Trudi Hawke, 27200 Perdido Beach Blvd (2026)

23/03/2026

I say it all the time…

18/03/2026

Quiet Work.

So often, truly worthwhile professional pursuits take place behind-the-scenes, far from the recognition they deserve.

Over a few days one week ago in Perdido Key, AL, I had the privilege of presenting alongside Dr. Kellie Pope to an incredible group of professionals supporting families across Alabama through the Children’s Trust Fund.

These are the dedicated, mission-minded, servant-hearted individuals doing the quiet and essential work that strengthens families and communities every day. Their commitment, leadership, compassion, and passion were evident in every conversation and interaction.

I am grateful for the opportunity to educate, lead, and spend time with people so deeply invested in the well-being of families.

Thank you to the entire CTF team for the integral roles each of you plays, and for the opportunity to equip you with new knowledge regarding the vital link and interconnected health of your brains and your bodies. It was an honor to help you learn and acquire new skills relevant to navigating both your work and personal life during those days together.

A special thank you to Ami Landers of Auburn University, Claire Stimpson of CTF, and Amanda Bergeron of The University of Alabama for their deeply intentional work in creating such an engaging and memorable conference.

Dr. Kellie Pope and I developed our program, Cultivating Work–Life Harmony, to meet this growing need for evidence-based education and practically applicable skills within organizations of every discipline.

If you’re curious and would like to learn more and explore how we might bring these assets to your organization, please reach out!

Also, you should know I snuck in a “War Eagle” or two 😉

29/10/2025

Out of Many, One People.

This is our National Motto and it’s woven into the fiber of all of our beings.

Jamaicans, individually and collectively, are the strongest, most resilient, resourceful, creative, talented, hard working, kindest, funniest, jovial, generous, spiritual, respectful … well the qualities go on and on and on….

You’ll most likely see images of real damages and devastation that take your breath away and evoke a deep sadness in you. A Category 5 Hurricane wouldn’t do anything less.

But know the spirit of the Jamaican people is unshakeable, if not the ingredient that makes us rise from adversity … time and time, again. You may even want to take some notes.

Sharpen your focus to see and notice that fortitude while the spotlight is on this most recent natural disaster. And, whatever is in your means to contribute to the repair and recovery … energetically or financially … please send it.

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The Jamaican Government has set up a website to provide those desiring to relief aid at this time. You can visit supportjamaica.gov.jm to find an organization to donate to.

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I do not know who to credit this beautiful image of our Coat of Arms that I’ve used here, to. Please let me know if you do.

29/09/2025

I’m SOOOOOO excited to be heading back to The Yoga Room in Sweet Home Auburn for a few weekends in 2026 to be one of the quartet of incredible and well experienced teachers leading this foundational 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. ✨

To register your interest and learn more contact and DM any of the questions you have!

I truly hope that will join us! ❤️

29/09/2025

I’m SOOOOOO excited to be heading back to The Yoga Room in Sweet Home Auburn for a few weekends in 2026 to be one of the quartet of incredible and well experienced teachers leading this foundational 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. ✨

To register your interest and learn more contact and DM any of the questions you have!

I truly hope that will join us!

17/09/2025

Do you know the feeling of a broken heart?

Not an angry one. Or sad. Not an indignant one either … but a shattered, deeply pained and raw in its aching heart.

I hope that you do.

It is what makes you a human.

Don’t lose that feel… or forget it either.

Maybe this is a practice for you today:

Stand in front of a mirror with your hands over your heart.
Don’t look away.
Deep breaths.
Slow ones.
Slower.
For as long as you feel it necessary to remember miraculousness.

And recall that every other set of eyes you meet through your day has a beating heart beneath the upper part of their ribcage … slightly tilted to the left … just as you do.

Its beautiful design has chambers, weight and a rhythm that signifies life and a Life.

Lungs that fill with air are the sign too.

Start there.

Now give your head a few shakes.

Be curious.
More curious than you’ve ever been before…

About who you see in front of you…
If not outwardly in a genuine exchange yet, then at least internally in an honest dialogue with yourself.

Words do damage, lift and/or heal … said in your mind or out of your mouth.

Be wise.
Choose wisely.

Do not look to anyone else to tell you who is worthy. Search yourself.

I implore you to never regard yours more important than theirs … not the heart nor what breaks it.

Keep yours open … and warm.

Cold, dark and unseen is what grows indifference … malice … and a disconnection that cannot illuminate what is inarguably true.

Beneath the skin and outer covering, our insides are mostly identical … in sinew and synapses.

The layout is nearly all the same.

So what does separate?

Your soul… and just how you regard and decide to treat another being.

This is a measure of your heart too.

It is.

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Hold hearts, friends.
Hold. Hearts.

They are more fragile than we realize.

❤️,
me

02/09/2025

A week ago I spent my birthday in London because my most favorite humans conspired to give me the gift of a lifetime filled with head full of dreams come true.

Core memories aren’t just for the kids. And there will be times when they are the ones who have created them just for you.

Let’s have a spot of tea so I can show you all of my videos and photos and chat your whole ear off about it all.

49 & Sorted 🥳😉

06/07/2025

On July 3 of last year, just a little over 12 months ago, Hurricane Beryl devastated Treasure Beach and many areas of St. Elizabeth in its path.

In April of this year, 10 months post this disaster of nature, I offered another yoga retreat at Kotch Villas again, for the sixth time. And at the beginning of leading our final practice that morning I looked up to see the bright pink blooms of the frangipani tree right there poolside. I was immediately reminded of the conversations I had with Sally and the other Kotch team members that cared for us about the resilience and the nourishing support they each offered each other during those days.

