My season of becoming

I remember the day this photo was taken like it was yesterday…

It was September 1st, 2020. I was exhausted — and elated at the same time.


Sean and I had spent the previous year during fall 2019 and winter 2020 getting to know the Brooks Range from our igloo basecamp. I closed the doors of my four yoga studios — took everything online, and eventually made the decision to permanently close two.


It was the year none of us saw coming — and it was the start of my becoming.




With travel plans erased, we seized the extra time and got to work building three guest cabins. After the platforms were finished, we raised, roofed, and dried them in just nine days.


Each morning during that whirlwind build, I’d sneak out of the igloo to meditate in whichever cabin we were working on. I’d sit on cardboard to keep the sawdust from sticking to my sweatpants, wood flecks clinging to my beanie, Kalhabuk Mountain framed in the doorway.



I wasn’t consciously thinking about Future Mollie during those morning meditations five years ago… but I can speak on her behalf now: She is (I am!) stoked.

That 2020 version of myself couldn’t have DREAMED all the things we’d accomplish in the years to come. Now in the shoes of Mollie of 2025, I’m grateful that version of myself kept going. Even when she was exhausted, frustrated, and at times, defeated… she kept pursuing this wild idea in the arctic.



As I consider Future Mollie today — 2026, 2028, 2030 and beyond — it’s wild to imagine what will unfold. Even with all the chaos in the world right now (echoes of 2020 in many ways), I know that every action writes a new line in the story of my life.



This is the path of kriya yoga.


And that is really what Season 4 of my podcast, “The Yoga Of…” is all about — exploring the ways our actions shapes the future we’re stepping into, and how the practices and philosophy of yoga can ground us through it all. Yoga truly is everywhere. (Find Season 4 wherever you get your podcasts!)



I’ve also been quietly building The Yoga We Need — my online home for kriya yoga practice, study, and community. Both the podcast and this platform were born from the seeds I planted back in 2020, and I’m so grateful to invite you into the fold.


In light,
Mollie