Yolagi

Yolagi You are important! Specializing in Yoga / Meditation / Reiki, Spiritual coaching, & Nutrition

04/22/2026

Not everything in life needs to be solved right away.
Sometimes the feeling of being “off” isn’t a problem but it’s a signal.

A signal to slow down.
A signal to listen.
A signal to come back into relationship with yourself.

I’ve learned that when I try to think my way out of those moments, I just create more noise. More tension. More disconnect. But when I sit down with my instrument and let myself feel instead of figure everything out the transition begins.

Music for me is retuning to presence.
Returning to truth.
Returning to a frequency where I don’t have to force anything to be okay.

If you’ve been feeling out of whack lately, you’re not alone.

Maybe you don’t need an answer right now.

Maybe you just need a moment to pause, to listen, to let something gentle hold you for a bit.

Save this for the days when things feel heavy.

And share it with someone who might need a reminder to come back to themselves. 🎶✨

04/17/2026

Chill out and reset your vibes with a soothing Nada Sound Bath experience that’ll leave you feeling lighter and refreshed.

Nada, the Sound of Yoga is finding the quiet within from the noise. It is about tuning to the stillness to connect with the eternal self. There are many things that we hold. Nada helps create space to surrender as vibration softens to remove the layers of tension emotion, and negative frequencies from over time.

This Nada Sound experience doesn’t require you to know or come with anything but only yourself and an open heart. Through multi instruments, mantras, vocal toning & breathwork, you will be guided to rest and recovery. You do not have to do a thing except be present. Come as you are to release through sound. Dm for details or registration.

Led by Yolanda, 200-Hour Certified Sound Healing Practitioner & Trainer | E-RYT 500 | ISTA Recognized | YACEP Provider

04/15/2026

When we gather with the gong, we’re not just making sound but we’re creating a shared vibration.

Something that can’t really be explained and only felt.

Each strike of the gong sends out waves, and those waves don’t stay separate from us. They move through the room, through breath, through body.

And in that movement, something begins to shift.

We’re not trying to escape anything here. We’re not trying to force healing or manufacture peace.
We’re simply allowing space for sound to do what it naturally does to
move, release, and reorganize what’s already within us.

This is what sacred space feels like to me. Not something distant or separate but something created together, moment by moment, breath by breath.

The gong becomes the center point,
but the real experience is the field we build around it.

People arrive with different energies, different days, different stories and still, somehow, we meet in the same rhythm.

Not because we become the same but because we become present at the same time.

And that presence is powerful.

It softens the edges.
It slows the mind.
It brings us back into the body, into the room, into now.

So when I hold space with the gong,
I’m not just playing sound into silence.

I’m inviting us to remember:
we are already part of something vibrating together.

And maybe that’s what healing really is not fixing, not forcing but returning to resonance.

04/14/2026

Nada Yoga is the practice of turning attention toward sound until everything else falls away.

Not to escape but to meet what’s underneath the noise.

In that listening, the body starts to reorganize itself. The mind stops leading. Something quieter takes over.

In this space, sound isn’t background. It becomes the guide. It moves through what the mind can’t organize and brings the body back into alignment with itself.

Thank you to everyone who trusted me and stepped into this space.

If you’re wanting to stay connected but through movement, I also offer something different:

Gentle Yoga
Wednesdays at 4pm
A slower, supportive practice to help you stay grounded in your body.

04/13/2026

There’s a difference between information and wisdom and most of us were only taught how to collect information.

In many traditional lineages, knowledge wasn’t something you could separate from the person carrying it. It wasn’t stored in books or saved for later.

It was lived.

Oral traditions required presence in a way we’re not always used to today.
You had to listen fully.
You had to remember.
You had to feel what was being shared, not just understand it intellectually.

Because once something was spoken &
it became your responsibility to hold it with care.

That kind of learning creates a different relationship to knowledge.
It slows you down.
It asks more of you.
It invites you into participation instead of passive consumption.

And maybe that’s what feels so different now:
we have access to endless information,
but very little space to truly integrate any of it.

When everything is instantly available, it’s easy to lose the depth that comes from staying with something long enough for it to actually change you.

