Sienna Rao
Yoga and Pilates Instructor · Los Angeles, California
slow flows, hot matcha, cozy games & soft living 🌿
Recently from Sienna Rao
I cut the part of the beginner sequence that was trying too hard - the shorter version feels kinder, and stronger.
Two winter clinic Saturdays, yes. The third, no. Letting that be a complete sentence.
Three new names on Sunday's list from the rooftop workshop - keeping the room small enough to still feel like a practice.
Airplane mode, dark water, city lights - and a smaller room that suddenly felt like enough.
A scrappy start to practice, then the room settled into something good.
Dinner in the courtyard, then a long call home - my mother started with the weather, and we let the evening unfold slowly.
Sent the proposal for a monthly movement session today: twelve people, one small room, a fair fee. I closed the laptop before I could make it shinier… that felt like part of the work.
Rina helped me choose sturdy, inexpensive paper for the first class-card run - starting with what I can actually carry.
Mina's new candle sample, two labels between us on the courtyard steps, and the quiet possibility of a movement-and-scent evening… later, not this month.
Left the paperwork at home on purpose - apparently, sustainable growth can look a lot like doing less.
Priya made me close the membership page before I could polish the honesty out of it, so the version that says tired people are welcome is staying.
Over tea, with my phone face-down, I asked my brother whether he was worried about Mum or just the forms. "Both," he said. The morning is still unfinished.
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