Mikaela Soldan Yoga and Spiritual Coaching

One more cacao circle for this Spring! Come take the medicine of the heart, and feeeeeeel. We will sip cacao in silence after setting intentions, then allow the cacao express through voice and movement. I have super fresh ceremonial grade cacao roasted on Feb 8th straight from Costa Rica brought to me by 🤎

Come connect to your heart and the universal heart. Link in bio! 🌹

I have taken advantage of the dark time of the year and allowed my shadows to play in front of me, too. There are certain ways of being I have slowly outgrown and it always takes a while to get a footing on the new soil.

The way the Northern sun affects our consciousness is real. I used to hate it and I wanted to go somewhere more steady. Now I love the dark months of candlelit breakfasts, and watching how, just as you got used to it, surprisingly fast the day lengthens again. Equinox is almost here and then it will be so much light, all the time.

It keeps me connected to the seasons. We all go through internal seasons, too. You might be decaying in the middle of summer or blooming in the winter. Depends also on when you were born.

So let us please honor our own processes. It is so easy to think everyone else is always in bloom while we are… eating pizza for lunch in pyjamas or grieving losses… when others are celebrating gains.

And yes, maybe you need to do something about your situation but before doing so, allow yourself to be. Life is guiding you from the inside. The intelligence is there, here, everywhere.

For me, the sun is rising. Illuminating a world I have never inhabited yet. So greateful for a new dawn. ✨💛

Tiedätkö sanonnan: turn your pain into your purpose?

Me kaikki käymme elämässä läpi jotain vaikeaa; oli se sitten sisäinen kamppailu tai ulkoiset haasteet, saamme jokainen osamme siitä rajallisuudesta ja kivusta, joka kuuluu ihmisyyteen.

Tämän kivun voi kääntää voimavaraksi kohtaamalla sen. Olet ehkä törmännyt ilmiöön, jossa haasteista selviäminen on lähettänyt ihmisen missiolle vaikuttaa maailmaan positiivisesti. He usein ovat intohimoisia, pysäyttämättömiä voimia, joiden syvä sisäinen palo vie heitä lähes taianomaisesti eteenpäin.

Eikä tämän tarvitse tarkoittaa suurta, maailman näyttämöllä tapahtuvaa tehtävää vaan se voi olla hyvin jalat maassa, omaan paikallisyhteisöön juurtunutta tekemistä. Mikä niitä kuitenkin yhdistää on se, ettei motivaatio työhön tule rahasta, maineesta, ”pakko se on ihmisen jotakin tehdä” -asenteesta tai muusta ulkoisesta vaan kumpuaa syvältä sisältä. Siitä haavasta, jonka on täytynyt parantua ja muuntua energiaksi, joka nyt haluaa tehdä maailmasta paremman paikan.

Jos vielä etsit sitä, mikä sinun tehtävääsi täällä motivoi, siihen voit saada suuntaa Gene Keys -systeemin profiilista sekä Human Designin profiililinjoista. Näitä työstämme to 24.2. yhdessä .fi kanssa tarjoamassamme työpajassa Merkityksellisen ammatin polku. Tänään 10.2. on vika päivä tulla early bird -hinnalla mukaan 🩷💖
Saat paljon ✨käytännöllistä & konkreettista✨ ymmärrystä omaan ainutlaatuiseen tarkoitukseesi tässä maailmassa.

Linkki biossa niinkuin aina ✨🙏🏼
Tallenne tulee ilmoittautuneille m***a se ei tule myyntiin livetapahtuman jälkeen, koska haluamme ottaa huomioon kaikkien profiilit ja viitata niihin työpajassa.

Tänään klo 14 maksuton intro geeniavaimiin (Gene Keys) livenä zoomissa ja tallenne tulee Youtubeen ensi viikon aikana. Jos tämä varjotyöskentelyn muoto kiinnostaa, ilmoittaudu mukaan biossa olevan linkkipuun kautta.

Tarjolla on myös työpaja syventyen yhteen tiettyy geeniavaimeen, nimittän Core Wound / Vocation -kohtaan, joka paljastaa miten muunnat syvimmän haavasi merkitykselliseksi työksi. Turn your pain into purpose! Vain sen avulla tekemämme työ voi tuntua merkitykselliseltä joka tasolla ja resonoida syvästi ihmisissä — koska he tuntevat sen syvyyden joka työsi takana on ja josta viisautesi ammennat. Tämä tehdään yhteistyössä Marinkan .fi kanssa, joka tarjoaa mukaan HD-näkökulmaa 🩷 tähänkin ilmoittautuminen on auki ja linkin löydät samaisesta linkkipuusta biossa.

