Ji Hwang Yoga

Soul Stretch Yoga Retreat - Edisto Island, South Carolina

I’m hosting my very first yoga retreat (eeeek I’m so giddy)

I’d love to invite you in to this sweet hideaway 🤍

✴︎Edisto Island Yoga Retreat | Nov 3-6 ✴︎

Please invite + share this with anyone who would want/need this! 🤍

Soul Stretch Yoga Retreat - Edisto Island, South Carolina Come away and unplug for a cozy intimate soul-stretching weekend with an amazing group women. Envision yoga surrounded by luscious greenery, freshly prepped healthy meals,

Little moments of joy, light and love 🤍

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Ji Hwang Yoga updated their information in their About section.

Ji Hwang Yoga updated their information in their About section.

Ji Hwang Yoga updated their business hours.

Ji Hwang Yoga updated their business hours.

✶ Handstand Workshop ✶

Saturday 11.14.20 1:30-3:30pm

👋🏽 if you’d like to join!

Feel free to message me with any questions 🤍

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 ➛ Slow down and take time for yourself.

Come unroll your mat with me this week.
➤ Monday 4:30pm & Thursday 7:30pm
Charleston Community Yoga
➤ Virtual yoga schedule link in bio

The chatters in my head have been really loud lately. I catch myself being critical of me being too critical. I question often what if I’m doing it all wrong. Career, business, relationships, finance, my whole world. I get caught up in it so deep. Even with all the personal growth tools I’ve collected over the years, I still get steeped in self doubt sometimes. I found a note I’ve written years ago, “You are so much more than you give yourself credit for” and today it felt so surface. Did I really mean it when I wrote that? Did I really feel empowered and worthy then? And I stared into a void for a little while.. I just sat not sure for how long. Then at some point, my Light side voice shadowed all the other dark ones. “Who are you kidding? You already know the answer.”
My meditation looks different sometimes.

You are always creating.
Soo powerful beyond your imagination.
Intentionally or unintentionally, you choose. ✨

Almost feels like fall. 🍂 Almost.

𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐬.

We’ve all heard (assuming you’ve taken yoga classes 😂) yoga teachers say “hug your elbows in” in chaturanga. But like, how much are we talking here?!

If you care to know, that cue ONLY applies to those who tend to splay their elbows out wider than shoulder width distance in low push-up (or chaturanga) position.

The intention of the cue is to keep the arms in neutral (or no rotation) so the ideal distance is shoulder width for most people.

Meaning, if you already have upper arm bones (humerous) parallel to one another in chaturanga, disregard that cue and keep doing what you are doing!

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Bringing out my inner Nataraja for the weekend.

* no trees or spine were harmed in the making.

𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬?

Too often I see locked out knees with a rounded back in an attempt to stretch hamstrings. That can do more harm than what it’s worth.

Instead try 👇🏽:

👉🏽 bend the knees enough it doesn’t feel too tight to hinge at the hips
👉🏽 fold from the hips by hinging
👉🏽 elongate the torso so that there’s no intense pulling in the back
👉🏽 do all of the above simultaneously and work towards extending the knees only to a point there’s enough sensations in the hamstrings but not too much.
👉🏽 very important, take deep breaths.

I stay close to the elements of 𝐬𝐮𝐧, 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 & 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫.

To be of service, I must fill my own reservoir so I have enough to give.

What are you doing today to elevate your energy?

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Don’t minimize your dreams. Pool noodz save lives! ✨

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝

“Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women, who have each other’s back”

I’m so blessed to have countless wonderful women in my life who build me up, who listen, who inspire, who advise, who support, and one in particular who gave birth to me. So much love to you all.

At first I had no idea what this black and white photo challenge was about. I learned about the origins and how it was created to spread awareness of the femicides in Turkey. To Pinar and the hundreds of women murdered in Turkey’s femicide tragedies, Rest In Peace. I pray for you and stand for you.

Thanks you and for nominating me and bring this to my attention. 🕊🤍🙏🏻

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𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 ✨

Over 50% of communication is non-verbal. Physiology is important.

*If you want to dive deeper in that topic, a social psychologist Amy Cuddy has a good resource on Ted Talk about power posing.

The person with the most certainty and confidence will almost always influence the uncertain person.

In my work of teaching yoga and life coaching, my aim and sincere intention is to guide eliminate the limiting beliefs that hold someone back from making a decision, “I’m not ____ enough” “I can’t” “it won’t work for me” and such, and also to instill inner power and potential that each of us hold.

Confidence is an emotional state. Certainty is an emotional state. Meaning, they are not fixed. They come and go. Sometimes we need to be reminded how awesome we are to rise to those states. So tell yourself sweetly today, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟*𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 and let’s get to work! 👊🏽

P.S. miss being with a room full of yogis flowing and breathing together soooo much. 🕊🤍🙏🏻

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@ Charleston, South Carolina

Ji Hwang Yoga updated their website address.

Ji Hwang Yoga updated their website address.

🚨 Arm Balance Workshop 🚨

Let’s play!
Here are some of the poses we’ll explore :
➛ plank & side plank
➛ pendant pose
➛ crow variations
➛ eight angle pose
➛ flying splits & pigeon
➛ elephant trunk & firefly pose
➛ peacock pose

Nov 10 | 1-3pm


Who’s ready to perch up?

>> link in bio

The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light that’s blazing inside your presence.

