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The Change in a Yoga Pose That Changed My Perspective on Productivity

January 13, 2026 | Renée Fishman

How removing the “support” of a yoga block from a pose radically changed my perspective on yoga, productivity, and life itself.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity, Yoga Tagged With: ability, blocks, capacity, foundation, Katonah Yoga, nervous system, security, stability, support, systems, yoga

Why Your Muscles Stay Tight No Matter How Much You Stretch

November 15, 2025 | Renée Fishman

If you’re constantly trying to stretch or massage away your chronically tight muscles and your efforts are failing, it might be time to consider that the tight muscles aren’t the problem.

Filed Under: Fitness, Yoga Tagged With: biomechanics, biopsychosocial, exercicse, fitness, muscles, nervous system, physiology, protection, safety, security, stability, stretching

How to Expand Your Capacity to Do and Receive More

January 6, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Expanding your capacity isn’t the result of powering or pushing through. Introducing a metaphor that will help you chart your path to manifesting your visions and expanding your capacity to do and receive more.

Filed Under: Productivity, Yoga Tagged With: ability, body as a house, foundation, Katonah Yoga, metaphor, productivity, stability, structure, support, systems, vision, yoga

The Biggest Lesson of the Deadlift

August 9, 2024 | Renée Fishman

After months of failures, I finally deadlifted 200 pounds for 5 reps. I did it without a coach or a class cheering me on, which taught me the biggest lesson of deadlifts.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness Tagged With: accountability, capacity, coaching, confidence, deadlifts, fitness, focus, milestones, momentum, personal development, PR, self-trust, stability, weightlifting

The Key to Finding Your Flow

February 28, 2023 | Renée Fishman

When we’re feeling stuck in life, the default tends to be to focus on changing habits. But there’s a more foundational element we should check first.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: breath, breathing, creativity, flow, grounding, habits, Katonah Yoga, metaphor, stability, structure, yoga

How to Increase Your Ability to Handle Risk

October 16, 2022 | Renée Fishman

This is an essay about squats and the holiday of Sukkot, the thread that ties them together, and the lesson they teach us about how to move with greater ease.

Filed Under: Fitness, Holidays Tagged With: ability, faith, fitness, foundation, mobility, roots, squats, stability, sukkah, sukkot, trust

How to Find Stability When Everything is Changing

June 19, 2020 | Renée Fishman

The irony of stability is that it requires movement.

Filed Under: Navigating Change Tagged With: CHAOS, flow, movement, navigating change, responsibility, stability

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