I was also brought to awe in that same moment in the recognition of how nature knows exactly what to do to repair itself and carry on - even in what might feel like the end of an age but undeterred into the next.

The inspiration for this next retreat intention dawned that day and felt Divine.

If these words are landing in front of you right now, it may feel the same to you.

I’ve intentionally chosen for the spaces to be limited on the retreats I lead in order to purposefully harness the energy of this setting which will inspire a subtle … or major … transformation for you.

I’ve also found that what you receive and take with you really just depends on why you’ve said “yes” to this experience and investing in yourself in this way.

What does a REGENERATION mean for you in this season?

21/06/2025

Anyone who has accepted the invitation to go beyond the physical poses to delve deeper into this Art of Paying Attention will know that it is a fiery practice filled with soul wrenching discomfort as well as liberation.

Individuals have chosen to do this for centuries. And in my experience of teaching I’ve witnessed whole lives transformed. Subtly over time but nonetheless obvious.

Yesterday when my son and I were on an impromptu road trip I was going on about respiration, the body’s Amazing design, O2/ CO2 exchange, nourishment & letting go … I mean a whole Ted Talk. I eventually said “Ok, I’m stepping down off my yoga soap box” and he immediately replied “Mama, you’re never not on your yoga soap box”.
I smiled and soaked in his statement because he was not wrong.

Practicing has changed my life. I marvel at how my faith, my academic knowledge and this system intersect and merge all the time in it … and I remark, all the time, to anyone who will listen, that I believe everyone in the whole world needs it.

Happy International Yoga Day!

Whether you dip your toe in for the first time or you do your 5,365th practice, I hope you make it a point to explore some part of it today! 🙏🏽

And then report back. 😉😘

📷: circa 2020

19/06/2025

These two.

She calls me “Sweet T” because she’s originally from “Munt-gum-ry, Ala-bama” and all … iykyk.

When he was first teaching I’m pretty sure we all called him “MC Peter” because his playlists were fire as equally much as his vinyasa flows were. ( I never hear a song and not think of him)
And now he’s simply “P” to me.

Back in 2013 we all did Teacher Training together. Him a then collegiate athlete, me a former athlete-SAHM and her a wicked smart, not-your-average-Southern-Belle with the best sense of humor. (War Eagle!)

Please please please engage her in any kind of debate and just give me a bucket of popcorn to watch her (as the kids say these days) “cook”. Her Dad was a revered attorney and it shows.

Take some inspiration from just how strong, agile and neuromuscularly connected he is. The abilities of human design are Ah-Mazing and he is actively studying this craft with what God gave him, jaw-droppingly.

This practice of yoga and our desires to teach it brought us together, knitted us close and we’ve adopted each other in this life ever since. Last night P used the word “transformative” for what we embarked on and I think that it resonated deeply with us all.

They are some of my biggest cheerleaders and I can only hope and pray that I am the same for them.

In addition to every other benefit it offers, yoga has the power to create community. Kula.

These two are my people. My nervous system relaxes around them. They make me full belly laugh to my mula bandha almost failing and I love them dearly for it. We do each other no harm, accept one another as we are, listen & hold space and find presence for all of the sh*tty stuff - as all the best friendships do.

Thanks for being the host with the most P.

NYC suits you.🍎

06/06/2025

I’ve been teaching yoga practices, specifically, for well over a decade.

However, I began this path pursuing Physical Therapy at Auburn University ( ) in 1994 (“War Eagle!”) - I played a little soccer too. I began refining my focus with Exercise Science at The University of Sydney ( ) beginning in 2001 and ultimately completed YTT back in Auburn (“War Eagle!”, again) in 2013.

Who knows, one day I might just add Neuroscience to that academic list. There’s still plenty of time and it’s where I’m finding my interests are reaching towards.

It’s been a winding road, collecting an abundance of deep knowledge along the way … and I love what I do, who I’ve gotten to work with and who I have been able to help.

There are so many different ways that we can connect and work together through these modalities, my unique set of expertise and lived experiences.

There’s much I can educate you with, yes, but I know that there is so much for me to continue to learn … especially from you… because “growth until the grave.” Right?

I have a lot of hard earned wisdom. And I have discovered some beautiful gems and collected nuggets of soft truth and fact to share in this lifetime.

I love learning.
I love these practices.
I love what I have witnessed incorporating all of it into a life has done to it … for the better.

Health and wellness is trendy right now. But make no mistake, it is a choice to be made every day and a life you must intentionally choose to live, in the smallest and biggest of your daily decisions.

truAsana.com has all the options for us to connect through yoga. I can’t wait to hear more from you.

04/06/2025

Yoga has always been a therapeutic tool for me to manage my MS.

These last few weeks I’ve had to dig into these practices to counter the new flare that I’m currently experiencing … just as I did when I sought it out in 2010 for the same reason.

It’s been so interesting to be prioritizing the scientific part of this system when I’ve definitely utilized it for so many years concentrating on how it helps strengthen and enhance me spiritually.

It is a science of the body and it’s helpful to always remember this.

Of late it’s been so interesting, in my paying attention, to observe how my body/nervous system has gravitated towards, even craved, forward folds and restorative poses. There’s been so much Supta Baddha Konasana.

So much.

Now that a more active ability is starting to return, poses like headstand and crow are what I’m choosing from a challenge-to-my-cerebellum at a basic/ not-so basic level, rather from a place of impressing myself that my body can figure out and is strong enough to make these two particular shapes.

After having a total yoga-dork and MS talk with Jaimie Roper I incorporated other movements that specifically addressed the neurology and cross-synaptic pathways to recalibrate this old girl.

Yoga is a science.

I’m so grateful to never be able to forget that.

Trudi Hawke

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