8.8.2026 | 💛 How to transition from week to weekend with Aditi Shah

Happy weekend,

I’m thrilled to welcome Aditi Shah as today’s curator of The Weekend Edit! Aditi is a creator, meditation and yoga instructor at Peloton, and an editor at The Shift. She writes on Substack at Work In Progress and truly embodies wellbeing in everything she creates.

Below she generously shares her wellness go-tos along with an invitation to join her at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies – a donor-supported nonprofit our editor recently wrote about on The Good Trade.

What a delight to peek into her full, vibrant life. I know you’ll enjoy!

Warmly,
Kate

💛 Welcome, Aditi!

Hi, friends! I’m Aditi - a creative, storyteller, and someone who spent years building Peloton’s meditation and yoga programs. It’s likely that someone in your world may fall asleep to one of my sleep meditations. If you haven’t yet tried Peloton yoga/meditation classes, let this be your sign to do so. I am also an Editor-at-Large at The Shift. I’ve spent most of my career at the intersection of wellness, media, and culture. What’s woven through all of what I do is the same thread: a deep curiosity about what it means to grow into yourself.

Weekends are when I try to let go of my to-dos and focus on moving slowly, and being with myself and my loved ones. I try very hard to protect this time for the practices and people that fill me up. It can be difficult at first to fully disengage from work “responsibilities,” but the more I practice taking this time, the easier it becomes. Any goodness I pour into my inner reservoir over the weekend flows back into my life during the week.

Saturday mornings, even when I have to teach, are protected. I dry brush before I shower, drink water with lemon and salt before making coffee, and sit for ten minutes of meditation in front of my red light panel. On a really good weekend, I’ll read for an hour while having a second coffee, and then most often, decide that’s enough caffeine. If I have time, I might move through a longer yoga practice or go for a walk with neither my phone nor a destination. It’s summer in New York, so it’s fun to throw on a light outfit, wander to the nearest garden, simply sit in the sun and call a friend or read outdoors.

Weekends are also when I see my friends, explore new places and indulge in hobbies like vintage shopping. Since I am often in activewear, I love the opportunity to wear something that feels more expressive of my style: stylish track shorts and a tee with sandals, long denim shorts with a strapless top and ballet flats, a midi skirt with spaghetti straps.

There was a time when the transition from the workweek to the weekend felt jagged for me. I’d close my laptop on Friday and still be mentally in it through Sunday. What helped was adding a small ritual to mark the end: closing my laptop and putting it into a drawer instead of leaving it open on my desk. It sounds almost too small to matter, but it does. As for staying off devices, one of the things that’s actually worked is charging my phone slightly out of reach. When it’s not easily within reach, I read, I think, I fall asleep faster, and I wake up without the reflex to immediately check something. Proximity is everything. Another thing that helps: keeping a book or journal within arm’s reach as the default “reach for this instead” object. Replace the habit, don’t just remove it.