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100 hr Ayurvedic Yoga Training, Inner Empowerment Mentorship, Energy Healing, Spiritual Mentorship, Ayurveda literally means the knowledge and wisdom of life.

It is the healing system of India, sometimes referred to as the mother of all healing. It originated in India over 5,000 years ago and is still being used today. Ayurveda views health and disease as the end result of how we interact with the world, in terms of our beliefs, perceptions, thoughts and feelings, which then ultimately determine our actions. Actions in harmony with our inner nature create health, while those dis-harmonious with our inner nature create disease. Ayurveda is the science of developing greater harmony with our environment through all of our senses. Ayurveda assists the body in journeying back to optimal health by balancing the five elements in the body and mind through the use of herbs, diet, colors, aromas, lifestyle changes, yoga, and meditation along with other five sense therapies.

03/05/2026

So glad I let my soul lead.
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What a sublime day.

03/03/2026

Today’s full moon lunar eclipse feels like a threshold. Lunar eclipses tend to bring endings, revelations, and emotional clarity that sometimes feels abrupt.

Astrologically, this Virgo full moon illuminates the Virgo-Pisces axis, stirring the space between order and surrender, discernment and trust, the practical details of life and the deeper currents moving underneath it all.

Virgo wants to clear, refine, and make sense of what’s in front of us, while Pisces asks us to soften our grip and listen to what can only be felt.

I’ve just returned to Canada from Costa Rica, and the timing feels aligned. There’s something about moving through such a literal transition during an eclipse, it feels like a shedding and a recalibration.

If today feels emotional, tender, clarifying, or a little unsteady, that makes sense. Eclipses have a way of revealing what’s been hidden, loosening what we’ve been gripping too tightly, and showing us what is no longer meant to come with us.

Let this be a day to listen. Not to force answers, but to notice what is naturally falling away and what deeper truth is emerging.
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03/02/2026

There’s nothing quite like swinging over the side of a canyon in Costa Rica on a Saturday afternoon.

Thanks Eduardo for always taking things to the next level.
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02/27/2026

The written
word is a
portal.

A way back
into yourself.

A way to
make room
for what wants
to move.

You’ve got
memories and stories
in your bones,
in your tissues,
in your blood,

yearning for expression
so they don’t
go unlived.
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Ink & Alchemy starts tomorrow.

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02/25/2026

The written word is a portal. A way back into yourself. A way to metabolize what you’ve carried. A way to make meaning. A way to heal, and to ripple healing outward.

It’s not that you’re not creative. It’s that you’re stressed.

When your nervous system is braced for survival, your genius and creative flow gets capped.

It’s not popular but there’s power in choosing relaxation, beauty and creativity. And yet, with the way the world is today, it can feel… irresponsible. Like you should be doing something more urgent than making art, writing, dreaming, listening.

But what if remembering your creative nature is the urgent thing?
Not as a luxury, as medicine.

Because your health depends on it. Not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, spiritually. When you’re cut off from your creative current, you’re cut off from your life force.

And yes, the outer world will happily hijack your attention if you let it. The system is designed to keep you busy, doubting, disconnected from your gifts, your inner knowing, your personal power.

Ink & Alchemy is so much more than “journalling.” This is a sacred energetic space designed utilizing brain science, Vedic philosophy and intuition. Think: theta brain wave state, meets opening your creative channel, meets receiving coaching for healing at the core.
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02/24/2026

Pleasure isn’t a reward for good behaviour.
It’s a compass. It’s life force trying to get your attention.

And one of the fastest ways back to that aliveness is art. Not make something impressive art. Not pressure or performance. Ick.

Art as devotion, as medicine, as a way of turning the volume back up on your senses.

Write one true paragraph.
Make a meal like it matters.
Move your body like it’s not just transportation.
Speak one honest desire out loud, even if it’s small.

Because your life is not a task list.
Let it become your creative masterpiece.

Not someday. Not when everything is sorted.
Today. In the middle of the real thing.

Ink & Alchemy is where we do that. A private writing temple where we come back to your real voice, not the polished one. The alive one. It’s where we get to the core of your creative power and unleash that energy. Think: theta brain wave state, meets opening your creative channel, meets healing at the core, meets living in your personal power.

Drop “INK” below and I’ll get you the deets. We begin Sat!
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02/21/2026

I stopped dreaming.

Not the nighttime kind, I mean the future kind. There were stretches of my life where my imagination went offline.

I stopped dreaming when I lost myself in my divorce. I remember standing in my kitchen, thinking: That part of my life is over. I’ll never be in love again. I have so much compassion for her now. She was trying so hard to be “fine.”

I stopped dreaming when I lived with an autoimmune condition for 10 years and my energy felt rationed. Like I had to choose between showering and making plans. Like the world was going on without me and I was watching it through glass. My life got small.

I stopped dreaming when my previous partner took his life and joy felt like something I’d used up.

And what’s wild is, looking back, those weren’t just endings. They were invitations.

Invitations to breathe life back into my own life. To make space for imagination again, even if it returned as a flicker instead of a full bonfire.

