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...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Jan 4, 2021 | Happiness, Living With Purpose, Managing Stress
There’s a yogic concept called “samskara” which essentially describes that the more we do something the easier it is to fall into doing it. If you imagine driving a car over and over in the same place in a muddy road it creates ruts and eventually these ruts deepen...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Oct 2, 2020 | Happiness, Living With Purpose, Managing Stress, Self-Love Practices
Starting your day off device free is one of the easiest ways to ensure a stress-free morning, but what about if you want MORE? What if you want the BEST DAY? A day that you feel calm and steady yet ready to throw the sheets off the bed to jump out with a smile on your...