Friday the 13th is a night for cacao and DANCE! Come sip ceremonial grade cacao, and then move your body the way it wants to move; stretch, dance, explore. Finally we lay down for a guided relaxation and integration.

EB price 29€ until Wednesday eod / 39€ thereafter. Circle will be hosted in English if anyone doesn’t speak Finnish. Most of the class happens in silence/personal space with music.


Sign up through calendar link in bio!

Since I am in Helsinki for the next two months, why not practice together?!?? is right next door from me and their cozy and vibey yoga basement is perfect for some wintry classes.

I will be offering two weekly classes:
😴Wednesday 19.30-20.45 Yin + Rest
🐌Thursday 17-18.15 Slow flow + Nidra

Come get your best rest, juiciest movements, deepest breaths and just the yummy feeling of practicing together. ✨❤️‍🔥

Drop in’s are available but I do prompt you to join me for all 8 weeks - it is less expensive, you are committed to your weekly wellbeing and you get to support me being able to offer classes! Plus if you miss a session you can come to the other group to make it up. Woop woop!

Drop in’s can be booked through my calendar. Full season sign up’s via dm or email. We start next week!
Classes will be in English if required or Finnish if everyone is fluent in 🇫🇮

See you on da mat!!!

People pleasing is not a personality trait or a mindset but a survival strategy that our intelligent bodies came up with in an environment that couldn’t handle our authenticity.

Like Gabor Maté says: Our two basic needs are attachment and authenticity, but if authenticity threatens attachment, we always choose attachment over being authentic.

In practice: if you being angry got your parent(s) disconnecting from you, you would prioritize the connection by repressing your anger. Anger can wait. Because connection meant you had shelter, food, clothing etc. It was more vital than to be angry.

However, now you’re an adult who still does this. Minimizes your needs, does not confront, stays silent, shrinks…

And let me guess: YOUR BODY IS SCREAMING. 😱 Autoimmune conditions galore. Hormones f*cked up, migraines out of control, gut a mess, hair falling, you name it.

And maybe you’ve read all the self help. You tried meditating and breathwork and diets. Got extensive labs and took courses and managed your throughts.

But have you tried allowing yourself to feel all of what you have labeled *strictly forbidden*? What your body is asking for, is authenticity. Come join me to find a path back to authentically feeling what you feel and taking your power back. Link in bio for free webinar registration. ✨💛

Greetings from the North! I have decided to extend my stay here in Finland and instead of flying back to NYC tomorrow, I will be hunkering down here in Helsinki until end of March.

As you might have suspected I have been on the move for the last few years looking for a place where I want to lay roots. I notice my values shifting as I age and the things that weighed more, like experiences, yoga studies, friends, brunches, hipster cafes (well never gonna let this one go) have started to lose their importance over things that I used to find boring such as family (extending to ancestors and places of origin), Finnish nature or people (sorry but we are a bit depressed as a people, not all individuals of course 😉), and JUST LIKE THAT the safe and predictable ways of a Nordic society have started to feel more interesting and important.

As those who have lived in many places know your heart is forever torn in to pieces that are scattered all over. I wish I could combine my family and roots, friends from all over the world to an unfathomable combination of Finnish forests, the creative energy of New York City and tropical sunsets and wildlife of Costa Rica. But maybe it’s ok that not everything I love is found in one place. Maybe these places can live in my heart and be there until I visit again.

With that being said: do you want to work with me in Helsinki or overall in Finland this Spring? Let me know because private sessions, worshops and events are available in yoga & somatics and human design & gene keys systems. I would love to come to your community to explore the depths of being human and have fun while doing it! Message me!

New York: I will see you in Aprl! If there are online classes, I will let you know. You are always in my heart and please visit Finland! It’s so quiet your ears will ring for 2 days.

