Keepexpanding

A special post for this sweet soul.
Leon, you were my very first baby cat.
We got you 16 years ago.
Sharp nailed, fluffy, weirdo, little spoon.
Thank you to for taking such great care of you and giving you the best life.
You will forever be the love I bring into my heart when I’m feeling blue.
Love you forever Leon, I know you’re still here 🫶🐈‍⬛ ❤️

A morning full of beauty ♥️
Had a lovely opening day experience picking flowers in the sun🌷
Followed up with a visit to 🍵
And a sunny backroad drive to hike Rockway conservation area🌳

I love living in Niagara ✨

If you’d like to join me this way sometime, I’ll be offering some 🧘‍♀️ events coming up soon & you can always bike a wine tour with me through 🚲

I’ll be sending more info out in my email this weekend, including some hot spots to visit in Niagara 🤗be sure to subscribe and stay tuned in 🙏

Xx enjoying the simple things

Had such a beautiful day doing yoga & art in the yurt ♥️ love the amazing women I know ✨🙏🤗

While I go through the book The Artists Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron, I’m learning to shift past the censorship of my critical mind, and flow into creation, expression and beingness beyond the ego.

I cringe to be another person shouting ways to heal, but this one’s been very powerful in helping me move past my own self regulation, limiting beliefs, fears and tendencies to diffuse my own expression.

To some, this stage hit long ago, for others, this may sound like fluff.

All I know is that diving into my sacral waters like I have been more consciously in the last few years, has also had the effect of opening my hearts capacity for more joy, compassion and forgiveness, for myself and others.

Heart & Sacral, is a culmination of my 6 years of teaching and 20+ years of exploring yoga, self reflection, energy healing, meditation, intuition and now, creative expression.

I’m hosting this upcoming retreat to offer guidance and support to activate and feel your sacral energies & to expand your love frequency.

🧡Sacral Chakra: Creativity, Self Worth, Career, S*xuality, Intimate Relationship, Finances, Manifestation

💚Heart Chakra: Love, Compassion, Joy, Forgiveness, Devotion, Service

Radiance Within 🌷Women’s Yoga Retreat for Heart & Sacral Healing is for women who wish to tune into their true essence & creative powers to unlock their sense of freedom, joy & peace.

Sunday, April 21st
10:30-2:30pm


✨gentle yoga poses with a focus to align your heart and sacral energy centres
✨guided meditation for heart coherence
✨shavasana drum healing frequency
✨cacao ceremony for heart opening
✨journaling journey
✨creative art expression (supplies included)
✨yoga nidrā exploration into True Self
✨tea & snacks provided

My heart and sacral feel so aligned with this offer.

The work I’ve been doing on myself. transforming, forgiving, surrendering and expanding have all been leading to share this experience with those that find themselves called to this space ♥️

DM your questions x

With so much love,
Natalie 🤗

✨NEW CLASS✨
This is so exciting, I’m honoured to be offering a new class 🫶
Beginning April 2nd, join me every Tuesday from 5-6pm for a gentle yoga class focused on inner peace and self connection. We’ll explore mindful movements, breathing techniques and guided meditation 🧘‍♀️
Drop in for $20 or sign up for all 4 for $70
Kindly DM to register and more info 🌀

If you can’t make in person classes, or don’t live in the Niagara region, we can still practice together online ♥️
Check out my online yoga offers, ongoing since 2020 ✨

Love to you 🌀
Natalie

Hello beautiful, magnanimous, powerful women!

Today is International Women’s Day ♥️ and I’d like to share with you some inner wisdom practices.

