Jessica Girija Jewell

by Jessica Girija Jewell It’s done. Yoga Together Lincoln has closed. Thank you to everyone who has offered kind words and support. I am fortunate to be part of this community. The kindnesses shown have touched my heart and helped me feel more able to love and be loved. Deep bow. Closing the studio kept me plenty busy. The ordinary tasks required to close a space — moving stuff, patching walls, ending services — take time and energy. A few loose ends remain, especially website-tending. Thank...

by Jessica Girija Jewell A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to attend the Iyengar National Association of the United States convention in Philadelphia. A friend and fellow long-time yoga practitioner invited me to the event back in July 2025. We made our reservations then and have been both piously patient and achingly expectant over the intervening months. There were 760 people in attendance! We occupied the grand ballroom in the Philadelphia convention center, and when the leader,...

by Jessica Jewell When you were born, you arrived into a precise planetary pattern — and took on its karma as your own. This pattern – your birth chart – is seeded into the fertile soil of your chakras. And then the planets plowed on. The present-moment planetary positions create conditions — the symbolic heat and water — for people, things and events to come into your life. The way you react or respond to these is your karma, the pattern sown into your chakras. Every month, we gather...