Einat Peled-Katz Yoga

Now I'll always have a little Tanglewood with me 💚

Tanglewood is where I've had most of my happiest memories and moments. These last months have been quite brutal and challenging. I wanted to do something to remind myself of my joy and peace. We've spent every summer at tanglewood since 2002. My kids are both summer babies and took their first steps on the lawn in front of the shed and in the sand at the BSO beach on the stockbridge bowl. I can't wait to go every summer and I am most alive and at ease there, where I feel I truly belong; immersed in nature, music, and a community that's more like family.

30 YEARS together.
[This is a love letter to so if you're not into that kind of romantic sticky stuff you should probably scroll on].

We met on orientation day, before the start of 9th grade in arts high school. You were a few good inches shorter than me, and had no facial hair yet but already had a bit of fame as a cellist. I had a 14yo kind of crush on you with your sparkling blue-green eyes that gave me butterflies. On the orchestra trip to Europe we became inseparable, especially that final night of the tour when we talked and laughed and made out and stayed up half the night (with our friends, and where were our chaperons??) That was in 1992 and we never separated since then.

We were just kids. Every time I look back at that time in high school it blows my mind how things turned out for us. I think it may seem strange to someone from the outside, the fact that I have never had another relationship (ok, I did have a boyfriend in 4th grade). But it was never really weird to me. We simply grew together, and we made each other happy.
30 years ago it was just you and me and in the end the kids will grow and it will again be just you and me. I will always be proud and grateful and a little bit in disbelief that I am still so much in love with you and that I love you every day a little more. So I can trust that we will find our way back from our disagreements and our anger and we will end up in each other's arms because that is the only place where I feel at home. Of everyone in my world you are the one that knows me and understands me completely, and being fully understood and still respected and deeply loved for who I really am is the best gift I have ever received. There is nothing more precious than you and me.

I was in the car and the song "life is a highway" came on the radio and I thought it's NOTHING like a highway. Life's more like a twisty dirt road that's two way but there's only one lane and a cliff on each side and everyone driving like maniacs, and you and I are not even driving, we are in the passenger's seat clinging to each other's hand and hanging on . But i am doing it because the views are stunning and we're together.

Warming up my shoulders (sped up x2)in the pretty morning light before my class at @jpcentreyoga. Also loving my JP hat 🧡 The most delightful moment is putting away the strap at the end and having the feeling of no sensation, just ease. #yogainthemorning #turningtowardsthelight #yogapractice #yogastudent, #virasana #uttitahasta

This week I was interviewed by NPR for this piece. One of the main points I wanted to make is to encourage other teachers in similar situations to come together and speak out.

This chapter isn't over. I hope we can see through the smoke screens and recognize the need for a meaningful change in the yoga industry, particularly in Boston. Whether you call it exclusivity or non-compete, teachers are still being asked to demonstrate loyalty to earn what they deserve and rewards are promised not on the basis of expertise, education, or experience, but on a scale of loyalty.

Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios Yoga studios want to protect their interests. Yoga teachers say they are unfair and should be done away with.