171 days of waking up to Genocide in Gaza while also reckoning with the disbelief of division, silence, “neutrality” (which, y’all, that isn’t really a thing), and even ignorance (which, y’all, is not bliss), has reminded me just how much work there is to do on our planet and with our people - especially when it comes to Love. In 171 days I have fallen over and over again to my knees, I have cried through cracks so hollow and tears have fallen like waterfalls, I have found myself exiting buildings, releasing partnerships, and letting go of dreams, all because those spaces, places, relationships, could not see me, could not hear me, could not help me in this work of listening and honoring the cries and calls of my own heart and humanity and the intersection of this here and now in our collective world…  I am not here to be complicit. I am not here to let fear keep me from following and flowing and growing from my own knowings of my heart and soul. I am here to bring light to this world (and so are you). I am here to expand my own heart in hopes it encourages and catalyzes another. I cannot look away. I cannot bite my tongue. I cannot bypass my own discomfort just to ensure those who are comfortable can remain comfortable.  I feel and I trust. And there are no regrets in the choices and changes I have made, only ease. for what is happening, if even beyond what my eyes will ever have the perception to see or my mind the understanding and comprehension to know, i know it is not right, i feel how unjust it is, and i know that love is a powerful force that is absolutely guiding me through and that’s all i hope to share with you.  so, here i am today, eager, hopeful, intentional, to share this prayer of Love with you: Love to every child Love to every creature Love to every element Love to every ether repeat as often as you can and feel called to. write it down. sing it out loud. make art with it.  make magick with it.  send it so widely out. as well as deeply in.  let this love be found and felt within you. and let this love be shared and sowed in all you do.  ✨ ✨ ✨ #prayer #practice #love #ahimsa #thisisyoga #dharma

What does it mean to let it go?  What does it mean to get free? it means more to me than a single sentence could ever say or show.  It is the prerequisite to freedom.  It is the action of love.  it is courageous to surrender the clasp, grip, and any and all ideas of control, and release…  It’s paramount in becoming all I’ve come here to be. to love something, to detest something, to be so MF confused by something- and instead of ingesting it more deeply, i will do the bravest thing and simply witness, breathe, hold it without it ever needing to hold or hollow me, and when it’s time, i will set it in my palms and wrap it in my prayers, and hand it off to the Source of Love and Divinity and Conscious Power, my God of my understanding…  I am ready to welcome in change as my only constant.  I am ready to release the roles, relationships, responsibilities, patterns, dynamics, contracts, ideas, and more that no longer allow me to breathe… that no longer allow me to become… that no longer belong in my bones, and struggles, and story, and heart. It means I trust what is coming and do not need to fear any loss. Every loss has led me to gains I never knew I was worthy and able to receive - yet they found me - it always finds me - especially when I am finding myself.  To release is to surrender to the unknown- the not yet clearly seen yet it’s there… on the horizon… on the very tip of the tongue, nose, next step towards and to… beyond fear yet held in absolute trust and timing. and how do we do this incredible act of release? by simply choosing to. by remembering there is so much more awaiting me - welcoming me- encouraging me- loving me- and if is all there for me, well dear one, it is all there for you, too.  I don’t want to be the reason for it, or i, or you to have to wait any longer… I’m ready. to let go. to let be. to release as much as i can - so I can move more closely and clearly to all that is ahead of me. ✨ ✨ ✨ #transformationtuesday #release #cicadas #eclipse

if we’re not curious, we’re conditioned… ✨☀️🌕☀️✨ waking up to this full lunar eclipse and day in hopes that we continually defy all the current conditions and odds by questioning every single thing… inward and out… is this how we want to be? is this how we want to feel? are the current conditions within my own mindset, energy, attitude, and actions supporting me? are the current conditions within the world, work place, and all our webs of society, structures, and systems supporting me? you? us all? ✨ conditions are the frameworks for our very existence. it is what we allow, swallow, and participate in, be it consciously and/or unconsciously, be it intentional and/or unintentional, it is the very road that we walk upon as well as the map that may or may not take us where we are destined to go. we are the ones who create conditions. for ourselves. and all we are in relationship to. and if we don’t invite curiosity in, more than likely the way it’s always been will be the very blueprint to how it’ll continue to be… but y’all, i don’t know about you, i just don’t feel or believe that our current conditions are ever gonna get us free… which is why we need to be more and more curious (and maybe even a little furious) for every question of WHY? and HOW?! and IS THIS SERVING ME?! is this serving my community?? my future ancestors?? our future planet?? OUR PEACE?! is this how i want to be remembered? Is this how it has to be?! - and all the other curiosities in between - may just be the catalyst into a world where all have what they need and live into their fullest & freest potential. my prayer, practice & wish today (and all days) is that we get more and more courageous, curious, & clear, as to what it is we want & what it is we are willing to put effort into to ensure that can & will be- now, next, & for every after. conditions can set us free, or they can keep us trapped. may we dismantle all that keeps us stuck as we also defy, dream, and together, do the work of so much better… for you. for me. for us. #staycurious #practice #openmind #openheart #🍉 #lunareclipse #justiceiscoming #freepalestine #freeourminds #love #fullmoonblessings #befree

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness we don’t really know who they are.  Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” -Marianne Williamson ✨ ✨ ✨ this week i was gifted with an experience almost an entire decade in the making, i was able to share time, stories, love, & all our grief, with my mamas best friend, Pam. truly, i am still digesting all that we were able to share in our 3 hours together & how those 3 hours felt like 3 minutes… to have a best friends perspective in the life & death of my folks is something i think i did need all that time in between to be prepared for… to ensure my heart & spirit & psyche were ready to expand beyond the grief, love, & knowings of what i thought i knew… and to welcome in the unpleasant, the pain, the anger of their realities, as well as hold space for their love, joys, and goodness… what a gift to be with someone who knows the tremendous loss and how life for us could never be the same, and yet, here we are, continuing through with love as our only guide… together, we brought a lot of darkness into the light… and i know in my heart and spirit there’s so much i hope and intend to do with all that was shared with me, but, i also know that before i can do anything with it, i have to be with it… and these last couple days I’ve allowed myself to surrender yet again to all the grief, all the sadness, all the anger…. All in hopes of releasing the demons of shame and blame and all that hides in the untold truths. learning yet again to reckon with the truth… this is what it was… this is what it is…. and triumphantly and confidently knowing this is what will never be again… i hope wherever you are in your journey of life that you take the time, too, to be with it, to feel it all at your own pace of trust and titration, and that we, together, in all our own individual ways and efforts, create more space to reckon with the horror, heal the hurt, and hold the whole of who we are and who we are to one another with so much love. this is how we heal… this is how we become free…. ✨ #reunion #love #wehealtogether #grief #missingher #turnonthelight #turnonthelove #goodgrief #resource

a prayer and wish for spring equinox 🌱… may we be resourced may we be rooted every human need met and every Spiritual truth freed may we awaken fully and freely into all our Divine & humanly power may we be returned to the Source of our Love and the abundance of the land & all we are connected to may our very bones, breath, and bodily systems, as well as our Spirit, our essence, our energy, our Soul be so Saturated and nourished by the Light of all Creation each and all of us receiving it fully each and all of us returning it freely in every direction, in every dimension, in all we have the blessings and privilege to be, become, and do. and so it is, and so we are, all for me, and all for you. ✨ 🌱 ✨ #springequinox #prayer #intention #resource #remember #nooneisfreeuntileveryoneisfree #🍉 #openyourheart

may we be resourced… ✨ may every single human need be met and more along with all that our Soul and Spirit needs… i wonder what ways our lives would change inward to out if we placed more priority on resourcing ourselves and sharing that abundance beyond profit, beyond power over and under, beyond capitalism and greed, what would our own bodies and psyches and spirits feel like to not only have the needs met of food and water and shelter and love, yet also the soul food of deeper breaths, more time in nature, more space to play and explore beyond agenda and expectations. what would be grown from within us if we had more connection to Source itself and prioritized that deep Divine knowing and spark within us all. I feel there would be no need to oppress if you’re constantly saturated in liberation and love. I feel there would be no way we could lose our humanity- for we’d be embedded in that very truth. I feel we wouldn’t target another or ourselves with violence or any idea that we don’t belong, for our very birthright would be centered within our every pulse. I feel we are all worthy and deserving of all the ways we can be resourced and we are the very ones to ensure the space, the grace, the ground, and the support to not just receive these riches, yet to also continue sharing and shining and sowing this sacred return in all we are and all we have the blessing and power to do. may we be resourced yall… may we be the ones as well as the way. ✨ ✨ ✨ #resourced #resources #resource #thoughts #curiosity #thisisyoga #weareyoga #allareworthy #🍉 #🍉🍉🍉

to grieve is to live everyday in the space of being broken deeply open a void of fullness and a fullness of void yet - love oozes in between the gone love leaks into the surface state of stings and stagnation like a river the love reaches all parts of the heart and the soul raging rapids to gentle springs it is a feeling like no other to be this broken to be this entangled in love holding so tenderly the space of where moments and you used to be and all the ways you still come to find me ✨ ✨ ✨ good grief, y’all, grief be everywhere… yet, there’s very little space in the current systems and structures that allow us to process and feel it all the way through… instead, we deny, we diminish, we minimize, and we numb… all of which without judgement from me and please no judgement from you, just the awareness of all that keeps us from feeling the currents of our emotions and trusting the intelligence of all that is found in those feels… how we gonna heal if we don’t feel? how we gonna love if we don’t grieve? all of it, so connected… all of us, so connected… my hope and greatest intention is to reimagine and work towards what life could be if we had more space to grieve. And not just space, also support… sanctuary… community… compassion… a way to be with all our heart holds beyond expectation and deadlines… pulse by pulse, breath by breath, simple and sacred, presence… I’m so honored that the pet loss support community circle with @juliehirt_intuitive continues to grow and that we are proudly offering our 3rd circle on Sunday, April 14th at 1pm. If resources are a limiting factor for this opportunity, reach out, and trust that there is support through our community. i really believe the new world of compassion and generosity awaits and it’s being born through our actions, attitudes, and openness to bending so no one breaks and all can have opportunities they need. I am willing. I am grieving. and all of it reminds me: this is Love. ✨ #petlosssupport #goodgrief #grieving #feeling #lossishard #aparigraha #yogaheals #loveheals #weheal #signs #cardinals #love

whatever the waves of this day and now, please dear precious child, remember to breathe, remember to feel into the earth below you, and to continue to stretch up towards the sun, and trust all the motion and stillness in between… ✨ ✨ ✨ #waves #water #feels #svadhishthana #breathe #ground #root #rise #flow #trust #inthistogether #prakriti

I feel hollow and hopeful healed and harmed I feel ready and resilient raw and radiant I feel pulled and present cautious and clear I feel strong and steady in this path and pursuit that continues to call me forward as the walls continue to crumble and the light keeps shining through ✨ ✨ ✨ how do you feel? ✨ #feel #howdoyoufeel #guidinglight #rememberwhoyouare #ifeelsomanythings #freepalestine #ahimsa #noharm

baby girl, it’s just me and you… 🎵✨✨ truthfully, there was a time, a multitude of time in my life, where that very idea and invitation of being with just me would and did absolutely terrify me… in fact, i would even place myself in situations and relationships that never really held the whole of me, but, i wasn’t alone… So, i would go there, i would be with, i would do all the things to not feel alone, yet, in that company, i actually was… i don’t know if it was solely choice or if Divine timing, intervention, and the support squad of Lola, Carlos, and Mani, and nature, all shared with me the spaciousness and graciousness of slowly, sustainably, and Sacredly, coming home to her and me, and this liberation of never being alone. so much has shifted for me and changed as far as my own relationship with myself over the years, especially this decade plus of moving through my biggest shock trauma and the loss of my folks physically, and all that transpired from that pain… I’ve learned that my wholeness is found within me, and my company is actually quite lovely, I’ve fallen more and more in love with me and that love continues to transpire and transcend changes that keep me continuing this love within myself and within the world. i consider @yung_pueblo ‘s quote about the more i can love myself the more love is available for loving all else. I think for most my life i leveraged love the other way. I thought to love myself was selfish and egotistical, yet now i realize it is those very thoughts that are selfish and egotistical, not my love and not the radical act of loving all i am. I have been loving myself into being and being who i am. I no longer fear the company of me, i actually need it and cherish it and prioritize it beyond any plans or agenda. i am worthy and i am whole, and so are you. I share this because the world, humanity as a whole, really could and would benefit from each and all of us loving all we are into being… so, maybe today, maybe right here and now, you take a little bit more space to love, breathe, and be with you. that could change your total trajectory… Love could change our total trajectory… #selflove #healingjourney

