Pathways to Peace Yoga & Healing

04/20/2026

Something happens.
A thought appears.
A feeling follows.
And before you know it, you are suffering — not because of what happened, but because of what your mind decided it meant.

With self-awareness, catch yourself in that moment!

Not to fix yourself, analyze your past, or tell a better story — but to step out of the story altogether.

Through conscious awareness, watch the emotions arise, feel them in your body, listen to the thoughts the mind generates, and question the beliefs beneath them.

Then choose peace by choosing to replace the belief causing the emotion with something that uplifts you instead.

When you change the words inside you, your experience changes. Sometimes instantly.

Not sure exactly how to do this?

Struggling to step out of the story - need some mental training tools to help you?

Find this harder to do than it needs to be?

Want some help to create change to your inner dialogue and inner experience?

I can guide you through this... and give you tools to use on your own forever after.

The Self-Transformation Method 6-week course will change your life.

Course starts Thurs April 23 - this Thursday.

7 pm each week for 1.5 hours (2 hours first week.
On zoom or in person in Sandford.

Alternatively... you can do the course privately anytime.

Message me to get the course outline - see what you will experience and learn.

You know in your heart what is true and supportive for you.
I can help you connect with that inner knowing and empower you to make conscious change inside you.

04/02/2026

April Yoga Session
Starts week of April 13

Registration open.

Schedule:
Uxbridge classes: at Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club (beside the arena)
Tuesdays at 9:30 am Classical Yoga
Thursdays 11 am Chair Yoga

Sandford classes: private home
Mondays and Fridays Chair Yoga at 11 am
Fridays 9:30 am Classical Yoga

Register online at www.pathwaystopeaceyoga.com

04/02/2026

The ultimate question to ask yourself is: do your beliefs support the inner experience you want to have?

Tonight! Your opportunity to explore this question.

Inner Change mini-workshop

Message me if you want the zoom link. 7 pm ET. On Zoom.

I just put the finishing touches on my presentation.

I'm going to guide you to:
🔹 learn and experience the consciousness tool, observing with detachment.
🔹 use specific visualizations to separate your mind's view from the dramas of your thoughts and feel safe to explore your inner dialogue.
🔹 learn how to identify the root source of thoughts that don't support you and emotional responses you don't want anymore.
🔹 question that root source to contemplate it's truth.
and create something new that will uplift you instead.

It's all about consciousness and self-awareness and I'm going to show you how to shift that inner dialogue.

I hope you can join me. I'm excited to share this stuff with you all.

Let me know if you want to join and I'll forward the zoom link.

P.S. This is an abbreviated version of my Self-Transformation Method. Get a taste of what is possible when self-awareness meets conscious choice.

03/31/2026

Here is the back cover of my book, The Self-Transformation Method: A 6-Step Process to Transform Emotional Struggle into Lasting Inner Peace.

Let me know what you think!

Does it grab your attention? Does it make you want to read it?

I'm interested in your thoughts. It has been written and submitted as this. So I'm not seeking advice on how to make changes. I value knowing your response.
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What if inner peace is a choice—even when life feels overwhelming? Your struggle isn’t the problem—the belief behind it is. Change that, and emotions shift.

Emotional pain can feel like an endless cycle of triggers, overreactions, and stress. You try to fix it. Control it. Understand it. Yet the same patterns return.

What if the struggle isn’t the problem?

What if inner peace is a choice?

You are a conscious being with the power to choose what you believe, think, and feel—even in the midst of intense emotion. What’s missing isn’t strength or positivity. It’s the awareness to see the belief behind your pain—and the tools to change it.

In The Self-Transformation Method, Susan Ward draws on more than twenty-five years of personal practice and professional work to offer a compassionate, grounded, and spiritually expansive guide to lasting emotional freedom. Instead of managing emotions, you will learn to transform them at their root.

Through a clear and practical six-step process, you will learn how to:
• Recognize emotional triggers without being consumed by them
• Uncover and question the beliefs shaping your reactions
• Create new beliefs that support peace, self-love, and emotional freedom
• Discover the deeper spiritual meaning within your struggles
• Integrate conscious awareness into daily life

You don’t have to stay stuck in stress, reactivity, or long-standing emotional pain. Change the belief—and your emotions shift.

Inner peace is not something you achieve. It is something you choose.
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Let me know your thoughts.

(I'm sharing some content of the book... I'm giving you a small taste of the tools I use in the book and applying them with focused intention to gain insight into something you currently struggle with. This can be a daily stressor, a person driving you nuts, a patterned triggered response you have that you want to shift. We all have something that can shift to give us more joy or peace in our lives.
So join me for this free complimentary mini-workshop: Inner Change on Thurs April 2, at 7 pm ET. On zoom. DM me to get the zoom link. )

03/18/2026

When something feels hard what do u do? And why does it feel hard?

Let’s look first at what you do. Do you shut down going into fear and anxiety? Do you buckle down and get 'er done? Do you jump into learning mode to expand your understanding to gain confidence in what you need to do?

This awareness helps direct you to take action to create the inner experience you want.

Now, why is your mind interpreting the task as hard? Is it because you are unsure of what to do? Lack knowledge? Or do you doubt yourself and your abilities? Lack faith in yourself?

What belief is hiding behind all of this?

The first thing to realize is that it’s hard because you believe it is hard. But is that true? Are you stuck in one of the issues raised in the above questions?

