Sacred Element Life

❤️Somatic Yoga Therapy is a transformative journey into the mind-body connection. It’s not about weight loss or intense workouts. Instead, it’s about cultivating awareness, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation.

🧘‍♀️ Awareness: Tune into your body’s sensations, noticing subtle shifts and changes with each movement.

🧘‍♂️ Mindfulness: Be present in the moment, embracing each movement with a calm and focused mind.

🌀 Nervous System Regulation: Gentle movements help soothe and balance your nervous system, fostering relaxation and resilience.

There are no quick fixes to healing. ❤️‍🩹But, there are ways to get there a little easier.

Most of my work is witnessing. So many people really just need to be seen, heard, validated. I too need this, it is why I have a therapist and a few trusted people I can turn to in times of need that understand the power of holding space.
💖if you feel you have been shut down by others
💖 If you feel you are never heard
💖 if you feel you need to be validated
💖 if you need a space to be vulnerable or navigate your feelings

I can hold space for you.
✏️ book an Emotional Somatic Embodiment Therapy session with me. ❤️

🌬️Breathwork has the potential to be dysregulating, and with it the proper care, harmful. Yes, Intense breathwork can lead to transformative experiences by activating the nervous system in new ways. With witnessing, integration, and therapy, these moments can lead to profound growth and healing. Without authentic support, however, it may feel overwhelming and may lead to overwhelm or a true healing crisis.

Nervous systems need regulation ❤️

🌿 Imagine a journey where you uncover the profound connection between your elemental make-up and your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Over the course of three weeks, allow yourself to be gently guided through the powerful practices of Kundalini Yoga with a focus on the five elements and the three doshas.
🌬️ 🚀 Week 1 our focus will be on the elements of Air and Space, pacifying the Vata Dosha
🔥 💧 Week 2 our focus will be on the elements of Fire and Water, pacifying the Pitta Dosha
🌎 💧 Week 3 our focus will be on the elements of Earth and Water, pacifying the Kapha Dosha

You can sign up for all 3 classes as a series or an individual class.

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🕉️ As a yoga therapist, I use yoga practices and evidence based techniques to address physical, emotional, and mental health challenges. Each session is tailored to meet the individual needs of my clients, there is no one size fits all in the world of healing.
This work helps tap into the wisdom of the body, and when a person is also working with a mental health therapist, these two worlds can begin to understand one another. The mind and body often get separated due to trauma or other major life events, when we can work together to understand what is happening in the body, the mind and the spirit, a sense of wholeness can be regained.
I often collaborate with other healthcare professionals to provide holistic, comprehensive care.
📞 feel free to reach out with any questions.

And don’t you forget it❤️

🕉️ Today I take my first client as a Certified Yoga Therapist.
I am so honored to do this work. It has been quite the journey, so many joys, and so many tears getting to know myself better so that I may be in service to others with an open heart and clear space to hold intention with compassion.
💖 thank you Stefani for being my guide, my inspiration and lending me your courage and hope.

My amazing Sister!!!! She is a momma and business owner, she is also super creative and witty!
Love her and her company
Listen to her podcast episode with .collective ❤️

❤️I believe in the power of our bodies to guide us back to our wisdom. Through breathwork, movement, and sacred yogic arts, we create portals from wounds, portals of healing and strength.

This practice isn’t about feeling good; it’s about feeling everything. It’s about allowing the wisdom within us to speak louder than our pain. Together, we can embrace our journeys and find the strength to repair.

Join me in this beautiful process of self-discovery and healing. Let’s move, breathe, and grow together. 🌿

Feel free to comment below if you would like me to reach out. This is village work, and I am here for it all🫶

The only healing you are responsible for is your own….

I have had to cancel clients this week and find subs for my classes because I came down with a bug. I felt guilty for not being able to show up for the commitments I made, so I resorted to “other work” I could do at home. Homework, reports, working on fliers for future workshops. My friend reminded me that while she was proud of my efforts, it would have been ok to also do nothing. 🥹

With this thought, it made me remember that right now my job is to heal my body and my nervous system, no one will do it for me, and if I neglect myself, it will not only hurt me, but those around me. This thought bubble grew bigger when I included my emotional well being and the thoughts and actions I put out into the world.

I have been laying in this hammock most of the day, and it’s ok to lay here and do nothing, sometimes nothing is the best medicine, I know my worry, fear, frustration will only create more that needs healing, no one has ever healed by being more worried.

Hammocks are therapy

🗓️ So it seems I have a pattern. I overwhelm myself on repeat.
I commit for various reasons, all of them valid, and none of them necessary. The perfectionist shadow won’t give up or half ass, which can be exhausting and yet also Very rewarding. I honestly have no regrets for anything I have committed to, and most of the time I am so entrenched in the process I forget how busy I actually am.
🌟 As I continue to navigate this journey, I am going to give myself grace and permission to say “no thank you” and to take the time to feel into what I need to do to replenish myself.

🌲 this may be a new path, or maybe just a widening of the path I am so honored to be walking.

Isn’t it funny when things show up exactly when we need them to? Both challenges and support. Sometimes we are pushed to the breaking point where we crack wide open, fall on the floor crying, say “I just can’t take anymore” and then a little light shines in, a little grace blankets us in a hug, a little voice says “it’s ok to lay here and cry, and when you are ready, I’ll help you get up”. I’ve had a lot of those moments the past month or so. I’ve piled my plate really high, and then life throws a heaping serving of something else on. I know it’s not meant to crush me, I know I’ll be ready to ”get up soon” but I think I’ll just lay here for a few more minutes.