“all over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. everyday we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, ‘am i going to add to the aggression in the world?’ everyday, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, ‘am i going to practice peace, or am i going to war?’” -Pema Chödrön ✨ ✨ ✨ i choose peace. the only additions i hope to add to the world and this day are love, and ease, and tenderness, and joy. my head and heart will not be buried in the sand, instead i will be emerged in life as it is, with all its horrors that hope for our healing, and all life’s preciousness that is our truest power. i hope to add to the ascension and vibration to this now and all that it generates forward and do all within my might and means to decrease and decease aggression within me and all i am apart of, past present and future. every tear, every laugh, every pause, every action, may it contribute to peace bigger than me and this moment, may it also find its way to all we are and all we are connected to. ✨ #pemachodron #wisdom #interconnectedness #slothlove #puravida #creation #life #wagepeace #wagelove #ceasefirenow #openyourheart #openyourmind #shanti

I am her. She is me. the more She heals, the more we’re Free. ✨ ✨ ✨ #allthewomeninme #womenarepowerful #wearepowerful #healers #heroes #healher #healingtogether #dharma #divine #daughters #wearetheones #wearetheway

what are you waiting for? what are we waiting for? ✨ ✨ ✨ in this lifetime and experience, all we really got is now… can we use this very moment of now to generate that which we know we are, know we can, know we were made on precious purpose to do? For not a thing is guaranteed but this very breath here and now. Can we use it? For the life within our own lungs and the life within all? Can we stop waiting for the conditions to be ideal to the thoughts in our head and trust the timing and calling of our brave and beautiful hearts? The world needs us. We need us. And all that is possible right in this very here and right in this very now. ✨ #whatarewewaitingfor #awaken #remember #flow #love #wearepowerful #puravida #waterfall #costaricawaterfalls

question, dear warriors of love, light, and liberation… how is joy showing up for you? and how are you showing up for joy? can we allow ourselves to witness as well as receive… can we allow ourselves to generate inward as well as out… I believe we can. I believe we do. I believe this is one of the many miraculous reasons as to why we are here and now, human with all our hurt and heart, to transcend the suffering, the sorrow, the stings of being in the synergistic web and weavings of all we are connected to, all in hopes of returning to joy, returning to peace, returning to a way in which we were always born to be. ✨ ✨ ✨ #warriorwednesday #questions #joy #mudita #practice #see #receive #thejoyinyou #thejoyinme #thisisyoga

I am allowed to begin again… I am allowed to make a new choice. I am allowed to give myself the space i need, the breathing room required, and the options to say, “not right now” and “can i get back to you on that?” I am allowed to not know… and to try something new on for size, and to experiment. the only thing that i am no longer allowed to do is sacrifice myself for anyone or anything. ( and the same always goes for you, too ) ✨ ✨ ✨ thank you @chaninicholas for the inspiration and thank you s/Self for all the ways we are seeing this through. ✨ what will we allow to flow our way? and what needs to cease in all capacity? may it all set us free. may it all fuel our soul. may it all return us to the essential truth, no one is free until we all are. ✨ #transformationtuesday #chasingwaterfalls💦 #puravida #costarica #love #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #noseparation #thisisyoga #weareyoga #practice #befree #filterfree

a prayer and practice for March… May we stay connected, May we stay resilient, May we be ready for all that can rise from the ashes and blossom from the slumbers… May we prioritize our peace and ensure all else has an opportunity to know that salve within as well. May we cease all vengeance and violence and simply open our hearts, petals and wings. ✨ ✨ ✨ #prayer #practice #peace #shanti #love #prakriti #gunas #purusha #hellomarch #march2024 #stayconnected

thankful for the roots, relationships, and resiliency… there’s so much that breaks my heart, Yet, for the first time in a lifetime i really feel i have more around me that makes my heart feel so very held, heard, and whole… it’s remarkable these riches i am so thankful to all regardless of pictured in this post, who have shared such leaps and milestones with me. through all the changes, through all the hopes, through all the dreams, through all the grief, i am more alive and full and free thanks to all this faith and friendships around and within me. salude to our connection! salude to our communities! Salude to all that’s being created through you and me… bowing deeply… and leaping with faith and excitement beyond any fears and expectations… how awesome and special it all is that i get to find and free myself alongside each and all of you. ✨ ✨ ✨ #tbt #leapday #richness #relationship #love #blessings #abundance #weareyoga #healingseason #wehealtogether #wearetheoneswevebeenwaitingfor #salude #thisis37

Leap dear ones… leap… With love and with trust… and with full faith forward… ✨ What would the world be like if we all took more leaps of faith upon ourselves and our own inner calling and knowings as well as out within the world… on this day i can’t help but think and reflect upon all the ways my own courageous leaps of faith have brought me to this Here, this now, this very shape that is me and my life. And although it is still greatly in transformation, and so am i, i do feel every leap I’ve taken, every step be it bound to the ground or free floatin’ and fallin’ from the sky, it has all changed me in ways that have only gotten me more clear and close to who it is i truly am and all that it is i can share and contribute to this world. there’s so much that change and heal and expand from every leap of faith we courageously choose forward. may this be the very moment as well as day that you wake up and remember: You still got leaps to take! You still have dreams to make! You still have shadows to shake! and We all still have opportunities to wake! ✨ ✨ #leapday #leapsoffaith #faithfulfools #puravida #swinging #trust #ceasefirenow #wakeup #leadwithlove #familia

It won’t be perfect, it will be powerful I won’t be perfect, i will be powerful ✨ ✨ ✨ this mantra has found me during a time where so much conflict and crisis continue to push up against me and us all, reminding me as i remind each and all of you, that our activism, our accountability, our empathy, our actions and choices are never going to be perfect… yet, my God, will every action and attitude of the heart be so very powerful! every time we move and think and respond from the heart, perfection already exists and power is pursued in a way this world is so needing and waiting for… A power that could never hurt or harm. A power that can only foster love, healing, and humane connection and nature. May we melt the freeze that holds us back from all our power. May we love beyond any fear as well as all that is not yet understood. May we do all we can with all that we are- United and intentional to love and all that can be generated from such Sacred power. May we not give up. Or give in… The world needs us. and All Our Power. ✨ #thisisyoga #practice #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #ceaseviolence #openyourheart #humanityfirst #puravida #reclaimyourpower #dharma #wearepowerful #wearelove

the world is hard enough… May we soften… ✨ ✨ ✨ #besoft #soften #ahimsa #transformationtuesday #openyourheart #openyourmind #belove #beloved

so much love and gratitude to all the ones out there remembering that they & we got wings… and thank you to all the birthday love and blessings that swooned in my way yesterday… i bow deeply with a heart so full and excited for all that this 37th year has brought and begun already… untangled untethered wings wide & free thankful for all that I’ve been, and all that i am still becoming, thankful for all i get to be 🦋 pictured, me, Esteban, DaRio, and Victoria posing and practicing what it means to be that full, to be that free… ✨ ✨ ✨ #mariposas #becoming #thisis37 #blessedtobe #untethered #untangled #wingswide #heartfree #puravida

today is the finale of my 36th year… and like this very chrysalis that greeted & cocooned me during my entire time in Costa Rica, im excited to know im right there in the process with it, still deeply in transcendence, still melting & moving within my own metamorphosis, held & whole, and yet ready & waiting to emerge into something new, untethered… untangled… wings wide & free… I can feel it taking place within me & my greatest work right now is to just allow & trust the process to fully & faithfully move me through & to who all i am & destined to be. I read that on average a chrysalis takes about four weeks to become the butterfly, & there’s also special cases where it takes even longer, some transformations taking up to many years as the elements and the environments have to be just right, & it’ll wait beyond all disturbances outward & all ideas of timelines inward… it’ll wait as long as is needed until the miracle of metamorphosis can greet & guide it through… and do you also see the gold? the Sacred speck of gold that reminds me of the treasure these transformations are… not all get to have the ideal circumstances to be cared for & cocooned… not all have the gift of timing & the opportunity of spaciousness to hold them through the changes… not all have the privilege to discern beyond any & all disturbances that might sway us out when our real work & efforts need us to go in… yet, i have… and my greatest hope and intention is that i use it & use it all ¬t in the single sense & story that is me, but in the collective novel & necessity that is us & us becoming free. who are we now? & who are we still able to become? all in Divine timing, as well as our own… ✨ my friends have shared with me that the butterfly has still yet to emerge since i left the land & their home Thursday… any day now she is gonna know her wings… maybe just maybe, i will / we will too… 🦋 #transformation #chrysalis

waking up today counting my many blessings… like the ability & opportunities to hold space for all the things that are held within our hearts… the grief the gratitude the greatness & goodness that is alive within us all i am thankful for every story i get to hear, every scar i get to witness, & all the strength and Sacredness i get to see with my eyes open as well as my eyes closed… just yesterday 11 people were able to gather & ground in around pet loss & grief, and just like any grief i have experienced in this world, all too often we minimize the massive loss & sufferings we are enduring, we have normalized an idea that we can just get over something as well as the contortionist act that we could separate ourselves from that suffering, believe it or not friends, we can’t leave that shit or sacredness at the door, it’s apart of us, & i am so grateful for all the ways my life has transpired so i can hold space for the whole of me & offer such spaciousness to the whole of each other… last Thursday marked the two year anniversary since we had to say goodbye to our Lola girl. A decision i asked that she made clear for us to make that humane call & let her Spirit be free from a body that could no longer carry her… for 14 years she walked next to me, & even took the reigns of ahead, showing me, teaching me, growing up with me through heartbreak, difficulty, & many transitions… i was 21 years old when this precious, powerful, & Spunky girl came into my life. I remember sitting in the doubletree cafeteria for my lunch break and something guided me to call the humane society & Lo-la-and-behold, she was there. The last of 7 pups. Waiting for me… i didn’t know what i was doing then, & truthfully, still don’t to this day, yet i do know she’s still guiding me & wanting me to know all my power… all my might… all the magick we can still continue to make & make together. i felt those common threads in the space yesterday. & how these mighty forces of love absolutely want us to continue as the mighty forces of love we are - through the grief, not over it, through the loss, not denying it, through the connection, not ever apart from it. #lola #petgrief #love

happy Pisces season mi amores… i just wanna feel it all, reveal it all, and heal it all with you… ✨ 🌊 ✨ #piscesseason #piscespower #feelitall #healitall #waterpower #adaptability #dreamers #ceasefire

no one is free until we are all free 🍉 ✨ Join in on the solidarity and cries for ceasefire Sunday 2/18 at 1:30pm downtown midland at the courthouse ✨ my battle / our battle and dharma / Sacred Duty is staying true to the pulse and presence of humanity i will not / we will not pretend harm is not happening i will not / we will not pretend genocide is not happening it is important we name what is happening and stand together in demanding CEASEFIRE ✨ #thisisyoga ✨ #thisisunity ✨ #thisisloveinaction

the child i am and always will be just wants a world where we are all happy, healthy, and free…. ✨ ✨ ✨ #wearechildren #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #noseparation #iamyou #youareme #lokahsamastasukhinobhavantu #loveeverything

love is not something that should be profitized and capitalized, it should simply and sweetly be prioritized, practiced, and present in all we do. check out these sloths just livin’ and lovin’ free and easy… showing and sharing with us our truest nature, pura vida and love love love… ✨ ✨ ✨ ps, if you want to be my galentine and valentine, please free Palestine 🇵🇸🙏🏼✨that’s the way to my heart and happiness, that’s the only way to celebrate with me our true and purest nature, love. #loveisbiggerthanvalentinesday #slothskissing #sloths #puravida #love #prakriti #purusha #laplaya #joy #nofilter #noedits

meet my new friend, Tyson… Es un muy buen chico (he is a very good boy) and one i feel fate ensured me to meet… however, if not for my friends, the Fallas family, this sweet pup may not have been known to my heart and soul. Tyson has a rough past and was almost put down due to his behaviors. My friend shared with me that he was just moments from losing his life because he was killing chickens & eating them, which is only because he wasn’t being fed, he was hungry, he was desperate, he was surviving… so, my sweet and gracious friends made the heart led decision to bring Tyson home with them. and since he has had care, and food, and a safe place to rest every night, he hasn’t shown any behaviors of ill intent and hasn’t caused any harm to the animals as well as the children that are here. He’s just been a real, shy, hopeful boy… i see the love in his eyes as his name is called, i see the relationship he has with his family and this new found chapter of his existence. I see this pup and see all the parallels to people and creation and existence in general. the things we do when we don’t have what we need. and how none of us ever have asked for such lack and hardship, yet so many have this reality… and the transformations possible when we are supported by love and able to live a life more pure and true… it took a day or so for this sweet Tyson to open his heart to me and now that it’s open he sits with me, he snuggles with me, he even has been resting his head on my heart, which is all new for this good boy. i think about the kids i work with in the detention centers & how Tyson & them have such similarities. How they each & all deserve such care & kindness, decency & dignity, & spaciousness & support, yet, those conditions a lot of the times are not met… which creates the behaviors “we” like to box them into as “bad” “unfit” “wrong” & more… what if we could just meet them where the are, access the situation with compassion, & do whatever is within our means to make it better, brighter, more connected to the heart & humanity of us all… that’s the world i want to live in. with Tyson - & with all 🙏🏼✨ #teachers #miamigo #thisisyoga #dogsarefamily #healers