To come back to our inner voice & inherent wisdom as we practice stillness in a busy world can reawaken us to the light within. The light we were all born to share into this world. Often, we stay so busy and blocked to our own feelings and emotions. These classes are designed to get you resting deep into self listening ❤️ you’ll be amazed what you might discover 🌀

If you love practicing from home while connecting with a community of women, I offer these deeply restorative and mindful opportunities for you ✨

✨4 inner listening classes $50
Yin Yoga
Saturday, March 9 & 23 🌞 8-9am
Gentle Movements
Thursday, March 14 & 28 🌙 8-9pm

✨Re-write & Rest $25
Special New Moon journaling & nidrā experience
Monday, March 11 🌀 7-9pm

DM with any questions 🙏 sign ups for both through my website xo

May love touch your tender heart today ♥️Keepexpanding
Love,
Natalie

I took myself on the best unknown adventure day today! The one my soul needed. Heading out into the world without much prep, led with wild abandon is liberating and healing for me ✨

I’m gonna be honest here:

I’m at the top of the list for another surgery date.

To be even more honest, although this has always been the possible next step, I tucked it into a category I wasn’t needing to face for a while.

I also thought by attempting to once again shrink the fibroid myself that I wouldn’t even need to face this decision again. That did not happen.

I stopped talking about my journey because it doesn’t define me, nor do I want to direct energy towards it.

But to be fair, it’s a very real human experience that I’m, well, experiencing lol and I do believe this is my path to uncover and discover balanced healing not only for my own womb and self worth, trust and expression, but all women. More on that in another post 🌀

Im making choices not only for my body, but my mind, heart, and soul. It’s going to take self understanding/ and clarity.

To venture out today into an unknown day I felt alive again even in the smallest way. Sun shining, taking back roads to forests and ponds I had yet to discover, where I journaled in my car, amongst trees, a peaceful new location for inspiration, to local produce and incredible thrift stores for first visits. Smiling at every person I’d meet, having kind exchanges with other humans, you know those days ? ♥️

I thought for a moment there, especially over the past few years, that I forgot what my joy felt like. And though I’m still going through this decision and time in my life, I am very appreciative of my self connections and the alchemy I’m experiencing for greater purpose and collective expansion ✨♥️

Love x
Natalie

So many wonderful things are coming together for this beautiful retreat. I’m excited to offer this space to sink deep into self care & discovery.

Yoga has deep roots, beyond the physical postures, where we can access our subtle energies, explore subconscious programs and meet ourselves with greater clarity and awareness.

This half day retreat is all about coming home to your Wholeness. A day to restore your nervous system and get curious about what lies beneath the surface.

Take the day to slip off stress and tune into rest ♥️

Women’s Wholeness Retreat
When: Saturday, March 2nd
Time: 10am - 2pm
Where: Niagara Falls, ON

✨What to expect ✨

-Learn Yoga philosophies 🕉️
-Practice All levels movements 🧘‍♀️
-Guided meditation ✨
-Reiki Energy Healing 👐
-Breathing techniques 👃
-Mantras for inner peace ☮️
-Time to journal & reflect 📓
-Set clear intentions from an open heart ♥️
-Experience Yoga Nidra 🌀
-Rest the nervous system 😌
-Enjoy community and connection 🫶
-A space to have fun and let go of your restraints 😘
-Light snacks and tea provided ☕️

Limit to 12 participates for an intimate and collaborative experience 🥰 link in bio to register 🙏

Love
Natalie x

Felt like sharing this mornings Root Energy class ♥️

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My mom and I had a fabulous time at the retreat yesterday! I’m still soaking in all the beautiful offerings 🥹

Thank you for hosting the Release & Re-new Year mini retreat , & , it was exactly what my heart needed 🙏♥️ yoga, meditation, intentions and new found connections.

We already can’t wait for the next one!

2024 - let your light shine more ✨🫶

I have this tendency to stay in situations way past their expiry. This has happened in work, partnerships and relationships. What ends up happening is the whole situation gets worse, crumbles and falls away, seemingly out of my control (hint: it’s not)

Why do I do this?

