Flourish

We are always humbled by the beauty that grows in our space 🌱 💚
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Happy 8 year anniversary to my first 200hr yoga teacher training and wedding anniversary to some of my favorite people! I remember what a grounded whirlwind it was to attend early-morning YTT graduation (thank you for accommodating my schedule 🥹) and then a dreamy woodland wedding 1000 miles away, the same day. ✨🌲

While I’m present-day processing big, heavy things (personal, national, global, there is SO MUCH going on) it felt really good to pause and re-experience these memories. All of these photos are from this day, 8 years ago.
So much has changed, but the support and love represented in these photos remains strong, evolving, adaptive, and valuable beyond words.

Photos include:
graduation ceremony with & .dianemalaspina at

The only things necessary for my favorite kind of wedding: a backpack and hiking boots (the perfect ones I still haven’t let go of just saying 😘)

My airport driver and personal chef

A stranger I befriended at the airport bc we liked each others books

Two of my favorite humans, who have been best friends since long before I knew them. One groom , one officiant .
The glowing couple.
Endless gratitude 💖

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👉🏾 Community Yoga Workshop 👈🏾

I am so excited to announce ‘Yoga Props 101’

A beginner friendly yin class + workshop where we’ll break down how to actually use your yoga props to support and enhance your practice - not avoid them 😉

🗓 Wednesday, March 25th
⏰ 6:00pm
📍 Flourish, Norfolk
💛 Donation based - pay what you can
🔗 Link in bio

Blocks, straps, bolsters & more....they’re not “cheats” - they’re tools for alignment, strength, and confidence. Come learn, explore, and feel more at home on your mat. Herbal tea provided!

Tag a beginner bestie + save your spot 🤍

𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹, 𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀: 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 + 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹⁣
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Girl, I Needed This is a women-centered community creating intentional social and wellness experiences designed to help women connect, slow down, and feel supported—especially those attending solo or navigating new seasons of life.⁣
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The Yoga + Matcha Social is a calming, community-focused wellness gathering led by Chakieta Dickson of NeoSoul Yoga. Guests will enjoy a grounding yoga flow followed by time to relax, connect, and enjoy matcha in a welcoming, low-pressure environment.⁣
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This event blends movement, mindfulness, and meaningful connection, offering women a chance to reset, meet new people, and pour into themselves.⁣
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Event Includes⁣
• 45-minute guided yoga session⁣
• Post-class matcha + light mingling⁣
• Conversation-friendly, supportive atmosphere⁣
• Open to all levels

🫖💞 Contact for more information 💚🧘🏾‍♀️

A tender and warm sound ceremony last night with Ce’ara 💛🤍

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We’re welcoming 2026 with intention, ease, and care.
Come rest, release, and renew with me. ✨

‼️Comment “sound” for the registration link straight to your DMs.

Sound & Renew
🗓️ Sunday, January 4, 2026
⏰ 7:00–8:00 PM EST
✨ Donation-based✨
*REGISTRATION REQUIRED*

📍 Flourish On Colley ()
809 Brandon Ave, Norfolk, VA

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Local friends - there is still room - link to calendar to register in BIO 🙏🏽. There will be only three more of the restorative breath sessions offered in person at this location in 2025 - these classes are intentionally kept at reasonable offering - The Medicine of Slow ✨

In a world that races, your nervous system whispers: slow down.
Because the brain doesn’t heal in hurry. It heals in pauses.
The heart then expands and the field to the subtler energies can be accessed.
When you move slowly, the body begins to listen.
When the body feels safe, the nervous system softens.
And when the nervous system softens, the brain rewires itself — building new pathways of peace, safety, and resilience.

This is why slow yoga, slow breath, slow presence can feel so powerful.
It isn’t about doing less.
It’s about creating conditions where healing becomes possible.

Slowness is the hidden doorway.
It opens into safety.
It opens into repair.
It opens into transformation.

🌀 Go slow.
💨 Breathe deep.
💗 Let your nervous system remember the way home.

𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗣 𝗔𝗔 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁣
Friday, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm⁣
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽:⁣
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”⁣
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In-person⁣
Discussion⁣
Meditation⁣
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Open meetings are available to anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of recovery from alcoholism. Nonalcoholics may attend open meetings as observers.⁣
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Meeting includes 15 minutes of meditation.⁣
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Contact Ben for details:⁣
757.513.8941

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I am looking forward to teaching and sharing- will be hybrid = online and in person. In person classes will be in Ghent held at Flourish.

Link to information: https://www.barrattbreathinstitute.com/restorative-breathwork-foundation
Next Training Begins October 27, 2025. Do you long to experience a stillness that renews the body, opens the heart, and anchors you in presence? This 50-hour foundational training invites you to explore the meditative power of the subtle breath. Through personal immersion and hands-on practice, you’ll experience the quiet radiance and deep peace that arise from within—and begin to learn how to guide others into that same sacred space of inner stillness. Cultivate Presence. Share Stillness.
Inspire Transformation.
This Foundations Facilitator Training invites you into the quiet heart of the breath—a path of inner stillness where presence is cultivated, and transformation begins. Through embodied practice and sacred guidance, you’ll explore the subtle breath as a living current of healing, clarity, and renewal. Rooted in ancient breath traditions and supported by modern insight, this training is designed for yoga teachers, therapists, and mind-body practitioners drawn to a more yin approach to breathwork—where your presence becomes the practice, and the breath becomes the teacher.
50 Yoga Alliance & IAYT CEUs available.

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On this day we join with hundreds of thousands of Black Americans in celebrating freedom. Today marks the 160th anniversary of the day 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Texas were told that they were free. While the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years earlier in 1863, Texas enslavers refused to tell enslaved people of their freedom. It would not be until in 1865 that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bringing the announcement that slavery had been abolished.

From the beaches of Galveston to the seashore of Gaza: Freedom has come before. And it will come again.

In this moment we recognize that Black and Palestinian liberation are foundational principles and guiding lights for us all. Black and Palestinian struggles are entwined — something that Black scholars and activists have taught for years.

As Ajamu Amiri Dillahun writes in Black Perspectives: “We have the potential to increase Black and Palestinian solidarity in new and profound ways and one way to do that is through examining similarities in our struggles. Black people in the United States and Palestinians are oppressed by the same capitalist, racist, and imperialist system. Therefore, the ways in which we resist oppression will correspond with each other. For the most part, the dominant understanding of similarities in Black and Palestinian struggles has been through the paradigm of militarization. This is important and deserves more attention, but our similarities in struggles go much deeper.”

“Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom.” — Angela Davis, Political Activist, Professor, and Author.

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