Mom Wife Soul YOGA

11/06/2025

🍂 A new rhythm is unfolding at Heal-Thy Self Yoga: The Blissful Path & Holistic Wellness Retreats ~ for women across every season of life, seeking deeper connection, embodiment, and the courage to live their own medicine, heal from life’s challenges, and step fully into their power 🪄✨️

✨ Embody Your Movement Medicine ✨
"You are the practitioner of your own practice".
Seasonal rituals for self-care, reflection, and renewal ~ delivered straight to your inbox. 💌

~ Each newsletter is a gentle invitation to slow down, reconnect with your body, and root into what sustains and nourishes you. Inside, you’ll find practices, reflections, and inspiration to help you live in rhythm with the seasons ~ and with yourself.

~ Soon, we’re also opening the doors to "The Self & Soul Sanctuary" ~ a space for connection, self-care rituals of renewal, and embodied living.

Together we’ll move, breathe, and restore through:
🌿 Weekly tune-ins ~ guided breathwork, Qi Gong, and grounding rituals
🌙 Monthly restore & yoga sessions ~ deeper dives into vitality, balance, and healing through the phases of our lives
✨ Rooted in our signature Embodied Medicine Map ~ a modern framework for self-awareness, rhythm, and renewal.
🍂 Seasonal Retreats & Embodied Experiences ~ sacred spaces to move, restore, and realign with the rhythms of your life, nurturing your body, soul, and the seasons within and around you

~ If you’re craving more presence, more meaning, and more harmony in the pace of your days, this is your homecoming. 🩷

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11/06/2025

Return to yourself, always. 🕊✨️🍂

10/02/2025

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10/02/2025

✨ Re-sharing this one because it feels close to my heart. If it speaks to you, drop a 💕 or let me know in the comments.

10/01/2025

~ One practice I love for simple, joyful self-connection is the Inner Smile meditation, an ancient Taoist / Qigong technique. 💕 Smiling energy flows into your heart, your organs, your whole body and being. It can be practiced anywhere you are ~ walking, in quiet pauses, during yoga, or even in ordinary daily moments. 🤲 By weaving the sacred into the ordinary, we awaken our natural vitality and presence. 💕

This practice is not about bypassing pain or discomfort. 🪄✨️ It’s about befriending it, cultivating joy within it, and greeting yourself with care and compassion. 💕

It’s about saying: I see you. Thank you for carrying me. And I’m still here ~ fully alive, present, open to joy, open to grief, open to my life. 👣🌱🌷

This is the work I’m here for: to navigate grief, welcome joy, learn from both, and share the medicine of life. 🕊☀️

09/30/2025

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09/25/2025

Why Grief Work is Essential to Our Wellness & the Key to Our Bliss 🤲✨️🩷

Separating our wellness from the reality of human life is what keeps us disconnected & stuck. It’s when we bridge the gap that we create the medicine & the alchemy within our own body and being.

We often treat wellness like an escape. We’ll go to a retreat, take a class, or do a practice ~ but then we come back home, and life is still overwhelming. The problems, the situation, the stress, it's all still there.

Why? Because we separate our practice from our life. We leave our struggles, our grief, our humanity behind. We push away the hard stuff as if it doesn’t belong in our well-being. But life & wellness can’t be compartmentalized to see the benefits.

The emotions we call “negative” ~ anger, grief, sorrow, struggle ~ are not the enemy, our avoidance of them is. If we repress them, deny them, or try to escape them, they linger and quietly (or loudly) & shape our lives without our permission.

But here’s the key: when we allow these experiences ~ our reality, our suffering, our humanity ~ into our retreat, our class, or our practice, as a part of who we are, the practice itself becomes medicine. Otherwise, its just a workout. That’s the difference between doing a practice & being the practice. 🤲✨️

When we welcome the full spectrum of our human experience into our body and heart, something shifts. It’s like turning a light on in a dark room ~ the alchemy of integration happens ✨🤲

We return home clearer, more fulfilled, more connected. We are no longer operating from avoidance or escape, but from presence, wholeness, and clarity 🕊️

Wellness is no longer a temporary pause or fleeting bliss ~ it becomes a remedy, an antidote, a medicine. Through this practice, our struggles, our grief, our humanity are not obstacles ~ they are the doorway.

🤲✨️ Your undivided attention is the key to your own health, vitality, and healing. Your full human experience ~ your highs, your lows, your suffering ~ is the path. When you bring it all in, you become living, breathing, embodied well-being.

09/24/2025

🌱 Grief Is the Soil, Bliss Is the Bloom 🌷

Grief and bliss reflect one another. Grief changes how we see the value of life. It calls us to notice what matters most and understand the depth and height of our human experience. It gives us meaning.

From the soil of our suffering, a flower rises and bliss blooms. Grief, like compost, nourishes the blossoming of new life, and bliss carries the echo of that soil. They are compassionate companions on the path to emotional and spiritual well-being.