“Hoy ha sido un día especial” - victoria fallas ✨ ✨ ✨ oh, precious child, i am in absolute agreement as well as awe to the day we just received… thank you Lord and Land, and all the heels, hearts, and hands that went into such specialness and abundance my prayer and request is that every human, every heart, every heel, and every hand, does all that they can so every child of every age knows exactly what that is and has it within their very means. ✨ #ceasefire #donoharm #specialday #puravida #medicine #blessedtobehere #dialaplaya #beachday #costarica #nofilterneeded

my first twenty four hours in return and reunion with the pura vida light and land of Costa Rica, and the heart and care of chosen family fate and faith guided me to, has been absolutely surreal, serene, and peaceful… i am exhausted yet fully and widely awake with such gratitude and awe… i have been gifted the sight of a danta, also known as the Tapir, during the drive from the airport to my friends home, where Ana, my driver, looked at me in shear awe and said “you are so lucky” as the site of a danta is more rare than ever. Those who know me know i totally had look up what the spiritual significance is and found they are magickal for so many reasons and bring with them protection, good fortune, and helpful guides with the spiritual world. I feel so blessed and no, no picture to show and share, but a memory that will continue to guide and ground me long after my time here… My friends also have dogs and they have been such great new friends for me and snuggle buddies as my heart misses my mani (and man) very much. And a day nourished by the earth, wind, and warmth. And so much laughter. All of it so much bigger than each and every single moment. Each and all of it so much bigger than the single story of me. Intending that my heart stays open. Allow it all in. Allow it all to keep finding me. ✨ ✨ ✨ #puravida #love #meencanta #humbled #held #holy #here

Y’all… In the balancing act of life, love, and liberation, we gonna get knocked down… please make sure to get back up and to learn everything you can along the way. ✨ ✨ ✨ #tbt #balance #love #anahata #getbackup #practice

to transform is to be alive… ✨ I’ve been dreaming of transformation and i feel the spaciousness of January’s 31 days may be the very cocoon as well as catalyst for all that is still emerging… I’ve been dreaming of roads I’ve not yet been down… and bodies of water that move me beyond what the surface shows and sees… I’ve been dreaming of winds that carry me and many precious gems and gifts beyond distance, time, and the expected trajectory and destination. It’s all unknown to me. Yet, this is known to me. The releasing of that which no longer serves and realizing that i can still choose, create, and cultivate that which is destined and designed for me. January was the space. February feels like it’s going to be the container of change. Be it prosperity as well as possibilities, be it transcendence and travel, I am open, receptive, and so very humbled. My hope is this is not singular to me yet shared with us all. A time to leap fully forward - heart led, heart full, and oh so courageous with that compassion, our empathy. It takes true intelligence to operate from that spaciousness of love. It takes true practice and prioritization to consistently center love, forgiveness, and a fierceness and firmness that says never again to all that is not love. And i feel it is in that spaciousness of our heart and humanity’s center, that we and things and systems and stories will begin to transform, take flight and form and flow… to truly be alive: to truly love, allow, transform, and grow… May we be the very ones who make it so. Who challenge our world with love. Who transform our world with love. Who create from a space of love. Our planet needs us. We need us. What are you feeling for February??? How are your dreams guiding you?? How is your heart guiding you? May all of it transform us into life. May all of it and all of us set us free. ✨ 🩷 ✨ #hellofebruary #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #ceasefire #wakeup #openyourheart #ahimsa #transformation #love

missing this… missing them… ✨ this video & awesome practice of play was captured & created a little over three years ago… January of 2021, deep into the pandemic & what we call around here the “COVID-kidnap” of 2020/2021, a high tension time where our nephew ended up staying with us for a couple weeks due to us getting COVID. When we were in that space of then, it felt tough, it felt like misery, we wanted it to quickly end, & we were doing all we could to maintain some magick especially for Jacob (the nephew) & our pups (Lola & Carlos). This was one of those times & days. Where the virus didn’t have me/us too down & we could go outside & play. And im so glad we did… Because, little did we know, that in just two short weeks, our Carlos would lose a battle we didn’t even know he was fighting, one to cancer… On the day of the full Leo moon, in the care and compassion of our vet Dr. Manley and all the Divine Interventions at play, like the surgeon being on schedule with a clear and empty day & all that time with Jacob at home (as Jacob and Carlos totally grew up together, brothers some would say), he left his body… it was a shock to us all and still feels that way till this day. Yet, in the space of retrospection, im able to see that maybe just maybe we were given a gift in all that turmoil of covid, for all that time with them, with him, and at home. Which i recognize is such a privilege as well as a blessing that as the whole world was navigating this virus, i had space to be and be with them at home. It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since I’ve sniffed his little head or heard his little nails and paws click clack on the floor… yet, he is still very much alive and with us. I can feel him sit with me in the morning as i ground into the day. I see him in the wings and watch of every hawk. I know he’s here helping me to keep my heart as wide open as it can be. My forever teacher of Love. I know his guidance is real… and i hope to share with each and all of you how to continue continuing, just as Carlos would want each of us to do. ✨ Pet Grief Circle & Community 2.18.24 at 1pm EST on Zoom w/ @juliehirt_intuitive ✨ #petlosssupport

I am humbled, honored, and hopeful to be able to practice with you all what it means to be whole, what it means to be healed, what it means to be alive in our life. I feel great joy and excitement when i am with you and in our flow of practice, both on the mat and within the spaciousness of being in space together. I will do my absolute best to know with confidence and clarity my power, my capacity, my courageous heart and spirit, and i will do all i can to create opportunities & invitations for you to know and connect with your power, your capacity, your courageous heart & spirit. I love you. I love me. I love us. I love this practice. I love this planet. I love the animals and elements and ethers. I love what is possible through love. I love that we are here and now together. I need to say that i am more than what i have shown and shared & maybe just maybe, so are you. I need to say that we are the ones creating our current circumstances as well as the continuation of what can be. I need to say that there is no exemptions, there is no neutral, there is only impact, and may it always align and mirror our most heart centered intentions. I hope to see ceasefire. I hope to see every child & creature growing old with happiness. I hope to see a world where love is normalized and violence is absurd. I hope to see our planet in harmony as well as every body, breath, and soul. I hope to see truth and Justice and integrity reign beyond illusion, ignorance, and sorrow. I hope to see us free. And every generation that follows. I ask for Illumination to lead & light the way. I ask for forgiveness & repair to be received within our own stories & the collective stories we are weaving & working towards together. I ask for joy, peace, liberation to be the only goal & ground. I ask that you know who you are & that i know who i am, so we can stay clear & congruent to all the homecomings of knowing & rediscovering who we are to one another. and so it is. and so we are. thank you. thank you. thank you. ✨ now, your turn… I am I feel I will I love I need to say I hope to see I am asking for ✨ #chakrahealing #community #ytt #love

happy Monday, y’all… when was the last time you moved your body with joy? when was the last time you gave your body ease? we are made to move. it is our very medicine. Yet, from my own experiences in my body as well as being in spaces with others, there tends to be an initial resistance to the very movement practices that actually can generate and connect us more closely to ease, ground, trust, and our own inner truths… and y’all, there also tends to be little if no regret when we take the time, prioritize the practices, and invite in the efforts to sway, to dance, to shake, to move… when it comes to movement, there tends to be resistance at first… yet, very little if any, regret after… i also see the parallels between the movement of our own individual bodies and beings and how that influences the movements of our Societies, systems, and cultures… who benefits from our lack of moving through? who benefits from our staying of stuck? i know for sure it isn’t me… and it isn’t you… so may we move get curious as well as caring as we create more space to move our bodies in ways that feel real, loving, supportive, and beneficial. so we can see and feel into what’s awaiting us through the resistance, blocks, and limiting factors and forces… may we be the very ones who make the moves that bring us all home to the joy, bliss, and beauty that can be. 🙏🏼 #movement #medicine #remedy #practice #moveyourbody #loveyourbody #mondaymotivation #mondaymuse

i am my greatest healer. i am my greatest hero. ( and so are you ) ✨ ✨ ✨ #funfactfridays y’all… did you know you’re the one who holds it all in your hands? Your heart? Your head? the ability to heal as well as the rise to the very occasion of being your own hero is all within you - and within me too. I feel so much of our culture and conditioning shows us to outsource that power, trust, and care when really it needs to be known, prioritized, and practiced from that inner Source of your own knowing, needing, and truth. I get curious as to what the world would look like and how we would all move through it if we knew just how much was within our own capacities and creating when it comes to our healing, hope, and most humane light. Like, normalizing you have needs, you have depth, you have Divinity, story, struggle, strengths, and scars… and so does everyone else… may we use it… may we remember… may we evolve beyond the wounds and heal. this ripple and wave begins right here within you. and the beautiful thing is, you’re not alone in the work. and i feel so honored to know i am not alone either. ✨ #iloveyou #meandmani #manistee #michiganwinter #pure #love #healyourself #loveyourself #practice

“The only way to see our way forward is to look straight ahead. The only way to cross a threshold is to lift one foot, put it down, and then lift the other one. Before you linger too much longer, knock, turn that key, or shake that knob. Turn your gaze up. Turn your gaze as high as it can go. Look and see. The door is already open. You belong inside.” from @octaviaraheem and her beautiful work, ‘Gather’. ✨ ✨ ✨ #throwingitback to this time and picture of my life and how so much letting go led me to her, led me to that moment, led me through those doors, led me to a Destiny i didn’t yet dare to know could be true… and how here i am yet again, meeting her and trusting her and all that’s fading away, and all that’s finding me too… here i am yet again and again, allowing it all to go- allowing it all to guide and grace me through… ✨ #tbt #knowme #loveme #practice #destiny #dharma #littledidiknow #theunknown #threshold #trustthetiming

I am eternally grateful for the gift of traveling and holding space in Costa Rica just a little over two years ago… and all who took the leap of faith and journey to Uvita with me… it’s so surreal that in just 3 short weeks I’ll be on my way to stay with my friend and what feels like soul family, Esteban, and his family, and work alongside them on their farm. I’m excited and eager to learn all I can from them, the land, the creatures, all the pura vida light and life! I am forever changed in the best ways by the Costa Rican land, people, and experience. I feel so blessed to all the Divine conspirators who ensured my return and the richness of relationship, privilege, and abundance that are guiding and gracing my travels. I hope to not take a single breath for granted. My bones and spirit are ready… I am blessed. I am grateful🙏🏼 ✨ ✨ ✨ #puravida #transformationtuesday #thisland #sacred #prakriti #prana #costarica #puravida #leapwithfaith

new blog Monday: 101 days & MLK “I feel these are the really hard lived experiences that bring about the opportunity for deep and Sacred change. The kind of change this practice is all about and for. I find it oddly strange as well as interesting that right now many of us are in battle against the inner conflict of witnessing the outer world and its workings and our choices, attitudes, and empathy (or lack of) in this now, and that we may need to break some cycles, cut some cords, and release certain relationships to inspire and spark some true and sustainable change. We are the ones who can change the stories by hearing and feeling and tending to (compassionately and truthfully) the collective cries and calls begging us to remember our humanity… calling us into action… calling us into care… and it’s in these moments, big and small, where we have to decide if we stay true to the knowing or perpetuate the very thing you and I and we have been practicing to dismantle - the very idea that violence could ever be a solution and that separation could ever be a way. And that’s in the big waves of oppression as well as the inner workings and weaving of brands, biases, businesses, and more. It’s everywhere. And so are we.” ✨ ✨ ✨ full blog available to read through the link in bio or by visiting alignment8.com/101-days-mlk ✨ “only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit” - #mlkjr ✨ #trueyoga #yogi #martinlutherkingjr #ahimsa #love