We are so incredibly excited to graduate 10 new yoga teachers. They have all worked so hard the past 8 months, and have not only practiced, but truly embodied the work.
Congratulations!!!!

‘sthira-sukham asanam’… yoga postures are to be stable and easeful for the body.

With a world filled with chaos, pain, hardships and challenges, allow your practice to be a place of refuge.

I have learned over the past few years, that a physically challenging practice is not always what I need, sometimes I need to rest, sometimes I need to just show up. A client once shared with me that they tell others “your best is good enough”, and yet in the end they didn’t believe that belief, sometimes we aren’t even our best, and that is still ok. Sometimes just showing up and being present is good enough.
When we are present, we can invite ease, whether it is in Savasana, chair pose or a conversation 🕉️

🤔 I answered the question recently “what does work/life balance mean to you?”. At first I struggled to answer without saying what it is not, which is what I experience most of the time.
💖I absolutely love my work, I love my clients, I love my co-teachers and co-facilitators. So, when I am working on exciting projects or meeting with people to dream up offerings, it does not feel like work, and yet, it does take energy to do these things. Then I notice the things I schedule for myself that are self-care begin to feel like work, or another thing on the list. I answered the initial question without mentioning these things because I wanted it to feel aspirational for myself, and it does, when I feel balanced I am able to give time to work, to receive back from the work I do (which is never difficult) and still create the space for myself to rest and recharge.
🕉️Balance can be such an interesting concept, we are never completely in balance, we fluctuate between here and there continuously, it is this constant flux that actually helps us balance, because if we were still, we wouldn’t be in balance, we would be in stagnation.
Balance requires moderation and the ability to adapt. I keep this in mind as I walk this beautiful tight rope of life.

What does balance mean to you? 🧐

This has been my study nest for the last 2 months. I have written and re-written note cards and even studied on the plane to Hawaii. I took this so seriously that my stress level was at an all time high.
I just submitted the last of the 3 midterm tests, and I feel I did ok. 😅 I was never good at studying or tests, but I have to say, I am really quite proud of myself. I also have to thank my study team, as they were an integral part of learning.
This program is so in depth, I look forward to graduating with all of the beautiful Knowledge I have learned thus far with .yoga.therapy and in the next 7 months to come💖🕉️🙏🏼

Sometimes you just need to go away. Far far away❤️
It makes home so much sweeter.

I love to be consumed by nature. To feel so small in mama earths hand, like a speck of dust, is truly humbling and also an honor.

When friends invite you to Kauai for their wedding, you can’t say no.

With life being so busy, having a million things to juggle, tests looming, graduations on the horizon, sometimes, or actually especially these times, it is most important to “be” instead of do.

These lilacs smell amazing. A little altar refresh with flowers from my garden brings the slightest sweetness to my morning meditation. If you can’t go out in nature, bring nature in🌺

If we do everything with love, it is literally the best we can do.
💕 Ahimsa is one of the foundational principles of yoga, it translates to “hurt” “not”, often it is explained as non-harming or non-violence. This principle is not only physical, but mental, emotional as well, to ourselves and to each other.
🕉️ I am not the best at anything, I am not the best partner, the best sister, the best daughter, and certainly not the best business person. But I choose to do it with love, I do my best not to harm, I listen with love, I make decisions with love. It is the best I can do.

Join me and Cara tomorrow as we take a much needed journey of clearing space, so that we may find clarity in what is ready to be planted.
Save your spot!

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Sometimes, when everything feels “too much”, I just go sit in the sun. 🌞
Nature heals, we are nature, we know how to heal ourselves.

Took a nature walk today. Spring has sprung. ❤️

My Christmas cactus is confused, and I’m all for it. Maybe in confusion we can bloom when we want to despite what we are labeled as.

🌸 so very excited to share our Nurtured Nerves Tincture with our Radical Regulation class. This is a beautiful combined effort between us and
🌱 We love to add tools to our toolbox, and nature is such powerful medicine!

💞 I’ve felt in a wee funk last few days. There are no parts of me that are separate, there are no faces I put on to face the world. So when one part of life, work, home, heart feels funky, I know that everything is being affected. There can not be homeostasis.
🌟 I had a beautiful session with my mentor, and she said “I lend you my confidence, not the confidence I have in myself, but the confidence I have in you”. It brought me to tears and it also made me realize, sometimes we just need to know that we are valuable and we matter, we can’t always hold our own, we need helps from community.
🪷 so if you are feeling down today, reach out, I will lend you my confidence.

🌟 Open to the potential for personal breakthroughs, quantum leaps forward and powerful moments of rebirth. Consciously work with this important moment by calling in the life you wish you live and making room for unexpected good fortune to find you.

Join .de.lune.astrology and me for this special Workshop experience, Future Visioning. Link in bio 🔗

🌟 Join myself and .de.lune.astrology for an evening of astrology, dream visioning, movement, meditation and sound.

⭕️ Gather with us to celebrate, honor and work with the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction, a unique moment in our astrological sphere, that only occurs once every 14 years.

🔮 Together we will explore the meaning behind these two important planets, what their union means for us and how we can actively and consciously participate in the unfolding of the path that this conjunction is calling us toward.
No experience necessary
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This is Susan. Susan likes to stay in bed until about 10am, she enjoys cuddles, playing fetch, but only in the house, and eating chicken p**p. Today she ate p**p and then threw it up all over the house.
Susan is gross, and this is her face when you tell her she is gross. Don’t worry, it’s also her face when you tell her she’s the best girl.