The health studio. by Daniela Ganassi

Morning Glow happens once a month: a Katonah-inspired yoga session, followed by coffee, breakfast and no reason to rush home.

The part I love most is what happens around the class. People arriving, meeting each other, moving together and staying afterwards.

That was always the idea: not just a yoga class, but a little Saturday morning community. A home away from home.

Next Morning Glow: 7 November · 09:00–10:00 · .zurich Zürich Oerlikon · CHF 30.

Come for yoga. Stay for breakfast. 🤍

Sometimes the problem is no longer just poor sleep.

For me, it was everything that started happening around sleep.

Hoping the next night would be better, already in the afternoon.
Searching for another tip I hadn’t tried yet.
Telling myself to stop behaving like this and just be like everyone else.

Well… that didn’t work.

And then, during a bad night:

Checking the time.
Calculating how many hours were left.
Thinking about how I would feel tomorrow.
Wondering what was wrong with me.
Trying harder and harder to finally sleep.

I had struggled with sleep for so long that I started anticipating the problem before I was even in bed.

And at some point, that was an important part of the problem too.

What helped me wasn’t another perfect evening routine.
It was understanding sleep, breathing, stress, thoughts and my body’s responses differently, and slowly changing my relationship with sleep itself.

If sleep has become something you think about all day, notice when the worry actually starts.
Not when you go to bed.
The first moment during the day when you start thinking about tonight.

That might tell you more than adding another bedtime hack.

Save this as a reminder, if you recognise yourself. 🤍

Hi, I’m Daniela, founder of the health studio. You probably know all of this already. But I wish someone had reminded me of it back then.

Slow breathing influences your heart rhythm and the regulation of your autonomic nervous system.
The longer exhale supports this effect.

The hand on your sternum gives you a simple tactile anchor and brings your attention back into your body and the present moment.

You don’t need to take the deepest breath possible. Keep it gentle.

If you have more time, don’t stop at three. Stay for a few more gentle breaths. It feels so good to give yourself a little longer.

⛉ Save this for when you need it, or send it to someone who could use 30 seconds like this today. 🤍

Hi, I’m Daniela, founder of the health studio. I share the health basics I wish I’d understood sooner.

Our October Morning Glow Yoga practice will be inspired by autumn and the element of Metal.

We’ll work with breath, shoulders, arms and the space around the lungs, moving between expansion and release.

A practice to refine, create space and prepare for the more inward season ahead.

For the practice, we’ll have the café entirely to ourselves. Afterwards, it will open for anyone who would like to stay for (really good 😋) coffee, matcha or breakfast.

Saturday, 03 October
09:00–10:00zurich , Oerlikon
English · All levels · CHF 30

Bring your own mat. Limited mats are available on request.

Max. 20 spots. Reserve yours via the link in bio 🫶🏼

Our October Morning Glow Yoga practice will be inspired by autumn and the element of Metal.

We’ll work with breath, shoulders, arms and the space around the lungs, moving between expansion and release.

A practice to refine, create space and prepare for the more inward season ahead.

Saturday, 03 October
09:00–10:00zurich , Oerlikon
English · All levels · CHF 30

Bring your own mat. Limited mats are available on request.

Reserve your spot via the link in bio. 🫶🏼

Feeling exhausted can have many causes. And it doesn’t automatically mean you need to do less.

Sometimes, more rest is exactly what you need. Sometimes, a little movement, daylight, food or simply a change of state helps you feel better.

The point isn’t to push through exhaustion. It’s to stop treating every kind of tiredness the same and start paying attention to what might actually help today.

🌟 TAKEAWAY:
Before you lie down, ask one question: am I under-recovered, or have I simply been under-stimulated and indoors all day?

I spent a lot of years worrying about things outside of this circle.

What other people thought. What they said. How they behaved. If they liked me. Things that had already happened.

Since I started bringing my attention back to what I can influence, life has felt a lot lighter.

Not because I stopped caring. But because I stopped spending so much energy trying to control what was never mine to control.

A reminder for today: bring your energy back to yourself.

What are you choosing to focus on today?

We talk so much about calming down that we forget: activation is part of being alive.

You need energy to speak, move, focus, protect boundaries, train, create and connect.

The goal is not to become flat.

The goal is to have access to both: activation and recovery.

A healthy nervous system is not always calm.
It has range.

Follow along if you want a more realistic, body-intelligent way to understand stress, energy and regulation.