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These aren’t just free classes — they’re a celebration!

YTT grad free yoga✨
october 8-10

Join our newest YTT graduates for some free, mixed-level vinyasa flow classes!

These classes are part of our graduates’ final teaching experience, and we’re excited to fill the room with supportive humans & so much love <3

All experience levels are welcome. Don’t have a mat? No worries — we rent them for $2.

Classes open for registration 48 hours in advance.

Come move, meet new people, and get a little peek into the magic of TYU teacher training!

xx,
brittany & your 200-hour ytt crew!🌸

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suicide prevention month may be ending, but caring about people doesn’t end with september. 🤍

i wanted to end this month by asking a simple question:

what’s one specific thing that helps you keep going when life feels really hard?
the answers i received reminded me that sometimes the things that keep us going aren’t huge or profound. sometimes it’s a person who always calls. a pet waiting for you at home. a song. a prayer. a place you want to visit. something on your calendar you’re excited about. a future you haven’t gotten to yet.

and sometimes, it’s just knowing that today doesn’t have to be forever.
thank you so much to everyone who was willing to be part of this project, whether you sent me a video, wrote something down, shared a little piece of your story, or simply said yes when i asked. i know some of these answers came from deeply personal places, and i don’t take your willingness to share them with me or with everyone watching for granted. 🤍

i hope this can be a reminder that suicide prevention isn’t just about one month on the calendar. it’s about the way we notice each other, check in, listen, stay connected, and make space for people to be honest about how they’re doing.

and if you’re the person watching this who is struggling right now:
you don’t have to have everything figured out. you don’t have to know how things will get better. you just have to keep going one moment at a time.
i’m really glad you’re here.

call or text 988 if you need someone to talk to. you don’t have to have the right words to reach out.
keep checking on your people.
keep asking the question.
keep making room for honest conversations.

suicide prevention month may be ending.
but caring about people doesn’t end with september. 🤍

#suicidepreventionmonth #suicidepreventionawareness #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #jesuslovesyou

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There might never be a time that some of my people are together again like this but I thank God that it ever happened in the first place #memories #life #god

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My life recently in 🎥

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Share the message wherever you go🌞
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Love seeing you guys in our hoodies!!
#christianapparel #godisgood #faith #hoodies #christ

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Jesus LIVES! He is real!

Chatting with Sam about Jesus Christ and His Grace changed me. So grateful to God for putting her in my life right when I needed her!

She is the host of @oneshepherd33 Go give her a listen!

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GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES:)

I am so grateful for people who are making Christian clothing and I am so grateful to be a small part of it:) thank you @thesonrisesagain for sending me the most comfortable sweatshirt I have ever owned:)

God really does keep his promises!!! (Says that on the back, so cute I know) ✝️☀️

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#comeback

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“I grew up full of questions about the church, and by junior year of high school I decided no one could answer them the way I needed, so I walked away.

I started using drugs my sophomore year, and what began as rebellion turned into a real addiction I couldn’t admit to anyone.

Nicotine became my worst vice because it was so easy to hide.

After high school I moved to North Carolina to escape my old life, and for months I did great, until I relapsed by sneaking my roommate’s stuff at 3 a.m.

In that moment I felt God say, ‘I can see you,’ and I realized I couldn’t hide from Him.

I had been away for about four years when I traveled with my family to my dad’s mission and then to Rome.

At the Rome Temple visitor center, I watched a sister missionary and kept wondering what she had that I didn’t.

Afterward, sitting at dinner with my family, my whole body felt like it was on fire, exactly like the scriptures describe, and I started crying.

I texted my cousin that I was supposed to serve a mission, and I couldn’t even say the words out loud to my family.

I texted my bishop that same night, opened my mission papers, and got endowed the next month, which I know was only possible through God.

I served in Knoxville, Tennessee, where many of the people I taught were struggling with the same addiction I had escaped.

Sometimes a house would smell like my old life and I couldn’t concentrate, but every time, God carried me back into the lesson.

My mission taught me that addiction isn’t who I am, and that God can keep pulling us out as long as we stay willing.

I still carry questions, but what I know far outweighs what I don’t, and God is the one who told me to come back.

I have had too many sacred experiences with my Heavenly Father and Savior to ever deny that this is Christ’s church.”

-Sam

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FROM DRUGS AND SELF TO JESUS CHRIST ✝️

Samantha Grey is sharing her testimony publicly after saying her life was transformed through faith in Jesus Christ.

She describes a season of life where she lived without God, pursued her own path, experimented with drugs, focused heavily on image and appearance, and searched for fulfillment apart from Christ.

But she says everything changed after encountering Jesus.

Today, Samantha says her life looks completely different.

Not because she became perfect—

but because she surrendered her life to Christ.

Now she openly shares her testimony online with one message:

That Jesus still changes lives.

One question she often asks people is:

“Can Jesus really change me?”

Her answer:

“Yes — if you let Him.”

For many Christians, testimonies like Samantha’s are reminders that the Gospel is not about cleaning yourself up first—

it is about coming to Jesus and allowing Him to transform your heart.

No background is too broken.

No past is too heavy.

No person is too far gone.

📖 2 Corinthians 5:17
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation…”

📖 Ezekiel 36:26
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you…”

📖 John 8:36
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

Jesus doesn’t only forgive.

Christians believe He transforms.

#JesusChrist #ChristianTestimony #Faith #Transformation #Gospel

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Thank you, Sam, for sharing your story. Many of us have loved ones or friends who have chosen a different path than what we would have chosen for them. 😢 But, Agency isn't something to control. Love is always the answer in these situations. ❤️

I'm curious...How have you shown love to others who may be going down a different path?

One thing I do know, is that our Savior Jesus Christ always has His hand outstretched and won't ever give up on us. Can we show that same love and compassion? 🥰

Enjoy Episode 16. link is in my bio.

#becomingtheoak #rootedinchrist #christianwomen #podcast #cominghome

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“I’ve lived a life without God completely, and I’ve lived a life with God completely

and I’ve never been more happy… ever.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland:

“… I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future⁠. …

“… Dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. …

“To all [people] of every generation, I call out, ‘Remember Lot’s wife’ [⁠Luke 17:32⁠]. Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the ‘high priest of good things to come’

#returnedmissionary #churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints #preachmygospel

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