✨Most often, I genuinely don’t want to believe it’s not a fit. My intuition and energy give me the signals but I don’t feel ready to believe them.
✨I grow and change very quickly (hello ) It’s beautiful and very challenging at times. My soul asks me to go now but my heart and ego just want to stay cozy for once.
✨Inner child Natalie tends to place the label of good or bad. For example, I’m ready to move on from a relationship, but my childhood response makes me feel bad inside, like Im not a good person if I don’t resonate anymore. In reality, this is not true, there is no good or bad.
✨I tend to leave decisions to others to avoid the possibility of making the wrong one 🤷‍♀️

There has been lots ablaze for me in the past year, burning down what’s not true or aligned for me like wild fire. As much as this feels scary to not know what’s next, more honestly, it feels absolutely liberating!

What I’ve learned and embodied from these situations;
✨My energy ALWAYS knows when somethings not aligned. I can learn to listen, take action and trust myself.
✨Each person, place or thing that’s not serving my truth doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad. The chapter is complete, I’ve learned, thank you, be well.
✨Choosing to listen to myself and trust the messages makes me stronger, more resilient and confident knowing that I’m making the right choice.
✨Honestly, I see the good in everyone. I have a big softy heart ❤️ and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

Keepexpanding, that’s me 👋 is undergoing some deep transformation right now. As I do this, I feel myself rising into the true light of my purpose and power 🌀🙏

Mantra ✨ I surround myself with open, honest, loving people. Ease, joy & playfulness fill my soul. I listen to the intuitive nature of my body & trust my inner wisdom. I express my truth with love and confidence.

And so it is ♥️

A sweet little Christmas was had🎄 wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous season ♥️✨

I got my own little place the last week in Costa Rica. Charming, cozy and private. I practiced yoga, breath work, meditation, mantra. I walked everywhere, sunny beach walks, sunsets, floating in tide pools for hours, eating the freshest foods, feeling warm, sweaty and alive.

It was my time to unwind, be solo and integrate the lessons and insights of this time in Costa Rica.

Walking the salty shoreline, waves crashing into my shins, feet sinking into layers of sand, a realization washed over me.

A familiar feeling, one I hadn’t felt in a long time. The feeling of freedom, joy, adventure, LIFE!

Only in this very moment did I realize just how much fear, anger, resentment I had been carrying in my body, mind and most importantly, my heart for the past few years.

I feel so relieved to have this visceral awareness 😌

Grateful to experience this renewal, this dream come true; opening the door once again to possibility, growth & trust ♥️

Yes, thank you, more please ✨🥰

The Awaken Your Soul. one week yoga and meditation retreat is complete 🥰

What an incredible experience this was from start to finish!

When I planted the seed to run a yoga retreat in Costa Rica back in 2017, I couldn’t have imagined a more inspiring group of 13 women to come together in this space.

and I started planning it over a year ago, it all felt too good to be true for the entire time!

Then, one by one, women started to sign up.

Who would’ve known they’d be the most incredible group of women, each one offering their own unique magic to this space.

I’m in love. Thank you all for trusting me to guide your practice and for opening my heart even more 🥹♥️

The yoga retreat I’ve been wanting to lead for over 6 years commences tomorrow.

And it looks and feels nothing like I imagined it would.

Why is this a great thing?

Because if it looked just as I imagined, then I’d likely still be the same woman who wished for it from a distance.

Instead, I stand here now with more experience, patience, understanding, compassion, strength and love in every part of my soul.

The journey to get the things we desire IS alchemy. It’s the seed growing deep roots so the flower can bloom ♥️

Thank you 🙏

All experience is necessary for a full understanding of this life.

Do I wish things went differently? Yes. I wish I paid more attention, took better care and had more love for myself over the years.

But that’s not possible now.

What is possible though, is knowing that non of this is permanent. All these experiences that my human mind wants to claim as “good” or “bad” have simply been guidance.

Guidance to a deeper understanding of the true Self.

So I live amongst both worlds.

The world of possibilities, hope & faith. And the world of sorrow, loss and grief.

As my yoga practice deepens, and experiences accumulate, I feel more connected to the deeper truth.

The truth that this life is to experience and hold all there possibly is to hold. No matter what it looks or feels like in this lifetime, it’s a lesson in love and an opportunity to come together as the One we all are.

