Welcome May, 2026
Here we are — May, 2026.
Can you feel it? The noise, the flood, the relentless pull of a world that never seems to quiet. If I don't tend to myself with intention, I get swallowed whole. And this does me no good. So I come back. To the breath. To the work. To what matters.
And this month, what's on my mind is our radiant CHEST.
This sacred, tender, powerful terrain.
Think for a moment about all that lives here. On the surface — the soft landscape of breast tissue ("breast" is an anatomical term referring to the mammary glands located on the front of the chest, present in both males and females) holding stories, holding nourishment, holding guard. Beneath that — lungs that have carried every breath you've ever taken, every grief you've ever exhaled, every joy you've ever gasped at. And at the center — the heart. Faithful, rhythmic, relentless in its devotion to your life.
Energetically, the heart chakra radiates from this very place — a field of force connecting you to love, to loss, to beauty, to belonging. To this world and to something far beyond it.
The chest is not just anatomy. It is the seat of how we feel, how we connect, how we survive.
This month, I'm sharing the practices I return to — quietly, consistently, lovingly — to tend this space. Daily habits built over years, offered now to you.
*For those in SEED tier: Find many archival articles and audios I have written over the years. Please enjoy!
*For those in FLOURISH tier there are new articles and audios. Expect a lovely guided meditation to anchor chest into your mind, body & spirit soon:
Danielle Hanna
Danielle Hanna
Danielle Hanna
Danielle Hanna
Our LIVE online monthly Zoom yoga practice which includes focused practices so beneficial for the middle life and beyond years, pranayama, meditation, guided visualizations and seasonal asana are on DIFFERENT dates for MAY & JUNE. My apologies for the changes. Join me, Sunday May 24 at 9am PST and for June, Sunday June 21 at 9am PST. Please make a note. A recording will be sent within 2 days of the class if you can't make it!
A note on language: I use "chest" and "breast" interchangeably, but in my work I will almost always choose chest — and that choice is intentional.
The word breast defaults easily toward the gendered, the clinical, the separate. I want to challenge that. To offer different language is to offer a different felt sense — one that is more whole, more inclusive, more human.
I also want to name something: embedded in the common framing around breast and chest health is an assumption that all people who carry this tissue are women. They are not. And while mid life and older generations may be less familiar with this understanding, that is all the more reason to tend to it with care — not with correction, but with expansion.
Language shapes belonging. And belonging, as much as any practice I could offer you, is medicine.
So: chest. Held openly. For all of us.
