Yoga Fundamentals with Stori

We are 5 days into the 30 day challenge and I am definitely feeling a difference, I hope you are too!

If you haven't joined yet there is still time to jump in! All classes are available on YouTube and you can join in LIVE every Monday at 9 GMT +1 !

Worried about time? Classes are short between 10-40min so you can make time every time!

Can't commit everyday? Join 3 times a week! Accountability can take a shape that works for you. It is better to show up consistently than to overcommit and quit!

It has been more than a yoga challenge, with technical difficulties and personal chaos my own dedication to this challenge has been tested... but all the more reason to take this time on the mat!

Starting THIS FRIDAY AUGUST 1ST I am hosting my first ever 30 day challenge... AND WE ARE STARTING LIVE!

It is super hard to prioritise the time you need to take care of you... more on this later... but this August we are taking that time back minutes at a time!

You don't need an hour practise to have a full practise, just 10 minutes can shift everything.

Join me EVERYDAY on YouTube this August. The first class is live, as are every Monday to help you get started each week. The rest of the week classes are posted every morning and YOU take accountability to show up.

You only need to sign up with yourself, however...Check in with me! I want to know how you are doing!

Time will vary between 10 and 45 mintues but most classes will be short to help you get the routine going...maybe in September we amp up the challenge ;)*

She has the whole world inside her.
And life is the glorious dance of exploring her.

I am learning how to focus on me.

I am learning what is mine to carry.

I am learning when to walk away.

So many people say "yoga is my therapy"... hell for YEARS I also made that claim. Yoga is very therapeutic for soften the mind and connecting to the body, but you know what is MY therapy? Therapy.

Yoga helped me get to therapy, but therapy helped me heal. If you are experiencing emotional unrest or lost in the direction of your life or just need someone objective to talk to, therapy is also an amazing tool and it pairs really well with the awareness practises in yoga.

I noticed incredible shifts in my personal peace during my teacher training but I needed therapy too, and for years I avoided it by saying "yoga is my therapy."

Yoga is ONE of my therapies but there is no shame in asking for extra guidance, needing support, or doing the emotional work to become the greatest version of the amazing person you are.

Hey there! I am back with a regular teaching schedule!

What have I been doing?! Well among many other things, this. Yes, while I need to make posting less a part of my day to day I still fit yoga into all the nooks and crannies!

I am here to announce some pretty big news! I have started my own business and will be teaching regular yoga classes, as well as monthly workshops there.

Where? Faca e Queijo, located in Penha de França, it is a beautiful space dedicated to helping my community of self employed creative succeed. Facaequeijo.com for more information.

I am sure you have a million questions but first and foremost let me say that no, it IS NOT A YOGA STUDIO. After almost a decade of teaching for studios and gyms, I realise my path is different and I need to be true to who and what I offer as a teacher.

All this being said I am back baby, with a regular teaching schedule a maneira de Stori 😘😘 visit facaequeijo.com/calendario/ or message me directly for more information!

I can't wait to practise with you again!

Posted • .pt All about hips: We're so pleased to present Stori's upcoming hip workshop Saturday, Jan. 6 from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Learn more about hip flexibility and creating space for breath and movement in the hips. Your investment: 30 euros. Please book via WhatsApp +351 93 850 6179

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let us looking forward lovingly to the future. Welcome to *Faca e Queijo* a place to work, a place to learn and a place to grow together. Juntos Temos Tudo. Exercise your creative mind in the company of other with the equipment, space and services you need to be successful.

We can't wait to meet you.

For more information visit our website facaequeijo.com or email us at [email protected]

"Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity." - James Clear, Atomic Habits

Who made you, you?

Lately I have been exploring this question. Where did my beliefs about myself come from? Do they align with the reality of my potential? Do I even believe any of these things to truly represent my inner world? Why am I perpetuating these myths that who I was and who I am needed alteration?

