Raquel Rivelo

Little love note to my sensitive souls here to shake things up. 👏🏼🤍 Share what resonates.🙏🏼

Yoga was my gateway drug to uncovering and rediscovering myself. 🧘🏻‍♀️

To say Happy International Yoga day, would not feel like I am giving the practice the true gratitude it deserves.

For the longest time, since I was a child, I have been on the path of trying to understand why I was here…always having this niggling feeling that I was here for something greater. It was way before I knew what purpose and passion meant, but it was this deep felt sense.

As I traveling through life, I couldn’t seem to get this desire and feeling to go away. You could say I was a seeker, curious about life, and thirsty for knowledge. I had dappled with yoga here and there in college for the physical benefits, but it wasn’t until 2019, when one experience truly transformed my life and shifted my trajectory.

Yoga is the union of the body, mind, and soul. It is the union with SELF-soul essence. Through the power of the breath incongruence with movement..you enter into a state of meditation and get to receive a glimpse of your true self, your higher self, or the self that is untainted by your upbringing, society, your personality, and life in this body.

It is in this felt sense of your true self that you can experience true bliss or Ananda. Many of us get a taste or begin to see improvements in daily stressors and keep our practice going with these shifts, but for some reason in 2019, I was able to experience what felt like HOME.

This was it.

This was what I had been seeking all along…this is what it can feel like to truly LIVE.

The doors flood open and I began the journey of getting to know my true self, getting to come back home to safety within my body, so that I could experience true love and connection with self and other.

Meditation and breathwork transformed me and if it was possible for myself and the insane shifts I have experienced these past five years..I know that it is possible for us all.

To see life through a new lense and to truly love the life that we have to live.

Thank you yoga, for bringing me back home❤️

✨Transitional periods between new levels of growth and what my soul is asking me to step into used to scare me so much. 🥲

✨The pain of the unknown & uncertainty of how it will all unfold.

✨I have been in a deep waiting period these past few months. Deeply questioning & unraveling the parts of me that are beckoning to me looked at.

✨The feminine emerging in ways that I have always unconsciously desired to feel, but couldn’t quite put a name on it. In my power, in my truth, with confidence and deep trust of my bodies innate wisdom and my connection to a power far beyond what my human brain can comprehend. 😅

✨This time not running away from the discomfort & forcing outcomes (hello toxic masculine) that align with my agenda, but instead leaning into what I am being called to create & move into.👏🏼 (hello feminine rising & true alignment)

✨What feels most scary is not the unknown…but the person YOU have to step into to bring what is deep inside of you to life.

✨NOW THAT TAKES COURAGE. 🙏🏼

✨It is scary to be open & vulnerable with ourselves…and eventually with others but the more I lean into this kind of “unknown”…the more I see how divinely guided I was all along ❤️ everything divinely orchestrated and unfolding before my eyes 👀

✨Trust, surrender, and graciously or ungraciously step into the True you 😍🙏🏼

✨When I see this picture of myself from 3 years ago, I see the power and strength that lies in her eyes. 👀

Someone who 5 years ago was riddled with a disconnection from who she was, what she was here for, and deeply struggling to hold it all together.

She was so caught up in a system and cycle that left her energetically depleted on a chase for the never-ending feeling of success and fulfillment that she was promised would come from her hard work and putting her years in.

She was doing everything she was taught and told only to be left with anxiety, panic attacks, episodes of overwhelm and depression, and longing to find another way.

She was determined to help herself heal…👏🏼

Her journey started out of necessity and ended up changing her life in more ways then she could have ever known.

She healed her Lymes disease, chronic fatigue, brain fog, IBS, anxiety symptoms, and many other health conditions deeply rooted in stress and trauma. 😮‍💨(chronic conditions she was told you could NEVER heal from)

She dove into her deepest, darkest fears of using her voice, being seen, and fully heard in her power. 🦁

She learned that there was another way.

That others didn’t have to suffer the way that she did.

That it wasn’t her that broken, she simply was trying to find solitude in a system that was…🔥

So she was determined.

4 years ago after leaving her corporate job in fashion, in an apartment she loved, and an environment she felt comfortable in…she took a chance to find the answers.

3 years ago this photo was taken at the yoga ashram she was living at to understand the workings of how to heal the mind and body and truly come home to the true spirit and soul that exists within.

This was the photo she took when she made the decision to one day help others heal and come home to the radiance that had always existed within.

She found her light and knew in this moment that it was her mission to help others remember theirs too.

Everything she was seeking was within her and it wasn’t until she found her true strength within that she finally began to radiate from the inside out.

This is what it means to Embody the Healer Within.

