Awakened Spirit Yoga

Casa
Guatemala
Tzununá
Awakened Spirit Yoga

We are a non-profit educational org that offers transformative yoga & mindfulness programs.

We are activated, inspired changemakers dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to radically innovate for the health of our collective environment. We offer retreats and trainings around the globe with a holistic focus on yogic philosophy, permaculture principles, and leadership skills.

07/12/2025

🌿 The 3 Pillars of Awakened Spirit Yoga 🌿

At Awakened Spirit Yoga, our teachings are rooted in three guiding principles that shape both practice and purpose: Align, Empower, and Transform.

✨ Align: Look within to create a life in harmony with your highest potential. Through yoga, we come into alignment not only in body but in spirit, reconnecting with our truths, our values, and the rhythm of the earth itself.

🔥 Empower: When we align with truth, authentic power rises. Our programs support you to embody your voice, embrace your gifts, and lead with compassion. Empowerment comes not from force, but from remembering who you are, whole, capable, and radiant.

🌺 Transform: True transformation begins within. As we shift our inner world, our outer reality follows. Through self-inquiry, practice, and community, we awaken creativity, harmony, and a deeper sense of connection with all beings.

Align with your truth. Empower your heart. Transform your world.

03/12/2025

🌿 The heart of a yoga practice is connection - Julia Forest

As yogis, we honour the earth not just as the ground beneath our mats, but as the living foundation of all life. Every breath we take reminds us of our interdependence, with nature, with each other, and with the wisdom that has guided seekers for generations.

At Awakened Spirit Yoga, we embody reverence for ancient traditions while awakening the modern human potential for transformation and healing. Our practice becomes a bridge, linking timeless teachings with the needs of today’s world.

When we move with intention, breathe with awareness, and live with compassion, we become living reflections of that deep care and possibility. 🌍💫

24/11/2025

🌸 What is Sacred Birth? 🌸

At its heart, Sacred Birth is a remembrance that creativity and wellbeing are our birthright. Over time, we’ve been conditioned to mistrust our bodies, to seek answers outside ourselves, and to see birth through a medicalized lens. Yet birth, this blessed activation of the womb, is one of life’s most profound initiations.

Pregnancy invites us to surrender to the unseen force that moves all life. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul come together in a divine symphony. 🌿 Through prenatal yoga and birth support, we can reconnect with that rhythm, grounding, softening, and trusting the wisdom that already lives within us.

Whether we are birthing parents or simply walking alongside them, we are all called to reclaim the sacred in birth, to honour the sovereignty and intelligence of this miraculous body. It’s at the center of everything we do at Awakened Spirit Yoga.

13/11/2025

🌸 Sacred Birth: Prenatal Yoga Teacher + Birth Doula Training 🌸
🗓 January 24–31, 2026
📍 Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
✨ With Awakened Spirit Yoga & Doula School

We still have a couple of spots left! Join us for a transformative 7-day in-person training at one of the world’s most breathtaking sanctuaries for healing and renewal in Guatemala. This 85+ hour dual certification program weaves together yoga, mindfulness, and holistic birth support to nurture conscious pregnancy, empowered parenthood, and embodied wisdom.

Through movement, breath, and connection, you’ll explore the medical, spiritual, and emotional dimensions of birth, learning how to hold space for the sacred transformation from pregnancy to parenthood. 🌿

After completion, you’ll graduate with the skills to:
🧘‍♀️ Confidently teach prenatal, postnatal & couples yoga classes
🌺 Support birthing people through labor & beyond
🌞 Integrate holistic, trauma-informed birth support into your practice

Space is limited, click the link in our bio to learn more and reserve your spot.

07/11/2025

🌿 Yoga Affirmation of the Day: “I am rooted in the earth.” 🌿

This simple phrase is a powerful reminder to ground yourself, body, mind, and spirit. In yoga, we return again and again to the support beneath us: the mat, the floor, the steady earth that holds us no matter how life moves around us.

Take a moment today to pause:
🌱 You are rooted.
🌱 You are growing.
🌱 You are enough.

03/11/2025

🌿 Meet our Co-Founder and Director Julia Forest 🌿

Julia is an international yoga teacher, birth doula, women’s health advocate, and artist. Her work weaves together her passions for empowered birth, environmental stewardship, and holistic wellbeing. As the co-creator of the Sacred Birth Yoga & Doula Training, founding director of Awakened Spirit Yoga, and co-founder of the Wellkind Foundation, Julia has spent decades nurturing communities through yoga, mindfulness, and permaculture. She also created the Sacred Earth Yoga Training, the first of its kind to blend yoga, leadership, and ecological awareness into one transformative journey.

Over the past 20 years, Julia has immersed herself in study and practice with extraordinary teachers across North America and India. Her classes and trainings are rooted in hatha, vinyasa, and mindfulness and emphasize alignment, accessibility, and the power of movement.

