Frik-Shuhn Yoga & Coaching

Maybe your yoga practice isn’t working… somewhere along the way we reduced yoga to stretching. So if you’ve been practicing for years and still:
• hate yourself
• ignore your needs
• judge your body
• avoid your feelings
• abandon yourself
It might be time to ask a difficult question:
Are you practicing yoga?
Or are you just doing asana?
The poses are beautiful, but they were never meant to be the entire practice. The real work begins when we start applying yoga off the mat.
The other seven limbs matter.
A lot.

👇 What’s one thing yoga has taught you OFF the mat?

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The older I get, the less impressed I am by flexibility. Somewhere along the way, yoga became more about performance than practice.

I’ve met people who can put their foot behind their head and still speak terribly to themselves.

I’ve met people who can handstand for a minute and still have no boundaries.

I’ve met people who know every Sanskrit word in the book and still abandon themselves daily.

Flexibility is a skill, not a measure of wisdom.

It is not a measure of kindness.

It is not a measure of emotional intelligence.

It is not a measure of regulation.

The people who impress me most these days are the ones who:

✨ take responsibility for their actions
✨ have difficult conversations
✨ apologize when they’re wrong
✨ honor their boundaries
✨ regulate themselves when life gets hard
✨ continue learning and growing

Yoga was never meant to be about how a pose looks.

It was meant to be about how we live.

At the end of the day, I don’t care how flexible your hamstrings are.

I care how flexible your mind is.

👇 What quality do you admire most in a teacher?

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Yoga teachers:

This might be the reason you’re exhausted-
it’s not your schedule, or social media, or the algorithm.

It’s people pleasing - Saying yes when you want to say no, discounting your prices, answering messages at all hours, giving away your expertise, being available to everyone except yourself, and then wondering why resentment is building.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Many of us learned that being “good” meant being self-sacrificing.

But self-sacrifice is not the same thing as compassion.

And eventually every act of self-abandonment comes with a bill.

Yoga taught me that boundaries aren’t selfish.

They’re sustainable.

👇 Where do you people please the most?

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Your nervous system doesn’t care how many oracle cards you own, or how many crystals are beside your bed, it doesn’t care how many times you’ve read The Untethered Soul (and I say this as someone who loves spiritual practice).

Spirituality and regulation are not the same thing.

You can be deeply spiritual and still:
• ignore your boundaries
• overwork yourself
• people please
• live in chronic stress
• abandon your own needs

Your nervous system responds to what you repeatedly do, not what you intellectually believe.

The goal isn’t to choose science OR spirituality.

The goal is to understand how they work together.

That’s where the magic happens.

👇 Have you ever confused spirituality with healing?

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I know this one is going to ruffle some feathers, yet, before anyone gets defensive…

I LOVE education.

I’ve spent decades learning, I’ve taught hundreds of teacher trainings,
I’ve invested tens of thousands of dollars into my own growth.

This isn’t anti-training.

It’s anti-hiding.

At some point another certification stops being education and starts becoming avoidance.

Avoidance of:
• teaching
• being seen
• posting online
• charging your worth
• making mistakes
• trusting yourself

Many yoga teachers are not lacking knowledge, they’re lacking confidence, and confidence doesn’t come from another weekend course.

It comes from doing the thing.
Teaching the class.
Having the conversation.
Showing up imperfectly.

It’s using what you already know, not learning more!

👇 How many trainings have you taken?

I have over 5000 hours, not including all the Tony Robbins 🤓 it’s time to start.

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