Heart's Garden

11/24/2025

It's true! Join me sometime!
🤣❤️🧘‍♀️

11/15/2025

❤️🙏❤️

No one tells you that peace can feel like breaking.
That after years of running on adrenaline and hypervigilance,
the moment your body stops bracing — it crashes.

You think you’re falling apart.
You’re not.
You’re finally coming down from a lifetime of surviving.

For years, your nervous system lived in emergency mode —
heart racing, muscles clenched, mind scanning for threat.
You called it anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism.
But really, it was a body that never got the memo: the danger is over.

So when healing begins, it doesn’t feel graceful — it feels confusing.
You can’t focus.
You’re exhausted for no reason.
You lose motivation, feel detached, even depressed.
Not because you’re broken — but because your body is finally safe enough to stop pretending it’s fine.

This is what repair looks like.
The crash isn’t failure — it’s recalibration.
It’s your cells exhaling after decades of holding their breath.
It’s your nervous system moving from vigilance to vulnerability.

You’re not lazy.
You’re unlearning emergency.

Let yourself rest without guilt.
The world taught you to glorify resilience,
but recovery has its own quiet strength —
the kind that rebuilds from the inside out.

So if all you can do right now is breathe,
if your body feels heavy, slow, or foreign —
don’t fight it.
That’s your system learning peace,
one surrendered moment at a time.

You’re not falling apart.
You’re finally letting go.

11/04/2025

I'm gunna say this one real loud for ya'll in the back:

📣ANGER is a

👏Normal
👏Healthy
👏Valid

emotion that NEEDS to be felt and expressed.

We're human.
Life hurts.
It ain't fair.
Patience wears thin.
People suck.
... but what do we do with it?

For so long we've been taught (women in particular) to bottle that $&*t up and burry it deep down inside.
"Be grateful."
"Look for the silver lining."
🤮 BArF.

But what happens when the bottle is full and there's nowhere within the burial grounds of our rage to stuff it? ...
💥Explosive, harmful, reactive RAGE rises. And, more often than not, hurts the innocent people that stand in its wake. 💥

When we stuff it, pretend like it doesn't exist, put a pretty smile on our faces for the sake of "being nice", it doesn't magically dissappear. It stays trapped inside of our bodies carried as dense energy that eventually manifests into physical pain {dis-ease} or, as mentioned above, acts like a ticking time bomb that explodes in all the wrong places.
...

With a bangin 2000s alt rock Playlist 🤘and some punches and kicks thrown into our cardio at yesterday's sculpt class, I was reminded of how necessary it is to embody, express, and release this sacred emotion.

Anger is fuel. Anger is a motivator. Anger is a non negotiable nemesis to face along our journey of healing... a nemesis that can easily become an ally should we give it room to be heard, felt, embodied, and released. ...

It's okay to be angry. It's what we do with the anger that counts.

🥊 Smash a punching bag.
😱 Scream into a pillow.
🏋‍♀️ Work out.
🎨 Create.

Do something with it before it owns you....

^what's your favorite 🌟HEALTHY🌟 way to move through your anger?

---- I'm gunna drop yesterday's Playlist in the comments - fellow millennial/gen x'rs, feel free to scream it at the top of your lungs.
😘👊💥

11/02/2025

10/31/2025

🎃💀October 31st - November 2nd💀🎃

Halloween 🧡 Sahmain 🖤 All Hallows Eve 🧡 All Saints Day 🖤 Dias De Los Mu***os 🧡

From childhood onward, I've witnessed so much controversy surrounding this holiday.
With each person landing somewhere different on the spectrum of Halloween celebration - from believing it's evil to going all out with spiritual ritual - many land somewhere in between with the casual costume party and traditional bucket of candy collected going door to door.

What I see, particularly in this day and age (and within the safety net of social media where everyone feels entitled to tell you the right way to live your life), is this holiday being used as yet another reason to create divide.

🧙‍♀️Those who celebrate the origins of Samhain, deemed evil witches by those of stricter religious backgrounds.

🍬Those who are in it for the candy and costumes, called out to be ignorant posers by the "deeply spiritual" crowd.

💀Those with Latin heritage celebrating the day of the dead here in America, well, we've seen how supported our Hispanic brothers and sisters are in this country right now... 💔
...
Whatever your background or personal beliefs, one thing I know for certain is that we need LESS DIVISION and MORE LOVE.
Today, and every day.

When we look at all origins of these holidays, they have one thing in common.
At their core, they are all based on honoring our loved ones who've gone on before us.
A day(s) of remembrance.
Of memories.
Of tears.
Of laughter.

Whether you believe in the presence of spirit beyond the physical body, or simply reflect on the impact those now gone had on your life, we can ALL find common ground in the fact that each of us have suffered loss, and will continue to do so on this journey of being alive and human.

