by Tina Hnatiuk | Aug 9, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Managing Stress
Sometimes we are faced with impossible choices. The ones that bring us to our knees and make us wonder how we can ever find a “right” answer when it all feels hard and impossible. The sun was setting through the floor to ceiling windows blanketing my students in...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Jun 21, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Self-Love Practices
Today is the Summer Solstice marking another season, the passing of time, and often a time of reflection and ritual. I’m not really a “woo-woo” kind of gal despite being deeply spiritual. However I love using the solstices as markers to reflect, take...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Apr 6, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Managing Stress, Self-Love Practices
Recently, I heard the amazing Tarana Burke speaking on a podcast, and she said something that I keep picking up and toying with because it was so powerful. She was speaking about the relationship with her mom and the “mother wound,” and said that learning how to...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Mar 9, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Managing Stress
This morning I set my Contigo down on the bench in the coat room. I leaned over to grab my phone before heading out the door to teach a yoga class and as I picked it up it flashed todays news headlines. I yelled at it, “You! Shut the f*ck up!” I already read my daily...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Jan 10, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Managing Stress, Self-Love Practices
I was bent over leaning my hands on my thighs panting. I looked at Matt my eyes pleading, and said, “This is so hard.” Matt and his wife Robyn and the owners and trainers at the CrossFit gym I teach yoga at. Lately, I’ve also been coming to his 6:30am group classes a...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Feb 26, 2021 | Living With Purpose, Motherhood
I was sitting on the couch with Magnus sleeping in my arms, my bum making a permanent indent in the couch for sitting on it hours and days on end staring at entire seasons of Friends. My body hurt. I could literally feel my body turning into the shape of my couch. My...