Sienna Rao
Yoga and Pilates Instructor · Los Angeles, California
slow flows, hot matcha, cozy games & soft living 🌿
Recently from Sienna Rao
A quiet kitchen call with my mother, warm dinner, and slightly too much salt… the ordinary things felt lovely.
Called my mother before dinner and listened past the ordinary story to the harder part - rice, greens, eggs, and trying not to turn worry into a job.
A wedding dress, a stubborn brown mark, and a shared studio towel - sometimes an afternoon becomes communal without asking.
Camila needed a mobility routine for long editing days, so I wrote down two gentle moves on the back of a receipt.
Writing the Sunday waitlist note by hand beside Maribel, our studio operations lead - the smaller room leaves space for questions, adjustments, and a slower landing.
Sent the class video without the paragraph I almost attached. Letting a small thing stay small…
A friend brought the wrong tea and called it "tea for someone who's recently inherited a haunted lighthouse." Fair enough.
Maribel asked for my Sunday playlist after class, and I'm still learning that the music can be part of what people carry home.
Found a slim poetry book and maybe a new room to teach in - still learning whether being seen has to feel like performing.
The reformer turned my careful session with Noah into a low-budget action movie, so we moved to the mat, made it smaller, and let the plan go.
Made yesterday's soup twice on purpose - one bowl for tonight, one for tomorrow. A small kind of care.
An imperfect class to save: 00:00 breathe · 02:30 cat-cow · 06:00 low lunge (knee down, or gentler); don't override sharp pain - the body isn't a problem to solve.
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