So rather than going out of your way to cast judgment upon those who think and feel differently than you, I encourage all of us to sit in a different space this weekend.
A space where we give zero *%ks about what anyone else is doing with their time.
A space where we take out old pictures, tell some old stories, light a few candles, laugh, cry, and honor the memories of those we have loved and lost in this life.

Today, I want to remind those moving through grief that you're not alone.

Today, I sit with you all in remembrance.
💀❤️💀

📷The comments below are a SAFE SPACE where I invite all to drop a picture(s) of the loved ones in spirit you'd like to honor today.

10/28/2025

🌬🍂CHANGES🍁🌬

As I soak up the stillness of these colder, dreary days, I sit and listen to the wind. She's been howling for what seems like weeks on end up on the hill I now call home.

I won't lie. Wind is the last of the elements I've welcomed into my heart along the journey back to my roots in mother nature.

She's messy.
She's cold.
She's unpredictable.
As soon as you've made some order of things, she comes blustering in and blows it all away.

For most of my life I've played the anchor - the paper weight - the bungee chord who desperately tries to hold things in place when it's all being swept away by her gales.

But this year is different. A theme of surrender made itself known as I cracked open the pages of 2025, and it's a theme I've committed to time and again as the pages have turned.

With each chapter came resistance and heartache, but also came lightness and ease. Each time I'd try to hold on to what was naturally falling away, the lessons got louder. The wind blew stronger. The letting go became mandatory, because in my story, it's time for this chapter to close.

As I sit in this liminal space, awaiting the magic of the chapters to come, I now listen to the wind with great reverence. I sit in stillness as I let her do her work of sweeping away what now lies dead and dormant.
I embrace her, as it is she who'll lift me up with wings spread wide in seasons to come. ..
This week Heart's Garden is moving out of Washington Square Mall, my family is closing on the house we've called home for nearly a decade, and we officially begin a new chapter on 52 beautiful acres of land we now call home.

Incredible things are in the works, but for now, we rest, we release, we surrender to the winds of change.

❤️🙏❤️

09/22/2025

Do you feel it?

The gentle unraveling and drifting away of seasons past?

It's with every inhale that we invite the new, and within the exhale that we release...

But are we breathing fully?

Are we bringing that new life into the belly to be nourished and churned?

Are we exhaling to its very bottom to release the weight that's kept us anchored in the past?

There's no right or wrong...
Just notice.
Then commit to breathing deeper.

Change can be fearful, yes, but it is also one of life's few certainties.

Today, and every day, step outside and breathe deeply.

You are not alone in this season of change.
🍁🍃🙏❤️🙏🍃🍁

09/18/2025

09/17/2025

Back to guide you through your noon flow at 180 balance: Yoga Fitness today.
See you on your mat ❤️

09/16/2025

You can catch me subbin for Bobbi Jo Koons this Tuesday at NOON @ 180 balance: Yoga Fitness 🌀..
Mindful movement.
Breath 🫁 with intention.
Facilitate flow from within.

08/22/2025

Have you ever looked up to the stars to wonder why this human experience didn’t come with an owner’s manual? 😊 Don’t worry, you’re not alone. So much of life is nothing more than trial and error, learning as we go with no road map to lead the way.
But what if we told you that there IS a blueprint, a guide, a soul map that was intricately designed for you the moment you entered this world!?

Well it’s true – and it’s all written in the stars!

When it comes to astrology and our birth charts, the amount of information available is downright overwhelming. Where to start, what to look for, planets, houses, signs and crosses – it will all make your head spin if you don’t start with the foundational basics.
And hey – that’s where we come in! 👋

Join us to learn astrology basics like:

✔️Zodiac Signs
✔️ Planets
✔️Houses
✔️Aspects
✔️How to begin reading your birth chart
✔️How the movement of the planets and cosmos influence your life
✔️How to apply this new knowledge to your day to day living

🤓EXCLUSIVE FOR NEW STUDENTS:
Each attendee will receive a full astrological birth chart, hand crafted and imbued with magic and love by Twyla of Enchanted Waters.

🎓RETURNING STUDENTS- REFRESHER OPTION:
If you’ve taken astrology 101 before and want to refresh your knowledge or dive a little deeper, select the “refresher” option at checkout. We’ve revamped the notes and handouts, so you’ll get a new set, but please bring your birth chart and a notebook!

📅Wednesday, August 27th @ 6PM

Hosted EssenceEdge in Detroit Lakes

Teachers -
Twyla & Leah

Grab your spot by clicking the link in the comments below! 👇

08/08/2025

You guys, it's been a hot minute.
For real.
Where the f*'k did summer go?
I mean, it's still August, but we all know this month slips through our hands like water, right?

A) who's ready for kids to go back to school? 🙋‍♀️🤣🤦‍♀️😭

B) Who's ready to see what I've been working on and what's ready to launch at Heart's Garden with the coming season?

I haven't missed social media this summer, but man I've missed this community! Looking forward to all that's to come.
So much love ❤️ see you soon. 😎