Be Free, Live Fully (2026)

08/01/2024

Somatic Movement for Self-care

Somatic movement is a mindful practice that taps into the wisdom of your body. It's an organic way to approach self-improvement as it comes from within, literally. There’s an emphasis on the connection between the sensations you’re experiencing physically and your emotional well-being, inside and out.

https://www.jessicasandhu.com/workshops-1

WHAT YOU’LL EXPLORE:

- Enhanced mind-body connection
- Stress reduction
- Improved mobility
- Emotional resilience
- Self-discovery

Details:

Time: 12 - 1:30p.m. ET
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2024
Location: Virtual on Zoom
Cost: Sliding scale. suggested offering $15-$45.
Payment: Venmo -Sandhu-1

HOW DO WE FIND SUPPORT WITHIN OUR BEING?
By connecting to breath, our movement, and the earth’s body, we can learn self-regulation skills through eco-somatic exploration.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This workshop is for folks looking to reduce stress, improve emotional resilience, and enhance their overall quality of life.

29/06/2022

It has been hard for me to come around to share that we are closing down the Be Free Live Fully platform with the final class on Monday July 4th at 10am with

It was hard to see something come to a close because I had so many dreams and ideas for how would transform.

But, in the end I realized that those dreams and ideas are still in motion with this community whether it was held on a website or not. And so I feel good about sharing how much it's been an absolute pleasure to share yoga and wellness with you all the last couple of years.

As a team, we’ve witnessed your growth, your healing, and your ability to keep taking care of yourself by coming to the mat daily. You supported each other, our teachers and us even when it sometimes felt hard. You inspired us to be better.

The tagline "be free, live fully", came to light while in the Dupont Le Pain Quotidien (actually here right now!) in early spring 2014 when trying to figure out how to become a wellness business. I read in some business literature that I needed to create something that was catchy and that had meaning for me as a yoga teacher and health coach.

So I sat here/there with pen and paper and thought about why I practiced yoga and how I felt about being in the world as a whole. I brought some tagline ideas to a few friends and colleagues and that was when Voila(!) BE FREE LIVE FULLY was born!

Here are some of my notes -

What does it mean to BE FREE

To live openly
To be yourself
To be free from shackled thinking
To break molds that don’t serve
To live in alignment with our highest selves

What does it mean to LIVE FULLY

I think to be courageous enough to expose yourself over and over again
To stop searching for meaning outside of yourself
To realize the impermanent nature of all things

May you find all the ways that bring you freedom and the fullness of life. ✨

We hope to catch you by Monday! If not, we will all be here to support with our own separate offerings so stay connected!

Big love, Jess + Greg and Team✨

29/06/2022

See Kate tonight at 5:30pm for a beautiful yoga flow. ✨

Posted • “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today is also a full moon 🌝 I am happy to offer you a free short 6 minute video on the moon salutation, link in bio

27/06/2022

I'm excited that today has finally arrived! Scared and energized at the same time to share my new offerings to the world. To you.

Over the last few years, I felt uneasy and overwhelmed about how I wanted to show up.

I realized how many holistic offerings often exclude black and brown people.

It became even more obvious when I tried to find a therapist in 2020, I had a hard time finding someone who was non-white.

While this search was happening, I realized I also wasn’t presenting myself as who I really was–someone who is non-white. I’m Anishinaabe First Nations and Punjabi Indian.

And how my experiences as being this background heavily influence how I show up in the world.

How many code-switching, passing, and releasing triggering moments happen without anyone noticing. I came to understand that not showing up as my true self and not sharing this journey was keeping other people feeling like they couldn’t fully be themselves, too.

I realized that there was a need for more people to openly share who they really are and how they are able to not only survive in this very patriarchal and white supremacist world but how they are also thriving under these intense circumstances. Able to do so with tools that, again, are not so easily accessible to people without means. Someone who can understand them at a level they didn’t know was possible.

As I internally cried for more representation, it became abundantly clear that I needed to be a part of the change that I wished to see.

So I did three things:

- I finally jumped into a somatic coaching training that I’d been eyeing for years.
- I hired a coach to help me project to the world how I truly wanted to be seen: as an Indigenous healer with Punjabi roots.
- To create offerings I would want to see offered from a brown person to other brown and black people purposely.

