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My body has changed a lot since I have lived in Ba

My body has changed a lot since I have lived in Bali. 🦋⁣
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This came up in a conversation I was having last week. ⁣
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Not so much the metric weight of my body ⁣
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But my energetic body, emotional body and sensitivity. ⁣
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A lot of the chronic pain in my body has slowly started to slowly fade. ⁣
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My shoulders are less bulky from layer upon layer of stress, pain, and sadness that has been stored there. ⁣
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My belly is more softer and I can actually expand it fully when I breathe instead of always been tight, sucked in, and pooling with emotions. ⁣
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My awareness is sharper, intuition is louder, and my perception is much more vast from the input I pick up from people, sounds, situations, etc. ⁣
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So what’s been the change? ⁣
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Well, I came to a stopping point with a lot of the yoga I was practicing before. I didn’t feel like it was the medicine needed for what I was trying to heal. ⁣
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And then when I closed that chapter… with time I found kundalini, bodywork, emotional release practices, and got more a serious pranayama practice. ⁣
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These practices have given me more personal freedom, self-acceptance, truth, femininity and discharged so much emotional and physical pain (it’s really all the same) that I have been carrying around my whole life. ⁣
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The work is not done but so much progression has been made. More in the last 1.5 years than in the previous 5 along my journey ⁣
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If you’re curious about any of my teachers, practices, bodyworkers that I turn to online & in Bali - DM me because I love to share them & watch the evolution from it. 🤍🌸🌈

Do you want a better night of sleep? ☁️⁣
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𝘖𝘬 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰.⁣
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Yoga Nidra - sometimes called "sleep yoga" is a practice that takes you into deep states of relaxation and ease. 🧘🏼‍♀️⁣
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𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.⁣
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This meditation will allow you to let go of the mind so you can fully land in your body. You will come out of this session feeling still, soft, and grounded.⁣
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For me this practice has been like an off button for my mental chatter, improved my quality of sleep, and brings more presence into my daily life. ⁣
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This is the very first meditation recording and I absolutely loved the process of creating this. I miss teaching and offering mind body practices, so this gave me a chance to share once again. 🌈🦋☁️⁣
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Link in bio to download 👼🏼

This past weekend I treated myself to a little get

This past weekend I treated myself to a little getaway because I had been feeling like I have hit a milestone. ⁣
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I am not sure that the milestone was necessarily that I had accomplished SO much although I did finish a branding and website project using a new platform and I had a lot more experiences of kundalini. ⁣
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Maybe this feeling was more that I am at a turning point for what’s ahead.⁣
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Then it also popped into my awareness I haven’t thought of or connected my spiritual name in a long time. The last time I felt really connected with it was when I was launching my design business over a year ago. ⁣
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I named my design business Studio Shakti because I was given the name Shakti Devi by one of my teachers in India. ⁣
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Shakti can mean a lot of thingggggs. Depending on the way its use it could be describing power, femininity, kundalini, creativity, or energy. ⁣
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In Western culture, words are very black and white. In Eastern culture, words can be very gray and have many meanings. ⁣
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Before Shakti felt all about creativity. ⁣
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Now I feel like I and growing into a new shade of Shakti. ⁣
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When that thought came to my mind this weekend, it was followed by some tears spearing from a feeling of deep knowing. ⁣
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So yes everything in Studio Shakti is still business as usual but there are also new things coming in... ⁣
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Stay tuned 🥥🦋🐚

Monday Mantra: Let go of the illusion that it coul

Monday Mantra: Let go of the illusion that it could be any different. ⁣⁣⚡️
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Mmm, I am always telling myself this one. ⁣⁣
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I am an evaluator and reflector to a fault. I am always looking at a scenario, project, situation and asking myself what did I learn and what could we do differently next time to get a more improved and desired outcome. ⁣⁣
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Now this quality of myself has excelled me far in life. I am highly skilled, insightful, and resourceful - especially for my age. There is always steady improvement in all aspects of my life. ⁣⁣
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It has also robbed me of a lot of peace. ⁣⁣🦋
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There is a divine way that life unfolds. ⁣⁣
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And that way is more intelligent than my conscious mind can really comprehend. ⁣⁣
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At every moment my brain starts to brew a new way to improve a scenario. I try to reach acceptance and peace. ⁣⁣
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I don’t always grasp it but..... underneath it all, I do trust things are happening just as they should be. 🌈🤸🏼‍♀️

Happy International Yoga Day. 📿🧘🏼‍♀️⁣
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Since I was 14, when I grew up I wanted to a yoga teacher. ⁣
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I found yoga at a young age. It was my favorite thing to do. ⁣
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Yoga sessions were a place I felt safe, accepted, and inspired. Which is something I didn’t usually feel in my external world. ⁣
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I wanted to be a yoga teacher so I could give everyone the experience of these feelings that yoga gave me. ⁣
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When I went to university, I studied health education. That was the closest Bachelors's Degree I could find to what it would be like to get a degree in yoga. ⁣
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At the age of 20, I started waiting tables at a local burger restaurant so I could scrape together enough money to go to Costa Rica and take a yoga teacher training. ⁣
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That training was like opening pandora’s box and transformed me from the inside out. ⁣
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Well, that was 6 years ago now. Yoga led me through the USA, Costa Rica, India, Sri Lanka, and to Bali on different pilgrimages and trainings. ⁣
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It is the fabric of my relationships, my business, and my lifestyle. ⁣
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Every phase of my life my yoga looks different. I was practicing and teaching 2 years ago is so different from what I practice and teach now. My yoga changes as I change. ⁣
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It has been a path of elimination, confrontation, self-mastery, and expansion. And at the same time a path of peace, compassion, and ease. ⁣
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Yoga continually guides me to my own liberation and I am in deep reverence for this journey. 🦋🐚🌈

I like attention…. And I like expressing my femi

I like attention…. And I like expressing my femininity and sensuality to get it…. ⁣
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2 days ago was the first time I even admitted that to myself…⁣
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I mean as long as I can remember I wanted to be sexy… as a preteen trying to sneak wearing provocative clothes, wanting to get my belly button pierced, downloading 50 cent songs off LimeWire to dance around in my room to…⁣
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For 12+ I have done beauty pageants, modeling, hosting, promo modeling, been a bottle girl, the list goes on… ⁣
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And in a lot of these different ways I have expressed femininity and sensuality for a hobby or a job I am never fully confident or really go for it. ⁣
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Because I am just now realizing how much SHAME I have felt around fucking owning this desire to express myself like this and be seen for it. ⁣
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I think the shame comes from many different things. ⁣
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Part of it probably from being bullied at school like my whole youth… for things like wearing makeup from age 8, dressing in my own unique ways too stylish for my small town, or having peers make fun of my modeling or pageant photos. ⁣
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Another part of it growing up in a culture where true femininity is nearly nonexistent and seen as weak. And where a woman’s sensuality is so repressed where the standard feels likes if a woman expressed her sensuality and anyway she’s slut-shamed, and probably not intelligent or hardworking. ⁣
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These things didn’t stop me from doing all the things but they did influence the way I showed up.⁣
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The Tantra retreat I just came back from and this past photoshoot really opened my eyes to this conclusion. I can’t believe it’s taken all these years to unravel these deep beliefs I have carried with me to all of these shows, shoots, and events over the last 12 years.

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