Yogaia

This Sunday
Exhale Yoga w/ Heidi Bartholomew

Be in the moment
Merge into aliveness
Move, embody, Be
Bask in presence
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Chandra Flow to a Flower Full Moon
Friday 5/1
9:00 am


A slow, grounding all-levels practice moving with the rhythm of the Moon.

Flow slow through a Moon Salutation sequence to soften the body, steady the nervous system, and open space for tuning in.

In community, we cultivate this time when things naturally rise, become visible, and ask to be felt - offerng space to integrate or let go. No forcing—simply allowing—a bringing of awareness into awareness, awareness turning into itself.

In unity, we open fully—life moves, blooms, warms, and embodies aliveness.

This practice is a way of listening to aliveness itself—the body’s aliveness, the Earth’s aliveness, life’s aliveness, through the Moon’s unfolding.

We weave together softness and strength, stillness and expansion, remembering this work is meant to be playful, meant to be deeply grounding—an invitation to move, breathe, and be with what is always alive within.

All levels welcome.
Come exactly as you are.
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Motivation and desire are intrinsically linked—sometimes even synonymous. How does desire feel intrinsically as motivation?

For me, it feels like it pulses out from the heart. That pulsation stimulates movement, and when that movement is connected to pratibhā—awareness, consciousness—then it becomes a guided dance of allowing the next step to arise, along with the momentum to actually take it.

For me, it works best when I am clear about desire—focused and tuned into the feelings and experiences I wish to create. I notice that movement tends to halt when there are multiple, seemingly different desires swirling around. A practice of peeling away and getting to the root desire is something I am learning to use.

What is my root desire? To experience my highest self—yes—but can I be more specific without creating expectation? I am open to expansion, to becoming whatever life requires. My desire is to offer myself to life and to move with the flow, showing up to what arises.

What I am recognizing is that this does not always create movement. At other times, it does. Surrendering to this is challenging. I find myself isolating and feeling stagnant, but then it shifts and I have momentum again.

I also recognize that there are things that fog clarity. The clearer I feel, the more movement happens. So today, without force, I stand in commitment to myself to recognize what fogs clarity—to be conscious of my choices, and to create external conditions that support movement: healthy connection, joy, presence, and being “high on life.”

I ask—and will continue to ask—for desire to be clear, for what lives in my heart to be my guiding light, and for freedom from old habits and patterns, while developing new ways of being with myself and with others.

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Time is funny, how it moves—the past and the future, the present—all just moments in space. A spiraling cosmic play of experiences woven into consciousness.

To be present is a coming together of it all, an allowing of it all to be exactly as it is.

For me, it is now a practice to allow and give myself to this moment wholeheartedly. To recognize the rising and falling of it, to be curious about it, open to it—to expand with all of the senses and move into doorways of perception.

What is this experience?
What am I? Who am I in this moment?

The really cool thing is the privilege of constant reinvention and continual rebirth that facilitate this remembering—of the truth, the answers, the unknown. The practice of letting go of the how and directing attention into the what:

What is here?
What can I offer?
What can I receive?

Pratibha is the Sanskrit word for brilliance, genius, intelligence, light, and splendor. It is my understanding that she is the knowing that comes from instinct, intuition, and divine grace.

It rises up, pulses out, and pours in. It is innate within. It radiates through it all.

For me, it is a frequency to tune into, a trust to listen to, and an inspiration that elicits creation, destruction, maintaining, concealing, and liberation.

I like to think of it as a gift from Shakti that offers touchstones on the path of this experience. It is infinite and always available—a deep connection to source that permeates and penetrates all of life: feelings, sensations, guttural knowing, and magical downloads that thin the veil.

She is the undercurrent that is always in play, coursing through the tapestry—a fluidity of grace, a doorway into expansion, a doorway into the infinite, a true North

The feelings merge into anticipation—
a quiet back-and-forth of am I ready?

And then the remembering:
it is not about being ready,
but about allowing.

Allowing openness.
Opening into expansion.

Open into expansion becomes the mantra.

To let life take me—
to the experiences, places, and spaces
my heart already knows.

To keep showing up to what rises.
To say yes to life—
unless no is required.
And to discern the difference.

Gentleness with the process.
A returning to the intrinsic pull to create,
to live—
fully, presently, expansively.

Meeting what is here now
creates space—
to heal,
to release,
to be free
from all that once kept me small.

And in that space—
joy bubbles.
Excitement expands.

Sensation rises and falls,
release and restore.

Divinity and consciousness,
energy and form—
never separate,
only appearing so.

Maya distorts,
but the touchstones remain—
seeds planted by design,
waiting to root,
to revive,
to rebirth.

Creation and destruction—
Shakti and Shiva in play.

There is ecstasy here—
a dissolving of separation,
a return to source.

This is the natural state of being.

To open into bliss.
To hold onto nothing.
To offer yourself fully—
without hesitation.

To merge into the pulse,
the vibration—spanda.

And to remember:
this life is a game.

To play.
To feel.
To experience the joy of it.

Light refracting through a prism—
one becoming many,
many remembering one.

Awareness experiencing itself
as everything.

Ever expanding.
Always creating, maintaining, dissolving,
concealing, and liberating—

the sacred rhythm of it all

Resistance is a curious thing—
a space where the mind pushes back,
hesitating at the edge of the next step.

A quiet conversation unfolds
between head and heart…
but does the body weigh in too?

Because what truly lives in the heart
is not just a thought—
it’s something felt, something known.
Something that carves a path forward.

The conditioned mind clings to familiar patterns,
the ones formed to survive.
But the heart…
the heart longs for expansion.

And the body—
the body is designed to move with that expansion,
to root into the earth
while opening to something new.

When we ground into the body
and listen through the heart,
space begins to open.
Alignment becomes possible.

There is a conditioning to resist change—
and yet, isn’t change the very nature of life?

To move with it,
to give ourselves over to it,
is to loosen the grip of the comfort zone—
that quiet place where growth is kept at bay.

But beyond that edge…
there is expansion.
There is evolution.

A remembering—
of who we are,
what we are,
and why we are here:

to live
from the truth
of our heart’s deepest desire.

The practice now is to stay in a constant connection with the vibration of the pulsation of being- this being.

who am I?
I Am
what am I?

Where do I find meaning, my worth my desires and dreams?
From within- It’s all inside and when this connection is - when awareness and intention swim in this connection within their ceases to be a without. it all emerges- reappears, reveals the one conscious awareness at its purest, at its most playful! Here it affords the space to open- to dance - to experience the I. The drop of water inside the ocean, the waves as they ebb and flow in motion and rooted in the power of energy and awareness intertwined in the infinite love- in ecstasy -in ecstatic dance Shakti making love with Shiva 💚

Transitions. The wheel keeps spinning. Connection to center, to heart space is vital. Hold dear this connection, your connection, it will guide you, light you, and continuously Remind you. The path is about the experience.

What is this experience? Can you feel it? Taste it? Touch it? Know it? Become it and follow it? This. is. it.

This moment is the experience that takes us, shapes us and unfolds us. Open to it, the experience, this experience; with everything you are, with everything you be.

Trust in the experience. Give yourself to it wholly, fully, unabashedly. Move around, find the fit, your fit, your most open, most spacious, more intriguing. Dive in, go deep, rise up, explore, expand, be curiouser and curiouser. Inquire and revere into the sacred. It is all sacred in the experience of this life.

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