But we’re not taught how to do that, are we?

We’re taught how to cope. How to be reasonable. How to keep it together. We’re not taught how to create when we’re grieving. How to imagine when we’re exhausted. How to stay connected to that pulse of life force when everything in you wants to go numb.

And I think this is part of why so many of us feel flat, anxious, meh. Because we’re disconnected from ourselves and ultimately from Source. From the divine feminine current that makes us feel like we’re actually here.

When that current isn’t moving, joy doesn’t vanish, it just gets postponed. Spontaneity feels like a threat and that sense of aliveness seems elusive.
We have an imagination deficit.

Imagination isn’t a luxury, it’s a portal into creating the life you came here to live.

Ink & Alchemy is where we do that. A private writing temple where we come back to your real voice, not the polished one. The alive one. It’s where we get to the core of your creative power and unleash that energy. Think: theta brainwave state + opening your creative channel + healing at the core.

Drop “INK” below and I’ll get you the deets
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02/17/2026

Here in Costa Rica, at the end of our dirt road, there’s a horse field.

I visit these horses most days. I talk to them. They don’t always talk back. (Rude.) I tell them they’re beautiful anyway.

And it feels wildly timely because today we’re stepping (or galloping, haha) into the Lunar New Year, and it’s the Year of the Fire Horse, which is exactly as subtle as it sounds.

Fire Horse energy is not a sip chamomile tea and gently consider your intentions vibe. More like: Light the match. Tell the truth. Move.

Horse is momentum, freedom, the part of you that can’t be managed by a spreadsheet. Fire is amplification. Visibility. Purification. The heat that makes pretending feel impossible.

If you’ve been:
• swallowing your real words and truth
• watching your brilliance flicker, then smothering it with “too much… too intense… who do I think I am?”
• postponing your life until some imaginary version of you arrives with perfect lighting and zero fear

This is your cosmic nudge. Or maybe a shove. Yikes.

Consider this:
Perhaps you’re not blocked.
You’re just domesticated.

And the Fire Horse is not here for domestication. It’s here for the voice that’s been swallowing herself. The stories that tap you at 2:00 a.m. because they refuse to go away.

So I’m asking you a question:
What do you already know is true, but you keep delaying?

Not because you’re lazy.
Because it would require you to see yourself fully.

This is exactly where Ink & Alchemy comes in.

Not as a sweet little journaling class.
As creative ignition. A temple space. A laboratory for truth. A place where you stop trying to write the right thing and start writing what’s real.

If you want to step into the Fire Horse year with your voice online, on the page, in your life, join me.

Ink & Alchemy: theta brain wave state meets creative channel meets healing at the core.
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02/16/2026

We must create.
Always.
Especially now.

Because when you’re not in touch with this Shakti power, this inner creative impulse, your system starts to constrict.

You end up living in reaction to everything “out there,” until fear becomes a dam, blocking the current that wants to move through you.

And blocked life force becomes dis-ease.

Imagine a world where being is honored. Where unique expression is exalted, not condemned.

Imagine waking up and letting your inner feeling-state lead… instead of living as a servant to your to-do list.

Your wildness is your birthright.
Your power is your birthright.
Claim it.

Ink & Alchemy is where we do that. A private writing temple where we come back to your real voice, not the polished one. The alive one. It’s where we get to the core of your creative power and unleash that energy.

Think: theta brain wave state, meets opening your creative channel, meets healing at the core.
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02/13/2026

Yesterday I caught the moment before the moment. The reflex to grab my phone and “just quickly” look at something, anything, before I create, before I listen, before I think for myself. I don’t even know what I’m searching for there. I just know it pulls me out of my own voice.

And that’s when I recognize it: the silent script.
It’s insidious…

Here are 12 sure signs you’re operating from it (even if your life looks “fine”):
1. You scroll to soothe instead of create to feel.

2. You desire something, then immediately ask, “But is that realistic?” and shrink it.

3. Your throat tightens right when truth tries to exit your body.

4. You over-explain your desires so they sound reasonable to other people.

5. You call yourself “not creative” because it’s safer than being seen learning. (“I can’t sing.” “I’m not a writer.” “I’m bad at art.”)

6. You reach a milestone and your nervous system moves the finish line.

7. You treat perfection like the entry fee for love, safety, belonging.

8. You wait to feel ready, which mysteriously keeps you waiting forever.

9. You check for validation before you trust your own knowing.

10. You poll the room to find out what you’re allowed to want.

11. You crave visibility and fear it at the exact same time.

12. You’ve settled for “fine” and you can feel the quiet grief of that compromise.

If you saw yourself in this, you’re not broken. You’re trained. We’ve been dumbed down, disconnected from the source of our creative impulses. And what’s been trained can be unraveled and liberated (yay, freedom!).

Ink & Alchemy is where we do that. A private writing temple where we come back to your real voice, not the polished one. The alive one. It’s where we get to the core of your creative power and unleash that energy. Think: theta brain wave state, meets opening your creative channel, meets healing at the core.
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