Influenced by teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Monica Voss, and Judith Hanson Lasater, Julia continues to teach, mentor, and lead retreats worldwide through Awakened Spirit Yoga. Her philosophy is simple: we already hold the wisdom we seek, yoga helps us remember it. 🌸

21/10/2025

✨ Discover the Power of Alignment: Why the "Neutral Spine" Matters in Yoga ✨

Have you ever wondered why instructors cue “lengthen your tailbone” instead of telling you to tuck it under? In one of our more popular blog posts, The Importance of the Neutral Spine in Yoga, we explore how a simple shift in wording, “lengthen” instead of force, can make a real difference for students. By honoring the natural curves of your sacrum and pelvis, we promote both safety and energetic grounding.

It’s key to avoid overstretching or flattening your lower back, and focus on alignment. This isn't about perfection, it’s about finding what feels stable and spacious in your own body with gentle, mindful cues.

You can read the full blog post by clicking the link in our bio.

15/10/2025

🌿 Meet Hannah, one of our inspiring teachers at Awakened Spirit Yoga.

Originally from Belgium, Hannah is a certified midwife who has supported families in Uganda, Guatemala, and now Europe. She has attended countless home births, worked side-by-side with traditional Guatemalan midwives, and carries wisdom in both modern and ancestral practices like herbal medicine, Mayan sauna (temazcal), and traditional abdominal massage.

In 2017, she founded Midwives of The Lake, where she also welcomed her son at home. Today, she continues her work as an international midwife, teacher, and guide, sharing her passion for birth, yoga, and holistic care with students worldwide.

✨ Visit the link in our bio to meet more members of the Awakened Spirit Team

13/10/2025

✨ “Inhale courage, exhale fear.” ✨

Every time we step onto the mat, we’re given the chance to come home to ourselves. With each inhale, we invite in strength, grounding, and possibility. With each exhale, we let go of tension, of doubt, of fear.

Yoga teaches us to breathe through discomfort, to soften into uncertainty, and to trust that we already have everything we need within us.

🧘‍♀️ Reminder to slow down and connect to your internal resource for anyone who needed to hear it.

01/10/2025

🌸 Only a few weeks left! Your Prenatal Yoga & Doula Journey Awaits 🌸

Are you feeling called to support birthing people in a deeper, more embodied way?
Join us for our 85 HR Sacred Birth Prenatal Yoga & Doula Training (Virtual), through our team at Awakened Spirit Yoga in partnership with Doula School. This immersive and transformative program blends ancient wisdom with modern birth support, empowering you to guide others through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

What you receive:
🧘‍♀️ 85 HR Registered Prenatal Yoga Certificate (Yoga Alliance)
🌿 Doula Certificate
📚 60 live hours + 25 hours of self-paced content
🎥 Materials delivered through live lectures, videos, readings & assignments

✨ What you’ll learn:
How to teach therapeutic & trauma-sensitive prenatal/postnatal yoga
Safe modifications for every trimester
Anatomy & physiology of pregnancy
Eastern & Western views on mind, body, and spirit
Mentorship from seasoned yoga and birth professionals
A deeper connection to your own birth story & purpose

This is more than a training, it’s a personal and professional rebirth.
Start your sacred journey today. 💛

21/08/2025

🌬️✨ In prenatal yoga, breathwork isn’t just an add-on, it’s the heart of the practice.
As teachers, we’ve seen how connecting to breath anchors pregnant students into their bodies, calms the nervous system, and creates spaciousness in places that feel tight or heavy. 🫶

Breathwork teaches presence. It reminds us that each inhale nourishes, and each exhale softens, skills that ripple into labour, birth, and parenthood.

When we teach breath awareness to expecting parents, we’re not just teaching a technique. We’re guiding them home to themselves, to trust their bodies, and to find courage in surrender.

✨ Pause. Breathe. Return.

This is the power of yoga.

Dirección

Lake Atitlan
Tzununá

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http://www.awakenedspirityoga.com/

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Our Story

Align * Empower * Transform

Awakened Spirit is a community of activated, inspired yogis who care deeply about the earth. Our integrative approach to yoga weaves hatha, vinyasa, contemplative practices and care for the earth to inspire heart centered living and sustainable change.

Our teachers are highly trained and empowered community leaders, who engage in the world by living their yoga. The heart of our community is grounded in a deep care for the earth, a reverence for ancient wisdom traditions and a belief in the human potential for transformation and healing. We offer yoga retreats and 200, 300 hour YTTs and continuing education in sacred locations around the world. Sign up for tools in holistic yogic philosophy, sustainability, and heart-centered leadership.

We are changing the world in our own little way. This is our story. Ready to transform? Join us! ❤️