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Slowing Down (except when she's skydiving)
For our second installment of Pearl-sonality, meet Janeen - Brox native, Nuyorican, yoga teacher, Pearl student, and the person behind the beautiful seasonal workshops you may have sen popping up on our schedule. Janeen is trained in both trauma-informed and restorative yoga, and a lot of her work centers around something most of us could use a little more of: slowing down.
LEARNING TO FLOAT
My suitcases sat open on the living room for two full days, half unpacked, half being actively ignored, the way you ignore a problem you know is going to take twenty minutes but somehow still don't have twenty minutes for. This morning I finally hit a wall - not because anything was actually wrong, just the low-grade chaos of being back, partially still in Greece-brain but also needing to immediately function like an adult again.
… We’LL GIVE YOU THE WORLD
I arrived yesterday at the 1010 Wins studio in Manhattan confident that we had a good chance at beating out four other small businesses for a prize of $10,000. We are the first Pilates Reformer studio in the Bronx, after all! With a focus on community and inclusivity, and offerings like senior classes, kids’ classes, the borough’s only weekly perinatal class, and even a free bilingual Community Class, I thought we might have this in the bag. That is, until, I saw the list of other finalists…