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The Flow with Natalie

Yoga, meditation, and wellness guidance from a Yoga Alliance certified Instructor (RYT 200 & RCYT 95). Well find it together. Let's get into The Flow.

"The Flow" can be described as energized focus, passionate presence, and joy in every moment.

17/11/2025

Some pics from the past… ? however long I’ve been here living this mountain monastery life! Time feels longer and shorter up here. 🌹🥀

Much to share and much to say but the WiFi is pretty limited here and I’m posting from the bathroom where I discovered I get internet access lol so I’ll keep this brief!

It’s been a really profound experience thus far, and it continues on! Glad for this kessei thing— this experience that both my parents did so many years ago and is honestly responsible for my physical existence… whoah. What can I even say? Maybe I’ll find more words to describe it at some point or maybe not.

Just…. Sending my love from the mountain top 🙏🪷

16/08/2025

An experience that is hard to put into words. I signed up for an ACT training combined with other therapeutic techniques in the Netherlands… that turned into a profound and even spiritual unfolding… putting me deeper in touch with myself, connecting powerfully with others, nature and the Universe.

Still processing and integrating what emerged, and giving myself the time and space for that! Though a few things that feel very clear; it’s ALL here right NOW, separateness is a powerful delusion that creates intense suffering… and laughter is freedom— a gift to the eternal. 🙏

I am forever changed and overflowing with gratitude— especially for the amazing people I got to share this experience with. Excited to share this energy with clients, friends, family… all beings everywhere!
🙏🕷️🐴🦋💐🙌✨💖

May you be safe, happy and free from suffering.

With Love,
Natalie

20/06/2025

Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful campus and creating such a meaningful experience! 🙏✨

Just got back from the Insight Into Mindfulness program at Harvard Divinity School, where we had the opportunity to study and practice Buddhist concepts and learn how to intelligently and compassionately apply them to clinical work with clients. Genuinely such a dream and major passion of mine— something I could study about, practice and discuss for HOURS!! To have the space to do that was deeply meaningful and to share it with other clinicians (especially Allie!!) and be in community made it all the better.

As a DBT therapist, I often find myself struggling with how many of these powerful and profound concepts are presented in a secular and often very surface level way; the dialectic is that yes, it may make some of these practices more accessible, though I often feel significant parts are left out, Buddhist traditions are erased and we end up with cultural appropriation. I believe it’s incredibly important that we honor and understand the linages and traditions that these treatment approaches (such as DBT and ACT) pull from. So grateful to have had the opportunity to discuss and explore this with other professionals and work to do better in this regard.

I am feeling very inspired to continue my own study, practice and working to truly walk the path of liberation and integrate this into therapeutic interventions— to be a presence of deep compassion, a guide and kalyanamitta (friend on the spiritual path) for myself, colleagues, clients, community— FOR ALL BEINGS!

I’m excited to see where this study goes, I truly feel as though I am just at the beginning! Which is a perfect place to start.

With Reverence,
Natalie

13/06/2025

31!!!!?

Yesterday!! Thank you everyone for the outpouring of love and thank you FULL MOON for the beautiful display and impeccable vibes!! 🌕 🍓

Oh my heart!!! With all the beauty, growth AND growing pains this past year has brought, I feel heart cracking gratitude and LOVE for it all— so much joy, heartache, sweetness and magic! Honestly I want to cry thinking about how grateful I am for this life (okay I admit it, I DID…). Broken hearts are open hearts and it is a gift to feel it all, for therein lies the truth— the felt sense of connection to all things.

This Walt Whitman quote has been echoing in my head as of late and feels appropriate to share—

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.“

HBD natalie 🎂🥹✨🙏

25/03/2025

We came, we saw, we grieved. 🙏💕

Amazing amazing amazing GRIEF retreat led by the incredible Tara Brach. Such incredible wisdom I can’t wait to integrate and share with clients and loved ones! Feeling very clear and strangely enlivened by being deeply present with grief and allowing that to illuminate the heart’s deepest longing… letting THAT be a portal to guide us to reconnection and awakening.

Such a beautiful and compassionate way to be with our own pain and the pain of others. Did not know how much love and gratitude I could feel for the powerful way my heart aches. Yet here we are. For all beings! Ah! 💔🙏✨🙌

I think what’s even more incredible is the amount of unity and oneness that emerges as we witness all the different ways us humans experience loss. Not a single person is excused. The more in touch with that we are, the more in touch with one another we can be… and that is desperately needed.

