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Helping busy, overstressed people stress less and find more peace & joy through restorative practices Sign up here: https://jennymayo.substack.com

If you’d like to stress down and joy up, you’re in the right place! Through healing practices like meditation, restorative yoga, and dance, I help busy, over-stressed people find more peace and joy in their daily lives. I am an Unplug Certified Meditation Teacher, completed restorative yoga teacher training with the incomparable Jillian Pransky and am finishing my 200-hour vinyasa yoga training, and have more than 20 years of experience teaching dance in a variety of settings. These practices aren’t just scientifically proven to cultivate well-being, from reducing stress to improving memory; they’ve been critical to my own healing journey, helping me nearly eliminate crippling physical symptoms of stress, create a healthier relationship with self and others, and find more focus and purpose. WORK WITH ME
I’d love to help YOU stress less and find more joy! You can find my meditations online on my Substack page (https://jennymayo.substack.com) and on YouTube, join me for an in-person dance or meditation class (coming soon!), work with me 1-on-1, or hire me for a corporate or group session. SUBSCRIBE
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03/06/2026

🌱 Some seasonal inspiration and insight I’ve been sharing with classes lately:

Waiting for Safety
By Danna Faulds

Fern,
furled,
a question mark
waving in the wind,
holding to the fetal curl
and the safety of the winter womb.

Nothing,
not the gentle
kiss of sun,
nor stream voice,
calling
can coax
that frond
to unfurl
one single moment
before it does.

🌱🌱🌱
A reminder that spring isn’t in a full sprint. She’s taking her time and unfurling as she’s ready.

What if we carved out some sacred time and space to remember our OWN natural pace—to listen to our ocean-wave like breath—and remember who we really are beneath the busyness.

What if we could let a little of the pressure go…and grant ourselves tender permission to stay furled and earthed a little more?

02/27/2026

🌸EARLY SPRING SCHEDULE NOW OUT!🌸 I’m finally thawing from a looooong, hard winter and sooo ready welcome in this season of light and hope and possibility with you!

As shared in today’s long overdue newsletter: In line with the shift out of the Year of the Snake and into the Year of the Fire Horse, I am FEELING that sense of necessary shedding what’s no longer aligned, and rooting into and building momentum in what IS!

You might not notice many changes from the outside, but a lot is changing behind the scenes with Jenny Mayo Mind & Movement…for the better for my beautiful students AND me and my fam! Lots of simplifying and reprioritizing.

EARLY SPRING SCHEDULE

🌸Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30pm
SLOW FLOW & SOUNDyoga.fallschurch

🌸Thursdays, 7:30-8:45pm
RESTORATIVE & REIKIyoga.fallschurch

🌸One Sunday a Month
SEMI-PRIVATE RESTORATIVE & REIKI

Next offered: SUN., MARCH 8
3-4:30pm (Only 2 spots left!)
5:15-6:45pm (Just added!)

SUN., APRIL 12
3-4:30pm

🌸One Sat/Sun a Month
WEEKEND RESTORATIVE & REIKIdmv

Next offered: SAT., MARCH 21
5-6:15pm

🌸One Saturday a Month
VIRTUAL DANCE IT OUT! (free/by donation!)

Next offered: THIS SAT., FEB. 28
& SAT., MARCH 21
10-10:45am

🌸RESTORE & RENEW WOMEN’S SPRING RETREAT
With .in.virginia
March 13-15

1 LAST-MINUTE CANCELLATION/OPENING!
Hungry for space to renourish yourself after a tough season and heartfully welcome the season of light and hope? We have 1 RIVERFRONT KING BED ROOM with private shower available for you, or you can share it with your bestie! Review retreat and room details ASAP on our retreat page, then DM/email me to book or with questions!

🌸REIKI LEVEL 2 TRAINING
April 18-19, 12-4pm dailydmv

JUST 3 SPOTS LEFT!
Currently only open to my Jan/Feb Reiki 1 students; public registration opens next week. (Must have completed a Reiki 1 training with me or another certified Reiki Master Teacher.)