Oral traditions remind us that wisdom isn’t just about what is said but it’s about how it’s received,
how it’s carried, and how it’s honored over time.

They remind us that knowledge is not meant to sit outside of usbut to move through us.

To shape the way we speak,
the way we listen, the way we we show up in the world.

And maybe that’s the deeper invitation!

Not to know more but to be with what we know in a different way.

04/10/2026

Sound is one of the oldest healing tools on the planet. Before medicine. Before therapy. Before any of the systems we rely on today there was sound. 🥁

Every culture across the world has used it. Drumming. Chanting. Toning. Singing. Not for entertainment but for healing, prayer, and energetic transformation. Our ancestors knew something that science is now catching up to.

When you hear or produce certain frequencies your nervous system responds. Your heart rate shifts. Your brainwaves shift. Cortisol drops. The body moves out of stress and into a state where it can actually heal and receive.

Mantras work the same way. A mantra is not just words. It is vibration. When you chant, the sound moves through out your whole body. It creates a physical resonance in the body that affects your energy field. That is not mystical thinking but that is acoustic anatomy . ✨

And here is the part that matters for abundance specifically. Most of us are walking around in a constant state of survival frequency. Stress, lack , and fear. That frequency repels what we are asking for. Sound and mantra work to literally retune the body out of that state and into one that can magnetize and receive. 💛

That is what this drum does. That is what this mantra is doing as well
You do not have to understand it fully to benefit from it. You just have to be open. 🥁

Save this. Share it with someone who needs a frequency shift today. 🙏🏾

04/08/2026

Sound has a profound effect on our minds and bodies, often in ways we don’t even notice. Certain frequencies can calm the nervous system, helping us release tension we didn’t even realize we were holding. Other tones can energize, shift our focus, or even change our emotional state.

Everyday sounds—the hum of a room, the rustle of leaves, the rhythm of rain—carry subtle vibrations that influence how we feel, how we move, and even how we breathe. When we pay attention to sound intentionally, it can become a tool for presence, relaxation, and self-awareness.

If you’re curious about experiencing this directly, I’m hosting a gentle yoga + sound class where soft movement and immersive sound guide the body and mind into a state of calm and clarity. You’re welcome to join and feel the difference for yourself

04/07/2026

The chest is where we store everything we didn’t process.

Grief. Unexpressed anger. Love we were too scared to give. Years of sitting at desks and hunching over phones and bracing for impact.

And then we wonder why we feel anxious, disconnected, or like something is sitting on our sternum.

Heart openers aren’t just yoga poses.
They stimulate the vagus nerve, improve respiratory function, counteract forward head posture, and signal safety to your nervous system. When the chest lifts, the breath deepens. When the breath deepens, the nervous system regulates. When the nervous system regulates, everything shifts.

Anahata - the heart chakra - governs your capacity for love, grief, compassion, and connection. When it’s blocked, you feel it. Closed off. Guarded. Like there’s a wall between you and everything you actually want.
This is why we open the front body. Not just for posture. For access.

Three ways to keep the heart open off the mat:

✦ Breathe into your chest intentionally — most of us shallow breathe all day.
Three slow breaths where you feel your sternum rise is a reset your nervous system will respond to immediately.

✦ Say the thing you’ve been holding - to someone safe, to your journal, to the air. Unexpressed emotion is stored energy. Moving it through language moves it through the body.

✦ Put your hand on your heart and mean it not performatively. Pause. Feel the warmth. Let yourself be witnessed by yourself. That’s Anahata work.
Your heart is not too much. It just needs space. 🖤🌹 🧘🏾‍♀️

04/06/2026

Nobody teaches you how to protect your light. They just expect you to figure it out while people dim it. Here’s what I wish someone told me sooner. 🔥
5 ways to protect your light:
1. Stop explaining yourself to people who’ve already decided who you are. Let your life speak and keep moving.
2. Audit your circle honestly. Some connections are draining your light slowly and you’ve normalized it.
3. Return to your practice before you’re in crisis. Protection happens before the depletion.
4. Celebrate yourself out loud. Stop waiting for the room to clap first. Be your own witness.
5. Remember whose fire you’re carrying. This light was passed down through people who weren’t supposed to make it and did.
This isn’t a one-time decision. It’s a daily, intentional choice to stay fully alive in a world that benefits from you being small.
Save this for when you need it. ✨

04/02/2026

Most of us are conditioned to look outside ourselves for motivation and waiting for the right post, the right video, or the right person to inspire us. But here’s the thing: true motivation is internal. You can’t rely on someone else to consistently push you forward.

