, loss, or erasure — a righteous fire that says, “No more.” This isn’t about throwing things or spiraling into chaos; it’s about honoring that flame as the energy of truth-seeking and transformation.

When we step on the mat, we’re not just stretching muscles — we’re creating space for what’s been held too long. Sometimes that space fills with peace. Other times… it fills with fury. Both are divine teachers.

Anger, when held with awareness, becomes fuel for clarity, for reclaiming what’s been lost, for acting from purpose instead of reaction. It’s not something to get rid of — it’s something to listen to.

So next time that sacred spark flares up — breathe, ground, and let it speak. Rage can be holy when it burns for truth. 🔥

12/17/2025

Prana: The Life Force You’re Already Working With

You know that moment when you walk into a room and instantly feel the collective mood?
That’s you sensing prana, whether or not you call it that.

In yoga, prana is the vital life force—the subtle current that animates breath, movement, mood, and, yes, the energy you feel from the person on the mat next to you who’s already having A Day.

What to know as a student:
✨ Your breath is your prana’s steering wheel.
✨ How you breathe directly affects how you feel.

What to know as a teacher:
✨ Prana awareness can shift your cueing from mechanical to intuitive.
✨ Energetics aren’t woo—they’re the subtle language your students already speak.

Welcome to the invisible half of the practice.

12/16/2025

✨Dear Pregnant Yogis and the Teachers Who Pretend Not to Panic✨

To the badass humans growing entire organs and people while still making it to yoga: We see you. You’re literally building life while doing cat-cow — which is honestly the most hardcore multitasking imaginable.

And to the teachers? Breathe. You don’t need a doula certification to teach a pregnant student. You just need presence, curiosity, and maybe the good sense to not cue deep twists or say “just listen to your body” (because her body is currently building a spleen. She's a little busy).

At Soleil Lune, we don’t shove pregnant students into the back corner or hand them a bolster like a consolation prize. We welcome them into the room like the divine, resilient forces they are — with real options, actual modifications, and zero side-eye when they take Child’s Pose... for 20 minutes.

Pregnancy in yoga isn’t a problem to solve — it’s a powerful season to honor, make space for, and maybe even laugh through when baby kicks mid-Savasana.

So let’s ditch the fear, cue with compassion, and embrace the sacred weirdness of pregnancy. You won’t break her. She won’t break you. But someone will cry — and that’s also yoga.