We Are Here For It by Lexie Wolf
This past weekend, we gathered for Yoga Garden’s closing ceremony. There was music, laughter, tears, and an overwhelming sense of gratitude. More than anything, I felt thankful that we had the chance to pause together and fully witness the ending of something meaningful.
And perhaps that is what ritual offers us at its best: not a way to hold onto things forever, but a way to pay attention while they are here.
Let’s Leave this Place Better than we Found It by Bill Wofford
Inspired by a lifetime of Boy Scout values, Yoga Garden is closing out its chapter with one final act of community service: a creek cleanup. On Saturday, March 21st (the vernal equinox), join Bill at 9am at the Roberson Creek Greenway on South Small Street to help remove trash along the waterway as part of the Haw River Clean-Up-A-Thon.
Holding the Space Between by Lexie Wolf
When I shared the news about the studio closing two weeks ago, I didn’t fully know how it would land — for you, or for me. What followed was a day (and several after) of reading your sweet notes through tears. Over the past few weeks I heard from so many of you. Your words have been generous, thoughtful, and deeply moving. I’m deeply humbled.
Thank you for your grace. Thank you for telling me what Yoga Garden has meant to you.
Important Studio News by Lexie Wolf
With a full and deeply grateful heart, Lexie shares that Yoga Garden will be closing its doors this May. after nearly nine years of serving as a space for practice and community. With gratitude and tenderness, the community is invited to gather, practice, and celebrate together in the studio’s final months and at a closing ceremony in mid-May.
What Nourishes by Lexie Wolf
From fever and kitchari to gooseberries and sacred mantra, Lexie explores healing, Ayurveda, and how body, mind, and spirit remember how to heal.
Feed Me by Lexie Wolf
Lexie explores discomfort, equanimity, and self-mastery through the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and Sattva Yoga in Rishikesh. A meditation on learning to handle ourselves skillfully so we can better serve others.
The Best of Us by Lexie Wolf
A tribute to a father’s 90th birthday and the lessons learned from a weekend of honoring legacy, compassion, family connection, and conscious presence. A meditation on what it means to be a loving elder and to grow into that role with grace.
Abundance by Bill Wofford
Inspired by travels in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, this piece explores abundance as both a natural cycle and a mindset, and how Yoga Garden is creating more room to grow with infrared panels.
Snake Medicine by Lexie Wolf
There’s something ancient about the snake. Its symbolism winds through so many traditions. And isn’t it fascinating that snakes shed their skin but remain fundamentally the same? They don’t transform like the butterflies on our sweet studio mural—no complete reinvention. Just a sloughing off. A return to self, newly revealed. A new version.
Tending to the Sacred of Everyday Life by Lexie Wolf
This past weekend was really satisfying as Bill and I tended to our home, gardens, relationship, and family. The concept of "tending" lingered in my thoughts throughout, pondering what it means to nurture rather than build or simply maintain.
Tending to the Web by Lexie Wolf
When I act as though I am interconnected, I can start to feel it. I remember that I don’t exist in isolation, that I am held in an intricate web of relationships—with people, with the natural world, with something greater than ourselves. And when I feel that, I move through life differently. With more care. With more gratitude. With a sense of belonging and an increased sense of responsibility.
When I fully recognize my place in the web, I recognize the ways my presence, my choices, and my energy ripples outward.
It All Matters by Lexie Wolf
There’s a famous Rumi quote that goes: “yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
But in truth we desperately need both.
The Challenge of Living Complaint-Free by Lexie Wolf
I have set an intention to start the 21-day challenge on Thanksgiving day. I don’t think of myself as a chronic complainer, but I’m quite sure I’ll find that I complain a lot more than I thought. The book says most people take 4-6 months to get to 21 consecutive days! Have you done this challenge? How did it go? Join me!
Good Morning by Lexie Wolf
Later, the sun will set. In between we’ll do things, we’ll think things, things will happen. I think of Shakespeare’s famous quote from the Tempest: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.” It is all fragile, dreamlike, temporary. This too, shall pass. Whatever “this" “may be.
We’re Seven! by Lexie Wolf
We're seven! The number seven is associated with luck and magic in a lot of different traditions. I've never really marked our anniversary before but this year, I'm full of nostalgia and gratitude for the many, many people who have built our sweet community. At Yoga Garden our secret sauce is love. And maybe some luck and magic, too.