All my laughter and tears have brought me to this place of deep understanding, greater love and Self compassion.

For all of these experiences, I am grateful ♥️

Even if my human mind sways from this knowing, my heart never lies.

Thankful to be here
learning about love
each step of the way 💛

This night filled a void I didn’t even realize was missing.

I feel so clear, grateful & peaceful after the Autumns Calling event tonight

First of all, working with Amy has always filled my soul. We are better together 💛💛🤣 but really.

Also, her studio has magical, open and welcoming energy with years of love put into the studio.

Tonight was incredible tho! Amy guided us, from the heart, through a gentle yoga sequence. Followed by my guided yoga nidra script focused on releasing into the fall season, shedding leaves & turning inward.

Honestly, I forgot how much my heart needed other women to connect with, share the journey with, laugh, empower and create with.

Just a bunch of powerful women sitting by the fire, speaking our intentions out loud & setting them free through the flame.

I feel like I’ve come home again to the heart of it all. Felt like a lost it there for a bit 🥹💛

Thank you to the women who came together and shared the space tonight! Love you so much 🥰

Together again and bring you a cozy evening of Gentle Yoga, Yoga Nidra and intention setting to celebrate the calling of the season! 🍂
September 15; 7pm-9pm $40

Enjoy and unwind in an intimate and cozy setting. The Calming Tree is a glass studio surrounded by nature, nestled conveniently in the North end of St. Catharines 🙌

Amy will guide you through a series of movements and breath, calling in the calm and balancing your energy. Natalie will then bring you into complete relaxation with her soothing and nurturing Yoga Nidra. 🙌. You won’t want to leave! So we will finish the evening with hot tea and discussion. With the new moons energy and the Fall equinox approaching , what better time to set your self-loving intentions for the upcoming season. 🙌

Book your spot today! Link in bio! Or email [email protected] to register! Limited space!

✨STARTING TOMORROW ✨

I’ve been wanting to bring more of my true self to my online yoga community and offerings.

These deeply transformational practices have been helping me for years! And more recently, with a deeper dedication to them, I feel inspired and excited to offer them to you.

Here is how we can connect & expand into our truest selves;

♥️MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
Enjoy full access to all live classes and recordings.

💫NEW MONTH INTENTIONS
Each 1st of the month, I will hold space for us to journal, meditate, move and leverage our desires for the new month.

✨NEW MOON NIDRA
Each new moon of the month, I am offering a gentle yoga and yoga Nidra practice for you to access deep rest & rewrite your subconscious beliefs.

I’ve been guiding yoga for over 5 years, and have had the pleasure of staying connected to so many wonderful women through online yoga for the past 3 years.

It’s not too late to join us for September 💛

For now, DM to join 🥰 until I update my website 😳

Love
Natalie

Thank you for trusting in me to guide you through your practice of self discovery. Even after I jumped ship for a bit to recover my own heart & soul.

I want to thank the community of women who return to join me each time. You ladies keep me going ♥️& it’s an honour to practice with you.

Online has its benefits and disadvantages.

The disadvantages are obvious, I don’t get to see your beautiful face in person, hug you, surround you with incense, sage & all the comforts to set the space. And most often, I don’t even know if you’re getting anything from it because I’m not in the same room.

Instead I choose to trust.
(because you keep signing up :)
But also, because I know each and every time I join an online offering, I feel connected. I feel present, powerfully charged and supported by the person leading. I’m so grateful to have access to women all over the world who guide me deeper into myself through meditation, breathwork, shamanic journeys & writing.

So, it’s an absolute dream I get to hop online and instantly connect with you right from my home & heart to yours.

There’s still time to join this intentional 5 weeks of yoga, meditation & self care.
✨
7-7:45am Mondays & Wednesdays
8pm Thursdays
DM if interested
💛
Live events happening soon
Stay tuned x

I’ve experienced 1000 deaths
& I’ll experience 1000 more in order to become the truest version of me.

This body keeps changing.
Who I am keeps evolving.
What I learn keeps expanding.
What I unlearn is humbling.