Welcome home ❤️

Swipe for the magic that transpired last night with my partner in crime .healer ❤️

💕Do you allow yourself to be fully seen?

To be RAW in your truth.

To be HELD.

To be WITNESSED.

The act of loving oneself in no simple act.

It takes COURAGE to dive into all parts of self.

To not only allow yourself to see and feel every inch of you without shame or guilt or worry, but to then share that with another.

A true act of SELF-LOVE is to be so authentically you that this YOU EXTENDS TO ANOTHER.

A powerful practice that begins to invite this in is EYE-GAZING. A powerful group of men & woman were able to receive this medicine in last night’s cacao ceremony.

After all, the eyes are known to be the seed & gateway to the SOUL.

The more we witness, without judgement, the more we can truly see how alike we are.

Happy self-love day.😍

May we all get to know ourselves so fully that we radiant from our true whole state of love, and thus extend this one to another ❤️

✨One of the biggest “pandemics” we are facing is the ability to feel safe within our body. 👏🏼

✨There is ALWAYS something else to be fearful of whether you are stuff in traffic & running late, pop on the news and see all the crime or environmental issues, turn on social media and take in so much information at once that your mind starts to become anxious…we are living in a world that will constantly knock us out of balance. I won’t even get into how trauma effects our feeling of safety within the body. (It’s all connected!)🌍

✨So what happens when we don’t feel safe within our body? We look for outside cues and signals for safety. This could mean trying to control situations and everything in your life to a tee, or maybe planning everything out months in advanced, or maybe hoarding toilet paper? 🧻😂 (sorry I had to).

✨But the true measure of safety is always the safety that you create WITHIN YOUR BODY. The most powerful and easy ways to do this is through the breath.🧘🏻‍♀️

✨Learning how to breathe and work with your own nervous system will not only allow yourself to become more present but your body will begin to shift into a true state of safety within.

✨And guess what!? That one can’t be taken away from you. You are the one in control of cultivating it daily and beginning to allow yourself to live from this space.

✨I am excited to start to share time-tested breath techniques that I have been using daily for years, and guess what it only gets better with time! 😮‍💨

🔥If you could start to walk the path of living a life more aligned in joy, abundance, and purpose-but it required you to get fully in touch with yourself and dive into the the deepest depths of your soul, would you do it?

So many of us want the QUICK FIX. The magical pill 💊 to make everything better- so we diet, look at temporary solutions, the things that give a quick sense of relieve (cue the comfort foods, sugar addictions, alcohol, vapes, you name it).

Throughout the years, I myself wanted the quick fix for my pain and physical dis-ease within my body. Pop the Aleve to make the headache go away, have more caffeine to keep me going way past my own need for rest. GUESS WHAT- it DOES give you that temporary fix, but overtime..the body can no longer keep up. 🫠

The body and SOUL starts to get louder. It starts to scream for attention and ask for more. So you start to experience the anxieties, the depressions, and the thoughts/ feelings of sadness, stagnancy, and stuckness that this is where your life is at. 🤷🏻‍♀️

IT ISN’T THAT YOU DID ANYTHING WRONG, it’s that we are taught that there is no other way.👏🏼

I am here to help pave that path and show you that THERE IS ANOTHER WAY…

In order to start to heal we have to go from the inside out. 🌱

🔥Joy and abundance are our birthright.

🔥We are here for more.

🔥It is time to live a life that allows your soul to speak.

To wake up everyday so excited and amazed that this GETS TO BE YOUR LIFE.

It starts with attuning your energy and getting really crystal clear on how the most embodied version of you thinks, feels, and acts.

🔥Your daily habits become your medicine.

🔥Your rituals connect you to your soul.

This is the path of embodying the healer within. Shifts are coming to this account & I am so excited to watch it continue to connect others to their true divinity within.❤️

✨A reason many of us suffer is because we identify with being a certain way or will take on a specific identity based on our past/ upbringing.

✨We go to school to become a “blank,” and then that becomes our ultimate truth.

✨We get into a relationship and identify as being a “blank” and then can only see through that lense.

✨We have circumstance after circumstance that leaves us financially unstable and then can see the world through lack.

✨The more that we chose to take on these identities and previous experiences that have “shaped our lense” of how we perceive the world, the more we will suffer.

👏🏼You are not lazy.

👏🏼You are not poor.

👏🏼You are not sick.

✨But you are identified with this state of BEING.

✨When we shed these layers and see that all of these are just roles we have taken on, we can start to change them.

✨Who do you want to be?

✨How do you want to show up?

✨What is the lense through which you would like to see the world?