#tbt to that time many many new moons ago where i got to truly see and be me… no make up… no filters… just invitation to take up space in the skin i am and the soul i was on a pilgrimage to… here i am now, treading lightly on the edge of 36 to 37, and just wanting to know her, love her, be her even more today… i want to know her and honor her and listen to all she’s gotta say and share and seek and sow. i hope to keep growing with her and getting to know the deepest and Divine parts of me. All the human. and all the Soul. ✨ ✨ ✨ “At the age of 26 years young, my safety net was ripped out from underneath me and my entire identity and all I thought would be, was gone. Losing both parents is one thing. But losing both parents when so many people do not understand forgiveness, love, and the depths of the human experience is another. It was disorienting to witness more hurt and suffering on top of more hurt and suffering. My body and my spirit could not take it. I knew there was something within me that could not let the pain I felt in my body and soul, create more pain and harm for others. It has been a windy road of more downs than ups and more pauses than paces, But somehow, someway, I have slowly yet surely been finding my way. I have been navigating life through my heart ever since it has been broken.
 Through the loneliness,
The grief,
The depression and anxiety,
And PTSD,
I have chosen to love myself and honor my parents and all ancestors for paving the way for me – by trusting my instincts and allowing my heart to light up the darkness of my path. To show up. 
And participate in my life. 
With love,
Compassion,
And honesty. For so long I have forgotten who I am. 
But through my experiences and choice to move forward,
I am beginning to remember who I am,
And loving myself more tenderly,
More authentically,
more bravely,
then ever before.” ✨ ✨ thank you @trish.hadley.boudoir for this opportunity and all the ways it continues to reflect and ripple beyond time. #tbt #knowme #newmoon

one by one may we make our dreams a living truth… new moon blessings and magick is upon us, y’all! may we use this timing to shed the tyranny and open our hearts to the greatest trajectory of love, liberation, and true life! consciousness is in our corner and compassion is our truest capacity. may we dream from the spaciousness of our heart’s own hope and our will’s own power. i am with you in the dream as well as the daring to make it so. this video is from winter solstice’s morning during our stay in Ohio. A Snow White moment and morning for me as the crows and squirrels allowed me to share seeds and berries and joy and laughter with them. We truly are connected to all and all is connected to us. I believe in what that connectivity can do. I have faith in each of us remembering what our own connectivity can do. and so it is. and so we are. ( i love you i love you i love you ) ✨ ✨ ✨ #newmoonmagic #tbt #crows #ilovecrows #consciousness #love #power #goodmourning #ceasefire #ahimsa #aum

new blog Monday: Om Mani Padme Hum ✨ ✨ ✨ “all before I even knew the name of our aggressor was Lotus, Padme, I was sitting, singing, praying, and focused on those Sacred syllables and all the healing compassion they contain. It kind of makes me giggle now knowing right there in the middle of all the hurt, we were healing, and finding our way through. Mani and Padme uniting, and the Universe was revealing to me just how powerful we all are. Receiving this information of Lotus’s name just validated for me the value of honoring my own inner knowing and making choices that in hope could create peace. My ability to leverage the lens of compassion and see beyond the initial impact of our pain and hurt is what cultivates and creates opportunities of unity and healing. And we all have that power. I knew I would be going against my Spirit, my heart, my own humanity if I had let anger and fear be the deciding voice for Lotus and her fate. I knew there was no amount of compensation that could remedy or repair the damage done. I knew there was nothing I could take from Lotus and her mom that would ever feel like justice to me. The only thing I wanted, and truly ever want, was for each of us to return to peace… Our story is not singular to us and it is not singular to the context of our happenings. Every day we are confronted with attacks, everyday we are confronted with choices that impact beyond the single thought of i and me, everyday we are given opportunities to love and love one another beyond all the ways in which we may have been hurt and conditioned to hate. Everyday is an opportunity for unity in more ways than we can actually know, understand, or even fully see…” ✨ Link in bio to read full blog post or visit https://www.alignment8.com/om-mani-padme-hum and as always, open to your thoughts, feels, and ways we can do this work of forgiving and freeing together 🙏🏼✨ #ommanipadmehum #meandmani #weareresilient #mani

peace comes from remembering only love is real peace comes from remembering we can and we must heal peace comes from remembering I can trust all that it is I feel ✨ ✨ ✨ #mypractice #mifamilia #meandmani #mydream #shanti

just our mani and his big ol’ ginger fanny 💛😂✨ #saturdaymorning #meandmani #manipura #santosha

#funfactfridays y’all, my practice is deeply spiritual, deeply political, and deeply intentional and integral to all of us and each of us knowing fully and truly what it is to be healed, whole, safe, loved, and so very happy, healthy, and free free free… ✨ ✨ ✨ #satya #thisisyoga #cease #fire #noseparation #yoga

What if we already have all that we need? What if we already are what we need? ✨ ✨ ✨ what if we tending to suffering with the same reverence we do to avoid it? what if we recognized that the discomfort is not dangerous, it is the very messenger of misalignment, misguidance, and mistaking life to be neutral, bypassed, and ignored? what if we shared space with all the wounds within? What if that willingness ripples repair and resolve to all the wounds within the world? we each have our human curriculum. we each have to find our way back to the Soul. Yoga offers us that way through and to and towards the remembering: all i need/ all we need is already within us all. May we stay awake. May we stay aware. May we stay engaged. every wound of ours just the timely teacher telling us we are and we deserve that vision and spaciousness of more. ✨ #tbt #myteacher #teachers #nomudnolotus #ceasefire #ceaseviolence #ahimsa #dharma #wehealtogether

#tbt to one year ago (ish) and a reading i had with my comrade and friend @juliehirt_intuitive and receiving Mani’s view of me… it cracks me up as some of y’all know he’s named after the Manipura chakra and he very much embodies his name and loves loves loves snacks (in fact, in this reading he even shared how he leaves room in his belly for dessert - always - just like his mom 😭) so to hear his message of being all that and a bag of popcorn is just so very mani and me… (we don’t really eat chips lol). this is the goal of 2024, to know that gaze and reflection of me. to trust that i do have the world by the tail, and that i have great work to do in service and sanctuary to all these unconditional loving companions are showing me, teaching me, and guiding me towards… this last year (ish) i have had the honor of working with and alongside Julie all in hopes of expanding our hearts, deepening our healing, and sharing in on the work of each and all of us being well and free, be it 2 legged, 4 legged, webbed and winged, each and every creature of creation deserve the dignity of safety, support, and spaciousness. I’m super excited and humbled that our work will be continuing and that my service to our world is expanding into more work with the animals - through service of reiki and spaces for our grief. I am going to be Doing my absolute best to see myself as those who love me purely and potently: my pups, my guardians, my guides, my most loyal and loving friends and my hope is that you do too! Regardless if you have a relationship with an animal now or even never, you’re still connected to all and all is always connected to you. may we see ourselves as the dogs do- may we see each other as all creation does, too. and thank you Julie for trusting me and this awesomesauce work we are creating together. Stay tuned y’all as we have more offerings in works for 2024. I love you. I love you. I love you. #animalsarelove #unconditionallove #animalspeak #wisdom #dogmoms #thisisyoga #weareyoga #meandmani

2024 the year where conflict ceases and harmony holds us all. A girl can dream and even more importantly, a girl (and every human being) can work towards that dream of peace and knowing what it is to embody and exchange ease, resolution, and always centering in on care and repair. conflict without resolution is harm just waiting to be healed and hearts just waiting to be heard. I feel we have the capacity to use all the discomfort and conflict known to us all inward and out as the very road map of resilience and reconciliation within all facets and fragments of our human experience. May the only resolution we make here and forward be to cease the very harm and violence that keeps us seperate, ashamed, and waging war, when we could know peace. ✨ ✨ ✨ #conflictresolution #thevibe #thepractice #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #wagepeace #ahimsa #satya #unity #happynewyear

walking forward fully in faith and excitement of all that can be… happy new year, dear ones and many blessings and hope for healing, happiness, and joy for all. i have been taking some time to reprieve and breathe and remember what is of priority to me and my hearts work. I am beginning this year as my own entity, releasing the partnership with creative 360 that i have had for the past 2 years ( so, so grateful!) as well as the focus of these last 10 (yes, y’all! Almost an entire decade I’ve been holding public spaces for healing and wellbeing) so just trusting the time for a teeny tiny reprieve deeper inward as i get more clear, confident, and excited for all that is calling me into service and sanctuary outward. I feel 2023 was the year of returning me to my own power- and 2024 is going to be the year i truly know and use it. stay tuned kids… and hopeful - unattached to the past and fully aligned in your / our power. ✨ ✨ ✨ #newyears #2024 #practice #joy #meandmani #unknown #fullfaithforward #trustyourjourney #itstime #love

waking up with such excitement and gratitude for today’s virtual space with @juliehirt_intuitive, Grief. ground. & gratitude, and the community coming together to uplift, honor, and be with the love and grief we share for our animals, guides, chosen family, and fur-friends… the last two nights i have had dreams of Lola and feel her presence with me in the creation of this portal. the last few days i have had hawks fly and soar above me, messengers from our Carlos-son letting me know the sky holds me, and so does his love and guidance… we still have a couple spaces left if anyone feels the call to be apart of our first ever pet grief space, details below ⬇️🙏🏼✨ Grief. Ground. & Gratitude: a healing through pet/animal loss circle & community with keri kenney and julie hirt Sunday, December 17th: 1-2:30pm EST Virtually on Zoom a virtual community gathering space for connection, healing, and care. Come comfortable and feel free to bring with you any pictures, trinkets, symbols of your love as well as your grief that you’d like to share with the space. This gathering will be unique to those who are present and will include a gentle grounding practice for body, mind, and spirit, heart centered reflection, and opportunity to share and listen to one another’s truths, stories, struggles, and the sacred signs and synchronicities that remind us: they could never be far and our love lives on… During our gathering, Julie Hirt, animal communicator and intuitive, will be offering insights and messages directly being communicated to her and through her from our beloved furs, companions, and friends. Keri will gently guide us in a grounding practice in hopes of opening our hearts and fostering bravery and safety within our space. During sharing, she will be shuffling the @rainbowbridgedeck for additional messages from our beloved friends and chosen family. Register at: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/petlossgrief #petlosssupport #goodmourning #animalsareangels #healing #grieving #grateful #love

ahh… the true look of love and concern being reflected by their eyes… like, mama, are you gonna be okay??? just days into life without my parents and the digesting of such trauma, loss, and terror, these 2 really stepped up, showed up, and ensured i knew they were there with so much unconditional love, concern, and care (like, you can see it right in their eyes)… these 2 walked and rested with me through the most turbulent twists and turns of my life and somehow someway always returned me to steadiness, ease, even comfort and joy. they are true warriors. and we are all so blessed to be able to receive their open hearts and minds and all the ways they bring us home to heal. I’m so excited and honored to finally birth and bring a space together with my soul-sister-and friend @juliehirt_intuitive where we can share in on the grief, the ground, the greatness, and gratitude of what it means to be in life and relationship with animals, even after their physical presence is gone… ✨ Grief. Ground. & Gratitude: a healing through Pet & Animal grief Sunday, December 17th: 1-2:30pm EST Virtually on Zoom a virtual community gathering space for connection, healing, and care. Come comfortable and feel free to bring with you any pictures, trinkets, symbols of your love as well as your grief that you’d like to share with the space. This gathering will be unique to those who are present and will include a gentle grounding practice for body, mind, and spirit, heart centered reflection, and opportunity to share and listen to one another’s truths, stories, struggles, and the sacred signs and synchronicities that remind us: they could never be far and our love lives on… During our gathering, Julie Hirt, animal communicator and intuitive, will be offering insights and messages directly being communicated to her and through her from our beloved furs, companions, and friends. As someone who lives with grief of many forms (parents, pups, career, identity, relationships, etc) I find that there is very little space for us and our grief. And grief needs space. Grief needs support. Grief needs room to breathe… and so do we… #petgrief #wehealtogether #earthangels #truelove