INTERESTED IN REIKI 1 TRAINING?
DM/email me to be added to our Interest List for the next session TBA!

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🌸 ALL LINKS IN BIO! ⬆️🌸

02/25/2026

It feels like the world has already moved on…but I don’t want to yet! In working on a long overdue newsletter and reflecting on what’s helped me anchor in the chaos these past couple months, my first thought was the inspiration of the .usa monks.

I was fortunate to attend their closing lovingkindness or metta meditation at GW University with lovely fellow .yoga.fallschurch yogis. We’ve all practiced this meditation style many, many times before.

But we ALL remarked that this experience was SOOO different.

✨It was over an hour! With little verbal guidance. Longer than any of us had ever done this practice for by a longshot. It was hard at times (how challenging this must’ve been for newbies!!). But I kept thinking if they could walk 2,300 miles…. It was also very deep—alllll those souls sending silent wishes for peace into our city and world together!!

✨It was led by the remarkable Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra and infused with the powerful intentions of all the brave monks who’d just completed an impossible journey—one that reawakened thousands to the power of peace, possibility, and hope. What presence, power, and intention they brought that evening, when I’m sure they were sooooo ready for a bath and nap!

✨AND! What struck all of us in the group was the specificity and appropriateness of THIS particular lovingkindness phrasing they shared.

The wording I’ve encountered and taught most is simpler and easier to remember:

May I be safe.
May I be happy.
May I be healthy.
May I live with ease.

But it’s also more vague.

At this particular moment of such division, hatred, fear and wars of many kinds, we NEED respite from resentment and conflict in ourselves and our world.

And being happy is great…but freedom from mental and physical suffering is the foundation.

Our bodies AND our minds carry so much…and speaking wishes for peace directly to both of them… For me, it gets me thinking what that would actually feel and look like in my muscles, my thoughts.

I’m still processing it all…

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✨Have you ever practiced Lovingkindness and how did it make you feel?

✨How does this phrasing feel for YOU? Any stronger?

02/24/2026

Y’all, it has been a tough, LOOOOONG a&@ winter. I don’t feel like THIS yet! But I’m sloooooowly starting to come out of the worst of it, just like those brave daffodil buds peeking up between snow mounds.

I’m starting, again slooooowly, to remember what it feels like to delight…to laugh…to gather…to DANCE! And man, does it feel good and critical. Our bones KNOW it’s time for spring, for the light to replenish us again.

As part of MY remembering, I put a couple DANCE IT OUT dates on my roster, including:

THIS SAT., FEB. 28 & SAT., MARCH 21
10-10:45am
FREE on app!

Join me from the comfort of your own space as we remember that our bodies were MADE to move and that dance is not only our birthright, but also one of the most powerful mood boosters on the planet!

There’s no right or wrong or steps to learn, just space to play and explore…and some loose cues for inspiration.

Let’s thaw and welcome the light together…

SIGN UP LINKS IN BIO!

💖💖💖

How are YOU starting to thaw from this winter?!

What’s helping you remember the light?

02/18/2026

🌊🌊🌊 I took the most beautiful vinyasa class this morning .yoga.fallschurch (no video as I was being present so this older solo shot will have to suffice!)… And for the first time in a long time, I was so struck by how the ocean of breath in the room carried and soothed me through the class.

Ujjayi breath—the soft yet deep “mirror-fogging” whispered breath—or even just getting quiet enough to actually HEAR our own breathing…

Well, it sounds like ocean waves.

My restorative yoga mentor often shares that this is NO mistake or coincidence.

It’s a reminder that…

🌊 We come from nature.
🌊 We ARE nature.
🌊 Of our NATURAL pace…beneath all the rushing and frenzy.

In a flow class, I LOVE slowing down and being present not only to my own nature-full breath, but to the breath of the community. The ocean in the room.

So thanks to those present with me this morning who helped me remember…

And may you remember, too!

