New Year Energy & Brahmacharya

Hello Dear Reader,

Happy 2026!🎆

As we begin a new year, I want to offer a different perspective, a yogic perspective that completely changed how I relate to New Year's resolutions.

For a long time, I treated this month as a time to overhaul my life. New habits, big goals, fresh starts. Yet year after year, that approach left me feeling exhausted, stressed and like I had somehow failed before the year really began.

What I understand now is this: the issue was never discipline, it was energetics and timing.

In yoga philosophy there’s a principle called brahmacharya. At its core, brahmacharya means moderation. In relation to winter and the New Year I like to think of it as the wise conservation of our energy.

It’s the practice of not over-spending ourselves, physically, mentally, emotionally, or energetically. It's choosing to use our energy wisely, with intention and care.

Although society and the modern calendar would have us believe that January is the time to overextend our energy, we are actually in the thick of winter, and winter naturally invites us to conserve our energy.

Rather than pushing forward or forcing change, this season asks us to slow the outward flow of our energy. It gives us time to rest, assess energetic leaks and set healthy boundaries where we may be giving too much of ourselves.

Through this lens, rest isn’t something we earn later, it’s something we practice now. Gentle movement, rest and reflection become acts of self love, not signs of laziness.

If you’d like to experience this for yourself, I just released a new Yoga Nidra for Rest. It’s designed to help settle your nervous system, release energy that is not serving you and rest deeply.

Yoga Nidra for Rest A 20 minute practice for deep rest and rejuvenation Listen Here

If you would like more guidance and support as we enter 2026, I invite you to join The Soft Reset. This is a 7-day online experience built to help you reconnect with your energy, balance your nervous system and restore your natural rhythms.

Each day you will receive an email with a short video lesson, a practice (yoga, somatic movement, breath work ,Yoga Nidra, etc) and a supportive workbook to accompany the journey.

You can still join at the Founding Member price of $47, after which the price will increasing to $77. **Please note this course will be available at end of January.**

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If you are craving in-person connection, there are just two spots left for my upcoming winter retreat, New Year, Soft Start. This will be a cozy experience where we will honor winter with restorative yoga, an extra long Yoga Nidra, a creative project, nourishing meal and community connection.

👉 Save Your Spot!​

However you begin this year, I hope you allow yourself to start softly.
You’re not behind, you’re simply spending your energy wisely.

With warmth,
Misty 🌙