i love you all and today, and all days, i stand in solidarity and collective action with all who unite against the inhumane horrors happening in Gaza with the cry to CEASEFIRE! today, our practice is bigger than the mat and the showing up to our space and sangha. today, we practice what it means to be united in collective action, ahimsa, and care. there will be no monday evening practice tonight. i hope we can all make some space to remember how interconnected we are and how yoga is a practice of living liberation for every child, creature, being, and body beyond any idea of divide, difference, and separation. this is true practice. and i thank all of you who are called into this skillful action of accountability, liberation, and love. #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #thisisyoga #practice #unity #collectiveconsciousness #collectiveliberation

a Saturday morning of metta love and cognition, puppy sandwiches and smooches, Eagle sightings, and heartfelt convo and connection… i receive i receive i receive as i am reminded again and again and again and again all are worthy of this and more… this is the nectar that keeps me going, grounded, humbled, awake. ( thank you thank you thank you ) my heart continues to break for Gaza and every life destroyed by inhumane tactics and tails of violence and cruelty… i will never be the same or understand the silence… i align with all those who join the calls of cessation of fire, return of humanity, and the hopeful beginning of true restoration and repair. I’m thankful for the medicine that is my community and the care we together have been able to cultivate and receive… may it continue may we continue and may bee just may bee our very willingness to prioritize and practice love changes the entire landscape and blueprint of humanity… a girl can dream a girl can believe a girl can cultivate (with you with you with you) and i do i do i do ( and i love you too ) #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #puppylove #mettameditation #metacognition #biggerthanme #we #thisislove #thisisyoga #themedicine

every time i receive, i am reminded, all should have this ( and more ) ✨ ✨ ✨ all should have ground; all should have gain all should be able to transcend beyond pain all should be safe; all held and heard all should remember all we do (and don’t do) impacts all the world ✨ #thankfulgratefulblessed #fallsun #receiving #reflecting #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #ceaaefire #dontlookaway #heal

it was on the darkest day the deepest depths of my life that you, dear carlos son, showed me the light still burns bright it was if the clouds parted and the chaos ceased suddenly, you were there a police officer guiding you on a leash that day of endings was the beginning of you and me our story of healing and you reminding me I can trust, love and continue to leap my heart - so broken and my spirit felt so weak you were my constant - my certain - sharing all of your heart and soul so freely with me ( c a r l o s teaching me to l o v e ) ✨ ✨ ✨ save the date y’all, especially if you know the loving capacity of unconditional love thanks to an animal… as well as the intense and immense grief that comes with saying goodbye… Sunday, December 17th at 1pm EST on Zoom, myself and comrade in unconditional love and compassion @juliehirt_intuitive , will be holding space centered in animal loss, love, and learning to live beyond goodbye… we will share story, signs, and how to keep living into the legacy of all their unconditional love and lessons. I would not be who i am today without the love, light, and leadership of my fur kids and companions. They have been the greatest of guides in the return to my heart and honoring of my grief. When the humans fell short, which y’all we do we do we do were human after all, these earth angels never ceased to rise to the occasion of unconditioned love. I’m excited to hold space around how big our love is and so is my grief, my gratitude, this ground that holds us and all we hold… More info to come. If this feels aligned to your heart and healing please #savethedate and #staytuned #carlos #petgrief #petgriefsupport #community #care #wehealtogether #animalsareangels #dogmom #notadaygoesby #iloveyou #grateful #grieving #ourteachers

to flow, and grow, and know these three beauties and beings is such a privilege and honor and big big blessing to my heart, humanity, and soul… it’s a treasure… it’s a trajectory of learning and liberation and unlearning within ourselves so we can show up confidently and courageously in the world… just like the mirror and mosaic of shattered and fragmented pieces behind us, we too have come together in the sorting, in the shifting, in the rearranging and are making something so special, intentional, aligned…. We are our greatest resource and we are each other’s greatest reflections. And just like the mosaic behind us, yoga reminds us that it’s always within us, the capacity to create such beauty from what may feel and seem so very lost, distressed, and broken- that our pain can be the very roadmap back to peace and we can create such masterpeaces from such devastation. i bow deeply. I breathe deeply. and i love deeply, to each and all of you who are choosing to stay committed to the bigger picture of all that we can compassionately create together. Bigger than any individual piece. Yet, with understanding, each piece matters and makes the whole what it is. We are the mosaics. We are the magick. We are the pieces. We are the peace. and one of the greatest lessons i have learned in all my breaks and aches and quakes and shakes of life, is the reclamation and remembering that i get to choose how i come back together… ( and so do you / and so do we ) ✨ ✨ ✨ #mosaic #monday #magick #love #yoga #practice

no one can do they work for you we can create the space we can extend the invitation we can share in on the joys as well as the lows yet, we cannot do this work for another this work can only be completed by you may you be open to receiving the opportunities may you root in deeply to all that is your ground may you be patient through the processing may you learn to listen to gently guidance healing all the hurts healing all that harms remembering you have always been worthy; we have always been worthy. ✨ ✨ ✨ December blessings, y’all, and big big hopes and wishes that we use this time, breath, and season to be the light and illumination we all have been hoping for. It’s within each of our very hearts, cells, inner systems, and hands. What will we do with it? No neutral. No separation. Our work is love. Our practice is love. and i absolutely love being in this work and practice with each and all of you. I also love these pictures of being in the work and practice with one of my students, Lindsay… this is what recovery looks like, y’all! This is what relationship looks like y’all! This is what healing and healing together looks like y’all! Grateful grateful grateful to be here and healing with you 🙏🏼✨ #decemberblessings #healing #yogaheals #weheal #itsinourhands #beaccountable #becompassionate #betheone #love #leadership #inthistogether #tricap

Honor has been my pace through navigating my way through healing by grieving heart & soul and my traumas shocked, old and new. I knew the pain had to lead to purpose. I knew I couldn’t feel that much depth and blow and break and not use it for something Higher and healing. And the only way I could find it baby step by baby step was by honoring the path that is my existence. My choices. My attitudes. My iintentions. Not easy in any capacity and brutally uncomfortable. Yet it works. And we have all we need to get us through and to continue on. Healed. Whole. Safe. and Loved. I wrote those words in honor of my parents and how they gently have and continue to stay with me through my healing as I’ve learned and continue to learn the allowing of flow & letting go as I ride the waves of heartbreak and grief - and continue to - I couldn’t cling to my idea or anyone else’s idea of how my healing needed to happen or how my life needed to flow. I had to allow and trust and expand beyond what it was I thought would and needed to be. To land where it is I am now. More healed - more whole - more safe - & - more Loved than I knew was possible. So I gently ask, Where can you loosen the grasp and expand into a little more possibility? How can you hold the truth that this turbulence and shock to the system and void may be the discomfort needed to carry us through into something we have yet to see or hold or experience. Let the wonder lead the wander. Let the flow hold the friction. And maybe just maybe, soon so soon, we each will know what it means to be free. #tbt #healing #thisisyoga #iamyoga #yoke #nature #nurture #memories #medicine #love #legacy

november notes and nature… with no rhyme yet many reasons… the veil is thin. my heart so expansive of course it’s gonna contract. please Divine, help us to protect, nurture, and care for every innocent body, being, and creation. what is my piece today towards our collective peace? how can i stay steadfast and focused on you, Divine, and all the love all of us living beings are so worthy of… I’m ready I wish i did sing i wish i did dance i wish i had given me every single chance when things are shaky, quaky, and hard i ground into the greatest gift and richness that is relationship what will be released? what will be received? what will be reflected? so many want to embed the work of well-being into our community, town, culture, and outer environments. Yet, there is great resistance, aversion, and even apathy to the embodiment that must be done in Order for us to be able to sustainably and genuinely embed and expand this work of being well. We cannot share something we don’t have ourselves. may our hearts awaken and our minds rest in that open space Divine, if culture created more space to feel into our bodies and spirits, we would break the chains, cease the cycles, and together create innovative ways where we can be well, safe, who we are as we are, the planet and all her kingdoms too. sit with your heart. take your time. I receive every sign, synchronicity, and symbol You and all Your creations share and speak to me. ✨ ✨ ✨ 30 days of notes and nectar, of not knowing a damn thing yet truly resting more assured that i do know a Divine one. grief and ground and immense gratitude found me these last 30 plus days… and they will of course continue. And so will i. And so will you. The bravest thing we can ever do. ( i love you i love you i love you ) ✨ #anovembertoremember #reflection #remedy #poetry #practice #mourning #meeting #ready #recieving

Resting in the space of my Soul: Anandamayakosha This week I was intentional about not seeking - but feeling - my Divine body. I wish more would do the same. It truly is the magick elixir to ascend me through this very heavy and hard and hopeful time. To feel that connection to all no matter how short the glimpse - its the truest of truest sensations. And it does take effortless effort to get there. Especially my mind - manomaya - she is always the first to pull me away from my Truth - The judgement - the fuckin list - the stories that have yet to happen pleasant and painful - the way in which I dont allow myself to feel the goodness i pour out into the world - what is up with that?! I’m noticing. Im noticing… And I am trusting. These past couple weeks reality has set in about the effects of this pandemic and where it is I stand as small business owner - I shake my head as I write this because that weighs on my mind yet is weightless in my heart - I trust this process of losing it all - yet has anything been lost? When I sit lately I allow the gratitude and yamas and niyamas ground me in - breath by breath and feel into the roots of gratitude and all that I have and ascend into the limbs of this practice that keeps holding me and honoring me and challenging me and changing me - it’s been my way to finding samyama - and I know I am walking through doors I have never walked through before - all as I sit - it’s what keeps me going… I find the closer I get to my soul - the closer I get to the truth - I crave the truth - Which means I must know what my truth is… More sits await. More practice. More patience. More purpose. So I keep sitting. And smiling. And trying to remember that there is always so much goodness here. There is still so much goodness here. [ 8.5.2020 ] ✨ ✨ ✨ there’s still so much goodness here… i truly believe it and am doing my absolute best to truly receive it. i found this journal entry in the many documents and pages of reflections and dreams stored on my computer (or did it find me 🤔) idk… yet, i do know it feels just as timely now as it did then… #warriorspirit #reflection #remember #practice #rest

what more does a girl need… oh yea, #ceasefire and collective peace, and for more and more of us to normalize the huggin’ of trees. ✨ ✨ ✨ #earthenergy #groundedingratitude #treehugger #hugatree #natureheals #natureismyhome #prakriti

may we rest and may we digest… all are welcome to join me on November 26th in a portal and practice of rest, reprieve, and reflection: Rest & Digest Sunday, November 26th 3 - 4:30pm EST through zoom together, we will create a space that welcomes the whole of who we are as we begin to greet and digest the holidays… all is welcome here… the fullness and the fatigue, the gratitude and grief, the joys, hopes, and all the sorrows. the greatest intention of this space is to support the digestion of more than just our food, a space in support of the digestion of the human experience, practices that work with all we ingest daily, a space where we can keep the nourishment yet release the weight… if even just a little… this space offers time to reflect, rest, and receive. space will include restorative and gentle embodiment practices, journal reflections, and conscious and compassionate community. all are always welcome. all are more than worthy. ✨ ✨ ✨ #restanddigest #restorativeyoga #restorativepractices #worthy #rest #digest #breathe #be #iloveyou❤️