✨This is the path to soul liberation. 🙏🏼

✨The more I am fully embodied in the present moment the more my inner child feels SAFE to play (now read that twice & allow it to really sink in).

✨For much of my life I was not able to actually enjoy the present moment because my body was stuck in a cycle of the past.

✨The past traumas, the past beliefs, and the stagnant emotions that left my body in a constant state of fight, flight, and freeze.

✨Joy and higher emotions are truly available to all of us, but our body has to be able to match the vibration/frequency to allow it to come through. 👏🏼

✨Every-time I had a moment where “I should” have felt happy, I was constantly thinking about the future moment unable to actually BE.

✨Or…I was in the past worrying about a past encounter that “should” have gone another way.

✨My ability to actually BE PRESENT and in my joy was not available to me because my body did not feel safe.

✨So many of us disconnect from our bodies because in the past it was the safer route.

✨Trauma and excessive stress can show up in so many ways, but until we truly dive into the body and calm the “monkey mind,” we can not feel the fullest expression of joy & pleasure that we are here to experience.

✨It is our birthright to experience this life fully and be in our fullest expression. May we all connect with the right teachers and torch holders to help us pave this path ❤️🙏🏼

When AI taps into my multidimensional self 🪐

My cosmic self, my feminine angelic self, my watery intuitive self- all co-mingling together is this lifetime. 🧚🏻‍♂️

What if we no longer limited ourselves to the identity we were born into…how would you express yourself?

✨This is your full permission slip right here right now, to shift your life if you are in LOVE with what you have created.

✨It’s funny…but oftentimes when we are in the thick of it, we forget that.

👀Have you ever been in a career you didn’t love?

👀Have you ever been in a relationship past it’s expiration point?

👀Have you ever been in a financial situation that left you hustling with little to no reward?

✨Whatever it is that is leaving you “stuck” in your current situation, it is TRULY…I MEAN TRULY up to you to start the shift now.

✨Stop settling for less then you deserve.👏🏼

✨Stop staying small for the fear of taking the first step. 👏🏼

✨The change is and always will be in your ability to shift your internal state so that it is in alignment with what you wish to see on the outside.

✨Rapid changes occurs when you start that shift within.

✨Allow the life you LOVE to start now. ❤️🙏🏼

What is that story you constantly tell yourself on repeat? 👀

Ya know..that story that keeps you from doing the stuff you truly want to be doing…

Does the story leave you praying and hoping for a savior? Someone to whisk you off your feet and make all of your problems go away?

Does that story leave you in a constant downward spiral of perceived helplessness? Making you want to hide off from the world and play it safe in your day to day.

Does your story leave you feeling like there is never enough time or energy to get things done? There is just TOO MUCH on the to-do list and you feel like there is just not enough help/ everything lands on you.

The story we tell ourselves is based on our past experiences (intense moments where the narrative has been engrained within us) and it will continue to play out until we finally see it fully for what it is.

Your power lies in your ability to make a choice daily to be a CONSCIOUS creator of your thoughts, emotions, and actions. If you don’t like what you see…it TIME TO CREATE A NEW STORY!

What is the narrative that would truly serve you? What are the thoughts/language that allow this narrative to GROW & FLOURISH?

Time to break out the pen & paper and start writing ✍️💕

With love,

Raquel

🔥We are OFFICIALLY 1 WEEK AWAY! With only 1-2 spaces left😆 (depending on accommodation type).

If you are a last minute decider, like me, then this is your final chance! Doors to this powerful 3-day transformative retreat going down October 21-23rd close this Sunday🙏🏼

Swipe left to learn more about Raquel Rivelo & Liz Barrera, the two facilitators of this experience to learn more about about the beautiful work being interwoven throughout the weekend.

Click the link in bio to apply now or simply shoot a DM! See you in Montauk 😉

How many times do you put your own joy to the back-burner? 🧐

Now I’m not talking about doing things out of a need to fill a void.

Not talking about escapism tendencies.

I’m talking about true radiant joy & inner peace..

So many times we feel say to ourselves…

👏🏼“Oh I can’t do that, it’s a Monday, I have to catch-up.”

👏🏼“Financially I can’t rationalize that decision right now.”

👏🏼“I can’t be having fun, when everyone around me in serious.”

👏🏼“I feel bad to take this space for myself when I can be using this time to get ahead.”

All of these are DELAYING our ability to invite in joy and play to the present moment.

Now this doesn’t have to be taking the whole day off (although it could).

This mean truly appreciating your ability to experience joy and play in this present moment..

Going on that mindfulness walk.

Taking the morning a bit slower to get in your exercise or read that really amazing book.

Taking a break to dance or sing like no one’s watching.

JOY & RADIANCE is in this now moment.

