Mortar & Pestle

https://www.uttarayogastudio.com/workshops/baby-and-me/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2-DksjOu7nKz0ze39aoarqAjAFUa602g7cZO2qMdiPOrgvX5Xzly9e05Y_aem_LL8W8CTfCzj-Ql1l9IBu3A

Former clients , fellow midwives and doulas. :

My client Brittany Le Pore is holding a series you don’t want to miss !

Hop on the healing and feeling train with your little buggies and flow into motherhood with friends !

Feel free to share with your friends and clients ❤️🙏

Baby & Me Yoga - Uttara Yoga Studio Join our Baby and Me Yoga class for a serene journey of connection and wellness, tailored for parents or caregivers and their little ones. This gentle session combines mindful movement, baby-focused interaction, and postnatal support in a welcoming community atmosphere. Join Brittany for an enrichin...

You deserve a Doula

This
Is
Labor 🌀

Another birth worker took this photo while wewere assisting at a birth center birth.

We’re in the floor beside the birth tub .🛁
On a yoga mat. 🧘‍♂️
Cool rag , and neither of us wearing much . 🫧

Because contractions come when they need and flow when they’re done. ⛰️

You deserve this amount of slow of surrender 🙏

You deserve to feel seen and heard and have hands on and hands off support. 🙌

It’s called Labor because it’s work. ✔️

Sacred work 🤰

While YOU must go within , work together with YOUR baby and let go; while no one can birth YOUR baby for YOU ___________ YOU also can have the space held for YOUR heart and holy bodies while YOU add to YOUR home .

Happy International Womxns Day to everyone . All bodies.

Somehow , someway
This is also how you came earthside , too.

Thank you body , for being all the ways we need you to, in the moment.

I hope you also live the life you dream of.

I know I do. 🙏🌀👑✨❤️

Creation courtesy of Flying Edna/Brian Andreas Studio ❤️🙏

Coming soon to Blacksburg and Christiansburg !

Spreading the sacred circles out in the valley and WIDER.

Class Schedules will begin in May !Qoya Roanoke has several facilitators to meet your rememberance right where you are.

❤️🙏

Look who finally looks more like his mama!!! Also. I love him 💋💋💋💋

https://raisingyourfrequency.net/

Sometimes I forget one of my favorite offerings from one of my favorite poets

“ is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me “.

I get caught up@in the worry of what to do or who to allow into my life and why or why I wouldn’t ask them to stay ……..

I forget who’s already here.

I overlook those who gently climb into my lap , I wait until I feel the fur at my feet to remember:

There is always someone who is loving you .

I hope see them today for who they are, for what they bring into your life , and practice joy in the tiny moments that can be witnessed when you simply exist and accept.

I love you 💕

Prenatal Yoga Series https://www.thegardenyoga.org/service-page/6-week-prenatal-series-8?referral=service_list_widget

River ramblin

Happy birthday NaNo/ grandma

We love u!

Already warmer inside and outside the heart space.

Get
Yo
Fine
Imperfectly perfect
Ass
OUTSIDE

“Do not be a magician - be magic!” --Leonard Cohen

Little bit of tacky love on the last day of school.

Jake needed his teacher to see the kitty picture of the kitten that’s leaving today and LJ has been such a trooper to do all the festive school days.

After a really good talk last night at bedtime , I have a pretty good feeling he’ll always do what feels good to him and not others.

I could say I have had a hand in that and I’m sure I have.

But THEY have to adopt the ideas and the character to believe in themselves. especially when it comes in the face of adversity : and others who judge you .

I hope all your children have moments where they bring up the Wisdom to say SO WHAT.

And we can help.

Model grace and gratitude and giving love , even after you haven’t. ESPECIALLY after you haven’t.

I love you!

BooogERS

This. Is. Necessary.

And I needed to hear this too.

To better support your system and your self , book an online or in person private Qoya Roanoke class with Me !

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Sarah 32, was raised in a home where her parents got divorced at 8 years old.

The divorce was a hostile. Her and her brother were unconsciously used by their parents to hurt and punish each other. They fought ruthlessly for custody and refused to cooperate. In the battle, no adult helped her make sense of what was happening, and most of the time she had to listen to both parents venting about the other.

When her mother gets custody, her father moves to another state. He starts a new relationship and Sarah feels the deep pain of abandonment. She used to fantasize about her parents getting back together and on holidays with him she would focus all of her energy on getting his attention— putting on shows in his living room or writing him notes about what a great dad he was. He is self absorbed and critical, which is a cue for her to work harder for his love. When she’s back at her mothers, she wasn’t allowed to acknowledge her fathers existence or the grief of losing him.

By 21 the unresolved trauma of abandonment has revealed itself. She’s drinking a lot and has an addiction to male validation. When she meets someone new, “winning” his attention becomes a sole focus. These men have become a version her father— a way to mask the pain from the loss of his love.

On many occasions she wakes up next to strangers or men she isn’t actually connected to. She feels shame and disgust which leads her to drink more. It’s a cycle where she re-lives the familiar feelings of her childhood.

At 30, she has a dark night of the soul. After a breakup with a critical partner (similar to her father) she has a panic attack. She wants to drink, but at her rock bottom she knows she needs to heal. She spends the next year: healing, doing the work, and dedicated to her own evolution.

Her stomach turns when she thinks of her past. She’s repulsed and how she shared her body with strangers, how she neglected herself, and how she sabotaged relationships with people who cared about her. But, she’s working on being the person she wished she had as a child. The little girl in her just wanted love— and she’s slowly forgiving herself for what she did in survival mode