Hey Reader,

It's me. Again.

I know you've gotten lots of emails from me in the past 2 weeks about my Movement for Healthy Core program. For those who've stuck around, thank you. Emails are the most effective ways to alert folks who might benefit from the work I do through movement programs and classes. I try to keep them to a minimum as much as I can.

I have also been writing weekly essays over on my substack, What Moves You. If you're also subscribed there, you've definitely heard from me more frequently. Thank you for hanging out with me in both spaces.

In this monthly message, I'm offering a snapshot of my yoga and movement offerings from the past month: YouTube videos, upcoming programs, online studio updates, and other special events.

Here's what I shared on YouTube in April:

I released 3 videos on YouTube in April.

(If you are not yet subscribed to my YouTube channel, subscribing is totally free for you and helps me out so much. Click here to subscribe)

This month, my classes were a bit more focused on core work because April is the month I open up my Movement for a Healthy Core program for registration, so I like to offer some free options over on my YouTube channel.

This first one is focused on balance and playing with the same poses and a brief flow using different surfaces as foundation. Watch the 14 minute video here:

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The second one is a practice I created to celebrate postpartum bodies. The title is clickbait and it's clickbait on purpose. I like challenging people's ideas of what movement is for, particularly for moms. Check it out here:

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The 3rd video is core-focused, but specifically geared towards gentle core work that will help repair diastasis recti (aka abdominal separation, which is fairly common for those who have given birth). You don't have to have diastasis to benefit from this practice; it's 4 exercises plus breathwork to help you get more connected to your core muscles. You can watch it here:

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Lastly, if you're curious what we're doing in MOVE in May, our pose of the month is side angle pose. There are so many ways to work with side angle. You can do it kneeling, standing, using a chair, bound, core-focused, dynamic movement, with a row using a handweight, and even supine. Here's a tiny taste of side angle in a 4 pose flow from our live class in MOVE this morning:

My online studio, MOVE with Naomi, is an absolute labor of love. The classes I share there are not your typical yoga classes and not even your typical strength-based classes. My style of teaching is nontraditional, creative, curious, and intentional. If that sounds like your kind of movement adventure, I'd love for your to join me on the mat there.

I have a huge goal to have 100 people in my online studio. Having even double the number of members I currently have, would make the studio sustainable -- currently, it's essentially breaking even after paying the wonderful folks who help me run it, plus the basic overhead costs of running a business.

Despite the fact that many folks have gone back to in-person yoga, I still very much believe in the great benefits of online movement classes. They have absolutely changed my life for the better. If you're curious how and why, please email me to ask.
And if you'd like to give MOVE a try, use coupon code COMMUNITY2 and get 80% off your first 2 months of membership.
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Lastly, if you you're not following me over on substack, I'd love to see you there. I'm sharing Love Notes twice a month, along with a once monthly recap of my LOVES and What's Moving Me. You can get those with a free subscription. My most recent free essay is called Living in the In Between, which is about the tricky dynamic of how sharing about motherhood publicly. I also wrote an essay about The Time That Bluey Let Me Down.

Most recently, I posted an essay for paid subscribers called Things I No Longer Say or Do as a Yoga Teacher. In addition to the full essay, for paid subscribers I've included one of the April 2024 15-minute classes from my online studio, MOVE. This is one of the perks for joining as a paid subscriber -- each month you'll get 2 15-minute classes typically only available to MOVE members.

If you want to support my work and my art, please consider paying for a subscription. Your support makes a huge difference in terms of what I can create.

Art and writing are severely undervalued in our culture. We get so much for free. And I am happy to contribute what I can. It's why I have a free YouTube channel, still share at least once or twice a week on Instagram, and make more than half of my content on substack free.

I’d also be enormously appreciative if you are able to show your support for writers (like me) and the time we spend crafting words into sentences, paragraphs, and essays that we want to use as a tool for connection.

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That's it from me, Reader. I'll check in again at the beginning of June.

Until then, sending so much love.

Naomi