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New Landscape Yoga, Washington D.C., DC (2026)

10/31/2022

Are you looking for a deeper, more passionate intimacy in your midlife marriage?

I'm thrilled to be hosting a challenge next week where I use the ancient wisdom of Kundalini yoga to move you from feeling things are never going to change to walking off into the sunset with your spouse.

Find out more and save your spot here.
https://bit.ly/IgniteYourMarriage

07/25/2022

Do you look in the mirror and feel you don't even recognize your midlife body?

You've tried getting on the exercise bandwagon but it feels like you're pounding away and getting nowhere.

I did that! I tried so many different types of exercise to help my midlife body look better, to no avail.
I hated them all.
It felt like punishment.

When I found yoga, I didn't need to tie myself into a pretzel:
I grew strong
I grew supple
I walked with more confidence
I held myself with more purpose

With yoga:
I grew curious about my body
I heard my body
I listened to what my body had to say
I had a conversation with my body

I became a team with my body and it changed everything.

This is the power of yoga. This is what makes yoga different
It's about tuning up your body and it's about getting you on good terms with your body.

Join my group if you're ready to become a team with your body, link in comments.

07/19/2022

How to Ditch the Marriage Rut & Get Into the Intimacy Fast Lane

There you are sitting across from your husband at dinner.
It’s quiet.
You’re both hungry and take a few mouthfuls.
It’s still quiet.
You look at each other blankly.
Taking another bite, you give yourself time to think of something to say.
Only that doesn’t work.

When you look back up again you just feel a vague fondness.

You look at this man you’ve shared your home, your life, your ups and downs with for years and yet you feel nothing.
It’s all gone.
The easy chatter
the intimacy
the desire
the connection
all seem to have dried up.

Where are those days when you couldn’t get enough of each other? Now you can’t even enjoy a meal together. It’s not that you dislike your spouse. You just don’t feel very much for him anymore and that’s somehow terrifying.

Something’s adrift in your marriage and you’ve both tried to find that spark, that heart-led intimacy again.

Glancing at the numerous self help books on your shelves you realize some are very peculiar.

You went together to a marriage counselor you both liked. The talk was helpful, you felt like the two of you were uncovering important things. Yet it ended up being frustrated as you both struggled with what to do next and uselessly get lost in painful overanalysis.

Then there were the hobbies, determinedly enrolling in ‘things we can do together’. At least taking dancing lessons were hilarious.

You look back glumly at your plate, feeling like there’s nothing left to try and this is your life for the next 30 years.

There seems no way to get out of this cycle.

You’ve been banging your head against a brick wall trying to approach this from a place where analyzing and thinking through any problem will solve it. In the West, we’re taught to hammer away at problems analytically, only using our minds. No wonder that’s our default!

When you get out of your head, and into your body, you connect with the inner wisdom in your heart and your gut.

That’s when the change happens.

That’s when you know you can rekindle your marriage, bring back that spark, the fire and that crackling warmth and intimacy.

Get support from someone who takes a different approach that - literally - moves you out of your brain and into your mind, body and soul. You’ll break out of free from the frustrating cycle you've beem trapped in and fall head over heels back in love with your husband and marriage again.

To get my insight and guidance, I’m offering a limited number of FREE breakthrough calls.

We'll spend 45 mins together when I’ll guide you to the source of the turmoil in your marriage, identifying root causes and not just symptoms.

You’ll get a fresh perspective and even a technique specifically for you that you can use again and again to help you rekindle your marriage.

⭐️ An Approach to Move You Back into your Husband’s Arms You’ll no longer feel like you’re at your wit's end! With this approach, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. It’s significant and passionate. Discover that direct line to your heart and your gut that leads you into falling in love with your husband all over again to find deeper connection, happiness and intimacy.

⭐️ Access Yoga's Millennia of Wisdom both on and off the mat to access your own wisdom and path back to happiness. Discover the philosophy and techniques to unlock fresh perspectives and watch as your marriage acquire hidden depths & honeymoon vibes.

⭐️ Your New Breakthrough Technique I’ll bring my yoga trainings and in-depth studies of yoga, along with how I use yoga to live my life, to give you a simple and powerful yoga technique, tailor-made for you. Everything starts with getting you out of your head and into your body. Right from the start, you’ll access your heart and your gut. You’ll see things with wondrous new eyes to lead you along this path back to that love and intimacy with your husband. No more sitting staring at your husband - or the wall - wondering what went wrong or how to fix it.

That's where change this time will happen.. using a holistic, fully embodied approach.

I'm pretty busy this week but so have time for a couple of breakthrough calls this week and next week!

If you're fed up with being fed and want to rekindle your marriage, don't over think this decision, book a call with me today.

With this fresh new perspective and holistic heart-centred techniques you'll immediately feel more radiant, stand with more confidence and see things differently. You'll be back on the path to your husband's loving embrace.

Link in comments to book your call.

