/ Thoughts on practice & philosophy
A warm ritual of three herbal pots. One to soothe digestion, one to balance carbs, and one to calm the entire system after a big shared meal.
Hot yoga is not about temperature. It’s about truth. The moment everything you pretend to be begins to melt, and the version that remains is the one you build on.
Happy Death is not darkness for the sake of darkness. It is the quiet moment when the ego loosens its grip, the noise dissolves, and the truth surfaces. It is a practice of shedding, stripping away, and meeting yourself without armor.
Letting go isn’t a switch. It’s a ritual. It happens breath by breath, moment by moment, each time you resist the urge to grip, perform, or prove. You don’t lose control. You surrender to something deeper.
The beginning is just theater. Strength, symmetry, control. But your real practice lives on the other side of exhaustion, where breath breaks, poses fall, and the mask slips. That’s where the work begins.
Most malas are worn. This one is used. The First Death Mala was built for ritual, breath, and the quiet moment when something inside you releases. No tassel. No shine. Just gravity, breath, and black volcanic stone.
The Coffin 1.0 mat was not designed to blend in. It was designed to hold you, in sweat, in stillness, in the deepest part of your practice. Whether it's hot yoga, Pilates, or flow, this mat stays when others slip.
Balance is not a perfect stack. It is a living negotiation with gravity, breath, and the quiet chaos beneath your feet.
Hot yoga exposes the illusion of control and shows that chaos is not the enemy. The real strength lives in the space between, where the ego softens and the practice becomes real.
We launched the Happy Death Mat with a full-room practice at Namaste Yoga Studio. Everyone showed up in black, moved hard, and left with the mat they practiced on.
