SoulTribe Studios Yoga and Wellbeing

What are you still hiding from? 🦁🌑

Today’s new moon in Leo comes wrapped in a solar eclipse - and eclipses don’t ask twice. They don’t let you stay comfortable in the glare. They dim the brightest thing in the sky just long enough to show you what’s been standing behind it the whole time.

So today, we go into the cave. Not to hide, but to finally see.

Inside today’s practice: Chandra Mudra, to soften into receptivity instead of performance. The mantra Om Somaya Namaha, an offering to the moon herself, for renewal from the inside out.

And three questions I’m not letting myself skip past today:
🌘 What’s still whole in me, even in what I can’t yet see?
🌘 What am I willing to begin, before I can prove it will work?
🌘 Where have I been “switching something on” that doesn’t feel true?

This is the work. Every week, inside The Portal. No performance required - just the truth, in the dark, where it’s safest to tell it.

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POV: you realise your desires don’t need to sound spiritual to be valid.

This week we’re working with the energy of the New Moon in Leo, alongside a solar eclipse. Leo season is about shining your light and releasing shame around being seen. Eclipses tend to accelerate things - whatever intention you set now moves faster than usual.

I’ve been moving with a dynamic Lakshmi Mudra this week - lotus mudra at the heart, opening the arms wide on the inhale, drawing back in on the exhale - paired with the mantra Om Shreem Mahalakshmiyei Swaha.

Lakshmi is the energy of abundance, beauty and receiving, and there’s something about physically opening and returning that makes the intention land differently than just sitting still with it.

But here’s what I actually want to say today.

Your desires don’t have to be dressed up in spiritual language to be real.

I want to make a lot of money. Not to prove anything - because money is choice, money is freedom, and money means my nervous system gets to exhale. Not operating from scarcity. Not bracing for what might go wrong.

I want to own my own home. I want to build a beautiful, stable environment for my children. I want to take a holiday that doesn’t cost us the next six months.

I don’t have to earn the right to want that by wrapping it in spiritual language first.

One foot in the spiritual. One foot in the reality. Both true at once.

What do you actually desire, underneath all the dressing up? Say it plainly in the comments, or just to yourself.

There’s a whole section of mantras and mudras like this waiting inside The Portal.

We’ve been fed the idea that spiritual women are soft. Serene. Endlessly understanding. That real anger, real rage, isn’t very “love and light.”

But so much of what we carry as anger isn’t ugly at all. It’s a sense of injustice. It’s caring so deeply that being dismissed, unheard, or overlooked actually hurts. It’s years of internalising things quietly because showing this side of ourselves felt dangerous, or unfeminine, or simply not allowed.

Lion’s Breath is one of the only postures in yoga that gives you full permission to be loud. Tongue out, eyes wide, a hard exhale through an open mouth. No holding back, no making it pretty.

I’ve heard this come up again and again in the women’s circles I hold. So many of us are carrying more rage than we’ve ever been told it’s acceptable to feel.

After a few rounds, here’s what tends to shift:

✨ something genuinely releases through the jaw and throat
✨ there’s a real sense of finally being loud instead of swallowing it
✨ the anger doesn’t disappear, but it stops feeling dangerous to feel
✨ a strange, unexpected calm follows right behind it

Save this for the next time you’ve been told to calm down before you were even allowed to feel it.

We hold space for exactly this kind of honest, unfiltered practice in our monthly Portal Gathering.

Today is Lion’s Gate - the 8th of August, when the sun aligns with Sirius and, astrologically, the energy is said to peak for personal power, confidence and manifestation.

I marked it with Matangi Mudra: hands folded in front of the solar plexus, middle fingers pointing up and pressed together. Traditionally it’s used to strengthen the breath in this area and calm an overactive heart. I held it for 4 minutes.

I wasn’t expecting what actually came up.

Somewhere in those 4 minutes, it stopped being about my stomach and started being about my voice. About every time I’ve made myself smaller than I actually am. Said less than I meant. Apologised before I’d even finished a sentence.

I think a lot of women carry this, quietly. Generations of it not being safe to take up space, to have an opinion, to be seen and heard without apologising for it first. It gets stored in the body long before we ever have language for it.This isn’t about power over anyone else. It’s about finally believing you’re allowed to take the space you’re already in.

After 4 minutes, here’s what came up:

✨ a decision I’d been putting off suddenly felt clear
✨ a real, physical sense of my own voice returning
✨ less urge to shrink, apologise, or ask permission
✨ a quiet certainty that I’m allowed to be happy, seen, and heard

Save this for the next time you catch yourself asking “who am I to take up space?”

We explore mudras like this every week inside The Portal.

Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha is the mantra of Ganesha, the elephant-headed remover of obstacles. Not someone you call on when everything’s already flowing - the one you turn to when you’re genuinely stuck, blocked, unsure which way to move next.

I started chanting this for five minutes a day, paired with a simple Ganesha mudra. I wasn’t expecting much beyond a nice ten minutes to myself.

What actually happened: my mind started clearing. Not in a dramatic, lightning-bolt way - more like fog lifting off something that was there all along. Ideas I’d been sitting on for weeks suddenly had shape. My belief in my own judgement, which had gone quiet for a while, started coming back.

Genuinely, most of what’s now taking form for both The Practice and The Portal came out of this five minutes a day.

After a week or so, here’s what shifted:

✨ real mental clarity, not just calm
✨ ideas that had been stuck for weeks started moving
✨ a stronger, steadier belief in my own decisions
✨ obstacles started feeling like information, not blocks

Save this for the next time you’re stuck and reaching for willpower instead of asking what’s actually in the way.

We explore mantras and mudras like this every week inside The Portal.