Amy Dannheim

The musings of Miami Beach based yoga instructor and yoga and lifestyle blogger Amy (Steiner) Dannheim.

loving our last days of summer together before charlie starts school on monday!💛⁣
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right now i’m SO excited (for both of us) but i’m sure next week will be a different story... and i’m excited that my sister is here visiting (and taking great photos of us 😉) and that we are playing tourists in miami this weekend. can you believe this was my first time at @thesaltydonut 🙇🏼‍♀️⁣
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what are you excited about today? x⁣
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#love #miami #summer #yogamom #momlife ⁣

every setback offers us a gift... even when it’s not immediately clear. karma’s fun like that. ⁣
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the gift in charlie waking up today at 5:56am when mike is out of town? her taking a three hour nap this afternoon 🙌🏼⁣
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the gift in charlie also tearing apart⁣ my drawer? she pulled out a recipe that i had been looking all over for 🥘⁣
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the gift in our babysitter being sick tonight and me missing my event? i got to share special sunset playground time with my girl 💓⁣
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the gift in me not getting on my mat today? still haven’t figured out that one. but i’m sure there’s something in there about letting go 😏⁣
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#yoga #yogamom #gift #receive #trust

i have everything i need⁣
from the mountain to the sea⁣
i have everything i need⁣
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presence is the gift. feeling that sunday sunshine ocean breeze kind of grateful 🙏🏼⁣
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#yogamom #love #family

in 2016, the miami beach yoga scene was… in transition, let’s say. i sipped a kombucha outside whole foods with my teacher, paul toliuszis and talked about opening a studio. he said “i would do it with you, but i can’t right now.”⁣
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things fell apart more as the summer went on while i was away in bali, teaching yoga and considering a move there. but as it has done time and time again, life pulled us back to miami. @moiked and i landed on august 5th and i wasn’t sure exactly what i was coming home to.⁣
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on august 6th, paul called me and said, “hey, come look at this space.”⁣
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and today, three years ago, we signed the lease on what was to become @tropicalvinyasa.⁣
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i didn’t have a clear vision of what the studio would be like, but for years, i knew i wanted a yoga business. knowing that our opening would rattle some feathers, i deliberated before i made the move. called my mom. googled. mike made spreadsheets. we crunched numbers. i tried to figure out as well as i could what i was getting into, but in the end, it was just trust. ⁣
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trust that we could create something special. trust that the community would feel it. trust that everything i had done this far would support me in my first big (and pretty scary) entrepreneurial leap.⁣
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and we did and you have and it’s been amazing. i have no greater joy than showing up on a saturday morning to teach at a packed studio - my studio - with my husband by my side and my daughter in my arms. grateful, today and every day 💛💛💛
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#yoga #yogamom #love #thankyou #mompreneur

like kids in a candy store 🍭 charlie and i had the best time shopping for new shades at @foreyes after i had my eyes examined for the first time since i had lasik 7 yrs ago! ⁣
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it was really great to check in with my eye health - stoked that my vision is holding on at 20/20 (after being basically blind since adolescence) but i have a little astigmatism so the doc gave me minor prescription and charlie took home these awesome purple kid’s shades for only $20! win win 😎 plus the team at alton road location is SO NICE and went above and beyond to help us which was really refreshing for miami beach 🙌🏼⁣
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#backtoschooleyes #foreyes #miamimom #sponsored #yogamom #kidsglasses

we are constantly presented with two options: evolve or repeat.⁣
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what’s it going to be for you today? ⁣
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always learning, always growing. let’s evolve together 🖤

schedule this week:⁣
thursday 6pm⁣
friday 4:30pm⁣
saturday 9am ⁣
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#yoga #flow #miamiyoga #love 📷 @matt_roy

the summer of swim 🏊🏼‍♀️⁣
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one priority i have been clear about is charlie learning how to swim by the end of summer. pretty much a non-negotiable for a miami kid. six months and lots and lots of wet towels later, she is a total fish.⁣
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doesn’t surprise me though because in my belly, i called her my little fishy since she moved around all day long. damn, pisces dannheim would have been a really cute name 🤔⁣
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grateful that she loves the water and we love that she loves it and @carlosmsegui you are awesome and the post-swim lollipop totally sweetens the deal. raising little people is so cool 💓⁣
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#yogamom #swimkid #love #miamimom ⁣

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clarity is so my word right now - it keeps showing up in life, letting me know i have some work there. and i like to remind myself that i have as many minutes in the day as beyonce. just gotta get those priorities ironed out 👌🏼⁣
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#yoga #yogamom #priorities #clarity #love

every so often, i write down a list of things that make me happy. occasionally there are variances in the lists but the big themes at generally the same - riding my bike, sunshine, being barefoot, yoga, traveling. ⁣
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and then when i’m feeling shitty, i do those things.⁣
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radical, i know.⁣
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but let me tell you - it works. and when i let those values guide my bigger choices, it gets even better 💓 create the life you love. ⁣
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#yoga #yogamom #love #create #manifest

if @moiked looks guilty, it’s because he kinda is 😂⁣
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literally a minute after i finished yoga yesterday, he facetimed me with big eyes... “what’s up with this giant box of snacks in the house?!”⁣
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he pans over to show me charlie trying to pry open the case of popcorn that⁣ @lesserevilsnacks so awesomely sent my way.⁣
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“wait until i get home to...” i tried to shout into the phone but the two of them had already torn open the box and by the time i got home, they were almost done with a whole bag of the delish new “no cheese cheesiness” flavor - charlie taking whole handfuls and shoving them into her mouth. savage. ⁣
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luckily i was able to hide a few bags for me 🤫 looking forward to healthy snacking all summer long 🍿⁣
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#cleansnacksummer #love #yogafam #sponsored ⁣#lesserevil

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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