In this search for myself I found so many layers of "me" that are not true. Thoughts and habits that I created because I was told that is who I am...

I am untraining myself so that I can arrive to who I really am... I miss her and its time she was freed to set the world on fire.

Who made you? Do you still believe that is who are?

⚡️Be Loud
⚡️Be Expressive
⚡️Be Yourself

Practise becomes firmly grounded when attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness. Sutra 1:14

Everything starts with the small seeds🌱 we plant daily. New routines, healthier habits, positive thought patterns, a more purposeful existence... They all start with
☆small choices
☆made regularly,
☆with intention
☆☆☆and then repeated☆☆☆

We are always sowing seeds, creating patterns, whether or not we are doing so with intention. What we cultivate and grow does not come from the "big" decisions, rather it grows from these
☆small gestures,
☆watered and tended
☆over days, weeks, months, years
So why not 🌱intentionally🌱 plant some change in your garden?

Join me on Sundays at 10h00 to tend to your practise, to repeat these gestures with devotion and to grow the garden that is your beautifully able body.

⚡️Be Loud
⚡️Be Expressive
⚡️Be Yourself

Danger! Woman being female in public! *steps on soapbox*

This past weekend, I was in the park, minding my own yoga business, living my best life, and embodying my practise...when an older gentleman took note and decided to make this a spectator sport.
He sat on a bench relatively close to where I was, but as it faced the pond he had to fully rotate to be a creep.
No, he wasn't admiring my dedication to my practise because everytime my focal point was anywhere near him, he rapidly looked away, as if he wasn't staring... Now people who are just glancing and admiring don't need to act like they shouldn't be caught... and usually they move along, this man stayed for the entire *hour* I practised.
And here is where I get really fu***ng pi**ed, because what am I suppose to do? Is it my responsibility to disrupt my life and move because this man can't control himself? I need to adapt my behaviour? F**k no. However, by not doing so, he seemed to accept this as permission to continue objectifying me. At some point I got distracted by my practise and stopped noticing him, but when I came out of my final meditation and saw he was still watching me... all the yoga yumminess I had cultivated was joined by this incredible frustration. A frustration every woman knows. A frustration that is exhausting!
Maybe I should have stopped, walked over to him, and told him to stop... but sometimes I'm too tired of having to stick up for myself and fellow women *all* the *time*. I just want to exist in this world without having to fight for respect.
I don't hate men. Let me be clear. I have SO many good men in my life that increase the quality of my existence. Unfortunately, these good guys end up apologising for the behaviour of the creeps, which also isn't fair to them.
I don't know what the solution is... but I wish it was rounding up men like this and putting them in an aquarium to be gawked at and humiliated for all eternity...

⚡️Be Proud
⚡️Be Resilient
⚡️Be Yourself

'And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good' -Steinbeck

I love this quote it speaks to the perfectionist in me and tells her to get over herself.

Whether I'm sketching, writing, trying to speak a new language, meeting new people, cooking lunch... I don't want things to be good, I want things to be flawless... but I am human and flawed and perfectly imperfect so how can anything I do be with imperfection as well?!

The real problem with accepting nothing less than perfection is that I end up missing a lot!.. like A WHOLE F&* LOT! I stop myself from even trying just in case I fail... but failing is how we learn, it is not an inherently bad thing to fail, its part of the process to grow and improve.

For the last few months I've challenged myself to be more comfortable with being good, not perfect. I bought small canvases and I will give myself one night to paint something and then however it ends it's done and it's fine and it's good. I've started sketching regularly... without the intent of creating a masterpiece just to capture lines I like. I've been braver about attending social events that I might, at first feel uncomfortable. It's all super small steps but it shows me even when I'm "just" good... its pretty great and better yet its me and its real.

Perfection isn't real.

Goodness is real and life can be pretty f@&£ing good!

And in all things you do
⚡️Be Loud
⚡️Be Expressive
⚡️Be Yourself