Integrative Life Therapy LLC, Anne Esguerra c-IAYT

03/29/2026

AWAKEN: a somatic practice
The melt has begun for the world around us & it’s likely that you are feeling it too!
Emerging at a time like now with what’s happening in the world around us might not feel like something you want to do OR maybe you feel this sense of RUSHING forward rather than wiggling out of the frosty cave.
The practice of emergence leans into re-awakening with our personal soma (the living, felt body), inhabiting the space where primal movement already knows the way, the direction, the movement, the breath.

What to expect::
We’ll explore practice seated or lying down on the floor
Slow, exploratory movement like lengthening, stretching, wiggling, rocking, rolling
The use of props to support sensation & release
Wear comfortable clothing that will support your freedom of movement

This is for you if you’re:
Finding ways to show up amidst the world chaos happening
Looking for tools to tone your nervous system when anxious or activated
Looking to (re)connect with your intuition & self guidance more frequently
In need of space to just BE!

Bring:
You! And anything that brings you ease or comfort: journals, cozy layers, water/tea
Any props or blankets; we do have these available in the space for you to use (mats, blankets, bolsters, blocks)
Curiosity & an openness to play

No prior experience is needed. Sign up link in BIO

03/27/2026

One of the hardest truths I can tell folks right now is
“This likely isn’t gonna be about relaxing right now…maybe not for a while”

I share this with clients & students looking for relief. But I am not built to shield anyone from this system that’s continuously revealing layer after layer of tactics of harm as what feels like 1/sec.

What I am here for is to share ways we move through this together. Ways to metabolize bit by bit of this f*ckin sh*tstorm right now. Because if there is anything my ancestors have showed me, it is
“WE GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER! ISANG BAGSAK”

So you can count on me to not sugar coat sh*t 💯

We get through this together ✊🏽
We are Kapwa people 🫶🏽💓

Slide 1 - trad med tea bag quote
Slide 2 - Wild Turkey fam
Slide 3 - snow roll…even the car needs to roll one
Slide 4 - flat banana on side walk

02/23/2026

I feel challenged to even find the words to describe this moment in time.
Even my practice has felt elusive, disgruntled & demanding in an avoidant, (diss)associated kind of way.

So here comes a way…a way to practice together, a way to allow the change to inhabit the spaces within us, a way to integrate this level of change from a deep sense of knowing self because of practicing with self (and in turn one another).

This practice co-facilitated & inspired into action with , .with.jess & myself. This is an intentionally small curated group with 5 spots left if you’d like to join us.

DM me for the registration link.

We get through this together ✊🏽
We are Kapwa people 🫶🏽✨

With love & appreciation,
Anne

01/30/2026

REMINDER:

Online chair yoga classes are ALWAYS FREE - TUES/THURS/FRI
In person WED 9am Scarborough community center ALWAYS FREE

Videos accessible ALWAYS

Link in BIO

DM me for additional support

We get through this together 🫶🏽
We are KAPWA people ❤️💪🏽💞

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01/25/2026

Please check out this resource, share with your neighbors & friends. Know that you can always DM for support.

We get through this together.
We are Kapwa people 🫶🏽💪🏽

Holistic Trauma Support for asylum seekers, new immigrants & Refugees We are now assisting clients world wide. We provide one on one support chats with licensed social workers, virtual trainings and classes. We are also providing trauma support groups in Dzaleka Refugee Camp. Volunteers are always n...

01/09/2026

Adapted from its original form to meet the moment.
This is what our practice can provide so we keep moving forward as a collective.

We get through this together ✊🏽
We are Kapwa people 🫶🏽🤝🫶🏽

12/31/2025

To another turn of the page 🫶🏽

12/08/2025

We’re not living our yoga practice!
As yoga teachers, exercising our control issues/projection onto yoga students is not YOGA. Completing a Yoga Teacher Training (no matter how many hours) doesn’t give us the authority to tell yoga students to “do as I say” or assume to know what’s best for them. Dominant culture, shaped by western white supremacy culture demands order, perfection, and quiet submission. It encourages a “no pain no gain” mentality of “pushing past your comfort zone” without acknowledging folks who live in bodies that have never even experienced comfort. It shows up as ignoring someone’s personal boundaries, labeling them “disrespectful” or “disruptive” for honoring their own needs. It is our fear of perceived chaos that defines it as insubordinate or out of line.

But yoga is a practice of relationship. It cultivates awareness, compassion and knowing that whatever is happening for someone else is separate from your ego as a teacher. It asks us to create space where people feel permission to be themselves, to feel welcome as they are, not shamed or corrected for meeting themselves where they are at.

And in those moments that feel “out of control” the real practice is revealed: pausing, observing and inquiring within. Yeah…that.
Let’s talk more about that at our upcoming workshop for Yoga Teachers & Yoga Studio Owners, THE VIBE IS A LIE: UNF*CK YOUR YOGA TEACHING.

We hope you’ll join in this conversation with us!
❤️Anne & Liz



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Slide2: red text added to original artwork

12/04/2025

Mainstream wellness culture leans hard into hyper-individualism;— a focus on the SELF above all else: self-care, self-control, self-growth, etc. This fixation excludes the folks from cultures of collective wellness traditions in which yoga originates.

Believing the SELF exists in isolation in this world discounts how we affect, relate to and engage with our environment, with other beings, within systems, and shared practices. It encourages a way of living that feeds the cycle of capitalism, selling the illusion of quick fixes & easy solutions. By buying into that illusion, we bypass the deeper work: of relationships, the discomfort, the areas of growth & understanding we need to tend to in order to move forward together.

Mainstream wellness culture pushes “positive vibes only”, ignoring the wisdom that comes from acknowledging the full spectrum of experience - , the balance, the entire picture, the everything that is actual yoga. The wellness that is only possible when WE do so together. Let’s move from the ME to the WE!

Join Integrative Life Therapy and Electric Cottage Collective for THE VIBE IS A LIE: UNF*CK YOUR YOGA TEACHING…

11/25/2025

What we see on the surface of modern Western “wellness culture” are things like fad diets, dream catchers, the idealization of thinness, whiteness, and wealth—manifesting as $25 yoga classes, Lululemon pants and “namaslay” merch. This is not wellness.

It’s a cultural illness: cultural appropriation, spiritual bypassing, individualism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and the commodification of entire cultures. And I say this as someone who used to go to hot yoga almost every day. If I missed a day, I didn’t “feel well.” But… is that wellness? Or is it a more insidious version of our addiction to grind culture disguised as self-care?

Yoga was meant to connect our mind, body, and spirit to “universal consciousness”. But somewhere along the way, it became a workout where we’re praised for pushing past our limits instead of listening to our bodies—bodies that might be asking for softness, rest, and slowing down.

Yoga studio culture often celebrates showing up to as many classes as humanly possible, instead of asking, “Are you okay?” when someone walks in for their seventh class of the week. Let’s start to unravel some of this…

Keep your eyes peeled for a collab between Integrative Life Therapy and Electric Cottage Collective, where we’ll dive deeper into all of this and explore what really practicing yoga and collective wellness could look like.

10/27/2025

INHABIT the space you’re in…

I often like to walk without knowing where I’m going. No map, leaning into the trust I will be brought where I need to go. On this walk I came upon musical sculptures & met the universe’s request to play along.

When I give myself permission to inhabit the space I’m in, something moves me, a deep well of wisdom within, generations of information comes pouring out. And though I’ve never heard the gongs played by my ancestors, I felt them with me here.

05/29/2025