It is ours to choose.

Allow this week to bring in more joy, play, and inner peace 🙏🏼

A note I wrote two years ago…I think awakened Raquel is pretty cool 😆👏🏼

In today’s society, we operate from a place of fear instead of love. But what if we were able to reverse this...
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Fear has been used throughout time to inflict a state of control. Control in the mind and control in oneself. If we are not in control of our own emotions, then we can operate more like robots. This is seen in corporate environments, schooling systems, and possibly even in your own home. Once we place our ego aside, we begin to unveil the many truths that we were once operating in—FEAR.
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Stripping our own identity, aka our ego, can be a scary thing. Our body wants to keep us in a state of homeostasis and keep you from seeing these harsh realities to protect you. By replacing fear with love, we begin to open a doorway for new opportunities, new ways of seeing the world, and new ways of operating.
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Instead of being fearful of your boss, coworker, etc. you will begin to have compassion for them. You can now see that they are operating from deep hurt and pain, rather than love for oneself and love for life. When we open ourselves to these new possibilities, we can shift our consciousness and ascend.

✨Life bends for the courageous. For those who are willing to risk it all for a life that actually sets their soul on fire.

✨So many times I had ideas and visions of different creations I wanted to bring into the world, but anytime I was close to ex*****on I would stop.

✨I would hold myself back because of X,Y,Z.

🛑Now is not the time to do this, do it when your more financially stable.

🛑Now is not the time to do this, 🛑do it when you are more confident,
🛑do it when your more healed,
🛑do it when you have that next certification,
🛑do it when you are seen as an “authority in your space.”
Do it when blah blah blah…

✨These were all excuses.

✨My mind was stopping me.

✨My beliefs about my own unworthiness, kept me from taking the risk.

✨My own limiting thoughts, intense emotions that accompanied, and stress responses that creeped up and led me to self-sabotage all kept me back in the same boat.

✨The mind can be two things:
it can either be the observer of our thoughts and can allow all that are not in congruence of our highest self to fade or we can be the prisoner of our thoughts. 👏🏼

✨Believe me it feels real, so freaking real in the moment when your self-sabotage creeps in, but man oh man…when you choose to do the damn thing anyways, now that is liberation!!!🤯

✨Who is ready to soar with me? Link in bio, it’s time to be the creator of your reality. 💕

A SNEAK PEAK AT MY TRANSFORMATION✨Over three years ago, I took my very first 3 day wellness retreat and it completely changed the trajectory of my life (not even an exaggeration) 😂

✨Not only did it lead me to shift my lifestyle and career to a space that honored myself and was in harmony with my highest self, but it led me to make a soul aligned decision to move to the wellness center one month later and spend the next two years studying and embodying a deep reconnection with my mind, body, and spirit.

✨In one months time…I left my favorite apartment, quit my corporate job, and moved to the middle of nowhere to come home to my most authentic self. It was here that that healing journey began.

✨Here I came home to myself and this is what I wish to share with others.

✨When we reconnect with ourselves, we can begin to align our life with our deepest truths and soul-led desires. Here a little sneak peak at my life pre retreat…

✨Pre-retreat:
-I was burnt out to the max without even realizing it
-My stress levels were at an all-time high leading me to daily emotional roller coasters that would often lead in panic attacks
-I was deeply unfulfilled in my day to day corporate environment and I would have racing thoughts after each encounter wondering if I “said the wrong thing” or “handled the situation appropriately”
-I would fill the void of my emotions with excess/extreme workouts and strict dieting to keep me in what felt like my only way to control my life
-I had no chill and didn’t know what relaxation or what taking time for myself felt like without substance distractions, nights out, or feelings of shame and guilt
-I believed that the only way to “succeed” was to work to your limits and make things happen at all costs

✨I can say without a doubt that this version of me no longer resonates with anything on that list.

✨It took a decision to go away for three days and reconnect with myself in a powerful 3-day retreat for me to shift my entire reality…

✨What will it take for you to come home to yours? 🤷🏻‍♀️

🛑Applications are open for our 3-day transformative retreat this October and your time is now..link in bio ❤️🙏🏼

LAST CHANCE to sign up for the four-week woman’s circle 🥰🙏🏼

✨Magic happens when woman come together in circle.

✨Many of us experience our journey back home to ourselves, alone.

✨We experience an awakening and a shedding of old layers, identities, conditionings, and old ways of being.

✨We think that we are the only ones who experience this shift.

✨That we are the only ones of have felt different, emotional, intuitive, sensitive, an overactive mind, “too much” or “too little”…the list goes on.