Hey you, my lovely fellow yoga teachers 💗

Feel eager to dive deeper and learn more about ways to sequence more insightful and effective classes for your students and clients?

Are you the type of person who values continued education and understand its importance as a yoga teacher?

Feel a bit uninspired in your classes lately and want to add more to your teaching tool box and enhance your sequencing?

Is an evening spent nerding out over yoga seems like a dream come true? 😜


Come join and me at for an evening on the 21st. We have something really sweet planned for you guys! Let’s have a conversation!

>> Link in bio >Intelligent Sequencing Workshop

🚨 Yoga Goodness Alert 🚨

➤ Something for everyone : Masterclass (Tuesday 10/22)
➤ Something for yoga teachers : Intelligent Sequencing (Monday 10/21)


>> LINK IN BIO

First off, I’m so stoked that I get to collaborate with this human!! Eeeekkk. We’ve been brainstorming and marinating our ideas and visions for years. And here is our inaugural collab!!

You’ve heard the term, “smart” or “intelligent” sequencing being tossed around in yoga teaching world and what does it all mean? If you are curious and wanting to dive deeper, and I are so excited to share what we’ve extracted from our over 2 decades, collectively, of experiences and knowledge of teaching and figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Come nerd out with us!

Mark your calendars
➤ Oct 21 Smart Sequencing Workshop (for yoga teachers)
➤ Oct 22 Masterclass (open to everyone)

Sign-up link will be up this weekend!


PC: 💗

@ The Skinny Dip: Charleston Edition

The last SUP yoga class of this season, who’s in?
DM for more details. 🏄🏻‍♀️💗

Loving this reminder so much 🦋

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

Don’t believe everything your mind tells you. Question your doubts! You are so much more than you give credit for! 🖤

You are strong.
You are ready.
You are enough.
You are worth it.
You have enough and can have more if you want.
You can pave the road your way.
You deserve the kind of love you crave.
Now is divine timing, not too early, not too late to start something new.


All the love 🖤

Handstand Learning Curve

In the beginning, for many years my handstands look like this ➤ fling the legs up and hope for the best.
Sound familiar?

Every once in a while in yoga class I would kick up into the wall a few times and pray that I make it then move on.. Each time it would remind me that I wanted to get better but with no real plans, tools or coaches/teachers to get me there. And surely it stayed that way for a long while with no visible improvement.

It wasn’t until that I got focused and serious. I attended many weekend workshops, all day immersions, sought out skilled gymnastic coaches, hand-balancing experts, hung out with friends who had mad handstand skills hoping that it would rub off on me (and it did 😜). Shortly after, I started to see and experience many breakthroughs and ah-ha moments, and it brought more clarity on what my next steps or goals were.

If you are serious about improving and being proficient at free standing handstand, no matter where you are in your journey these 2 things will help you see the results and breakthroughs quicker.
➤ work with a skilled and experienced coach or teacher
➤ focused practice with structured plans & lessons

If you want to learn and get better, I’m here to help you out! Join me this Wednesday for 2 hours of focused training and coaching. We’ll cover detailed foundational movement patterns, techniques, various entry & exit strategies and more.
>> Link in bio

Handstand Playshop at the Dip

RESCHEDULED!!!

>> Handstand Workshop

Handstand Playshop at the Dip RE-SCHEDULED!!! In this 2 hour playful and engaging workshop, you will be introduced to the basic principles of handstands. We will disassemble our fears of going upside down, and we will deepen and explore our awareness of anatomy and specific strength and conditioning exercises and drills, handsta...

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I used to claim that I’m not a morning person. I told that narrative to myself and to countless people for many many years. I believed it and it was no big deal I thought. And just as I claimed it, I struggled almost every morning getting out of bed. I would snooze over and over. And when I was finally out of bed, I was sluggish and grumpy starting the day off off beat almost every morning. And I wasn’t even aware. Only after I started to dive into yoga and personal development, working with coaches and mentors, I became more aware of my thinking and behavioral patterns. I realized that seemingly harmless thoughts or beliefs (no matter how small or insignificant) about myself were affecting me in very insidious yet colossal ways. I decided that I deserve a better start to each day and something had to change. So I started to tell a different story to myself. “Mornings are magical”

Contrary to popular belief, our personalities or traits are not fixed, they are fluid. It’s not our personalities that shape our behaviors, patterns or our lives, it’s our behaviors shape our personalities. When I first learned this concept, it blew my mind. It was so easy to justify and say, I’ve always been this way or I’m so set in that way. So many people settle for less than ideal habits, behaviors and actions, even when they cause setbacks, pain, and struggles. It doesn’t always have to be that way. There are ways to break the patterns and choose to experience things differently. Be curious and explore your ways.

Do you have any traits, personalities, and characteristics that you accepted to be permanent even though you know they are not serving you?

Do you have any narratives about yourself that keep coming back?

If any, what unhealthy beliefs about yourself are you holding onto?

Beach days 🏖 are the best days! 👅

Up-level your handstand skills!!

Handstand workshop info & sign up

➤ Date : Wednesday, Sept 4th
➤ Time : 6:30pm - 8:30pm
➤ Location : Upstairs - the Skinny Dip Charleston
➤ Investment : $33 ($44 day of event)
➤ Registration : link in bio “Handstand Workshop” or DM me. ✌🏽

➤ 𝙼𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎 “𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝.” 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚊 𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 "𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝." 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘u𝚝 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐. 🖤

>> Handstand Workshop link in bio