After months of recovery and rest, I am ready to step back into teaching yoga 🧘‍♀️

This is all my soul wants to do!
Yet, I hesitated for a while.

I was critical of my form, concerned of burnout again, ashamed I let people down, scared to operate how I was, and not know how the new me would show up.

“I’m not 100%, so who am I to lead?” Is what I thought. Which is such bull💩!

My heart absolutely sores when I connect honestly and vulnerably with other women. That’s all that matters.

I’ve been through the battle now. I carry no shame about this body of mine. I look and feel different from before, and that’s the whole freakin point.

Yoga helps me navigate change and self discovery with compassion and devotion to a higher source beyond this physical body. It’s the one practice that has consistently helped me over the years and I’ve designed my life in ways to be able to offer this practice to you.

I’ll be offering my classes & energy online again. If you’re called to join me and be with yourself in a new way, I’d love to see you in the space ♥️

We jump into this 5 week container on Monday August 28th - September 28th
💫
7am Mondays & Wednesdays to start your day with intention

8pm Thursdays to rest and restore mind, body & spirit

Yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga nidra, journal prompts & so much more!

All classes are recorded and sent after the live

DM if interested 🤗

Love ❤️ Natalie

It’s been 4 weeks today I waited in my hospital gown. 4 weeks today they wheeled me in. I was strong, I was scared, I was hopeful.

It’s been 4 weeks today I didn’t even know I existed. Then I heard a voice speaking to me with sorrow. “It was too large, we had to abandon, the fibroid is still in you” It’s been 4 weeks today, all I could say, “I don’t want to open my eyes”

It’s been 4 weeks today that the plot twist set in. The myomectomy I expected to end this suffering, was no solution but another beginning.

It’s been 4 weeks today of recovering and healing. Not simply from the physical incision, but a lifetime of emotional suppression. This has been my biggest lesson.

It’s been 4 weeks today, I’ve been looking deep within. My body has been screaming. My sacral waters are telling of my story thus far.

It’s been 4 weeks of reading beautiful fiction, pouring myself into writings of deep truth, scrambled poetry and words with conviction. 4 weeks of listening to Joe Dispenzas, Becoming Supernatural, 4 weeks of no hiding.

It’s been 4 weeks of no driving (can you imagine lol)

The story took a turn, and now I’m rewriting.
💛

Happy Summer Solstice 🌞 & International day of Yoga

🧘‍♀️🥹🙌✨💛🌀🌻💕🥰🙏
I’ll share a prayer 🤲
“I am grateful for my life and all that I love
I am grateful for the Earth and the Sun up above
I am grateful for my spirit and my inner being,
The One I express and the joy of this feeling”
-infinite Being by Owen Waters

“I brought you everywhere when you were kids, that was my job” Dad

The scent of fresh cut wood lingers in my memories from visits to Beaver Lumber. I can still see the rows of towering hockey sticks at the hockey store, and hear the chuckles through the Tim Hortons drive through after hearing yet another cheesy dad joke.

Endless camping and road trip adventures filled my childhood with many lectures along the way of course lol

Dad was always the one with rows of kids waiting for an over shoulder pool launch or a motorcycle ride around the block.

My dad is kind, he cares, he wants to help people and actually does. He’s the man with the street snow plow, the one to mow the neighbours lawn and the one I still turn to for car repairs and life chats.

Steve Rogers, some know as Captain America, is really the man “who always wanted a family” and the one I’m happy to call Dad.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!

Soulful Expansion 🌀
Day Retreat in Nature 💛

The next Women’s Yoga & Meditation retreat is happening this Saturday 🌸

June 3rd 🧘‍♀️10am-3pm
Niagara-on-the-lake

Come spend time in nature practicing yoga & meditation for mind, body, soul connection ✨

Nestled amongst the vines and lush trees in a private location, you get to rest, play, reflect & connect to yourself & the healing land.

