About Meg Abene Newlin // ERYT-500

Yoga teacher Meg Abene Newlin wearing a purple floral dress, holding her toddler Wilfred. They stand on their green grass in the springtime in front of their Vermont homestead.

Like most folks, I wear a lot of hats. Some more often than others and some maybe not as much as I would wish, but I am always looking for the way that each part connects and integrates and informs the whole. 

I have been interested in the exploration of yoga for almost 25 years; it has been a central guide in informing the adult that I have grown into. I love learning from any gifted teacher, across any method, but have also found myself dedicated to two in particular for the past 2+ decades. 

I have been mothering for over 15 years and that has been the other biggest source of my own personal becoming over time as well. In many ways, linked arm in arm with the study and practice of hatha yoga. 

I am a lousy meditator, but I do it anyway. I think maybe it is a great practice to simply keep on doing something that is hard, that never gets easy, and that maybe never will.  At least, I am choosing to think so. 

I am a Sagitarrius sun with a Capricorn rising which I think sums up many things about my internal struggle quite nicely. I like to think that I am pretty fluent with the dynamic play of opposites and the nature of holding two opposing perspectives as simultaneously real, and true, and valid. 

I love to work with people as they explore their own personal life of practice and the particular way in which their practices spill over into all corners of their daily lives. I try to be in service to what is true and authentic and real and just above all else. I stumble a lot, but endeavoring to work consciously with my mistakes is one of the bigger parts of my practice. 

My husband says that I do not need to say much in a bio as there is not much that has been left unsaid on my blog. So, I do encourage you to take a gander over there if you like. I continue to pull on the thread of mostly the same themes of love and family and loss and nostalgia and time and practice in that space. Writing there has been a definite conduit of connection for me  over the years and I hope that it may land that way for others as well.