AND very grateful to be a therapist. Holding loving space for other’s sorrow and grief is a tremendously humbling experience and a sacred role I feel honored to be in. As Ram Dass says— we are all just walking eachother home.

Hold you grief with tenderness my friends 🙏💔

Love love love,
Natalie

27/11/2024

The great unifier. It’s so interesting I feel really vulnerable sharing this one— I know grief and loss is universal AND the shade of grief (or our experience with loss) we get is often colored by the relationship to the person, who we are as people/our biology and our life circumstances as well as many many other factors. So to say we truly understand is a bold statement in a sense, though also deeply true in another.

I also think it’s pretty universally human to try and find ways to avoid pain… some people turn to maladaptive methods that perhaps work in the short term but are extremely harmful in the long run, some have more socially acceptable “adaptive” ways such as working (perhaps I sometimes fall into this one…), or we just push it away… even if the ways we avoid aren’t necessarily “maladaptive” they do us harm in the long run. We become stuck or worse— out of touch with ourselves and therefore, others.

The most wonderful thing my grief has taught me is that the more I allow myself to experience it fully, without avoiding, the more ability I have to feel connected to others. The more I am able to touch the immense love that the grief holds too. To receive support and acceptance for the ways I show up imperfectly. The more I am able to have compassion for my humanness and the humanness of everyone around me.

What a tremendous, awe inspiring, gut wrenchingly beautiful gift I never asked for or wanted and yet, here it is. So I accept. 🙏🤍

With Love,
Natalie

21/11/2024

Nov 18th was the first anniversary of my father’s passing. My body remembered and gifted me with a pretty significant cold thus putting me out of commission and forcing me to stop, pause and rest (something that is hard for me to give myself sometimes!).

This was a poem I wrote after the last time I saw my father alive and hoped to share with him… I ended up reading it at his Remembrance instead. Lately I’ve been feeling called to share some of my poems!! I figured in honor of my father, I would take this week and next to share some of the many poems I have written about grief/loss in particular.

Grief has changed me in many ways some of which are wonderful, some challenging and some of which I’m still trying to understand. Writing poems has been helpful for me and I hope there can be something in here that is useful/comforting/cathartic to another. 🙏💛

With Love,
Natalie

04/10/2024

So much of what I do as a therapist and in my spiritual life is learning to be with discomfort and pain (exposure!!)— both my own, and others. Presencing myself with pain… letting it crack open my heart to deeper love, compassion and understanding— Learning my full strength and becoming an ocean to bear what feels unbearable. More than anything I love doing this with others and teaching them to do the same in order to heal… it can be gnarly at times AND I love this work.

…still, we can’t forget to also have that same reverence for joy, pleasure and beauty. It’s a practice to fully be with these experiences too. This can also be exposure work as it can invite us to challenge beliefs related to being deserving and others of the like. Presencing ourselves in the pleasant and pleasurable is as essential to healing as being with pain… for some, it can even be more challenging as it is new and unknown… or there is unjustified guilt & shame about enjoyment being “wrong” or “bad.”… it is a skill, and it takes practice to truly presence and partake in the beauty of life—

…and when we are able to do so, when we can hold both darkness and light with a soft open palm, life becomes expansive and very very sweet. 💛🙏

19/09/2024

Yeahhh, hey guys, turns out it’s not hard to be enlightened as long as you’re just on vacation with none of your usual daily stressors and in Santorini looking over the Aegean sea at sunrise meditating next to your hot tub 🙏✨🙏💛

(lol) also I truly did not know this picture was being taken! I would have smiled!

29/05/2024

Pics from my camera roll… just out here touching truth & beauty recognizing the impermanence and inter-being of all things 🌱🌸

03/03/2024

The concept of “self compassion” becomes more and more interesting (and perhaps strange?) the more I reflect and meditate on it…
COMPASSION in itself has always included you. Compassion does not exclude the “self.” In fact, True Compassion could not POSSIBLY exclude you.
Especially when you consider the interbeingness of all things. ✨🙏💗

With Compassion,
Natalie

16/10/2023

In this earth,
in this immaculate field,
we shall not plant any seeds
except for compassion,
except for love. 💓

~ Rumi

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