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Northwestern Law graduate TRACY WOLFE practiced law as a Chicago commercial real estate attorney before taking a professional break to raise her now 12-year-old daughter and boys ages 7 and 10. During this time, she delved deeper into her daily yoga practice and is now an athletic vinyasa flow instructor at Glencoe’s Reach Yoga and Northbrook’s Lifetime. Wolfe still applies the skills she learned during her 14-year legal practice: attention to detail, not of words but of every muscle in the body; deliberation, not of thought but of movement, and preparation, not of documents but of sequenced yoga flows. Here is how Glencoe’s Wolfe stays on-trend between breaths.

EDITED BY DUSTIN O’REGAN

THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

#ON MY MOBILE “I love Instagram mostly for finding inspiration for my classes from yogis I admire like @chelseayoga, @cathymadeyoga, @yogavered, @tova.yogafit, and @yogadailytutorial. Cooking is my second favorite hobby. My go-to cooking pages are @halfbakedharvest, @ ambitiouskitchen, @minimalistbaker, @cookieandkate, and @lastingredient.”

#IN MY AIRPODS “One of my favorite things in connection with teaching yoga is making class playlists. I am constantly adding songs to my Spotify playlists and then as my class approaches, I arrange the songs into the perfect playlist. I always start with two to three slower songs like Adele’s “Easy on Me,” Ed Sheeran’s “Make it Rain,” Billie Eilish’s “When the Party’s Over,” or Beyoncé’s “If I Were a Boy.” Then I pick up the pace and volume during the Sun Salutation A with songs with good beat and energy like Nelly & Florida Georgia Line’s “Lil Bit,” Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion,” or 2Pac’s “Changes.” I continue with rap, classic rock, and country during the Sun Salutation B and Sun Salutation C, until I wind down with one to two slow/meaningful songs at the end, like Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” or A Great Big World’s “You’ll be Okay.”

#ON MY NIGHTSTAND “I devour historical fiction set during WWII. I feel that it’s important to learn about what our ancestors went through in order to provide us with the religious liberties that we enjoy today. Soon there will be no more Holocaust survivors, so it is important to hear as many stories firsthand as possible and to share those stories with our children and their children. Some of my favorite novels are The Nightingale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Rose Code, My Enemy’s Cradle, The Book of Lost Names, and Once We Were Brothers.”

ILLUSTRATION BY TOM BACHTELL