The next thing to think about is: is it hard because of how you define yourself? Do you believe that you are incapable or stupid? Or do you believe that learning something new is challenging and a challenge is difficult? Or perhaps you fear others judging you for lacking knowledge or skill?

Dig deeply into this.

When we interpret something as hard, stress often follows. Yet it doesn’t have to.

When you are aware of what you believe and question the validity of that belief then you can change how you interpret the situation.

You can choose to "buy into" a belief that your task is hard and wallow in difficulty OR you can choose what to believe about the task and yourself and meet it squarely with resolve.

It’s a powerful process to get inside those beliefs and change what causes your stress.

If you’ve ever wished you could step back from your thoughts and see them with more clarity, then join me for a free mini workshop: Inner Change and experience a glimpse of how that’s possible.

Thurs April 2, at 7 pm. On Zoom. Registration link is in comments.

03/10/2026

Self-doubt.

We all slip into this from time to time but the truth is... we all have tons of expertise in our chosen exploits or projects based not just on education alone but (and some would say more importantly) on our life experience.

Self-doubt sets in when we try to be something we are not, reaching beyond our expertise to give something to the world that we actually do not have... OR... when we do have the expertise but someone judges us or questions what we have to say. It is quite natural in the second scenario, especially, to plummet into self-doubt.

It's easy to say the solutions here are:
1. Stay within your expertise. Be your genuine self.
2. Be confident in what you DO know. AND recognize when you can learn from someone else's expertise.

These two situations come up often enough to throw us off our game, but what lies beneath self-doubt is usually some sort of belief hidden deep inside that does not support us.

What belief or beliefs do you cling to that makes you question yourself?

Is it a belief about worthiness?

Is it a belief about failure?

Is it a belief that compares you to everyone else who is more than you are... more educated, more experienced, more expressive, braver... that makes you feel you are less-than?

The solution here is to transform your beliefs.

How?

First increase your awareness of your inner dialogue. Then, question the validity and evidence of the belief that does not support you. Then, consciously create a new belief that does support you. And a bonus... explore the spiritual purpose of your self-doubt.

My upcoming book explains it all. The Self-Transformation Method.
AND my 6 week Self-Transformation Method Course can teach you and guide you through the process so that inner change becomes second nature to you every time you are triggered by struggle or stress.

I'd love to hear your experience... when have you fallen into self-doubt and what precipitated it? Perhaps I can help you identify what belief is at work.

02/21/2026

Where has your path taken you?

I recently watched a webinar about creating an audiobook. While I am miles away from being ready to record my book as an audiobook, I was inspired. My inspiration was not the content of the webinar. It was the gentleman presenting it. His name is Derek Doepker and his business is helping authors publish and market their book. What popped at me was his background as a musician. His career journey started in music and he wound up in publishing and marketing. And here he was using his expertise in sound production to guide authors through the audiobook process. Once a musician always a musician was a thought I had. His brain is hardwired to hear the subtly of sound to accurately edit audiobooks, which takes some good amount of work to produce with quality.

It made me realize something interesting about myself. I have a background in Social Work. I know I use my counselling skills constantly and have since I graduated. But I suddenly had that epiphany of once a Social Worker always a Social Worker. My brain is hardwired to assess mine and other people’s experiences from a perspective of pulling together the emotional responses, thoughts, typical human behaviours, and relationship patterns, etc. to gain a big picture of what’s happening inside someone and in me. Even though my career path took me into yoga and consciousness training, I am still a Social Worker at heart and use those skills all the time.

And all of those experiences have contributed to my Self-Transformation Method for transforming emotional struggle into lasting inner peace using consciousness training tools that open your mind and increase your awareness of your inner world to empower you to choose what to change inside you.

Take a moment of reflection today. Where has your life path taken you? What foundation did you set early on that still guides your work and life today even though you are perhaps not in that line of work directly anymore?

Share in the comments. I'd love to hear your reflections.

02/20/2026

YOGA SESSION STARTS MONDAY

6 weeks. Choose your class:

Classes in Uxbridge at Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club:
Tuesdays at 9:30 am Classical Yoga
Thursdays at 11 am Chair Yoga

Classes in Sandford at private home:
Mondays and Fridays 11 am Chair Yoga
Fridays 9:30 am Classical Yoga

Register at www.pathwaystopeaceyoga.com/classes or send me a personal message and I will register you for you. Then make payment. Prices are on my website and in the confirmation email you get upon registration.

Questions? contact me.

01/03/2026

Yoga starts on Monday!

Register today!

My Classical Yoga classes are steeped in tradition - consciousness practices, breathing, holding postures, yoga nidra. On the floor yoga.

My Chair classes are the same though not on the floor. Good challenge in chair class.

Join the session anytime during the session and cost is prorated.
Make up classes you miss at any other class on the schedule during the session.

Register online at www.pathwaystopeaceyoga.com/classes or contact me directly.

12/31/2025

12/29/2025

January six week yoga session starts in one week!

Get yourself registered to save your spot.

Go to www.pathwaystopeaceyoga.com/classes for full details and registration.

Or, contact me directly and I can register you for you.

Schedule:
In Uxbridge at Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club:
Tuesdays - Classical Yoga 9:30 am
Thursdays - Chair Yoga 11 am

In Sandford:
Mondays and Fridays - Chair Yoga 11 am
Fridays - Classical Yoga 9:30 am
1st and 3rd Fridays - Yoga Nidra with Reiki 7 pm
4th Fridays - Restorative Yoga with Reiki 7 pm

All classes (except Restorative) are also offered on ZOOM so you can join from anywhere.

Register soon!