On this portal of 11/11 i am praying, practicing, and hoping with all my heart, soul, and breath that we wake up… we gotta wake up and open our hearts to the choices we make, the thought systems we hold on to, the way privilege prevents us from placing ourselves into empathy, engagement, and collective accountability. even here in my home of midland, i have yet to hear about any organizing… any collective calls for #ceasefire and cries for our Palestinian people, our hostages, our very humanity… I know what i feel. I just do not always know how to use it. In a way that can generate solutions and call us all into the action our global planet, people, and peace so need and are absolutely deserving of. and my own ignorance of Gaza, apartheid, Palestine, and the faith and traditions my singular experience has divided me from. Yet, in all I do not know, I can rest assured i do know this is not right and that this needs to stop. “This” being violence, vengeance, volatile decisions and distractions. I do know there is power in the people- and i hope to find and feed and flex into my power and unite fully with all others who are ready for an uprising of Justice, peace, and new ways of being in this world and being in this world #together ✨ 🙏🏼 ✨ thank you @heyimsakina for your work and the gift of sharing this message: when will it be enough? ✨ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #noseparation #wakeup #openyourheart #humanitynow #weareallaccountable #thereisnoneutral #1111

I keep finding myself greeting and grounding into each new morning and day with the question, what is my part in all the peace that we all so deserve? I am but one person… but if each of us single strands and threads were to weave and work together, my heart and spirit and breath share with me a truth that would be so mighty, miraculous, and bigger than any one of us… I find myself waking and resting into the daily questions of what is my work in the world today? what can i do with this now and day that will add benefit, breath, beauty, and belonging for our people, planet, and all our untapped potential of peace? and as i hold and harbor into the questions, i also understand and have to accept the uncertainty and non closure… for there could never be just one clear concise choice for any of us as we live into these questions… unless, however, it is love. pure and potent, Universal Love. ✨ ☕️ ✨ I will continue to ask how it is i can be of service and support and sanctuary to our world and all who inhabit this land and legacy with us. And my gentle hope and encouragement is that you do too… for there is power in contemplation… as well as realization that our liberation and livelihood are bound. may we seize this opportunity of breath, day, and life… and without taking a single sip and space for granted🙏🏼 #wakeup #ceasefire #noseparation #wedeservepeace #doyourpart #doyourwork #thisisyoga #weareyoga #fbf

so incredibly grateful to be in the web and receptivity of synchronicity, signs, and all of life… this is “mama spider” she has been with us at the Kenney casa since the end of July. she started out making webs on our lawn furniture and it would kill me every time we went to use the furniture her webs would get destroyed… and y’all may have your opinions about talking to spiders, trees, nature, and the breeze, yet, i have found those dialogues to be the most truest and revealing of conversations… i shared with her that it’s killing me that we have to move the furniture and it always ends up damaging her web… so, can you consider making your magick and beauty somewhere else… and y’all, she did! she moved to the other side of our car port and has been there for the last 3 plus months creating the most beautiful of webs and capturing the biggest of meals and has been safely hanging out and making home there till just today… this morning i went out with mani and saw she moved to this location… a pillar down from where she usually is, which feels oddly synchronistic as today moved me in many ways as well. One of my big scary goals is to share my story in a way that can be held in your hands. One of my biggest dreams is to publish the stories and poems and practices that have carried me through grief, trauma, and amnesia of my soul… i want to write and weave my story into the world in a way that calls us in, holds us all, and creates and catalyzes connection, compassion, and the courage for us all to know who we are and what our spirit and humanness has come here to do. i find it strangely exciting that on the day i have the opportunity to connect with a mentor/author/publisher in efforts of emerging more of my hopes and dreams into truth, that this dear divine messenger mama spider, also begins to move… i find it hard to believe in anything other than this Divine truth - the signs and synchronicities be everywhere- it is up to each of us if we truly believe, receive, and want to see all this Divine guidance, comradery, & vision. be it a #spider , a song, a sensation, i hope with all my heart & spirit you are open to all the #signs here for you & us all.

i still remember taking that first picture as we were celebrating the completion of our 4th yoga to transform trauma leadership training… micro moments before i took the picture, catherine asking “where’s keri?” and her eyes meeting mine (and the camera) finding me… she always had (and still has) a way of finding me… and now I’m finding her… and feeling her legacy live on… this month and week remind me of what was and how i had hoped would be our continued reality… for four consecutive years we were able to host and hold together this community space all about transcending and healing trauma… her leadership and ability to show us how possible it is will forever be a gift that continues to shape my world, my work, and my hope in all that can be… a true guiding light, that @catherineaashton … I get curious thinking about just how many of us continue to feel her presence, her fierceness, her power guiding us through… and how many of us consider, contemplate, and continue to question, what the f would Catherine do? and i feel she would look us deeply in the eyes and reaffirm just how powerful, purposeful, and necessary we are- and that we still have great work to do. ✨ to all those who continue to share in on her legacy and this shared legacy of us all continuing the work she got us ready to do, i bow deeply, i breathe fully, and i want you to know i am with you- and i got the fullest of faith, she is too. ✨🪽✨ #wcw #goodmourning #griefjourney #myteacher #mylight #mymuse #yogatotransformtrauma #gratefulforyou

what is enough??? enough effort? enough empathy? enough engaging? what does it mean to be so saturated in fullness beyond greed, capitalism, and gain? what would it be to know we all have enough? enough time? enough resources? enough care? where are we stuffed at capacity with things yet shallowed and sheltered from deep and authentic connection? how would our lives change by simply knowing our worth? practicing our worth? sharing our worth? honoring our worth? in all we do, in all that we are, and in all that we are to one another… all of this feels timely- this practice of asteya and “enoughness” maybe just maybe, it is us- it is you- it is me- all enough - and all worthy of enough to ensure every dream of ours come true and the fullest trajectory of our lives has opportunity to become that beacon of destiny. Asteya invites us into the practice of equity, generosity, gratitude, and mutuality in all we exchange, invest, and share with ourselves and all we are connected to within our inner and outer world. It is our time, our resources, our effort, our fuel, even our focus. How do we use it? How do we impact how others use theirs? And what is it to be asteyic in this time and world? For me, it feels like #ceasefire and any and all actions of non-violence, radical-awareness, and unconditioned-love. It feels like using my voice. And listening to truths and voices of those who so desperately deserve to be heard and quieting the ones who have talked and talked and talked without ever showing me their willingness to walk the walk. It feels like the work of balance, reunion, and mutual fight and might. It feels like a practice that just may open our hearts and minds beyond taking more than we need and limiting the fullness, dignity, and Divinity of another. It feels like the work this world just may be hoping for. and im all in. and invite you in too. ✨ ✨ ✨ what does enough feel like for you? #enough #enoughisenough #asteya #practice #thisisyoga

one of the greatest gifts i can receive as a space holder is witnessing the ways y’all take up that’s space and share it with one another… such a gift to hear your laughter, to see your eyes, and to feel your soul… thank you sangha and community, i love you infinitely and vastly. ( be generous ) ✨ ✨ ✨ #gems #myfavorite #postpractice #community #yoga #love

to know my darkness is to know my light to know another’s darkness is to know another’s light as much as society & separation wants & wills me to bypass the Divine in all the human being - I so freely choose to not I choose love I choose compassion I choose truth my work is to not give in or fold under the fears of what it means to love so deeply in a world & time where we have settled for separate and shallow my truth is deep i am depth and if that depth exists in me it also deeply exists within you my truth guides the love & light in to meet all the darkness i am love and so are you we are love and to me that is the only way that is our only truth ✨ ✨ ✨ pictured, last Fridays session at tricap. It is an honor to be able to meet people in dark moments and spaces and remind them of their own connection to light. Even in the midst of recovery and rehabilitation, there is such goodness, joy, and laughter… it is a gift so big and vast to my heart, mind, and spirit to be in this work of coming home to the light within us all… ✨ #weareworthy #ceasefire #mudita #weareyoga #knowdarknessknowlight #nodarknessnolight

ancestors and angels coming my way from different angles… all reminding me they’re at my back and in my cells, working with me and all that can be well… ✨ ✨ ✨ Today is día de los muertos, the day of the dead, a celebration in my ancestry that for most my life i never knew existed. As the daughter of both white and brown roots living in a very white world and way, i didn’t have the opportunity to connect with my ancestors in a way that i now prioritize and practice… I ask for their guidance and to stay as close with me as i continue to navigate this ground, world, and life. I ask for the whispers of wisdom and the way they can remind me of just how strong, gifted, innovative, and beautiful we are - as people, as spirits, as family. I ask that they receive my love, forgiveness, joy, and invitation to heal with me. I am their daughter and granddaughter. and that to me just feels like a miracle in itself. I am here because they existed. And in my existence, i hope with all my heart, heels, and hands, i do all within my lifetime to be a legacy of true and profound love- filled with forgiveness and reverence for who i am and who i come free and all we together can create from here. ✨ Pictured, an alter for my ancestors, my mama, my dad, and my Garcia & Duran roots. the last picture shows my great-great grandfather, Juan José Duran, and in the doorway, the little baby being held is my great grandfather, Jacobo Duran. Their survival is what gave me my life and I hope to never take that for granted. ✨ #Feliz #diadelosmuertos #roots #familia #wehealtogether

beginning this month deeply rooted into connection… as i woke this morning and made my way to my seat, i asked the God of my understanding what it is i needed to know as i keep doing my absolute best to meet this now, next, and new month of November… and all i could feel and see and tune into was this symphony of ‘connection’ connection to my body, my breath connection to my heart, my spirit connection to my needs, hopes, and dreams c o n n e c t i o n connection to our community, our world connection to our planet, and all creation connection to our wholeness, and all the holes woven within c o n n e c t i o n Connection to great love, as well as great sorrow connection to great grief, as well as great hope connection to a story so big and vast and infinite, as well as finite and fragile and full c o n n e c t i o n something i truly believe in with all my heart and soul is that it is only in the space of disconnection where harm and hurt and hierarchy can happen. When we are held by our own body and all its capacity to care, when we are connected to our breath and the way this wind within can be taken as well as given, when we are connected to our pulse and purpose and peace, there is truly no route we could take that would lead us to harm… just healing… I truly believe and feel It is through the radical act of reclaiming, choosing, and cultivating a capacity to stay in the space of connection to one’s own S/self (big S and little s), that care, compassion, and capacity can be felt, received, and reciprocated. take a look around and take a look within Can you see the disconnect? As well as the space that just wants to reunite all together in love, liberation, and light? when i am distanced from my own wholeness, and truth, and trust, and authenticity, then i am even more distanced from you… these weeks have been challenging, this life has been challenging … yet, this gift of coming back again and again and again to connection, gives me great hope as well as great ground to find my footing, feel my stirring, and to live into the great work i have come here to do, which simply may just be, connection. ✨ #connection #weareyoga #aum

I’ve been sitting with my ignorance, individualism, and grandest intentions of how to be in this moment with fullness and the faithful fight for freedom and Justice, decency and dignity, for all… i cannot bear to continue participating in a program of oppression and violence as some form of salvation and path towards peace… yet, i see it and feel it and know it is embedded within the very environments i walk, work, and wake... it is the frequency to which we default and supremacy wants to keep me dialed in to. i cannot go about my days, my hours, my minutes, my breaths as though this isn’t happening. I cannot nice my way out of the madness. I cannot ground into a neutral stance when there is no neutral to this atrocity, this apathy, this very aversion to our own humanity and heart. I have been ignorant. I have been complacent. I have been indoctrinated into ideals that stifle, suffocate, and separate me from all the my heart and spirit knows to be true. I can no longer hold my tongue. I can no longer bypass all my bodies signals and sensations of discomfort and injustice telling me, guiding me, pleading with me to listen… and even in all the magnitude of what i do not know, i do know with absolute certainty that violence is never the answer and in no way is liberation ever found in the oppression, silencing, and harm of any other. And i feel, if we actually took some time feel, and be with the immense and interconnectedness of our grief, we would wake up to the horror and use all that is here as the very blueprint of finding our way back to love, liberty, and the birthright of each and every child on this planet to know and have peace. This is a calling of the heart and spirit of us all. I stand with love. I stand with Palestine. I stand for ceasefire. I stand for action. I stand for every person who never got to stand, never got to say, never got to know what life could truly be… ✨ #ceasefire #ceaseviolence #noneutral #wakeupandsee #thisisyoga #yogaisskillinaction #yogaheals #humanity