02/12/2026

Literally and metaphorically applauding these brave monks’ remarkable 2,300-mile devotion to peace last night . What an honor to be there at the culmination of this incredible, impossible journey that had meant so much to so many and share our gratitude.

And to meditate deeply with THOUSANDS gathered in-person, and even more online, cultivating peace within self and for all living beings together.

I’ll share more thoughts soon on their unique lovingkindness or Metta meditation language, which our .yoga.fallschurch group felt was uniquely appropriate for this moment!

But for now, just leaving it with these few words.

02/10/2026

Soooo many emotions today with the juxtapositions of images and events we’re seeing in our nation, our area, in my own life even just this past week.

A few reflections here on the monks’ arrival, coming off hosting the MOST BEAUTIFUL Reiki 1 training .dmv this past weekend with such glimmery souls committed to cultivating and spreading more peace, coming off a REALLY tough few months personally.

Just for today…

Just for today…

Just for today…

What beauty can you center just for today?

What peace can you reconnect with inside your body just for today?

How will you ripple this out, even a tiny bit, to those around you and to our world just for today???

02/05/2026

Interested in building your stress-reduction, self-healing toolbox, in enhancing your intuition, in bringing more peace into the world and helping others rediscover deep healing and peace?

Reiki is an incredible tool for all the above… A gentle, nurturing, nourishing practice for ourselves and others that helps our bodies remember the calm, balance and healing capabilities that already lie within.

If you’ve been curious to learn more, I’ve partnered with .dmv this year on a training series!

Fresh off our first (sold out!) Level 1 training in January, we’re back this weekend with our second session…and just had a last-minute cancellation, so if you’ve been waiting for your sign, this is it!

REIKI LEVEL 1 TRAINING
This Weekend! Feb. 7 & 8, 3-7 p.m. dailydmv
ONLY 1 SPOT AVAILABLE! (last-minute cancellation)
More details and sign-up at miyuusa.com — or DM me ASAP with questions!

In response to requests to delve deeper, we’re also pleased to offer…

REIKI LEVEL 2 TRAINING
April 18 & 19, Times TBA
Priority registration for graduates of our Winter 2026 Reiki 1 trainings; remaining spots open to graduates of ANY Usui Reiki 1 training.
(This training is not yet public so if you’d like to be on the waitlist, please DM me or reach out to Miyu!)

Can’t wait to share and explore this practice together in community…

01/29/2026

You may or may not know that I’ve been away from teaching—and practicing—for a few weeks now amidst some capital “A” adulting and lifing.

Keeping those details close for now…

But I DO want to share transparently that although I believe in the PROFOUND power of a regular stress-reduction, centering practice…I believe just as strongly that our practice needs to evolve and meet us where we are, each moment and season.

And sometimes this means pausing our regular practice and just doing what we can to get through the day. Or that practice might literally just be 5 deep breaths deep down into your feet to remember that there still IS some steadiness beneath the chaos.

I don’t believe in a practice that forces…or one that always has to look the same or last a certain duration.

For me, practice is listening to self soooo deeply and tenderly. A whispered, “What do you need today?” (And “What’s NOT needed?”)

Lately, my days and my body haven’t allowed me to practice in the ways I usually do.

Instead, my practice has been showing up each day and holding what is here.

I know soon, I’ll return to more regular daily practice…and that it’ll feel good and right.

And for now, it’s OK that it is what it is. And I am what and how I am.

✨🙏🏽✨ My wish for YOU is a practice that sweetly bends and meets you where you are, today.

A practice that doesn’t judge or punish. That instead knows only gentle invitation, nourishment, encouragement and compassion.

That waits for you like that best friend you’ve known for forever. Always able to pick back up. Maybe in a new spot, with some new style, but always that same comfortable, come-as-you-are embrace.

💖🙏🏽💖 Who’s with me?!

How has your practice evolved over time and how has this helped you better meet your needs?

Have you ever felt self-judgment or guilt when you’ve fallen out of practice?

What KEEPS you coming back to practice after a pause?

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