Meanwhile I let out a big sigh of relief of not having to pack up and hop on a plane. Instead I to get to watch the day get longer every day from my east facing window. Little joys of a 35 year old ✨☺️😂

Love to all ❤️

Free webinar! (Second slide in English)

On aika taas kokoontua tärkeän aiheen äärelle! Kysynkin sinulta…
Onko ihan super vaikeaa tuottaa pettymys ihmisille? Nieletkö mieluummin omat tunteet kuin aiheutat konfliktin? Meneekö muiden tarpeet aina edelle? Et ehkä edes koe, että sinulla on tarpeita? Mietitkö usein, että ihmiset on sinulle vihaisia tai heidän tunnetilat on jotenkin sinun syytäsi tai vastuullasi? Tätä tekee miellyttäjä, ”kiltti tyttö”, joka on oppinut olemaan myötäilevä pitääkseen rauhan. M***a... keho oireilee eikä oma elämä tunnu ihan OMALTA. Tule kuulemaan, miten murtautua tästä ”vankilasta”. Olen itse ollut tässä tilanteessa koko aikuisen elämäni… kunnes viime vuosina aloin pikkuhiljaa, en omasta tahdosta vaan pakon alla, murtautua ulos ja muuttaa toimintatapojani somaattisten menetelmien avulla. Huh mikä muutos ja mikä vapaus! Tule maksuttomaan webinaariin kuulemaan lisää! Linkki biossa ja tallenne tulee kaikille ✨💛🤝

Do you find it extremely hard to disappoint people?
Do you swallow your own feelings rather than risk conflict?
Do other people’s needs always come before your own?
Do you often worry that people are angry with you, or feel responsible for their emotions or moods?
This is what a people pleaser — the “good girl” — does. Someone who learned to be accommodating in order to keep the peace.
But… the body starts to show symptoms, and life no longer feels truly YOURS.
Come and learn how to break free from this “prison.”

This was me for my whole adult life! Until I was forced to, in the past few years to start breaking free. Join me for a webinar for free! Link in bio. Replay will be sent to all who register. ✨🤝❤️

I was going to post about 2016 anyway, because in January 2026 it is 10 years !!! Since I left Finland.

It has been a whirlwind to say the least. What we knew back in 2016 is nothing compared to what we’ve been through in these ten years. Navigating the world as we ibew it ending on the other side of the world without family or chilhood community, and recovering from losing my mom, has been tough. I have been scraping by with a dream in my heart and a sparkle in my eye for something magical. Life has brought my feet back to the ground many times since and thriugh the years my values have shifted.

I moved to NYC in January 2016 and made a home in Brooklyn (slide 2 and 3). I started my 300 hour training at (slide 5) . I visited in Jamaica (slide 4) where she was doing a uni exchange. We had a yoga retreats in Holbox (slide 6) (before it was cool!!!). Life was just about yoga yoga yoga. I spent a lot of time with .emilia (slide 10) ❤️ I had friends & family visit a lot during my first year in NY. Lots of rooftop sunset (god I loved the view from there, slide 7) and just romancing NYC.

I didn’t come to Finland for the summer that year so after spending almost an entire year without family it was thrilling to be back to , and bringing nyc winds to the Helsinki yoga scene.

I wish I had her hair, musculature, flexibility and energy levels, but I am so glad I have come towards more self worth, confidence, inner safety and emotional regulation. Life was fun but I was also naive. Now life is less exciting externally but I am wiser and I keep better companyto myself.

Even without this challenge 2016 was a massive year for me. Maybe it was that for many? Because starting 2017 nothing was the same anymore… please let me know if you posted your 2016, I want to see it!!

I attended my first cacao ceremony at Omega insitute in the Fall of 2019. I loved the taste of cacao but the best thing was to just sit in circle, to have a gathering around something that we all respect and appreciate. At the end the host offered a song and we sang along. The way my voice flowed out of my warm heart and through my softened throat was amazing. First of all, singing isn’t something I was confident about, but it felt so good. I was amazed. I truly felt the gentle yet powerful way cacao invites you to return to your heart. 🤎

I started incorporating cacao into my life and just sitting with this heart opening drink by my altar (like in slide 3), couch looking out the window or in the porch and somewhere out in nature.

I took a tour at a cacao plantation in Cahuita, Costa Rica in 2021. Slide 2 is one of the tasters there. My costarican companion chose the very sugary bersion but I am a friend of a bitter taste 😝 I like the 80-90% cacao.

On all of my Costa Rica retreats in 2022, 2023 and 2024 we have visited a local cacao maker. In slides 6, 7 & 8 we are enjoying a fresh cacao experience with local Bribri people on the Caribbean coast and in on the Pacific side of Costa Rica.

And of course, I will gather around cacao with friends anytime, anywere like in the last slide. I am excited to invite my Helsinki friends & community for a cacao circle and yin yoga on Sunday, Jan 18th, 13-15 at .
Message me if you would like to sign up for a cacao circle followed by yin yoga (lots of relaxing and love). It’s 29€ until eod Friday. I just got some fresh ixmucane cacao and I am excited to share. This cacao is one of my favorites, from Guatemala.