so blessed that the work and ways i get to show up in the world center in and gravitate from love, healing, and transformation… the ways i get to share space and connect with people a lot of times in their lowest of lows and yet cultivating connection, care, and love… the work i do can seem so minuscule at times with all the massive need for more space, grace, and unity in a violent and oppressive world- yet, here we are countering that and creating that in many different dynamic ways and locations i feel blessed and honored to be able to make space for what is present, stored, and just awaiting to unfold… the opening of each petal and the sharing of such sorrow, resilience, and truth… y’all share with me and show me just how powerful our practice of joy and willingness in caring and compassionate community can be… Y’all give me hope… and it is my mission to return that infinity fold. ✨ ✨ ✨ #transformation #thework #mywork #dharma #love

im sickened… im saddened… as i settle into the space of my body & our world… as well as fired up & focused… as i feel into the power & potential of all we can heal… all we can change all we can hold all we can create all we could know I’ve found myself guided to the Bhagavad Gita, my third time working through this ancient text of such warrior wisdom ðhical practice… there are so many gems in this text that continue to meet me & the moment directly, divinely, & with such capacity… The Gita says, “a person is what their shraddha is” (17:3) shraddha being our faith, our fullest and firmest faith, literally translating into “that which is placed in the heart.” It is all the beliefs we hold so deeply that we never think to question them… it is the set of values, axioms, prejudices, and prepossessions that colors our perceptions, governs our thinking, dictates our responses, and shapes our lives, generally without our even being aware of its presence and power… Shraddha reflects everything that we have made ourselves & points to what we have become. But there is nothing passive about shraddha. It is full of potency, for it prompts action, conditions behavior, and determines how we see and therefore respond to the world around us… So, dear Divine Ones having this very real and raw human experience, i kindly ask, where is your faith? what fills the breath and breadth of your body, being, heart, and spirit? Is it the belief in our ability to overcome? Heal? Bend away from our own biases and beliefs in action and accountability that none none none will ever have to break, bleed, and be without dignity, justice, and fairness again? Are we sustained in the sacredness of all our “right shraddha” which the Gita names as faith in spiritual laws, the unity of life, the presence of Divinity in every creature, the essentially spiritual nature of the human being… or are we staying complicit and complacent in our “wrong shraddha” which the Gita names as not necessarily morally wrong, just merely ignorant…? we shape ourselves & our world through what we focus our faith, truth, & heart upon… may it be peace. may it be love. 🙏🏼✨ #peaceforall #shraddha #gita

the conditions… 1) i / we will heal from this 2) it can never happen again ✨ this has been my compass through a whole lot of crisis, trauma, and grief in my life… these conditions found me in the violent waves of reckoning with the death of my parents, homicide and suicide by cop, and all the conflict and confusion and curiosity that led me through so much conflict and confusion as i held the happening with how in the hell does this happen…??? nothing singular nothing separate the byproduct of bypassing their own needs and healing intersecting with a world that operates by profiting off our pain/ their pain/ my pain/ your pain and selling us a fictitious narrative of care… these conditions of “i must heal from this and this must never happen again” have been paramount as my own practice and pathway through a whole lot of sorrow, loneliness, and illusion… and as i keep greeting my truths (big, small, subtle, and profound) in congruence with all i am able to hold and process with the world, i keep returning, ruminating, resting with these conditions that have created great clarity for me, even & especially when things have been so muddled with madness and oppression… and all i can hope to continue to do is share the medicine that’s found me with each & all of you… can we / can you / can i heal from this? can we / can you / Can i ensure the pain we have had to process and fear we have had to expunge never ever has to happen again? Not singular to you, or me, yet expansive for us all? I believe we can. and my own lived truth tells me just how possible it can be. ✨ and i know i keep sharing pics of me & mani, but with just 2 weeks & 2 days of space between us and his near death experience & attack, i am finding great comfort and solace in knowing my faithful friend is still right here with me… and the way we have worked together with the other dog & human to give them both opportunity to ensure they too heal & this never ever happens again… we survived. and so have you. may we use our human curriculum to create healing conditions. that is my hope that is my work and why i am here. ✨ #tbt #maniandme #healing #humanityfirst #hopefulheart

an invitation to feel your breath… and all your breath is guiding you through and to… i love you i love you i love you be brave and well dear warrior our world needs you 🙏🏼 #breathe #feel #pause #practice #beginnow #beginagain

“in a violent and oppressive world, the work of love is never done…” - @miamingus “dreaming accountability” ✨✨🙏🏼 #humanityfirst #remember #reclaim #reunite #love

may we continue doing the work that can actually set us free… the work of tending to our grief, our anger, our limits, our lust… the work of knowing that which is needed, necessary, and an absolute must… the work of challenging that which we have allowed and is so very absurd… the work of knowing it’s only our love and compassion that can free ourselves and our world… may we keep doing the work that will actually set us free beyond capitalism, and profit, beyond archaic beliefs… We are the ones who can create such a destiny… of love, of truth, and ultimate peace. ✨ ✨ ✨ #keepdoingthework #maywebefree #inthistogether #mywork #ourwork #islove #shanti #peace #humanity

here we are… ten days later… Mani’s stitches are officially out and his body and spirit has been showing us how sustainably and sacredly we can repair when we prioritize the care and create and uphold the conditions where that process is possible… the one that takes the pain, the wound, the terror, and allows it to be held, heard, and healed… In just ten days, our bodies have been healing, our nervous system has been recalibrating, and our hearts have been expanding into empathy and great gratitude to still be here. I wonder all the time about what the world would look like and how we each would feel within ourselves, circles, and cycles if we actually prioritized the space and support needed to heal, harmonize, and return homeostasis to our bodies, systems, and minds... I realize it is such a privilege to live this close in proximity to the possibilities of remedy, relief, and return… yet, as i humbly bow to these riches and blessings of care, i also challenge why this isn’t a norm for all that live on this planet with me… may the obstacles be removed for us all - may the opportunities be abundant for us all- to heal, to rest, to replete in all the ways we are worthy of- I’m so grateful for all the healing that we have been able to receive- all the ways our village showed up for us and showered us with love and kindness and care- i am so grateful that i am here breathing with mani and knowing we still have adventures to make- and i also know deep, deep within my heart and spirit, that if this is possible for us, it has to be possible for all… i hope one day and one day soon we all know a world and a way where we prioritize the process of turning our pain into promise and our wounds into ways where none have to know what it is to be hurt again… bowing deeply and dreaming dutifully… i believe it’s possible and it begins right here, with and within us all 🙏🏼 ✨ ✨ ✨ #tgif #fridaythe13th #maniandme #healers #manipura #love

thank you to all who poured and extended love to me and mani as we took some space to process our trauma and care for our healing. mani is healing like a champ! he truly is the manipura chakra, yall! his reslience is pure gold and the goodness guiding us through and forward... i have finally gotten some good sleep and my body is thawing from the freeze of fear and emerging beyond the fold and hold of fatigue... i am ready and eager to return to space with you all tonight in celebration of our love, our resilience, and our ability to heal. the coinciding of our attack with the world at war, reminds me of just how important it is we honor and uphold our practice of non-violence, non-vengeance, and non-harm.... we have a responsibility not just to ourselves, but to our entire collective and global community. There is no eye for an eye friends, there is only opportunities to choose love or oppression, virtue or violence, empathy or apathy... i hope you make space now and forever more to wage peace on every single battle within your own body, mind, and limits and that we each come home to true justice and joy within ourselves, so we are better prepared for the opportunity of coming home and coming home to unity with and for all. don’t let the darkness fool you - let it school you, let us learn from the terror and trauma of our lives so we can finally know the rememedy and reparing of healing, hope, and humanity. i thank you for your love. mani does too. we are pouring it back to each and all of you as well as our entire earth, ethers, elements, and hearts. We choose healing. not siloed or singular to ourselves. Healing for the whole of who we are and who we are to one another🙏🏼 ✨ ✨ ✨ #healing #maniandme #manipura #resilience #love #ommanipadmehum #omshanti #mayweknowpeace

bowing deeply to all the love that has been poured our way these last 24+ hours… it has been, and is still, so very much working… mani has been eating today, taking his meds, and even wanting to play. he even got to roll around in the grass outside and laid belly up to the sky. he’s showing us such resilience and his presence is more precious than any gold… so grateful. so grateful he’s here. and so grateful he’s safe. and so grateful i am too… I’m also very exhausted… and processing the trauma of everything we went through… i am digesting waves of great anger and grief and terror… i am resting in the relief that we made it - we survived… mani is still here… im so thankful to the entire village around us - the outpouring of medicine and mending from your messages and care… thank you, love you, stay tuned… and hopeful… we’ll continue resting and healing, safe and sound right here. ✨ 🙏🏼 ✨ #maniandme #healing #thankfulforyou #manipura

so grateful to be beginning this new month of October with so much connection to my younger self… ‘lil keri is smiling so wide as she got to get her hands covered in paint and her spirit serenaded with new NSYNC music (one of my absolute childhood faves) with space of rest and play and creativity and care woven so intricately and intentionally in between… the more i allow this practice to liberate me, the more connection i seem to have with the innocence and inner child that is me. And she truly just wants to play, and laugh, and love, and live a life of ease and joy and even some fun… I’m so thankful to @lauravosejpka and @creative360midland for creating a space for me where i can create and give my ideas and hopes room to breathe as well as emerge… as well as all the richness and resourcefulness of relationships around me who know and see i have so much more to say, sing, share, and shine… October, you hold so many opportunities for me to keep caring for the child that is me as well as my capacity to keep growing, knowing, and sowing my soul. I want to remind you too, dear One, this energy is not singular to me. May you too, use this breath, use this life, use this very now and all your laters, to keep coming home to you and all your authentic unity, wonder, creativity, and joy. ✨ ✨ ✨ #octobervibes #childlike #playful #opportunity #unity #creativity #thisisyoga #practice #joy #peace #love

thankful for this community, sangha, and support around me as well as within me… Y’all share with me so much joy and beauty and remind me just how powerful we each and all are… I am so thankful for the spaciousness of community, connection, and ease that continues to fill and find my heart, spirit, and bounty no matter the flux, Flow, and fragments i may/we may be facing with so much love, excitement, and hope… September held the intention of paying attention to our patterns and shining light on sankalpa… our grooves and patterns that can keep us trapped as well as set us free… I thank you all for being in the work with me of dismantling the divides and rebuilding the bridges and believing what is possible through the efforts, energy, and emergence of love… September finished with feelings of such fullness and freedom… i am so grateful, and i feel and trust this energy will continue to greet us, ground us, and be oh so generous with us and every opportunity October creates and catalyzes for us all. ✨ 🙏🏼 ✨ #hellooctober #blessings #beauty #abundance #sangha #community #unity #love #gratefulforyou #fullandfree

