Practice with Bee Umana

Mother Moon 🌖

The details 🥂

We wanted an intimate wedding, that meant 40 guest and our 3 nephews eating around a giant kings table sharing a family style meal.

Our vision was to make everyone feel like part of the family. So we had photos sprinkled around the venue of everyone from different parts of life.

And decor meant minimal flowers - mostly eucalyptus with touches of roses. 🌱

We decided on a signature mocktail that could be easily adapted to include alcohol but just a way to include everyone in the festivities.

A few other faves: the donut cake 🍩, our family tree combining both of our lineages, the print of the poem “On Marriage” by Khalil Gibran that we read during our ceremony, disposable cameras for everyone to play with, and the bubble blasters! 🫧 🫧🫧🫧

Disposable Camera Dump 📸 so fun to watch through the eyes of our guests!!! 👰🏽‍♀️🤵‍♂️🥂

In Her ____Era 🪩Help me fill in the blank 😜

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A little momento in time: Feb 21, 2024

In kundalini yoga, the aura is the 7th body - an electromagnetic field that surround you. It is said that our aura extends 9 feet in every direction. And as I learned during this photo and aura reading with , the colors represent our frequency 🎨A frequency similar to sound. Our aura is not a mood ring but more so our aura brings healing and protection to our physical body to what it needs in that moment or phase of life!

I find it interesting that my expression is a bit melancholic. But what surrounds me is joy, inner sunshine, healing energy, and a reminder for more self-love! 💕💕

Sun-kissed with a hint of rain 🔹

Pretty ☁️

Do you relate to Sarah’s journaling experience? Struggling? Or not knowing what to write about?

Meditation on Paper is a guided journaling experience and now has physical journal to accompany it! 📝

Available for purchase on Amazon 🛒 Link in bio 🪷

Wintery Walks with Poetry❄️
About Standing (in Kinship)
BY KIMBERLY BLAESER
We all have the same little bones in our foot
twenty-six with funny names like navicular.
Together they build something strong—
our foot arch a pyramid holding us up.
The bones don’t get casts when they break.
We tape them—one phalange to its neighbor for support.
(Other things like sorrow work that way, too—
find healing in the leaning, the closeness.)
Our feet have one quarter of all the bones in our body.
Maybe we should give more honor to feet
and to all those tiny but blessed cogs in the world—
communities, the forgotten architecture of friendship.

Ebbing and flowing in life with this human ❤️‍🔥

Some favorites from the 🖼️

Now what will Fall and Winter bring? 🍃
📸 disponible camera
🏖️ Yalos Santorini

Todays weather is reminding me of fall. But I’m not quite ready for summer to be over 🌞How about one more round of fun summer outfits!!!🪞🌵🧖🏽‍♀️

When is too soon to plan your exploration of the mind and the world? 🗺️

🌿✨Activating the Wise Heart Retreat next summer June 23 - 29, 2024! 🌿✨

Let the inner heart lead, dive into creative Vinyasa flows, experience powerful and energetic breathwork, and go deep into your subconscious mind with Yoga Nidra. While exploring Playa Uvita, Costa Rica!

Details:
𑁍 Dates: June 23 - 29, 2024
𑁍 Location: Playa Uvita, Costa Rica

Link in bio to learn more and sign up! DM me with questions. Invite a friend. Let’s align your heart's desires and purpose for this next phase of your life. Early bird pricing ends Sept 1 – reserve your spot! 🦋🌊

I went to a poetry circle last week.
And the prompt was - what is something you accomplished that you didn’t think you would? In flow form, this prose came through me. A bit unexpected. I thought some accolade I achieved wanted to get written but nope. Unfiltered, I let the words just flow. I even read it out loud to a room full of Strangers. Which surprised me too.

Join me next week, 8/9, in collaboration with .community if you’re curious about writing as a meditative and healing practice📝 link in bio!!!

Sitting with cacaosita today ☕️ 🌞

Fun Summer Outfits 🐝

Which one is your favorite? 🤪

Summer 🍉

📷 🇬🇷 🌊 some favorites from the disposable camera

Yiamas 🥂

Καλημέρα // Kaliméra 💙

So excited to put the final touches of this experience together with 🌱 we have 5 spots available right now!

Start your summer solstice by slowing down in the serene mountains of North Carolina and nurture the innate healing power of being in nature. Through the transformative practices of Yoga, Meditation, Somatics, Journaling, and Storytelling Circles rediscover what it means to slow down and listen inward. Join us for an unforgettable experience of self-discovery, growth, and healing. 🪷

DM us with questions or follow with the link in bio to sing up.

🎞️ Title: Serendipity

At first I wanted a photo of the flowers contrasted with the brick. And in that same moment, this blue taxi rolls up 🚖 feeling lucky

I don’t know what’s happened to this word but it seems like it’s lost its integrity. The integrity we collectively held for it. In the name of wellness. In the name of well-being. In the name of a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Those that have been in it, have known for a while, but it feels different right now. I don’t know if it’s just me. Maybe it is. Am I just getting old?
I don’t know if these words like Retreat, and Conscious, and Yoga, and Mindful, and Meditation and Breathwork and Energy (Cacao Ceremony is getting up there too)… if the mass culture & internet hold the value of what they truly are??
Has mainstream stripped them dry? Of content after content after content written about them, but the most essential for them… is practice. Practice with a trusted and experienced teacher or guide or facilitator. It’s become incredibly hard to discern between digital facades and meaningless claims without experience.
Like, there’s this guy on LinkedIn that continues to message me about how he’s used and I quote “natural/spiritual principles” to power the growth of his business and sell his business for $50m+. And now wants to invite me to this spiritual SOS community with a tagline like “Supercharge your personal and professional growth and let go of worry, using simple spiritual principles, in less than 30 days.” While I know the words he’s using can have truth to them…not by him and not this way…I’m sorry but it’s true.

💌Keep reading on The Contentment Corner!!

a slow 35 unfolding.

🥞 pancakes make everything better
🌺flowers on trees are just so cool especially when you haven’t seen them in months
🏧 ATM’s are vintage too
📚 Long day of walking calls for cozying up with books 🥰

There really is no place like home. Even when you move around a bunch, home is a feeling ❤️

🎞️ more to come from my disposal camera