✨But when are start to gather together as woman, we see that first of all, we are not alone and secondly we begin to see the direction reflection of our own gifts, and our own feminine super powers.

✨We begin to attune to our own sensitivities, gifts, and inner guidance system and can then become empowered to truly live a life that “lights us up”.

✨When woman come together, it is POWERFUL! It is divine. And it is SO healing.

✨If you are ready to join others on your journey, tap into your divine feminine wisdom, and heal together…then this circle is for you! We begin tomorrow ❤️

✨link is in bio 🌱

✨Often times I get people asking me how I am so connected, am able to speak so clearly, and have such a clear channel…this right here is the first step💕

✨Your spirit can’t flourish when you’re in a state of stress and survival mode.

✨Many functions in your body are shut down (digestion and bodily movements being one of them), so if your body doesn’t feel SAFE…it’s only priority is to keep YOU alive.

✨It doesn’t care about you channeling or receiving all this wisdom to help the world😂…that part of you, your creativity, and what makes you SUPER SPECIAL is blocked off.

✨This means that it will start to cling onto whatever it needs to, to make the main functions in the body keep working…OUR BODIES ARE SO INTELLIGENT.

✨The other fun part is…while we may not actually physically be in harms way, whatever we are telling our mind or perceiving from our subconscious (aka our past), it does not know the difference.

✨This is why beginning to regulate your nervous system is key.

✨Many of us are operating only from the chest up…forgetting that we have this whole body that is here to support us!

✨We we are able to integrate our whole body and specifically make ourselves feel safe from the ROOT, up…that is when we are able to meet ourselves FULLY!

✨So many deeper aspects of ourselves are not able to be shown, until we slow down, feel deep rooted within the body, and then can create the space within to receive🙏🏼

✨Woman have gathered for centuries to share ancient wisdom (Red tents) and be in a safe space of receptivity, trust, and open-heartedness. 

✨Throughout the years, many of us have felt a calling to connect with our soul tribe and to feel the support of our sisters who are here to help us on our life's journey. 

✨The only issue is that there has not been a safe space for many of us to do so! Not only have we felt disconnected from our tribe, but we have also felt disconnected from our true, most aligned selves. 

✨The true self, cannot be fully embodied until we connect with our feminine energy. 

✨At Sol Spirit’s woman's circle, you will experience a safe space to truly be seen, heard, and FELT at a deep soul level, as well as reconnect with the TRUE YOU that your soul has been longing for. 

✨It is time for you to uncover your unique gifts, unlock your power and gain the courage to live your most abundant and aligned life. 

✨This circle IS FOR YOU IF…

YOU ARE: 

🌱Longing to feel a deeper connection with your body and its natural wisdom 

🌱Ready to get outside of your head and begin to listen to your true intuitive voice

🌱Know that its time to let go of the beliefs and programs keeping you from being in your FULL POWER

🌱Have been calling in a group of supportive sisters that can hold the space for you!

🌱Ready to activate your voice and uncover the power of feminine energy

🌱Here to birth an aligned state of being that is in full RECEIVERSHIP & ABUNDANCE!!

❤️Leave a heart in this comments below if this message was felt! Link in Sol Spirit’s bio for more information and to sign up for the first session on September 8th!

✨The amount of liberation you can truly feel when you speak open & vulnerability from your heart truly makes this life beyond magical.

✨As someone who used to:

1️⃣Make myself small by being a loner and not speak vulnerability out of fears of what other people would think of me

2️⃣make myself appear perfect on the outside through my looks and appearance that actually put up a wall in relations with others

3️⃣dimmed my light to make sure others were comfortable and that I wasn’t too much

4️⃣hide my innate talents and gifts because it was scary to be “in the light”

✨All of these parts of me that I had dimmed, did only myself a disservice. Year after year of feeling disconnected because I was not living in my full truth.

✨We are creative beings at our core. We are here to express, to share, to make art, to BE art, yet sooo many of use art creatively starving because we are not allowing our true channels to be open.

✨The more of I dove into my creative portal (hello feminine energy!!!) and true forms of expression, the more liberated, alive and free I have become!

✨We are worthy to share our desires, we are confident enough to unapologetically be in our power and truth, and we can truly create heaven on earth…but it is FIRST is our choice to see it within ourselves ❤️

🚨Repeat to yourself to RECEIVE:

✨I no longer hold the energetic space of rejecting my hearts deepest desires.

✨I am worthy of having it all.

✨I trust that what is meant for me will find it’s way with surrender and aligned action.

✨I believe that the more I give from my heart, the more I receive ten-fold.

✨All of my creations will be received by those who are ready for this potent magic.

✨And as I step into my full power, the universe jumps with me ❤️👏🏼