📷 Anna Fairs

05/31/2022

How to get back into your body and live your heart felt desires

Midlife is a time of great change, yet when you're in your head, it's hard to be able to step back and see the big picture of this new chapter

🙈 You only see your family, your spouse, your life from a frustrating perspective
🙈 You feel paralyzed and don't know how to break of negative patterns
🙈 You wonder 'why bother' - what's the point anyway

Conscious breathing is an important part of getting back into your body. It lights up a different part of your brain, benefits your organs - your whole body.

When you practice pranayama - yogic breathing:

🌸 You silence all the noise
🌸 You feel and hear what your heart has to say
🌸 You reconnect to your family, community, spouse.
🌸 Most importantly - you reconnect to yourself and your heart felt desires.

Join me for our Tuesday chat, where we'll be exploring how this works and you'll be able to put it into practice so you can lead with your heart while following your desires.

I’m passionate about helping midlife women create deep and meaningful relationships, especially with their spouse. DESIRE is a key element in this heart forged work I do.

✅ Chat is in my group - link in comments

05/17/2022

How 15 minutes can help you reconnect to your spouse

I'm doing a 40 Day Sadhana chant. The same daily practice - a chant - for forty days. It's the first time I've done a 40 Day Sadhana that doesn't involve moving on the mat. That doesn't mean I can't add a physical asana practice, it means that the same practice I do every single day is a chant.

Immediately I finish chanting, I sit for a few minutes to let the experience settle.

Then I free journal. What an intense and powerful combination. I never know what is going to flow off my pen, but it's always illuminating.
It gets to the heart of the matter.
The heart of who I am.
The heart of who where I am headed.
The heart of who I want to be.

Here's something I wrote the other day:
I am seeing the shifts and the changes, exactly what I need right now.
So many good things are coming
I am creating the space to hear more deeply my heart, my truth.

I sit back and see how much this resonated with me. I'm forging a new path, starting a new chapter. All on 15 minutes at the start of my day.

When you create a ritual:
⭐️ you forge a path, you know where you're headed and commit to heading there.
⭐️ you show up differently.
⭐️ you find yourself acting with more purpose, more authority.
⭐️ you take back your power.
⭐️ you show up shining

Ths is my heart forged yoga. It transforms your relationships and your life.

I’m passionate about helping midlife women create deep and meaningful relationships, especially with their spouse. LOVE is a key element in this heart forged work I do.

DM me for support in your journey back to a life and relationships you love.

05/16/2022

I just did this training in my group! Don't miss out - join it to enjoy this training and so much more. Link in bio

05/12/2022

Why worrying about your marriage isn't going to fix it

I run my mala beads through my hands, feeling their cool geometry and prepare for my chant. I’m doing a 40 day sadhana, the same practice for 40 days. It feels different from the others I’ve done. This is the first one that is solely chanting without some ‘on the mat’ component. It’s a challenge and wondrous.

This chant, this sadhana, reflects that beat on the path to renewal - the one we want to jump over, yet is essential:
It is a time of ending, of lying fallow, of the pause both to release and to receive
I am moving into a new chapter, new phase, new beginning

I find my seat, sit tall and focus hard. Mostly I’ve held a mudra rather than mala beads when I chant. That has its own challenges, sometimes the mudra, the symbolic hand gesture, might have arms extended high above the head with some fingers interlaced for minute after minute after minute.

Using the mala beads is another type of physical challenge. I’m learning dexterity chanting with my mala beads as I switch from counting the beads with my left hand to my right hand in the Hindu tradition.

It brings me back to my beginner’s mind.
I am open
I am curious
I am at the start of this journey

My seat is tall but relaxed, yet I’m all fingers and thumbs as beads pass rhythmically along my fingers while the pool of beads in the other hand shafts and moves.
It’s alive and sinuous.
It is slow and begrudging
It captures the light.
It is the light
It shines into me.
I let what it illuminates settle.
My fingers lead my voice in its chant as my voice weaves with their agility.
It becomes a strong voice
It is a voice that vibrates to the world as it vibrates within me
It is a resonance that moves into my body and settles in my heart to become something new yet familiar

It is the fire of my core purpose
It is the forging of how I will take that into this chapter of my life, my relationships, my marriage.

When you come out of your mind into your body, you steep yourself in the value of who you are:

Your experience
Your wisdom
What you bring to the table

You know that:
You will not be sidelined
You will not be a bit player
You will contribute

There’s a new energy that you bring to your marriage that updates your connection to who the two of you are today. Instead of languishing in who the two of you used to be, it sizzles with confident, updated love.

I’m passionate about helping midlife women create deep and meaningful relationships, especially with their spouse. WISDOM is a key element in this heart forged work I do. Join my group for support in your journey back to a life and relationships you love. Link in comments.

05/10/2022

This was my 50th birthday party. My marriage has never been better and my body fitter than it is now in my fifties.

It's possible for you too. Get out of your head and into your body. That's where you find yourself, rediscover your desires and become desirable.

DM me to find out how I do this using yoga's millenia of wisdom for the modern midlife woman.

05/05/2022

How to rediscover your desires and create deep and meaningful relationships

When I was ten I began piano lessons. A family friend - an incredible pianist - taught me. She's also a gifted teacher who inspired me to practice and progress.

