Bendyminds, Aljezur (2025)

I am a Yoga teacher, Architect, Writer, Conscious Entrepreneur, part-time Nomad and am joyously working on figuring out the human dilemma. Why do we stay stuck in jobs, relationships, live situations that feel bad or outdated, when we do know better? I am here to share with you what works for me on this never ending journey to be less stressed, less worried and more authentic. I'd like to inspire you to dream big, and take up the responsibility to make those big changes happen for you. Bendyminds is a channel created to provide transformational insights and tools in form of educational Yoga sessions, Somatic approaches, Neuroscientific Mind hacks and Life philosophies. This is your safe space to build your inner strength, ask the right questions, and then take what you learn from the mat into your life to make it a place that you don't just survive, but thrive in!

09/09/2025

You’re not done just because you quit your job.

I’m 5 years in after my proverbial leap of faith from a classic office existence full of dreams and cravings for a more purposeful, self-led, integrous way of working.

I’ve lept because I wanted my freedom so badly, was anxiety-ridden, and so desperate for a substantial CHANGE in my life.

I lept to become my own boss, to do my own thing.

And I do.

I’m now a coach,a teacher,a bodyworker,a writer,a course creator,a retreat leader. I’m not employed anymore by anyone,not operating on anyone else’s time,and I got full agency over what I want to spend my days with, what projects I’d like to take on and what clients I’d like to work with.

I’m as free on paper as I ever was.

You can see it coming, can’t you?

Making the leap when you feel the call,into your self-employment, into your own business, your OWN thing, is maybe the most important of all things you gotta do for yourself.

But it doesn’t end there. You’re not done just because you left.

I am here now, on the other side of things.Out in the wild, where no one tells me what to do, where to be, what to say, or when to wake up. It’s all me and my own creation.

Creating my legacy business, bringing my very best gifts to the table, and finally feeling like I’m adding value to the world.

It’s so thrilling.

And so devastating.

Founding a heart-led business, your very own authentic version of self-expression, is asking you to constantly and repeatedly re-invent yourself.

To create things and then throw them over. Build systems and then deconstruct them.

Always doing and re-doing things. Every iteration of what you offer, what you put out into the world another challenge for you to level up.

Always growing, then crumbling.

Confident AF one day, angry and lost the next.

Would I ever go back? No way.

But sometimes,I need those little reminders that I’m still human, imperfect.Sometimes I do need permission to drop things. Sometimes I need to forgive myself for procrastinating endlessly.

Business creation needs nervous system resilience.

If you want to know how to build it, DM me 'Resilience' and I tell you exactly how I'm doing it.

You got this.
x Elena

07/09/2025

‘Sorry,we don’t promote spiritual fluff’

…said the shop owner to me after she’d taken down my Somatic Yoga flyer from her window.

Exhale.

Promoting new paradigm work can feel so frustrating.

I live in an area that is so saturated with healing modalities that I often don’t get further than saying ‘I’m a Yoga teacher’ before the other person politely fawns a smile,turns away and rolls their eyes.

While I want to say…

‘...and a Somatic Coach. And a Shiatsu practitioner. And so many other things.

in fact, I have over 1000 hours of scientific training in human development, integrative healing, body psychology, trauma safety, TCM, Nervous System resourcing, bodywork, humanistic philosophy, and individual anatomy. In fact, I have spent the last 10 years studying extensively, graduated from 8 recognized schools, and have gained a credential from the International Coaching Federation.

In fact, I’d call my work professional, compassionate process work, not spiritual fluff.’

- but that’s a long sentence for a single breath of response,isn’t it?

Well my dear, that is why we need a longer breath.

Being put into pre-made drawers is part of the reality for paradigm shifters in a world that is still pretty much operating on hustle culture.

Where the attention is still on quick results through performance,on ‘experts’ and methods,on linear success,or else it's 'spiritual fluff' that leads nowhere.

The world is still arriving at recognizing hustle-free healing as a grounded reality.Healing that’s based on resource, not fixing.That’s working with the body, not against it.That takes time and can’t be rushed.

The mainstream still needs much more detangling from outdated delusions of control,re-learning the value of listening to our bodies, of taking our human nature seriously, rather than pushing against it.

Us, in the meantime, need to hold our pose.Need to build our backbone, as coaches, healers, teachers, spaceholders.Need to keep educating.

Need to speak up.

I am holding a free Somatic circle for new paradigm healers craving to strengthen their voice in a world full of noise.

Comment NEW and I’ll send you the link.
x Elena

06/09/2025

For my sweet sensitive souls.

For the quiet healer who doesn’t speak unless she is asked to.

For the subtle, deeply attuned coach who is expert in holding space for her clients but can’t seem to hold her own ground in the wellness industry.