Enjoy;
🌼 yoga in the garden
🌞 guided meditation
✨ yoga nidrā exploration
🪻 journal & reflection
🌀 peaceful labyrinth walk
💛 time to relax & enjoy nature
😊 light picnic lunch

Read more and register through my website 🧘‍♀️

Reach out with any questions 🫶
Love,
Natalie

I worked with 3 horses and 2 psychotherapists this day.

I didn’t know what to expect from Equine therapy, besides you connect with the horses and they are sensitive to energy.

My new found soul sister, the lead psychotherapist Brenda, explained “everything in the barn represented and reflected my life”

Right away, the first horse touched his nose to my belly, then walked to a sign titled ‘fear’.

Interesting, and not wrong.

I began to slowly make my way over to the horses as they were busy eating. I didn’t want to bother them (this was the first reflection)

I kept an open dialogue with the therapists as I noticed tendencies of mine to want to be connected and loved, yet felt hesitant to step in.

Eventually, I broke through my fear of rejection and approached them. Low and behold, they didn’t leave 😀

Each horse represented something different to me; joy, playfulness, uniqueness, avoidance, power.

By the end of the hour, I was steering and walking the white horse around the barn.

Although I was hesitant to steer (another realization), once I did, I felt joy, connection and ease.

It was truly amazing to see myself go from fear to joy in just one hour.

The magic was in the doing.

Unlike talk therapy, which is wonderful for many reasons, Equine therapy got me out of my head and into action.

Over thinking is in itself avoidance.

After the Equine therapy, I got to spend the day with my Aunt and the facilitator of the session who spoke the same language as me.

We chatted all things spirit, nature, energy, crystals, self realization and life 🌀

I’m still floating. This entire day has planted into my heart 💛

Highly recommend 🐴 x

✨Conscious Exploration
🌸afternoon retreat
Is happening this Saturday 🌼
11:30-2:30

This time is for you to;
🪷rest and restore your body through gentle yoga asana
🪻gain personal awareness and insights w guided meditation
🧘‍♀️ create your sacred space, a powerful practice of empowerment
🌤️discuss and learn about yoga philosophies beyond the physical body
🫠practice yoga nidrā tapping into consciousness pure
🌀explore your subconscious beliefs
🌻time to journal & reflect
💕enjoy tea and light snacks

I’m hosting this retreat to offer a space for you to come and explore what makes you whole - body, mind and spirit union 🫶 the power of these practices can provide insights for self discovery and deep subconscious healing.

I look forward to spending a sweet little afternoon together 😘 register through my website in the bio and send me any questions you may have 💃

Hugs
Natalie

Been taking a good look at what truly matters to me,

🌳 Time in nature
💛Finding heart shaped rocks
🌀Accessing the power of the mind and using imagery to heal
🙏Noticing abundance in all forms, all around, all the time
🥰Soul connections with close friends
& of course
😂
Laughter
Laughter
Laughter
🐱 (bet you didn’t know my friend Jaime makes swearing cats colouring books lol among many creations and insights introduces me to 💕)

It’s really oh so simple 🌀🫶
Even when some days, months, or years don’t feel this way.
Spirit knows. And I’m grateful for this union 🧘‍♀️

I’ve been getting all kinds of requests to teach yoga and assist on upcoming retreats.

My heart sores knowing people resonate with my energy and offerings ♥️ thank you 🙏

The other side of this is that I’ve had to turn down these requests due to my upcoming surgery.

Although I know this thinking is incorrect, I feel fear that I’ll be forgotten.

It feels like “oh, your broken, let’s toss this one aside” 😭

My heart knows better than to believe this mind BS, I guess it’s all part of navigating this messy, beautiful life.

I’m teaching my last 2 classes at Heatwave Yoga this Wednesday to begin to make space for my own healing.

I’ll miss all the wonderful regulars who have enjoyed me putting them to sleep in yin yoga 🧘‍♀️

I’m still here, just taking a pause soon to return with greater health and a deeper connection to myself and spirit 🫶

Not timing this post to get views and not worried that it’s not poetic.

Love
N