Her warm, encouraging words echoed over my summer holiday. Every weekday, I set aside time to do scales and work through the simple pieces in my beginner's music book. I was a diligent child who liked my routine and dedicated 10am for half an hour to improving my piano playing. I even set an alarm and the timer.

I began to enjoy myself at the keyboard. My fingers got to know the feel of the keys and coordinate with what my eyes saw. If they didn’t exactly dance, they moved less erratically. I began to feel like I was getting somewhere and could pound out some passable-sounding music. My ears joined the party as there was less stopping and starting and more rhythm.

It was all quite intoxicating, that feeling of discovering you enjoy something. I got carried away and composed a piece. Yes, I sat at the piano trying out different combinations. I put notes together, nodding when I thought they created pleasing combinations then writing them down in pencil on my music paper. My progress was marked by furious rubbings out. In some places you could barely see the staff on the page. I would play sections, making sure I liked how they worked together. At some point, I held my breath and played it all through, knowing I would need to make more changes when I heard the piece in its entirety.

It was epic and probably under half a minute. It seemed to take me weeks to put together but most likely was a matter of days. I was enthralled and captivated.

Then came the great day when I asked my piano teacher, my family friend, the person who was like a mother to me, to play my piece.

With a smile and note of appreciation for the importance of this moment, she sat down and played it through. I'm sure it was terrible. It must have been appallingly bad.

There was no hesitation as she finished, waited for a beat then turned around, 'I really see your Hungarian roots here, Antonia, it's got that feel'. What really could be better? I felt like I'd brought some flavor, some depth, something distinctive to life, even though with hindsight I'm sure I didn't.

I have no real gift for playing the piano, let alone for composing. An adult might think 'what on earth does she think she's doing, it's going to be cringeworthy'. As a child, I got carried away and transported with no mind for the outcome, just pleasure in my journey.

What this lovely teacher did was encourage my passion and desire. That was what was key, fanning the flames of my love of piano and music.

At some point in childhood, we all stop doing things we enjoy if we don't feel that we're any good. Yet surely it's the exuberance and joy along the journey that we know so well from childhood that is the essence of our desires?

Don’t give up a passion because you didn't think you were good at it.
Don’t close down something you enjoy because you felt squashed when someone sneered.

It’s more than time to reconnect to those desires.
So often you've put yourself last to take care of your family.
You’ve told yourself it’s silly and you probably won’t be any good anyway.

Now is the time to uncover those suppressed desires and rediscover that exuberance and joy. It’s possible. Unleashing your desires massively transforms your relationship with yourself, and with your spouse.

I’m passionate about helping midlife women create deep and meaningful relationships with their husbands. DESIRE is a key element in this heart forged work I do. Join my group for support in your journey back to a life and relationships you love. Link in comments

04/20/2022

Find Out Why It's Important To Give And Receive From The Heart

My teacher Guru Singh says:
‘Exert to give, relax to receive’

Receiving is key, and something we overlook believing we're not worthy or it’s selfish to receive. Has this happened to you in your marriage? This is especially true when you are fed up or angry.

Do you have a knot in your heart, from when you’ve been disappointed again and again by your spouse?
Have you given up and shut down your hopes and dreams for your marriage?

When you feel like this, you can't soften to receive, yet it is key. You need to break through that pattern or nothing will change.

You can do that by tuning into your heart center and receive from your heart-brain, to soften to receive from yourself or others.

When you are always exerting to receive you get into a mindset of always being disappointed.
So you are left hungry, and always wanting more, working to obtain more.
So you never break out of this pattern, you are never joyful or content.

What if you could feel the sensation of receiving.
The joy of your heart filling up when your spouse walks in the door
The reveling in the moment your eyes meet, like they met the first time
Heartfelt gratitude at experiencing this experience fully, daily and knowing you can do it again and again and again.

The surprising answer is that
when you soften to receive
you’ll find a new way to see the frustrating pattern
You’ll break its negative spell

You will take back power in your heart so you shift your marriage and look at your spouse with renewed warmth, connection and intimacy.

I have been there, I have wintered in my marriage and I used yoga’s ancient wisdom that I’m now giving to you with my modern twist so you can rekindle your marriage too.

Get a taste of how I can help. Tune in tomorrow to explore the importance of your breath in relaxing to receive - in your heart, in your marriage.

04/18/2022

'Antonia came out of nowhere but in perfect timing because I needed a place where I could find myself .... and learn how to breathe actually. Anytime you can teach someone to breathe spiritually, emotionally, mentally - that's bigger than just yoga.' ~ Chivonne

I've been doing a lot of pranayama / breathwork over the weekend.

Your breath is everything.

Did you know that conscious breathing lights up a different part of your brain?
It takes you out of fight or flight mode.
It nourishes your body.

That's right, your breath can change your mood and how you feel in your body!

This week I'm going to be talking about how your yogic breath - your pranayama - can you move from stagnation into vitality in your marriage and in your life.

This is one of the ways I help women in midlife rekindle their marriage. DM me if you're interested in finding out more.

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