The Beat Drop - Newsletter Vol. 12 April 2026 this month... Teachers Talk - How Yoga Found Me Yoga’s 8 Limbs - Pratyahara April Events Yoga at Home - Back Strengthening NEW CLASSES! 👀 Keep reading for our Scavenger Hunt Teachers’ Talk Yoga reaches people in many different ways. Some find yoga based on a recommendation after an injury. Some initial turn to yoga as a way of self-healing. And some fall in love with the movement of yoga first. Read on for how yoga found our teachers. Nasreen Yoga entered my life as a seed planted by an encyclopedia entry. As a child, on a whim, I was looking through an encyclopedia in my grandparents’ basement and found ‘yoga’. I knew at once that whenever I had the opportunity, I wanted to do yoga. Years later, I enjoyed Pilates regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays at a big box gym. My instructor informed us all on a Thursday after class that starting the following Monday, she would be teaching yoga also. The seed bloomed. The practice brought me back to myself in a way I never quite expected. As I deepened into my practice, adding other aspects of yoga beyond asana, I discovered connection beyond myself. As the world around me shifted into the hustle of bustle of the holiday season, I witnessed compassion flow from my heart for those in the surrounding cars. Yoga is life-changing.
Gabby Yoga didn’t arrive in my life as a trend or a goal, it found me in a moment when I felt completely disconnected. I stepped into my first Bikram class in 2017 simply looking for something to hold onto. What I found was a kind of quiet discipline that began to rebuild me from the inside out. The repetition of the 26-posture sequence became a mirror, showing me both my resistance and my resilience. In the intensity of the heat, where my mind and body wanted to quit, I learned how to stay. Each class asked me to listen more deeply, to breathe through discomfort, and to trust that something steady existed beneath the chaos. I didn’t realize it at the time, but this was the beginning of coming home to myself. As my life briefly carried me to Denver, my practice evolved into something more fluid through vinyasa. Moving with my breath, flowing from one posture to the next, I began to experience yoga as a conversation rather than a challenge. Whether practicing outdoors with expansive mountain views or in quiet studios guided only by a teacher’s voice, I felt a new sense of connection, both inward and outward. When I returned to San Antonio, that connection deepened through community, music, and shared energy in each class. In 2023, I chose to become a teacher, not because I had mastered the practice, but because I was still being shaped by it. Teaching became a way to give back what yoga had given me: a path toward presence, healing, and wholeness. My intention is simply to hold space for others, just as yoga once held space for me.
Georgie I didn’t find yoga at the peak of my life, I found it when everything felt uncertain.As a teenager, I struggled deeply with anxiety and regulating my nervous system. Like many people at that age, I was searching for purpose, for identity, for a place where I felt like I truly belonged. I wanted connection and acceptance, but I kept looking for it outside of myself through other people, through fitting in, through trying to be who I thought I needed to be. And when that didn’t work, I went the other direction. I pulled away. I isolated. I rebelled. Somewhere along the way, I lost touch with myself completely. Everything paused when I was sent to rehab. With no distractions, I was left to face myself, and that’s where I found yoga. What started as reading yogic books turned into a daily practice. Every evening, I would move and breathe through sunset, and for the first time, I felt a sense of peace and connection within myself. When I returned to the outside world, yoga became my anchor. In the middle of chaos, it gave me a space to breathe, to feel, and to come back home to my body. Over time, it built resilience, confidence, and a deeper trust in myself. When life brought real loss and tragedy, yoga became more than a practice, it became a way to process, to grieve, and to heal. It taught me how to slow down. How to breathe through discomfort. How to soften instead of run. More than anything, yoga helped me reconnect, to myself, to others, and to something deeper. Now, teaching yoga is how I give that space back to others. I’m still growing, still learning, but I move through life with more awareness and compassion than I ever thought possible. Yoga didn’t fix my life. It gave me the tools to meet it.
Yoga’s 8 Limbs - Pratyahara Traveling more into the depths of yoga... in the coming months, you will embark on a journey that unravels the facets of yoga in all of its beauty. Last month, we talked a bit about yoga’s history. This month, we will start to dive into the 8 limbs of yoga. You may mostly acquainted with Asana - the movement. We are going to talk this month about Pratyahara. Pratyahara means withdrawal from sensory stimulation. Prati meaning against or away and ahara meaning food, nourishment, or anything we take in. When we explore how we process the world as humans, we rely a lot on our senses - sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. We dive deeply into trusting our emotions and thoughts as truths. What Pratyahara invites the yogi to do, is to turn away from the distractions around us -whether that be encouraging nourishing our body with foods closest to whole form and surrounding ourselves with those that lift us or finding time to completely withdraw from sensory experiences to tap into the witnessing mind. This mind allows you to witness without engaging, to be present and still. Meditation can draw you in. What step can you take to reduce distractions in your life? Let me know for this month’s scavenger hunt. Text Nasreen at 210-902-8337.
Coming in April... Saturday, April 11th 12:30pm Together in Birth with Sara Saturday, April 11th 7:30pm Bliss & Soundbath with Gabby Sunday, April 12th 7pm Rooted in Aloha - Community Class with Makena Saturday, April 18th 7:30pm New Moon Reset: Nidra + Sound with Kayla Saturday, April 25th 5:30pm Sculpt + Restore with AK Saturday, April 25th 7:30pm Palace & Poses with AshleyREGISTER BELOW, ONLINE OR ON THE APP
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New Classes We’re expanding our offerings. Be on the lookout for new class times, new class offerings, new teachers! Some have been added already - be sure to check out 9am Chill offerings, Georgie’s classes on Monday afternoon to evenings and Liza’s 6am yoga classes Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.