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11/20/2025

What’s Really Happening in Your Nervous System in a Forward Fold

Most people think a forward fold is “just a stretch.”
But your nervous system is doing far more than your hamstrings ever could.

When you fold forward — whether standing or seated — your body enters a subtle yet powerful shift:

🔹 Your back body lengthens, stimulating mechanoreceptors in the fascia
🔹 Your parasympathetic nervous system activates, calming your heart rate
🔹 Your vagus nerve is gently toned, helping regulate stress and emotional overwhelm
🔹 Your brain waves slow, shifting you into a more grounded, inward-focused state
🔹 Your proprioception increases, helping you sense where your body is in space
🔹 Your interoception deepens, allowing you to actually feel what’s happening inside
🔹 Your breath quiets the system, sending “safety signals” through your entire body

Forward folds aren’t about touching your toes.
They’re about sending your nervous system into a state of rest, repair, and regulation.

But here’s the truth most teachers were never taught:

If you prioritize aesthetic alignment — straight legs, rounded spine, pulling yourself down —
you actually trigger protective responses, making the nervous system tighten and guard.

When you prioritize functional alignment — soft knees, hinge from the hips, long spine, safe breath —
your nervous system finally feels safe enough to release.

✨ It’s not your flexibility that changes the pose…
It’s your nervous system.

And THIS is why functional, somatic, science-based yoga matters.

If you’re a yoga teacher who wants to understand:
– how poses impact the nervous system
– why certain cueing increases safety or dysregulation
– how fascia, alignment, and biomechanics actually work
– how to teach yoga that is trauma-informed, functional, and body-friendly

…then I have a gift for you. 🤍

🎁 My full Anatomy Program is available as a free gift
— yes, completely free.
It will change the way you teach and the way your students experience their bodies.

🔗 Join through the link in my bio.
It’s time for yoga teachers to teach from knowledge, not from tradition.
It’s time to understand the body you’re guiding.

11/18/2025

Why We Ground Through the Body — Not Bypass It

So many yoga cues are well-intentioned…
but they actually pull students out of their bodies instead of into them.

When we say things like:
“Release what no longer serves you,”
“Ground your root chakra,”
“Connect to your divine feminine energy,”
we’re offering beautiful ideas —
but not actual embodied pathways for students to follow.

For many people, especially those with trauma, anxiety, dysregulation, or disassociation…
abstract cues create more distance between their mind and their body.

They leave people “trying to feel something spiritual,”
instead of simply feeling themselves.

This is why integration cues matter.
Because they anchor students in what is happening right now in their physical experience:

✨ “Notice where you’re gripping — your jaw, your shoulders, your hips — and let those muscles soften.”
✨ “Feel the weight of your feet or sit bones and the ground supporting you.”
✨ “Invite receptivity and softness in your movement — balance effort with ease.”

These are not just “better cues.”
They are nervous system cues.
Cues that build interoception.
Cues that help people feel safe in their bodies.
Cues that support trauma-informed, inclusive, functional yoga.

When students learn to feel their body,
they learn to regulate their body.
And that’s where transformation actually happens.

Yoga is not about floating away.
It’s about learning to be here — in your body — with what’s real.

🌿 If you want to deepen your language, your cueing, and your skill as a trauma-informed, functional yoga teacher… you’ll love the my anatomy teacher training (as a gift)
🔗 Link in bio.

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11/06/2025

Let’s talk about the so-called “woo woo” side of yoga — because the truth is, what we call mystical often has deep scientific roots.

🌀 Yoga says: Breath is life force.
🧠 Science says: Conscious breathing regulates the autonomic nervous system, lowers cortisol, and improves oxygen exchange.

🌀 Yoga says: Manifestation works through alignment.
🧠 Science says: When your actions match your intentions, the reticular activating system in the brain filters in opportunities that align with your focus.

🌀 Yoga says: Intuition is inner knowing.
🧠 Science says: The gut–brain axis + interoceptive awareness allow the body to process sensory data faster than conscious thought.

🌀 Yoga says: Karma is cause and effect.
🧠 Science says: Every action has a reaction — habit loops, conditioning, and consequences are the nervous system’s way of learning.

So no, it’s not “woo woo.”
It’s ancient neuroscience — the study of life long before microscopes and degrees.

🌿 Want to explore yoga through this lens?
Join the movement where spirituality meets science in the 20 hour Anatomy program (for free).
🔗 Link in bio

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11/04/2025

I’ll be honest — when I go to a yoga class and hear ungrounded, “spiritual” cues, I feel myself disconnect.
Not because I don’t believe in energy or spirit (I do — deeply), but because so much of modern yoga has floated so far into the ethers that it’s lost touch with the actual body.

In this world, we already live in our heads.
We’re constantly thinking, comparing, analyzing, scrolling, and picking ourselves apart.
When a yoga class continues that, when it asks us to transcend the body instead of inhabit it, we lose the true medicine of yoga.

Grounded cues bring us back home.
They teach students to listen, to notice sensations, to create a relationship with their body — not as something to fix or perfect, but as a living, breathing teacher.

Because real yoga isn’t about floating off into bliss.
It’s about landing in the truth of your body, learning its language, and remembering that this is where wisdom lives.

Most people only hear their bodies when they hurt.
Grounded cueing teaches them to listen before pain is the only way the body can speak.

🧠✨ When we cue the body and the energy field together — that’s when yoga becomes science.
That’s when our teaching becomes transformational.

👉 Join my free Anatomy of Yoga Teacher Training and learn how to cue from the bridge of science and spirit.
Link in bio.

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The true question is, when does your story really begin? At birth? 5 years ago? Or 1.5 years ago? Anyway it goes, I am going to start with last August. I had been a nurse for 17 years in the ER mainly, I owned my own home, had 2 beautiful children and had a decent relationship with most people in my life. Yet, I was still unhappy. Even worse, I felt super guilty about being unhappy when I had everything I had ever “wanted”. I was going to Medical School, teaching yoga, received a promotion at work and was just about to run my first successful international yoga retreat.

I asked for assistance, from the Universe. LOL... really. I literally said in my head, if you are real, help me find happiness, and bing an email. It was an email from a coach for retreat leaders. I had my own opinion about coaches, but at that moment vowed to take all of the chances I could get at feeling happy. The session with my coach was very impactful and she asked if I was interested in meeting again. I said yes and we did. The conversation was about sales. When she told me her prices, I panicked. And then laughed. Her cost was the same as my yearly income. Yet, somehow I said yes. I paid her a down payment and immediately my income doubled. Don’t ask me how. I had all of my same bills and her payment. I started to search. For the money, for happiness, for more out of life. AND.... I found it. I paid her in full in less than 3 months, put the balance remaining on my Line of Credit. Yes, with debt. It scared the s**t out of me, but all I knew is that if I kept doing more of what I had been doing, I was going to get more of what I had been getting.

I chose to quit nursing at the end of December and quadrupled my income. No joke. Quadrupled. I quit Med School as well and life has not been the same. I quadrupled my income with yoga alone. Not only that, I have maintained that income and even exceeded it a few times (yes 5-6x). I made the decision to be part of a teacher training in September and loved it so much that I chose to no longer teach yoga to students, except online. So that is what I do. I teach yoga teachers and other spiritual entrepreneurs to run successful businesses, to bring in serious money, to do things differently than they ever have, BUT... that means you need to do things differently. And it’s not cheap or easy or always fun. I am looking for serious people that are serious about changing their lives.