#funfact #fullmoon #friday - we could read every book, take every certification, master every degree, and do all the things, yet none of that outward investment and experience will ever compare to all you can learn from your own inner ways and being. We hold it all within and I hope to continuously and creatively support a world where all that is within is always within our reach. A world where we reflect the beauty, brilliance, and all the possibilities and potential of what’s available to us when we go beyond surface, and singular, and shame… As i howl at the moon and bow to her light, I pray and hope and ask that we begin to better know and appreciate our worth, our value, the richness of all we have lived, loved, lost, and still hope to be… I hope in all that’s reflected to us, we can finally see all that is within you and all that is within me. ✨ 🌕 ✨ #fullmoonblessings #thisisyoga #hopefulheart #reflections #aumshanti #howlingunderthemoonlight

know you. love you. take good care of you. for you are wonderful. worthy. and so very wise. ✨ 🌕 ✨ #fullmoonblessings #channels #love #aum

this is the lifetime where i will heal fully and wholly and in every direction of my existence this is the lifetime i will bring into this world all that I can create, manifest and provide for the Highest of all this is the lifetime where i complete what it is I have come here to learn, and remember, and do this is the lifetime where I will be fully alive and free to be the most truest of me with all the hopes and efforts that you too, can know and be you. ✨ ✨ ✨ #thework #theway #thisisthelifetime #healing #harvest #inthistogether #noseparation #fallblessings #fallhopes

thankful for the light of summers final salute and all the opportunities this life and light of mine has to share and see the light and life of so many others… bowing deeply from the light in me to the light deeply in you and trusting it will continue to guide and grace us as we greet the gentle transition to fall and all its blessings, lessons, and bounty pictured- a post practice pic with the women i share space with at tricap - blessed with a beautiful afternoon outside with some of the most radiant and resilient people i know ☀️ ✨ #fallequinox #goodbyesummer #thisisyoga #weareyoga

just another morning at the office ☕️✨ ( he’s proud to work here 😂 and i am too ) ✨ ✨ ✨ how are you filling your cup? how are you feeling your ground? how are you embodying joy? the simplicity of a blanket on the ground and a freshly brewed cup of joe as the birds and crickets sing feels like liberation in my body… as well as my mind, spirit, and soul… we are worthy of all the things that remind us of our value, virtue, and innate worth. im so thankful for this ground- and our guy, Mani, and all the richness these relationships bring. ✨ #morningswithmani #meandmani #goodmourning #thankful #grateful #blessed #grounding #greeting #love

outside the “norm” is where my liberation lives… and i am so very grateful to all the guides and guidance as well as generosity and ground that has given me so many amazing and miraculous opportunities to come home to my peace and to know i am not alone- and to be able to share that offering in all i do is humbling as well as an honor- so thank you, y’all, thank you. i continue to digest and reflect upon the goodness that this weekend held with so much awe and gratitude. to share space centered around connecting with spirit and animal spirits at that and the opening of our hearts in congruence and community to the unconditional love that is all around us every single breath of every single day feels so nourishing and so big- it feels so exciting and expansive- another way and route that is all here in support of us finding and knowing our connection- interconnectedness- sacred synergy- all for love and healing and harmony- wow wow wow y’all… and to do it alongside a comrade in unconditional love, @juliehirt_intuitive , is just a dream come true. bowing deeply to the animals. bowing deeply to each and all of you. and excited to see what’s to come from all this work of love that we continue to do. ✨ ✨ ✨ #wcw #warriors #warriorspirit #intuition #animalcommunication #thisisyoga #love

in a world where we are what we eat, can we allow ourselves to consume a little more nourishment, a little more ease? Can we take time to sip and savor more water as well as a way to move with more joy, confidence, and space? Can we check in with the sensations as well as engage with the senses - what do you smell? What do you feel? What can you taste? See? And hear? and can you ask: is it serving you? Can we confront the tall tales of tyranny that tell us we cannot rest as well as the absurdity that our worth lies within productivity? Can we be in our body? As we are? And engage with this soma-self that truly only wants to take care of you? Can we see our body as holy and recognize that same eternal light in all bodies? all shapes? all stories? all struggles? Can we tend to our physical selves (planet included) so we can better know the depth and Divinity of all that lives beyond this surface? I feel we can. I feel we must. Anamaya kosha, may we be oh so loving, kind, and just to you in all your forms and all your fullness today, now, and always. For myself, our planet, and all bodies and beings of our world. I believe we can. I believe we must. How will you be taking care of your body today? For me, I am allowing time outside on the ground to rest and just be. I am bringing awareness to how much water i am drinking and being mindful of getting those ounces in and more. I am walking mani two loops around our block (2.2 miles yall #nbd 😂) I am listening and honoring the needs and learning to love this skin i am in. I am with you in the work and am so grateful to you and all of us out there doing the brave, needed, and necessary work of guiding ourselves home again and again. I love you. I see you. I believe in you. And thank you for believing in me. Let’s do this y’all, let’s tend and care for our physical bodies needs and nourishment. Now. and always. ✨ ✨ ✨ #thekoshas #layers #takecareofyourbody #thisisyoga #takecareofallbodies #rest #play #nourish #loveyourbody

she believed she could… but, was really tired, so didn’t… ✨ ✨ ✨ when was the last time you rested unapologetically and without explanation? what is your relationship to rest? do you feel it is a birthright? do you feel it is a privilege? how would your mind and body feel if you made more space to receive ease, softness, and slowness? how would your spirit and heart feel if you prioritized more practices that restored you from the inside out and the outside in? why do we neglect that which is truly necessary for us? ✨ I’ve been paying attention to my body and the ways my mind and culture try to keep me marching to a patriarchal and capitalistic beat and how that patterning keeps me from knowing and sowing and growing my peace. My work, art, health, relationships, joy, and creativity all are impacted by my fatigue as well as my fullness and the more i rest the more i awaken to the very truth i am worthy of all the ways that keep me well, rested, and resourced, and dear Divine one, so so so are you 🙏🏼 ✨ tonight I am holding space for both the flow as well as the rest and as always, you are welcome and you are worthy exactly as you are ⬇️ 5:30pm - Vinyasa Flow 7pm - Restorative Yoga practice is held at 144 Ashman @creative360midland ✨ #mondaymotivation #rest #restorativeyoga #slowdown #makespace #honoryourbody #meandmani #takegoodcareofyourself #takegoodcareofeachother

i used to operate at a whole different pace as though the grind held glory and the grasps made grace i used to believe it was all a waste until the bitterness turned to sweetness and i finally got a taste it came in the shapes of spaciousness and ease it came in ways i didn’t always know I’d need like moving beyond capitalism and all its greed and returning to the truth: I am all i need ✨ ✨ ✨ just a little FriYAY free flow from my heart and spirit to yours. A little fun fact about me, is i have found so much healing and happiness in allowing myself to write and write without judgement of what comes. I hope today you make space for whatever gives your heart and spirit and body and being space and grace and joy and ease - and i hope we each keep coming home to that very timely and transformative truth, we each are and have all that we need. bowing deeply to us all… ( i love you i love you i love you ) ✨ #maywebefree #forwardfold #freeflow #thisisyoga #yogaheals #weheal #expressyourself #uttanasana

you matter & you matter to me 🙏🏼

Yoga has provided me with ground and breath during moments when I could not find or feel either one. I am forever transformed and transpired by this practice of wholeness, fullness, connection and love. I have been given renewal and revision to what life is and can be by the grace of somehow, some way, this practice finding me. Yet, I feel it is no accident. When the student is ready, the teacher has a way of presenting themselves. For me, that greatest teacher and revelation of the practice was, is and forever will be, ahimsa - compassion for myself & all living things and satya - that which is, radical and reclaiming truth these practices and principles are what shaped me and showed me, where there is will there is always a way. I am no stranger to the suffering and reality of our world and find it to be no accident that here we are, ready, willing and able to offer tools, testimony and transcendence of mud into emergence. As a teacher of teachers, it is my utmost intention and responsibility to ensure we each are living into the frameworks, ethics, morality and Sacred ground that our practice so graciously offers us. Teachers who recognize the lineage, sacrifice and discipline of the practice and offer that same honesty and humility in all their teachings and spaces. It is my mission to move our bodies with authenticity and awareness, ignite our breath with both fullness and release, and inspire leaders of liberation to ignite the way back to and towards samadhi. yours in leadership, yours in yoga, yours in love, and yours in the fullest of faith. 🙏🏼 ✨ ✨ ✨ #200hrytt #aligned #authentic #accessible #dharma #truth #love #thejourney #healing #hoping #here

sunday soul food sharing space and practice with the Dow XC kiddos… thankful for the gift of this practice and the generosity of being able to share it with our community in various and virtuous ways. smiling wide and heart and spirit is full - grateful 🙏🏼 Ps: the wagons back 😂 and Can you see the colors of the trees changing?? ✨ #sundayservice #soulfood #crosscountry #yoga #community

Y’all… I’m so excited and honored to be holding space for connection to our animal guides, teachers, and totems with the one and only @juliehirt_intuitive next Sunday (9/17) at @creative360midland ✨✨✨ This video is a small clip of my animal guide reading with Julie this past year. In this moment, we were connecting with Salmon and the power of their portal and guidance in my life. I have always been a dreamer. Dreaming has always been a lifeline for me, a practice of coming back to my heart and spirits joy even and especially when there is such sorrow… to hear this message- as well as all the other messages from the animals- continues to fuel my faith, hope, and courage as I keep showing up, swimming in, and dreaming beyond in my life. And to be able to hold the opportunity for you and others to know your own guides, feel into your own guidance, and receive the support of all that is here supporting you, and me, and us in this crazy beautiful thing called life is absolutely amazing and amplifying of our love and connection to all. who’s feeling the call? All the details below ⬇️ ✨ Spirit Animal Family Workshop with Julie Hirt & Keri Kenney Sunday, September 17th 1:00 - 4:00pm downtown ashman galleries (144 ashman, midland, mi) In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn, with the use of Animal Oracle and Medicine Cards, the seven to nine animals who have been guiding you on your path. Join Animal Communicator, Julie Hirt and yoga & meditation teacher Keri Kenney, as they guide you how to meet your Animal Support Team. You’ll also learn how to connect with them more authentically as well as how to ask them for help and how they will show up for you throughout your life. Space is limited. All are welcome. Come comfortable with an open heart and mind. #animalguides #prakriti #purusha #weareloved

“Lead me from the unreal to Real. Lead me from darkness to light. Lead me from death to immortality. 𝐎𝐌 shanti shanti shanti” - the Chandogya Upanishad ✨ ✨ ✨ Yesterday, following the promptings of own body and spirit and feeling into the playful energy that is our Manipura-son, we, Mani and I, entered the woods and welcomed into our hearts any and all signs and messengers of love that wanted to find us. I had asked that our Lola girl and Carlos son to join us in spirit. And to please confirm the knowing deep within my heart that they are near - they are always near… And as we hit a pace of playfulness and peacefulness, they found us…. Lola, placing a purple flower right in front of my toes and the only purple flower of our entire time out there. Lola used to glow in purple light. She taught me how to trust my gaze and site and continues to guide me closer into that truth that I can see her beyond the body, I can see her love, spirit, and very soul, and on those days and moments where it seems I cannot, she has a powerful way of finding me… And a few steps from there a beautiful feather showed up, sticking straight up from the ground, a mixture of grey and white and dark hues, which feels like Carlos… his reminders to me that I am here to fly and be free- it is one of his many miraculous missions to take me to that place of trajectory, transformation, and yet again aligned with his sister: trust, trust, trust. how blessed i am to be in their love. I share this with you all today in hopes that you too can open your heart, mind, and site to all the ways Source and Love are showing up for you. Our hearts are heard. Our grief and love is held. and we are still here, walking this earth, learning from the lessons of loss and gain and every pain and promise in between, not alone, not left behind, yet: here, here, here - on purpose, with great purpose. and maybe just maybe in all it’s simplicity, that purpose we are all here for is peace, peace, peace. ✨ #meandmani #mani #goodmourning #elements #ethers #upanishads #wisdom #sanctuary #soulfood #messengersoflove #messengersofpeace #wearenotalone #om

Dear Divine, please help me to manifest the living dreams of my heart and soul- please keep me awake and aware of all my gifts, generosity, and all the guidance you give, all the direction you discern, all the synchronicities you sow- please help me to know my own confidence, courage, and the fullest capacity and expression of all I’ve come here to share with our world- with all my love, joy, and gratitude- and so it is. ✨ ✨ ✨ #morningswithmani #morningmeditation #morningprayer #reflection #reimagine #ritual #awaken #maniandme #letsrisetogether #tgif #thisisyoga #practicepeace

#tbt of me, my man, and mani ✨✨✨ and the incredible gift it is to have such solidness of ground, spaciousness of support, and sacredness of relationship. i am only as powerful as the people, pups, and peace around me. and just as those elements and energies influence me in more ways than logic and language can hold, i too impact all that is around me. All we do matters. And we all matter. How will you stay open and receptive to the ways in which you are being held, heard, and supported in the here and now? And how will you use your power of influence and impact to enhance, expand, and remind all that is connected to you of their innate power, perfection, and birthrights of ease? We are that powerful. and we are that peace. and i am so grateful to all of us out there willing and wanting to know a world where we can each and all be free… There are many (mani 🐶😂) ways we can create those conditions- for me, in this now, i am showing up, sharing in on the efforts, and opening my heart to all the ways i care and can share my love 🙏🏼 ✨ ✨ ✨ #thankfulthursday #mifamilia #meandmani #puremichigan #manipura #lakesuperior #love

September, may you serve & support the Soul, Spirit, spaciousness, and Sacredness of us all… may you use me in these efforts and all avenues that align us to peace. ( and so it is ) ♾️ ✨ ✨ ✨ Looking forward to sharing this space of September with you and all the ways we have come here to turn on the lights, open our hearts, and share in on the liberation of our love. ✨ #september #sweetness #sacredness #soulfood #spirit #purusha #prakriti #thisisyoga #transformation #dharma