Here are a few techniques to generate your own drive:

1. Micro Wins: Break your goals into tiny, achievable steps. Completing small tasks creates a chain reaction of accomplishment that fuels bigger actions.

2. Morning Priming: Start your day with a short ritual—journaling, movement, or breathwork—that centers your energy and reminds you why you’re doing what you’re doing.

3. Self-Contracts: Make agreements with yourself, not others. Write down what you will do, and hold yourself accountable. The act of commitment itself sparks action.

4. Energy Mapping: Notice when you feel most alive and productive during the day. Schedule your most important work during those windows to maximize your momentum.

5. Reflection Rituals: At the end of the day, review what went well, what energized you, and what drained you. This builds self-awareness, so you can lean into what naturally motivates you.

When you shift from seeking external validation to cultivating internal drive, you realize: you are your own spark, your own engine. Motivation isn’t something you wait for but it’s something you create, every single day.

03/30/2026

🌿 Why Beginner Vinyasa Flow Transforms More Than the Body 🌿

1️⃣ Builds Functional Strength & Flexibility
Flowing sequences engage your core, shoulders, and legs while gently stretching joints. Over time, this improves mobility, posture, and resilience—preparing the body to move fluidly in daily life.

2️⃣ Breath, Pause & Presence
Each transition links breath to movement. The pauses teach patience, showing you how not to react impulsively but to respond with awareness. Learning to stay present on the mat carries into everyday life, helping manage stress and emotions.

3️⃣ Cultivates Trust & Overcoming Obstacles
Beginners face challenges—balancing, lifting, or holding a pose. Every attempt builds trust in yourself, your body, and your breath. You learn that falling isn’t failure—it’s an opportunity to reset, breathe, and move forward with intention.

4️⃣ Strengthens Mind-Body Awareness
Vinyasa trains attention to subtle sensations, timing, and alignment. You become more attuned to what your body needs, fostering confidence, patience, and self-compassion.

Beginner Vinyasa isn’t just a workout—it’s a practice in trust, presence, and mindful growth, one breath at a time. 🌟 Join me on Wed at Pacha Collective for Beginner’s Vinyasa Flow.

03/26/2026

Join us for more than just a sound bath experience. This is an invitation to stop holding it together even if just for one night.

Something in you is already transitioning. Already shifting. Already loosening at the edges in ways you can feel but cannot explain. Things haven’t been feeling right within and not in a way you can point to or fix, just an inner knowing that something is off.

A restlessness that sleep doesn’t touch. A longing for stillness that the world keeps interrupting. You have been carrying it the weight of it, the tightness of it, the exhaustion of managing it and somewhere underneath all of that effort is a version of you that is desperate to breathe.

This is where you can allow it to happen.

This is for the one in the middle of it. The one who is tired of being strong. The one who has been holding on so long they forgot what letting go actually feels like. The one who knows something needs to shift but hasn’t found the space safe enough to let it.
This is that space.

You will journey within and beyond guided not by words but by sound, by frequency, by a sonic altar built specifically to hold you while you fall apart just enough to come back together.

The unraveling is not the loss of yourself. It is the finding.

Every sound in this space is natural. Organic. Unaltered. Arriving to your body in its truest frequency the way sound was always meant to be received, before the world filtered it, processed it, and turned it into noise.

This is not your typical sound bath. With over 21 crystal and copper singing bowls, voice, gongs, drums, strings, crystal xylophone & more, we will build a sound field that meets you exactly where you are and takes you exactly as deep as you are ready to go. Reg: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1985312561314?aff=oddtdtcreator

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You are important when it comes to healing! We offer a variety of services to help you begin to heal the natural way. We are here help you on your journey offering emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual support. We believe that building a relationship with a strong support system is important. We don’t just offer you healing but also provide you with tools and techniques you need to overcome stress, traumas, and experiences that affect the overall mind, spirit, and body.