Here are my new offerings:

- Starting in September, working as a somatic coach for women and women of color.
- Monthly women’s circles for women of color start in the fall.
- Monthly moon circles for all women starting in the fall.
- Weekly online and waterfront yoga as Jessica Sandhu Wellness through a new platform.

27/06/2022

Sounds about right!

Posted • how funny I could get today.

27/06/2022

Spend some quality time with Mana Takai] on the mat tonight at 5:30pm. ✨

Posted • Mana Takai] When is the last time you pay attention or even ever? to your feet when you stamp those into the earth?

Yoga Asana is a great tool to cultivate awareness to your body and even some parts you never think of. Once I recognize I can move, feel or have, appreciation arises that body gets tender and mind gets gentle.

I teach Yoga every day online and in person in Washington D.C. Join me to move our body.

It's been my privilige to share my favorite Yoga products brand with you and this community. You will get 10% discount this promo code MANA10 .

#アシュタンガ #ヨガ

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26/06/2022

Yeah, this is not okay.

We are pro-choice.

Posted • Link in bio to call your representatives. Each call donates $5 to up to $6,000 ending TODAY.

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13/06/2022

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13/06/2022

The lovely Mana leading 5:30pm yoga tonight.

Posted • and . I have been finding the beauty of every day by practicing and assisting in room. you can take a comlete pose or not, you show up on the mat every damn day. you do your thing centering. what a simple and powerful tool to meditate💙🕉🙏🏼

#継続は力なり

famous japanese wisdom : Continuance is power

Meaning: If you continue doing something, that’ll be your strength. It encourage you not to give up what you’re doing even though you cannot see the light at the moment.

#アシュタンガ #アシュタンガヨガ #ヨガ

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08/06/2022

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Posted • stop discrediting yourself
for everything you aren’t
and start giving yourself credit
for everything you are.

08/06/2022

See Kate tonight at 5:30pm and Friday at 7:30am!

😍❤️

Posted • A little Sunday reminder: You are not responsible for other people’s perceptions of you, nor their projections. Please know you are worthy and should live your wild and beautiful self wholly.

In need of a little self care this week? I had a cancellation and space for massage Monday (3/14) at Bluebird Sky Yoga]] at 6 pm. DM me if interested!

And I hope to see you on the mat this week:

Today:
11 am w/ Yoga & Wellness Studio]]
2:15 pm w/ Bluebird Sky Yoga]]

Tuesday:
5:45 pm w/ Yoga & Wellness Studio]]

Wednesday:
5:30 pm w/ be free, live fully]

Thursday:
5:15 pm w/ Yoga & Wellness Studio]]
6:45 pm w/ Bluebird Sky Yoga]]

Friday:
12 pm w/ be free, live fully]

07/06/2022

It’s true.🤍

Posted • One of the most supportive things you can do for another human being is reflect back to them the truth and goodness of who they really are. And one way you can do that is by helping people name how they're feeling in a validating and non-judgmental way.

This can help all of us learn to feel our feelings so that we can move through them instead of internalizing them.

When we're upset, we're often not just feeling one feeling. Feelings can be layered and complicated, especially because most of us reject certain feelings we've been shamed out of at some point in our lives, so we instead opt to express in a way that we've learned to be more socially acceptable.

For example, I may feel deeply sad but if I've been shamed out of crying, I might continue to say it's not a big deal and hold back the tears that are begging to be released in an attempt to look "strong."

So when you're holding space for another, it can be incredibly helpful to mirror back what you see them experiencing.

"Wow, that sounds super disheartening. Did that make you feel sad?"

"It sounds like that was really painful to experience."

"It makes sense that you'd be angry!"

For many of us, it can be hard to name what exactly what we're feeling, but when someone else can accurately name the thing that's going on inside of us, it validates the feeling, allows it, and makes it safe for it to exist.

And simply allowing ourselves to feel what we need to feel can help us calm our nervous system and sit with the feeling so that we can move through it.

We talk a lot about how to be a good listener and hold space for others in the Relationship Management Workshop beginning June 15 at 4pm pacific. We also talk in depth about how to give and receive feedback, tools for approaching and understanding conflict, creating psychologically safe environments, and more. There are only a few spots left for this one!

DM "relationships" for more info.

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