Gratitude, wonder, appreciation ~ they grow naturally from the depth grief has created within us.

This balancing act of light and dark surrounds us in all of nature and existence. It's evidenced in everything we witness and shows us the way to healing, presence, and wholeness.

The path to wholesome bliss is uniting our suffering with our joy, acknowledging both as medicine for the soul. 👣🌱🌷☀️

The darkest night gives way to dawn. Winter's cold softens into spring sun. Blossoms fall, feed the earth, and the earth feeds new life. Even in spring, the memory of winter lingers and will return again. Even in daylight, night waits quietly to return. Life moves through death, and death moves through life.

It's in nature & in our nature.

Grief and bliss are mirrors of each other. To experience bliss, we must experience grief and hardship. Because we experience bliss, we will eventually experience grief, the loss or change of whatever was associated with our bliss.

Death helps us appreciate life. It gives life its value. The darkness of our suffering, the soil of our soul, enriches our being in ways we may not see or understand.

Mary Oliver asks:
“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Grief and bliss live together in us. They are intertwined and woven together. One opens us to presence. The other opens us to gratitude. Both call us to show up fully, to be awake to the brief gift of being here, now, in this body, at this time. This is the heart of embodied well-being. 👣🌱🌷

09/20/2025

❤️🤲✨️🤲❤️ "When we extend our cupped hands, we offer a bottom to our grief. " 🤲✨️❤️🕊️❤️✨️🤲

"The stories of our life have a gravitational pull that will demand that we address the unfinished business that lingers there. It is essential that we keep these stories in front of us, fully conscious of them and sharing them with others. 🤲

Only in this way can their weight draw us into the world and further into our lives. 🤲

If we deny the presence of our grief, it slips behind us, and the gravity it carries pulls us away from the vitality of living. 🤲

Working with grief keeps us present, ensuring the sorrows of our lifetime have been touched and acknowledged and that they are no longer dragging us backward into our history. 🤲

When we extend our cupped hands, we offer a bottom to our grief needing our touch and affection. " -Francis Weller 🤲

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"When we extend our cupped hands, we offer a bottom to our grief. "

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"The stories of our life have a gravitational pull that will demand that we address the unfinished business that lingers there. It is essential that we keep these stories in front of us, fully conscious of them and sharing them with others. 🤲

Only in this way can their weight draw us into the world and further into our lives. 🤲

If we deny the presence of our grief, it slips behind us, and the gravity it carries pulls us away from the vitality of living. 🤲

Working with grief keeps us present, ensuring the sorrows of our lifetime have been touched and acknowledged and that they are no longer dragging us backward into our history. 🤲

When we extend our cupped hands, we offer a bottom to our grief needing our touch and affection. " -Francis Weller 🤲

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09/18/2025

💫 From Inspiration to Connection: Let’s Bring This Circle to Life 🪄☀️✨️🌷

09/17/2025

The Breath of Joy: A Practice for Release + Renewal ❤️✨️🫁🌬

Sometimes the mind loops in rumination, or our body holds the emotional weight of past experiences. Stress, conflict, pressure, or even echoes of trauma can leave us feeling stuck. This creates tension, heaviness, or melancholy.

One way to liberate yourself in those moments is through intentional movement & breath: practices that allow us to move what feels stagnant & restore vitality.

One of my favorite practices for this is called The Breath of Joy. It is simple, energizing, and deeply releasing ~ a way to shake loose stuck emotions, circulate blood and energy, & remind the body what joy feels like when it’s flowing. This practice is not only about stress release; it’s about reclaiming the life force that fuels resilience and joy.

In fact, The Breath of Joy is very similar to a Qigong practice sometimes referred to as “Taking Out the Trash” ~ both use intentional breath & movement to clear out emotional residue and make space for vitality. In Qigong, the lungs are associated with grief, so every fresh inhale strengthens resilience while every exhale clears space for joy.

🫁 How to Practice the Breath of Joy 🌬

1. Stand tall, feet hip-width, knees soft.
2. Inhale – arms forward, shoulder height.
3. Inhale – arms wide, chest open.
4. Inhale – arms overhead, reach up.
5. Exhale – bend knees, sigh “haaaah,” arms swing down.
6. Repeat 5–7 times.

✨️ Notice how quickly your energy shifts ~ heaviness lightens, the chest opens, blood flows, and your body feels more alive. This practice is not just about letting go; it’s about making space. Space for joy. Space for breath. Space for your whole humanity to move, feel, and release what’s ready to move through.

🫁 Breath moves energy. Energy brings vitality. Vitality makes room for joy. 🌬

👣 Try this the next time you feel stuck in your head or low in spirit. Let the movement carry you back into your body, into the present, into your own aliveness. 🧘🏼‍♀️