Issue 01 · June 2026 · San Diego
To My
Inner Child;
Creative Direction & Photography
Jessica Ballerstein
Movement
Tylor Bradshaw
Seven photographs documenting a dancer’s return to himself. Shot at Saigon Trailhead, San Diego — a landscape Tylor Bradshaw describes as an alien terrain, a vinyasa flow in nature.
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a vinyasa flow
in nature
TYLOR BRADSHAW · ON MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPESaigon Trailhead is a raw terrain tucked inside San Diego. Many people hike it. Many people run it. Many people crawl their way through the sandstone. We danced.
Tylor described moving through it as a trance. A vinyasa flow in nature. The kind of state where the body stops performing and starts speaking.
"San Diego is where my roots run deepest in my adult life, so I'm fortunate to document this monumental moment here."
Tylor Bradshaw is a professional ballet dancer based in San Diego. In his mid-twenties he pivoted, leaving the stage and carrying the discipline of dance into a new life entirely. What he brought with him was the body's knowledge. Its memory. Its insistence on speaking even when the rest of life goes quiet.Alien · Diligent · Relentless
NIMBLE
Before we know what the world is capable of, we move through it freely. A child doesn't hesitate at the edge. They climb, they perch, they face the vastness without flinching. Not because they're brave. Because they don't yet know to be afraid.
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
ALIEN
The terrain is unfamiliar. The body moves through it anyway. There is a particular kind of trust that lives in the in-between. Not knowing what comes next, not needing to. Just taking up space in a landscape that wasn't built for you and moving through it like you belong there. Because you do.
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
DILIGENT
Nobody sees the private work. The hours before the stage, the repetition before the grace, the folding inward before the opening outward. A child practices not because they have to but because the body asks them to. Before discipline becomes duty, it is devotion.
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
PATIENT
There is a version of us that spent years making ourselves smaller. Folding in, holding back, taking up only the space we were given. The body remembers what it feels like to open fully. To spread wide without apology. This is what it looks like to finally let go of the shape fear made you.
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
TENDER
Before the world taught us to be hard, we were this. Open faced, eyes closed, hands wrapped around our own head like a prayer. The inner child doesn't perform strength. It simply feels everything and stays anyway
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025"
To my inner child: always be nimble, diligent, and courageous in everything you do regardless of fear, uncertainty, or uncomfort.
TYLOR BRADSHAW · WHAT HE WANTED HIS YOUNGER SELF TO KNOW
RELENTLESS
The path up is narrow. It requires both hands, full presence, every muscle working. A child doesn't question whether they can make it. They just climb. They trust the wall will hold them and they keep moving upward anyway.
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
ROOTED
Nature does not ask permission to grow. It simply does, reaching, expanding, becoming, at its own pace and in its own time. We forget that we are nature too. That however we show up, however incomplete we feel, the earth holds us anyway. Growth was never meant to be perfect. It was meant to be real.
ROOTED
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025
Saigon Trailhead, San Diego · 2025ISSUE 01 · JUNE 2026 · SAN DIEGOISSUE 01 · JUNE 2026 · SAN DIEGOMAMA,
WE MADE IT.
ISSUE 01 · JUNE 2026 · SAN DIEGOTylor Bradshaw
on what he wanted
his younger self to knowTo My Inner Child;
San Diego · 2025