Sam Leonetti

Yoga Teacher hoping to spread #mindfulnessoffthemat

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

@PhilaStreets This morning I saw my recycling thrown into the back of a trash truck... yet again. It is super disheartening to see this when Philly has such a horrid past with incinerating 1/2 of recyclables. How are you ensuring our recyclables are actually recycled? ♻️

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

@PhillyMayor Philly has a horrid history with recycling (throwing almost half its recycling into incinerators in 2019) and this morning I woke up to see my recycling thrown into the back of a trash truck... again. What are you doing to ensure our recycling actually gets recycled?

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

@PhiladelphiaGov I woke up this morning to see my recycling and trash thrown into the same truck...again! Philly has a horrible history with recycling and it's incredibly frustrating. What are you doing to fix this?

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

me: “they make vegan egg nog, so I could have that!”

my husband: “is it called eggNAHg? Because it should be…”

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

me: “here are a few alternatives to upward facing dog, choose any of these if you’d like them!”

*watches everyone in the class listen to their body and choose a pose”

me:

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

woke up this morning feeling refreshed as hell thinking
“wow, I slept so well,
I am a functioning adult”

jokes on me it’s daylight savings 😒

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

if you are in the yoga community,
be mindful about your language
and the language of your colleagues as the holidays get closer…
diet culture has no place on the mat
ANY time during the year,
but can be especially triggering around the winter months (3/3)

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

the real 👻spooky season:
that time of the year
when yoga studios
start using fat-phobic language
in response to the upcoming
winter holidays (1/3)

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

“burn off that turkey!”
“detox those holiday drinks!”
“sweat out that eggnog!”
harmful, fat-phobic language
tends to ramp up as the
temperature cools down
(2/3)

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

you know yourself best

choosing what you want
from your yoga practice
is a way of listening to and honoring your body and mind

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

a gentle reminder that you are allowed to say “no” in a yoga class

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

at the end of the day,
yoga teachers are there
to offer options…
and they are just that!
optional

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

someone else’s culture
is not your costume

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

as we enter into the climax of
‘spooky season’
this is a gentle reminder to be mindful in your choice of
Halloween costumes / decor

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

A reminder that the burden of birth control should NOT always fall to the person with a uterus. Put your testicles where your mouth is and consider getting a vasectomy because, trust, the government is not coming for your reproductive freedoms, my penile wielding friends.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Last January I was sworn in for my first term in Congress.

So, what have we accomplished since then?

Let’s take 2(ish) minutes to review.

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

“Playing Devil’s Advocate”
is for things like high school debate club or whether or not the Catholic Church should canonize someone (look it up)...

Not gaslighting the lived experiences of BIPOC or debating whether or not
someone “deserved to die”
at the hands of the police

[Sam Leonetti @samleonetti]

🌿happy 4/20 🌿

if you’re smoking weed today
- or any day of the year -
and you don’t advocate for
the immediate release of everyone
in jail for marijuana possession...
that’s kind of fucked up, right?
#LegalizeIt #CannabisClemency
#ContactYourReps
oh, also: #BuyBlackOwnedWeed

[Page @octo_page]

Teaching today was brutal. My first class of the day is a normally radiant & full-of-life 6th grade class. Today was heavy. We talked about Adam and being 13. Here's their collective poem