For the generous, humble yoga teacher who guides her students gracefully into self-acceptance, but doesn’t listen to her own need of financial safety.

The ones who understand but don’t express.

The ones who see but don’t show.

The ones who listen but don’t speak.

I have a special Somatic circle for all those who crave to fully step into their visibility but feel muffled by all the noise out there. Who want to hold a business that sustains them fully, seriously, PROFOUNDLY, but refuse to fall into sleazy tactics of false promises, over-simplification, and pretense for the sake of profit.

Those of us who feel deeply, and have a strong vision for our work, but are often overlooked in the crowd. Those who have a lot to say, but don’t stand in the first row shouting.

If that is you, you probably know how frustrating and infuriating it is to be brushed over, to be misunderstood, underestimated, just because we are not as loud, and not as shiny as our ‘competitors’.

I hear you.

I’ve been there myself for the longest time since transitioning into my full-time business as a Somatic Coach and Yoga guide, down here in my little cave, watching the big voices of the healing industry shouting out quick fixes and dubious promises. Brewing my soup in silence, waiting until it is my turn to speak.

I almost believed the ingrained messages of nowadays hustle culture that only the loudest, fastest, and boldest make it as coaches and business owners, especially in the competitive online world.

But I am here now to call Bu****it on that.

And I am inviting you into a space where you can hear your own voice again.Where you can feel your power. Taste your unique flavour.

Where we invite our bodies into a play with Fire and Earth, re-awakening and remembering our truth, our power as creators, and our depth as humans.

🔥 RAISE YOUR VOICE I Thurs 11 Sep I 6pm UK/ 1pm EST

DM 'VOICE' to join.

x Elena

29/08/2025

This one is for the quiet voices.

The gentle healers. The humble guides. The candid coaches.

Who don’t speak unless they’re asked to.

Who don’t object unless they’re pushed.

Who don’t make a fuss about themselves unless they’re really really hurting.

We don’t always add our two cents to any conversation.We don’t always shout out when we see the lie.

Sometimes we don’t even flinch when we’re shoved to the side.

But we feel it all.
We feel it so deeply.

The sensitive souls in a mindless world.

We hear you when you shout too loudly.

We taste it when you get too bitter.

We smell it when you're full of bu****it.

We sense it when you're uncomfortable.

We see it when you hold up a facade.

We see a world of healing business that is so full of pretense, false expertism, empty promises.

And we feel there's something terribly wrong with that.

But we keep silent. And we watch. We wait.

Because we have so much patience.So much capacity.

Because we don't want to interrupt, disturb, or annoy anyone.

We’re so good at playing small.

Way too good.

I say ENOUGH.

Enough of storing your anger, your frustration, your exhaustion of enduring to be brushed over while the loudest one gets to speak.

Enough of quietly standing in the dark corner watching the brightest one take the spotlight.

I see you in the dark.I hear you in the noise.

And I know you are holding a deep, candid truth for the world.Your medicine.Your contribution.

I'd like to hear you speak it louder.

I'd like you to understand your sensitivity as a gift that not everyone has access to.That the world is desperately in need of.

This quiet anger you're feeling.Your fire.Your heat.Your voice.

That's your power.

And you have a choice to keep it in, and keep enduring.

Or to transmute it into your brightest gift.Your unique expression in the world.

You know I am talking to you.

And I am inviting you to my gathering, for sensitive coaches, yoga teachers, space holders, who are ready to emerge from the dark, and breathe FIRE into their business.

We are meeting in the vulcano, down in your body, extracting your unique flavour, your voice,freeing it from the precautions.

Free

Dm FIRE to join.

05/08/2025

You know the truth.

Even though you may not believe it at this moment.

Even though you may have been trained to ignore it, to ridicule it, to brush over it.

You blurt it out, sometimes, then cover it with a nervous laugh, looking down.

I’m talking about the universal truths we all carry in ourselves.

You’re free inside. You’re connected to everything.

And yet you’re sovereign. True to yourself.

You know what you really want.
You know what you need to say No to.
You know what’s real and what’s bullsh*t.

You know your why.
You know your way.

And it doesn’t matter if you’ve been distracted.

If you’ve been blinded, if you’ve been shamed, told off, scared into pretending.

You still know it.

Your truth will never abandon you, never betray you, and never forget you.

As long as you choose to remember.

This is my Why for the somatic spaces I’m holding. Creating the right conditions so you can find your way back to this truth of yours.

Simply. Calmly. Through your body.

💫 Sovereign Body is the space where we shed the layers that have kept you disconnected from your own wisdom and check back in to what’s real, and what’s true.

In community, remembering together.

🔥 DM me ‘Truth’ if you want to be in and I’ll share the roadmap with you.

Love,
Elena

Endereço

Aljezur

Website

http://www.bendyminds.com/

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